Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xyzzyva/Archive

25 October 2013

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User:Xyzzyva is mostly a Single-purpose account. All he does on Wikipedia is add unsourced IPA everywhere as you can see on his history log. I'm having trouble with him on FA about Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. Even though he has admittedly little knowledge of the Portuguese language (see box on his user page) he insists on adding an IPA to pronounce "Caxias" in Portuguese. Out of nowhere came User:Drickfire, who practically has no history of editing on Wikipedia. Why would this "newcome" choose to engage on a dispute in an article like this? Drickfire seems to be interested in mixed martial artists. Xyzzyva is also interested in mixed martial artists. One thing I learned is that there are no coincidences on Wikipedia. Lecen (talk) 01:17, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * User:Drickfire is a recent phenomenon about which I have also wondered after his/her intransigent edits prompted me to take a look at that account's contributions. Once the mentioned article's recent block expired, both accounts were back pushing for their shared position very quickly, which again raised the sock possibility in my mind also. &bull; Astynax talk 02:48, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * There are significant behavioral differences; these are almost surely not the same user. Of note, it's not like was created for this debate - the account was created a long time ago and had edited before that. Regardless, the editing styles are far too different for me to suspect this to be the same user. There might be a relationship between the two, but I do note that this is a controversial discussion and it seems more likely that they simply agree on a particular position (just as the other side also has users that agree). I'm closing this case with no action.  Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:38, 2 November 2013 (UTC)