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Suspected sockpuppets



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Do you like trains? Someone certainly does. I recently blocked one of these accounts, basically per WP:CIR. While looking through the various drafts they edited I stumbled onto all this. I'm not sure this is all of them. The behavioral evidence is pretty much immediately obvious, they didn't really even try to hide it, I doubt they even think they did anything wrong. Would like a sleeper check, they seem to casually create accounts and abandon them if they get any scrutiny, or even if they don't. I've been deleting a lot of the drafts, but the edit history of those drafts is where a lot of the obvious connections come in. I have also just discovered that at User talk:Locomotive 0-6-0 they copped to a bunch of these accounts already. Just to be perfectly clear: I have not myself used CU at all here as of right now. The three IPs were behaviorally obvious and geolocate to the area General electric p30ch self-identified as their location. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:35, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * - at least one of the accounts is blocked for disruption, so the multiple accounts are block evasion. They look ducky, but I agree that CU would be useful to confirm the connection and to check for other accounts.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:08, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ to one another:
 * Also found and ✅:
 * to the above:
 * Too - no available data:
 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Also found and ✅:
 * to the above:
 * Too - no available data:
 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * to the above:
 * Too - no available data:
 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * to the above:
 * Too - no available data:
 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
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 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)


 * - Please block the lot, with the exception of the likely account (not enough edits to make a determination there) – I'm convinced by behaviour, usernames and overlap for the stale ones . Leaving the IPs alone since none have recently edited. Thanks. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 06:30, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Blablubbs - ✅. Closing SPI...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:32, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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New account created shortly after User:General electric p30ch was indef blocked. Both share a contribution history around railways and especially Thomas the Tank Engine articles. Most telling, I had a long history with User:General electric p30ch on their talk page. I had never interacted with User:EnLarissais, when they asked this question on my talk page. This refers to this edit by General Electric where they "change on a draft the decliner's name if I see that this draft can't be published" - which is exactly what EnLarissais asked to do. That cannot be a coincidence. I believe User:EnLarissais is a new account being used for block evasion by User:General electric p30ch. Laplorfill (talk) 14:46, 8 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Additional: there is already a sockpuppet investigation for User:General electric p30ch which confirms a string of sockpuppets: Sockpuppet investigations/Xxx anon Laplorfill (talk) 14:53, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging sock. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:01, 9 May 2021 (UTC)


 * and Could an admin clerk please merge this with Sockpuppet investigations/Xxx anon? General electric p30ch is confirmed to a bunch of other socks in that SPI. Thanks.  --Blablubbs&#124;talk 17:04, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Case moved. Changing status to checked. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 19:57, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Setting this to admin so it appears in the case list correctly; please see above. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 06:32, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I believe that this can be closed now. If this is not correct, please update the status and let me know what I can do to help. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:33, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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User:Xxx anon has been creating a large number of sockpuppets. Most recently User:General electric p30ch named after their "favorite locomotive". The sockpuppets are characterized by adding unsourced information to railroad articles, creating templates for railroad maps and drafts about railroad subdivisions. A day ago, User:BNSF DJ was created, named after his favourite railroad. BNSF has picked up editing Draft:CSX Chicago Heights Subdivision which General Electric created. They have also created a new railroad template, and map template. Seems an obvious sockpuppet of this indef blocked user. Laplorfill (talk) 05:13, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * and blocked as such, endorse check for sleepers. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:38, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Very.
 * Also found and :
 * They all geolocate to the same area and are on the same range. User agent is common, hence the "likely" ruling.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:29, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * They all geolocate to the same area and are on the same range. User agent is common, hence the "likely" ruling.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:29, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * They all geolocate to the same area and are on the same range. User agent is common, hence the "likely" ruling.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:29, 22 June 2021 (UTC)


 * - TNT 😺 22:34, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I have unblocked as  pointed out that they're no where near a behavioural match - apologies again to the editor - TNT 😺 17:05, 23 June 2021 (UTC)