Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WoodsFan/Archive

04 January 2015

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Appears to be a case of WP:DUCK - both editors live-update BLP footballer statistics (in violation of WP:LIVESCORES). particularly Watford players e.g. WoodsFan and TwoMinuteDrill. The former was indeffed (by myself) in October 2014, the latter appeared in December 2014. SPI requested to confirm. GiantSnowman 15:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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. This is right on the edge of the CU data being stale. Hoping for the best, I'm taking 's word for the fact that the two editors violate LIVESCORE. To confirm that would be too difficult for someone as clueless about sports as I am, and GS is at the opposite end of that spectrum.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I was just about to decline this case. Unfortunately, it looks like the last logged action was 92 days ago. Any blocks will have to be made off of behavioral evidence. If you feel that it's a DUCK case and are confident enough with the similarities between the two accounts, you can block it. Mike V • Talk 19:16, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm leaving the endorse and letting a CU decide if the data is stale. At the same time, I'd like to hear your thoughts about why you were going to decline, although without a CU, I'm probably closer to your position than not. GS has provided very few diffs. I imagine there are other users who violate LIVESCORE, although, again, I plead ignorance on the issue.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:31, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, I meant declining a checkuser. If the CU data wasn't stale, I would have endorsed too. Sports are a popular topic and we often have a number of users who are interested in updating player's stats. Thus, it's common to see the same behavior between multiple people. However, I just went over the editor interactions and there's a significant amount of overlap between the two users, especially given that TwoMinuteDrill has less than 100 contributions. There's also a number of similar edits made to very low traffic articles. e.g. (1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8). After thinking it over and doing some research, I think it's likely the account is a sock of the master and I've blocked the account. Mike V • Talk 20:15, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * , nothing useful on CU here, just for the record. Courcelles 20:34, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * With a check run and the account blocked, I'm closing the case. Mike V • Talk 21:23, 4 January 2015 (UTC)