Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Desanimade
Desanimade
- Desanimade (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Populated account categories: confirmed
For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Desanimade/Archive.
25 April 2024[edit]
– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
- RubyGillman (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Similar username to previous sock. Disruptive editing at Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken as per three most recent socks. [1] [2] Barry Wom (talk) 09:03, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Comments by other users[edit]
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]
Unrelated. 
Closing without action. Mz7 (talk) 05:53, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Blocked and tagged. Closing. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 21:11, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
19 May 2024[edit]
– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
- Rubygillman722 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Similar username to previous sock. Same attempt to create identical Kelly Cooney Cilella article as previous sock.[3]. Barry Wom (talk) 11:01, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Comments by other users[edit]
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]
Confirmed Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 21:11, 19 May 2024 (UTC)- Blocked and tagged. Spicy (talk) 22:40, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- Erm, hold on a moment. Obviously RubyGillman and Rubygillman722 are the same person. But above, Mz7 said RubyGillman was Unrelated to Desanimade, while Dreamy Jazz blocked and tagged them as confirmed to Desanimade. What's going on here? Spicy (talk) 22:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- According to the CU data, the link between RubyGillman and Rubygillman722 using CU evidence is not as clear cut. I wouldn't call the link unrelated, but maybe more unlikely. My feeling is that either some proxy use was going on that isn't being indicated by bullseye (which would make the difference in CU data explainable), or that this sockmaster saw the previous report and made a new account in an attempt to get that account ignored as being the similar to the unrelated account. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 23:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Dreamy Jazz and Spicy: RubyGillman is currently tagged as "confirmed by a CheckUser" [4] and is also blocked using {{checkuserblock-account}}. I'm assuming that was a mistake and that we should have used "suspected" instead. My two cents is that, given the lack of a technical match, there is not enough evidence to block RubyGillman, which is why I originally closed that case without action. The only behavioral overlap is interest in the movie Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, which two separate people could be interested in. It is true that, in addition to the username similarity, both the sockmaster and RubyGillman have tried to add content speculating about a sequel: [5][6], but I would point out that several other users have apparently been edit-warring over this same content [7][8], so this isn't a big smoking gun to me. My personal feeling is that the RubyGillman account is somebody else and that the behavioral similarities are coincidental. (To be clear, the Rubygillman722 account is definitely Desanimade based on both behavioral and technical evidence.) Mz7 (talk) 03:51, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- I see what has happened. I tried to block the account in this report, but SPI helper preselects the most recent report. I then used the form for the wrong case and then blocked without noticing the difference.
- I'll unblock the above account. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 08:24, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Dreamy Jazz and Spicy: RubyGillman is currently tagged as "confirmed by a CheckUser" [4] and is also blocked using {{checkuserblock-account}}. I'm assuming that was a mistake and that we should have used "suspected" instead. My two cents is that, given the lack of a technical match, there is not enough evidence to block RubyGillman, which is why I originally closed that case without action. The only behavioral overlap is interest in the movie Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, which two separate people could be interested in. It is true that, in addition to the username similarity, both the sockmaster and RubyGillman have tried to add content speculating about a sequel: [5][6], but I would point out that several other users have apparently been edit-warring over this same content [7][8], so this isn't a big smoking gun to me. My personal feeling is that the RubyGillman account is somebody else and that the behavioral similarities are coincidental. (To be clear, the Rubygillman722 account is definitely Desanimade based on both behavioral and technical evidence.) Mz7 (talk) 03:51, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- According to the CU data, the link between RubyGillman and Rubygillman722 using CU evidence is not as clear cut. I wouldn't call the link unrelated, but maybe more unlikely. My feeling is that either some proxy use was going on that isn't being indicated by bullseye (which would make the difference in CU data explainable), or that this sockmaster saw the previous report and made a new account in an attempt to get that account ignored as being the similar to the unrelated account. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 23:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- Erm, hold on a moment. Obviously RubyGillman and Rubygillman722 are the same person. But above, Mz7 said RubyGillman was
- Thanks, Dreamy Jazz. Closing this case now. Mz7 (talk) 16:18, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
