Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/XTheBedrockX/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
ZaniGiovanni (ZG), an active editor in the Azerbaijan-Armenia topic area (AA2), opened this AN thread at 20:49 on 14 September 2022. Participants in that thread expressed serious concern about ZG's apparent suggestion that the views of Azerbaijani editors in an RfC be discounted; MJL, for instance, described it as "absurdly bigoted" at 00:27 on the 15th. Seventeen minutes later, the XTheBedrockX (XTBX) account suddenly emerged from a nearly four-year-long period of inactivity. At 01:20 on the 15th, Tamzin topic-banned ZG from the AA2 topic area for two months. Since then, both accounts have continued to edit; XTBX has edited both in the AA2 topic area (e.g. here, here, here) and elsewhere. Now, it's possible that this is all a coïncidence (if so, I apologize), but the fact that the XTBX account appeared at exactly the moment when ZG was facing a t-ban is awfully suspicious. There are other commonalities as well: for instance, both accounts have left messages at User talk:Olympian, and both made comments at Talk:September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes arguing that the article gave too much weight to the Azerbaijani government's statements (ZG; XTBX). The timestamps also more-or-less line up: for example, look at and  side-by-side. On the 19th of September, XTBX edits at 16:49, 16:50, 16:53, 16:54, 16:58, 16:59, and 17:06; ZG then edits at 17:14, 17:32, 17:47, 17:48, 17:49, and 18:21; XTBX then returns and edits at 18:44, 19:07, and 19:28. This looks like t-ban evasion to me, and I think at minimum there's enough evidence to warrant taking a look with CU. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:01, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 18:33, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * CU data says they're ❌. The timecards say the same.  Closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:49, 4 October 2022 (UTC)