Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wuzzy/Archive

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The first edit for Ethicsprof was to create a subpage for user Wuzzy. Creating a subpage is a sophisticated edit which is unlikely to to made by a new user. (Note that Wuzzy may have accidentally added the subpage while logged in under the Ethicsprof sockpuppet or Wuzzy may be an innocent target unrelated to the sockpuppets.) Users WanyeRiver and Ethicsprof both removed the same content from the article Frisbee within a day and a half of each other. Users WanyeRiver and Ethicsprof have very few edits, yet have been users for some time (>10 years in the case of Ethicprof). WayneRiver's first edit was on article Apologetics, a topic related to "Ethics", contained in the name of one of the suspected sockpuppets, "Ethicsprof". Wuzzy's edits were almost exclusively about LGBT topics, also related to subject of ethics. The edits of those two users (Ethicsprof and WayneRiver) have be provocative. WayneRiver's second edit was to the article Fight Club, which sounds like a dog whistle to indicate the purpose of the sockpuppet.  Sparkie82 ( t • c )  21:52, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * Comment. While these connections do seem a bit weird, I honestly can't say it was unreasonable to revert a paragraph about drones in an article about frisbees. Honestly, I looked [//www.google.com/search?q=President+Trump+signed+into+law+a+rule+that+requires+registration+with+the+FAA+when+flying+discs&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS776US777&oq=President+Trump+signed+into+law+a+rule+that+requires+registration+with+the+FAA+when+flying+discs&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 it] up. All that came up was drones, because that was what the rule was referring to. I'm sorry, but that doesn't belong in an article on frisbees. &#8213; Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖  02:53, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Any checkuser data for wuzzy would of course be stale. it isn't quite clear the connection to  other than, which I could plausably believe to be a new user thinking was a reasonable way to start a conversation with a user / reply to a old discussion, c.f. User_talk:Wuzzy. From a brief review of the two suspected socks edits, I don't see anything else besides the Frisbee diff that links them, and as  noted, well, the content was fairly invalid. L Faraone  15:52, 6 January 2018 (UTC)