Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Hoaeter

28 April 2020 case
Sorry to bother you. The current case is closed, but hasn't yet been archived. I had more information to add regarding one new and one old account. I've already blocked the new one, but I figure I should document why I did it. But I'm also mindful that, in any case, it's creating more work for you or someone else. (It occurred to me to just document it here on this talk page, but I wasn't sure that made it "official.") -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:21, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * if they're tagged with sock, that's probably enough. You're welcome to add a comment to the SPI (in the "patrolling admin" section) noting your findings, or filing an additional case using the normal form. ST47 (talk) 18:33, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
I won't link to a WP:OWH URL, but one of the sockpuppet's (reverted) edits matches the text from an off-Wiki website, and further leads me to believe User:Habesha Union is the sockmaster. (This is just for the sake of documentation; I realize that we probably won't move this SPI to that username.) They mention being blocked since 2007 (I think they meant on-and-off, not continuously), but I can't figure out which older account(s) it might've been (the Habesha Union account is only 3 years old). The off-Wiki webpage is dated 2018, but they must've updated it: the text impugns one Wikipedia editor who did not make a single edit to Habesha people between Dec. 2015 and June 2019, and another editor who did not edit the article at all until 2019, so the author is probably referring to actions that took place since last year. I mentioned on the sockpuppet's talk page that sockpuppetry is not even the worst of the policy violations, and any unblock request (from any of the affiliated accounts) will have to address some serious WP:BLP, WP:NPA and WP:OWH infringements. Perhaps more obviously, but I'll mention it anyway: Given the external website's overall agenda (besides the WP:OWH), and its likely association with single-purpose accounts pressing similar viewpoints here, one can infer that these accounts are mainly here to push said agenda, rather than to help build an encyclopedia. Thus any unblock request also needs to address WP:NPOV concerns. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:05, 19 June 2020 (UTC)