Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The abominable Wiki troll/Archive

• {{checkuser|1=Johnny7fingers}}
• {{checkuser|1=Knomknomb}}
• {{checkuser|1=Vinniesnightmare}}
• {{checkuser|1=Skijump777}}
• {{checkuser|1=Colinwhereareyou}}
• {{checkuser|1=Shivershake}}
• {{checkuser|1=Hwillis29184}}

• Tools: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?users={{urlencode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}&users={{urlencode:Johnny7fingers}}&users={{urlencode:Knomknomb}}&users={{urlencode:Vinniesnightmare}}&users={{urlencode:Skijump777}}&users={{urlencode:Colinwhereareyou}}&users={{urlencode:Shivershake}}&users={{urlencode:Hwillis29184}} Editor interaction utility] • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/interaction-timeline?wiki=enwiki&user={{urlencode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}&user={{urlencode:Johnny7fingers}} Interaction Timeline] • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/UserCompare/{{urlencode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}.html User compare report] Auto-generated every hour.

Checked based on suspicious activity at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Jubilees. ST47 (talk) 05:41, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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• Accounts are {{confirmed}} via the CU log to {{checkuser|Wibbleewobbleee}}. {{bnt}}. ST47 (talk) 05:41, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Shadikk}}
• {{checkuser|1=WHone}}
• {{checkuser|1=Supenda}}
• {{checkuser|1=Calcutting}}

• Tools: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?users={{urlencode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}&users={{urlencode:Shadikk}}&users={{urlencode:WHone}}&users={{urlencode:Supenda}}&users={{urlencode:Calcutting}} Editor interaction utility] • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/interaction-timeline?wiki=enwiki&user={{urlencode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}&user={{urlencode:Shadikk}} Interaction Timeline] • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/UserCompare/{{urlencode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}.html User compare report] Auto-generated every hour.

The usual preoccupation with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark related articles ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joan_of_Arc_(Orchestral_Manoeuvres_in_the_Dark_song)&diff=951051832&oldid=943050001] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joan_of_Arc_(Orchestral_Manoeuvres_in_the_Dark_song)&diff=prev&oldid=521956149], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pacific_Age&diff=955033340&oldid=946401981] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pacific_Age&diff=781522542&oldid=774693774]). As for Shadikk and WHone, here's only a few examples of intersection with previous socks:[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hysteria_(The_Human_League_album)&diff=prev&oldid=954735803] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hysteria_(The_Human_League_album)&diff=prev&oldid=869080259] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilderness_(Brett_Anderson_album)&diff=949297405&oldid=941595666] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilderness_(Brett_Anderson_album)&diff=900560176&oldid=900384134], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tell_Me_When&diff=955158608&oldid=950769143] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tell_Me_When&diff=889978033&oldid=889977492]; [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fire_in_the_Sky&diff=912868412&oldid=912867005] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fire_in_the_Sky&diff=573914856&oldid=572964794], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criminal_Law_(film)&diff=933899473&oldid=933843777] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criminal_Law_(film)&diff=479391869&oldid=479219576], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romeo_Is_Bleeding&diff=876986373&oldid=876983933] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romeo_Is_Bleeding&diff=939848146&oldid=939847490]. Same interest in the same topic areas (Britpop artists, Gary Oldman films, etc). Sro23 (talk) 00:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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• {{Endorse}} - Endorsing own request. There are more than likely several undetected accounts. Sro23 (talk) 00:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
• {{ping|Sro23}} I've blocked some. WHone is {{possible}} same country, different range, different UA so {{behav}}. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:31, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
• Thanks. I thought that user behaved off, and while I don't doubt it's a sock of some other master, I don't have the energy to think about it right now, so I'm closing this case. Sro23 (talk) 08:30, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Boonslud}}

• Tools: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?users={{urlencode:{{#titleparts:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}}} Editor interaction utility] • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/interaction-timeline?wiki=enwiki&user={{urlencode:{{#titleparts:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}}} Interaction Timeline] • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/UserCompare/{{urlencode:{{#titleparts:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}}}.html User compare report] Auto-generated every hour.

