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23 January 2024[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Vandalism across multiple pages. Re-filing due to... issues. Primefac (talk) 15:42, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users[edit]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

  • The original filing here was made by RichardHornsby, who is the same as the other three accounts. I'm only here because I gave a second opinion, and I'll leave the rest to the CU who ran the original check, but I've blocked RichardHornsby in the interim. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I can add
  • In the original filing, RichardHornsby had reported the three other accounts listed above as socks of each other. Those accounts, and the ones in my post, are  Confirmed to each other... but so is RichardHornsby. The technical data shows that there is a good hand/bad hand situation going on, where the user is vandalizing on sock accounts, then reverting the vandalism using their "main" account. It looks like there have been attempts to obfuscate the relationship between the accounts, but this obviously wasn't entirely successful. I'll move this to the oldest account, and I'm not tagging these because of reasons. Spicy (talk) 00:34, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

02 March 2024[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Infobox fiddling on Australian articles (like AuspolWiki in the archive); similar cross-wiki behaviour. I'm honestly not 100% sure I have the master right (certainly more than 50%) but something fishy is definitely going on here. Graham87 (talk) 09:35, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users[edit]

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I doubt this is the right sock master. Wondabyne hasn't really edited the same articles as any of these other socks, as shown by [1]. I've never seen any of Te Reo Ahitereiria's socks edit railway station articles before. They mostly stick to Australian politics and places. Steelkamp (talk) 09:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And I'm just here to say that

were recently created in quick succession. Is this suspicious? ClumsyOwlet (talk) 02:33, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Spicy: Wondabyne7 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). ClumsyOwlet (talk) 03:45, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Spicy: Wondabyne8 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is now restoring Wondabyne7's edits. ClumsyOwlet (talk) 07:03, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And now Wondabyne9 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). ClumsyOwlet (talk) 07:21, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Primefac: They're not attached to enwiki, but they do exist. Wondabyne10 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is now reverting all of my reverted reverts, though. ClumsyOwlet (talk) 12:28, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough, didn't think to check cross-wiki. Primefac (talk) 12:31, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

  • Technically  Possible: same range and devices but the range is absolutely massive and the devices are very common. Spicy (talk) 19:18, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I saw some stuff in this check that convinced me that these accounts do belong to the RichardHornsby case, so I'll merge this filing there. Spicy (talk) 03:04, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Case merged. No tags as per my previous comments on this case. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:07, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is Wondabyne2 above a typo? They don't seem to exist. Primefac (talk) 12:16, 4 March 2024 (UTC) Clarified above[reply]
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