Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wrk678/Archive

31 December 2012

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New editor is responding to the question  started by Mk651117 who was earlier blocked by Jpgordon as a sockpuppet, in a manner suggesting they are the same person. (Wrk678 technically isn't the main account since they've used lots of accounts in the past but it seemed simpler this way particularly as the other accounts are probably too old.) I requested a check user in case there are sleepers but I suspect no since the editor seems to primarily create accounts on the go. 15:20, 31 December 2012 (UTC) Nil Einne (talk) 15:20, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * ✅:, and  are all the same. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:17, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. ( X! ·  talk )  · @054  · 00:17, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

13 January 2013

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Questions about the Syrian war, Islamists and other conflicts in the Middle East were a reasonably common theme on the RDS for Wrk678  as it is for Jonharley667   who appeared not long after the last sock was blocked. Then there's the other obvious similarity with previous identities. Nil Einne (talk) 14:52, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Elockid  ( Talk ) 16:58, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Tiptoety  talk 20:49, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

22 January 2013

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For the accounts, there's the obvious similarity with previous socks. While I'm not providing specific evidence, having followed this editor for long enough I also seen some similarity in question and response style. In terms of specifics, Hotrod824 asked a question about weapons capabilities, weapons capabilities was a common interest of Wrk678 albeit more commonly in modern warfare. Similarly Shoes15151617 interest in MSRA reflect a common theme of interest in medical issues particularly those relating to antibiotics and other non viral infectious diseases, sometimes historical from Wrk678. For the IPs, I'm not that confident particularly since they seem to geolocate to fairly different areas (no idea how accurate Comcast geolocation tends to be) and we're only talking 1 or 2 edits so no evidence provided, however the questions do look like they might be from Wrk678. I mainly included them for completeness (the New Jersey location of one of the IPs is close to historical information revealed before the Wrk678 identity) although I know a CU can't link them to the accounts anyway. Don't know if this is enough for a CU on at least one of these identities, the main reason I bring this here is to ask if there's any hope for a range block. If I am correct about all 3, it seems clear the editor is not even waiting to be blocked any more. If I am unfortunately also correct about the IPs, my guess is no but thought I might as well try. Nil Einne (talk) 13:42, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * - . Two of the accounts only have one edit anyway and that's not enough to go off of. Rschen7754 05:33, 24 January 2013 (UTC)