Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shewasafairy

Shewasafairy

Shewasafairy (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Populated account categories: confirmed · suspected

For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shewasafairy/Archive.

04 September 2024

– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk oder checkuser.

Suspected sockpuppets

StrongDeterrence (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Comintell (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Tools: Editor interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools

See User_talk:Yamla#New_and_unusual_users. In particular, there's an overlap at Writesonic between Comintell and StrongDeterrence. However, it's also very clear right from the beginning that StrongDeterrence is not a new user. Additionally, they are focusing on an area which will result in a huge amount of cleanup if they are indeed a blocked/banned user. There are additional stylistic overlaps which I don't want to go into here due to WP:BEANS. So, at this point, both Bbb23 and I agreed there was something there. But, enough to run a CU? I wanted a second opinion and consulted Ponyo via email. Ponyo read the discussion on my talk page and agreed there was enough to run a CU. Of course, Ponyo did not see this SPI; I'm filing this after the brief email discussion. So, three admins, two of whom have CU (one of whom is me) agree there's enough to be concerned about here. Yamla (talk) 22:41, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

So, CU isn't a huge amount of help here. There's no smoking gun, except for widespread proxy use. As per Wikipedia:Open_proxies#Checkuser, this unfortunately does indeed create "an appearance that an account has been using open proxies to circumvent policy". On that basis, I'm going to block the account. There's a very real possibility this user will stop using proxies and will show up unrelated to the sockmaster. If so, I or any other checkuser would then unblock the account. --Yamla (talk) 22:50, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]