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29 March 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

• ThePhantom65 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Swickouski (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• ColdDeepLake (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• IVotedWarren (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

Very similar timecards (mostly weekdays, US-like timezone). Very similar editing style, including similar streaks of many edits, exactly the same edit summaries (e.g. [1][2][3][4], [5][6], ping me for further analysis of this), etc. Significant article overlap (see editor interaction analyzer). MarioGom (talk) 10:49, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  In progress - Girth Summit _(blether) 13:14, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• GhostDust, ThePhantom65 and Swickouski are  Confirmed to one another. ColdDeepLake is  Likely to that group. IVotedWarren is stale. The first four, I will block - there's no valid reason for them to be editing so many of the same articles from different accounts. IVotedWarren hasn't edited in ages, so there might be little point in investigating further, but I'll leave this open for now in case someone wants to do a deeper dive. Girth Summit _(blether) 13:33, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• I'm pretty sure IVotedWarren is the same as the others; some of these have slept for extended time periods before, so I have  Blocked and tagged as a precaution. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:18, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  For the record, this is almost certainly UPE and any unblock request should probably address not just the socking, but that aspect as well. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:20, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]