Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yay Dad/Archive

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The original account for this, Yay Dad, is stale and as such this will have to look at behavioral evidence, which strongly suggests that this is either Yay Dad or another related account,, evading a block.

First an explanation of their editing history. Yay Dad is the older of the two accounts, as it was created in 2012. was made in 2015. Both accounts shared the habit of editing Merrie Melodies related content, which included making articles for individual cartoons. Both accounts also had a habit of repeatedly cut/pasting copyrighted content from outside sources such as IMDb. You can see where NOOO KEVIN posted copyvio here. I came across NOOO KEVIN!! because he created and/or edited a series of pages that could be construed as attack pages. These pages include SERGIO SKYLER! and Andy Yu and Kevin Mo Plays with COC. A look at the edit history for these pages showed that Yay Dad was also active in creating and editing these pages. asked NOOO KEVIN if he and Yay Dad were the same person back in May 2015. He claimed that they were friends on separate accounts and that he created the account for him in order to talk to one another and joke around. In hindsight I have to question how much of this is genuine, given that he later tried to claim that a separate friend hacked into his computer and used his Wikipedia account to vandalize. Both accounts were blocked in May 2015.

On 12 September 2016 SquishyZ1 opened a new account and began editing on Merrie Melodies related content, which includes posting copyvio in articles they created like Screwball Football. The articles also have issues with notability, which was a common theme with the articles created by Yay Dad.

Now what drew my attention to him was that on October 31 SquishyZ1 posted a request to my talk page asking for the deletion of Yay Dad's talk page. He also made this edit on Yay Dad's talk page. This was fairly suspicious since it's uncommon for new users to really show an interest in the talk pages of blocked users, especially ones that were blocked over a year ago. I've never had a new user ask for me to delete a blocked user's talk page and it's a rare occurrence for even seasoned editors. He also tried to get the page for NOOO KEVIN deleted as well. It looks like initially he tried to accomplish this by tagging the pages for speedy deletion, only for these to be declined by and I was only contacted after that failed. His actions suggest that he has a better awareness of Wikipedia editing than the average new user, which also raised my suspicions.

Ultimately I feel that this is a WP:DUCK situation, given that his editing style is extremely similar to that of Yay Dad and NOOO KEVIN, he requested deletion of user pages for people that have been blocked for over a year, has the same issues with copyvio and sourcing as Yay Dad, and knows more about editing than the average new user. I'm unsure if NOOO KEVIN is actually a separate person or not, but it looks like at the very least it was clearly made in order to indulge in vandalism and make the same type of edits, so that account would likely be considered a WP:MEAT situation. It's enough to where I think it'd probably be a good idea to tag him as a meatpuppet, just so the accounts are all linked together.

I've blocked SquishyZ1 and tagged him accordingly, but I would like another pair of eyes on this, especially since both of the older accounts engaged in cyberbullying and Yay Dad even admitted to using his account to engage in cyberbullying. He admitted it in sort of a WP:BROTHER way, but it was enough to show that he clearly condoned the actions. This makes any potential new accounts a little more concerning, as he might take this opportunity to do the same thing again, especially since both accounts seemed to show a willful refusal to understand what they did wrong. (Cyberbullying and copyvio predominantly, but cyberbullying was the biggest concern of all.)

I figured that it'd be good to launch a bit of a trail, as it's possible that we'll see him again. Given that they made so many attack pages and tried to fob off responsibility on others, I'm not really sure if we can trust these users any time soon. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  14:32, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Other similarities are as follows:
 * SquishyZ1 edited I Wanna Be a Sailor, which was created by Yay Dad.
 * He also edited The Lyin' Mouse, also created by Yay Dad


 * There's also who edited in September and shouldn't be stale yet. These edits connect them to SquishyZ1, who admits being Yay Dad. Huon (talk) 00:50, 3 November 2016 (UTC)


 * We might also want to look at, which was blocked around the same time as Your Mom's Pussi. SquishyZ1 also edited their userpage here, so it's likely that this was also a sock account. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:13, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Might also be worth checking out the IP 209.66.168.89, as they made this edit to I Only Have Eyes for You (film), which was reverted by and then restored by SquishyZ1. The IP added some unsourced trivia, which looks to be a common thing that Yay Dad likes to add to articles. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:39, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * These accounts are ✅ to each other and behaviorally to Yay Dad:


 * All but one previously blocked; I'll change that now, block the remaining account, and retag. Katietalk 16:54, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing. GABgab 20:28, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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Recreation of Porky's Ant and several other toon related articles. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  17:42, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 17:43, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to each other:
 * is ✅ to and  to .  Homerfan12 has gone stale, but I can say that these accounts are using the same ISP in the same city.  I'll block these accounts as Homerfan12 socks, but the Yay Dad accounts seem ❌ to anyone else.   I'll leave this open in case anyone wants to look closer at that. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:39, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Yay Dad claims on his user page he is retired. I'm wondering if User:Orange Mo is respectable and should be allowed to go ahead without sanctions. A very peculiar edit is this one, where, if the CU results are correct, Orange Mo was reverting an edit by one of his own socks. If he was just pretending to feud with a sock, I think a block would be correct. After looking over the recent edits, I'm not convinced of Orange Mo's good faith. He sometimes posts in other SPI reports so appears to be sophisticaed.  EdJohnston (talk) 16:38, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to and  to .  Homerfan12 has gone stale, but I can say that these accounts are using the same ISP in the same city.  I'll block these accounts as Homerfan12 socks, but the Yay Dad accounts seem ❌ to anyone else.   I'll leave this open in case anyone wants to look closer at that. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:39, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Yay Dad claims on his user page he is retired. I'm wondering if User:Orange Mo is respectable and should be allowed to go ahead without sanctions. A very peculiar edit is this one, where, if the CU results are correct, Orange Mo was reverting an edit by one of his own socks. If he was just pretending to feud with a sock, I think a block would be correct. After looking over the recent edits, I'm not convinced of Orange Mo's good faith. He sometimes posts in other SPI reports so appears to be sophisticaed.  EdJohnston (talk) 16:38, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to and  to .  Homerfan12 has gone stale, but I can say that these accounts are using the same ISP in the same city.  I'll block these accounts as Homerfan12 socks, but the Yay Dad accounts seem ❌ to anyone else.   I'll leave this open in case anyone wants to look closer at that. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:39, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Yay Dad claims on his user page he is retired. I'm wondering if User:Orange Mo is respectable and should be allowed to go ahead without sanctions. A very peculiar edit is this one, where, if the CU results are correct, Orange Mo was reverting an edit by one of his own socks. If he was just pretending to feud with a sock, I think a block would be correct. After looking over the recent edits, I'm not convinced of Orange Mo's good faith. He sometimes posts in other SPI reports so appears to be sophisticaed.  EdJohnston (talk) 16:38, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Yay Dad claims on his user page he is retired. I'm wondering if User:Orange Mo is respectable and should be allowed to go ahead without sanctions. A very peculiar edit is this one, where, if the CU results are correct, Orange Mo was reverting an edit by one of his own socks. If he was just pretending to feud with a sock, I think a block would be correct. After looking over the recent edits, I'm not convinced of Orange Mo's good faith. He sometimes posts in other SPI reports so appears to be sophisticaed.  EdJohnston (talk) 16:38, 6 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocking the Yay Dad group and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:40, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Copied from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Homerfan12 and closed.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  23:09, 8 August 2020 (UTC)