Behaving identically to previous sockpuppets, same old fixation on British pop culture and music reviews ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Boy_with_the_X-Ray_Eyes&diff=990188765&oldid=990181207] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=755581779]). As always, the overlap with past socks is extensive ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronan_Keating&diff=987073712&oldid=986745633] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=866365986], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiss_(band)&diff=986559185&oldid=986550439] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=941730387], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharleen_Spiteri&diff=982573107&oldid=980340737] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=541604859], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oddworld&diff=978024862&oldid=972346377] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=511616977], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Another_Rock_and_Roll_Christmas&diff=984182826&oldid=984169082] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=530143591], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Charles&diff=984920469&oldid=984513819] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=553306575], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heaven_(Bryan_Adams_song)&diff=983948125&oldid=983913297] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=686831272], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shayne_Ward_(album)&diff=958927103&oldid=924325236] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=564602895] etc). Same/similar edit summaries too. Given that this account has been around since last year and CheckUser usually uncovers several more accounts, a sleeper check would be a good idea. Sro23 (talk) 07:20, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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I am a constructive user. The good-hand/bad-hand stuff was years ago: I am now an adult and my mood problems have been treated. This silliness really ought to stop. Boonslud (talk) 12:39, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

• {{Endorse}} - Please compare to last blocked sockpuppet User:Dory Funk. Sro23 (talk) 07:21, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
• {{confirmed}} to each other:
• Boonslud
• {{checkuser|1=Dory Funk}}
• {{checkuser|1=Mrs N Bates}}
• {{checkuser|1=ReeleDeele}}
• {{checkuser|1=Savlis}}
• {{checkuser|1=PeteGabriel5}}
• All the above are now blocked. {{checkuser|1=Allyman2007}} is on the same mobile IP range but looks like some random kid. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
• {{clerknote}} Tags applied. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:05, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

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{{sock list|1=TheManTheyCallAdam|tools_link=yes}}

Edit warring at wrestler Big Van Vader, TheManTheyCallAdam wrote in an edit summary "There was already a reliable sorce when i added the edit 3 years ago."[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Van_Vader&diff=1107054020&oldid=1106786577] TheManTheyCallAdam first edited Wikipedia on 6 January 2021. It was {{noping|Clatson50}}, a sock of {{noping|The abominable Wiki troll}}, who inserted the phrase, in full and sourced, on 12 November 2017.[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Van_Vader&diff=810018517&oldid=809664875&diffmode=source] I'm not familiar with the sockpuppeteer but such tenacity in blatant contradiction of the source and article history also seems in keeping. NebY (talk) 18:05, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

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• Comment - TheManTheyCallAdam admits having a prior account [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Van_Vader&diff=prev&oldid=1107054020]. EnPassant♟♙ (talk) 15:36, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
• :Well, maybe. It's true that their first edit was only about 1.5 years ago, but their account goes back almost 4 years. They might have just forgotten to log in when they made the original edit. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:17, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
• ::The original edit wasn't by an IP, it was by {{noping|Clatson50}}, a blocked sock. NebY (talk) 16:22, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
• :::I haven't tried to check which socks also edited wrestling articles, but I do see {{noping|The Wrestling Dude}}, {{noping|Thefanofwwe}}, {{noping|TheWrestlemaniaKing}} and more in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The abominable Wiki troll/Archive/1. But I raised this because TheManTheyCallAdam claims to have added the edit which the sock made. NebY (talk) 16:38, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

• I ran some checks. We don't have much data on TaWt, but from what we've got, I'd say TheManTheyCallAdam is {{unlikely}}. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:53, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
• :I should also add that most of the data is so old, it's probably meaningless, so {{behav}} certainly applies. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:55, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
• The reference to an edit from 3 years ago is obviously suspicious. However, the text added by Clatson50 said {{tq|widely regarded as one of the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestlers}}. The specific edit that TheManTheyCallAdam was edit warring over was changing that to {{tq|widely regarded as the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestler}}. I've looked at some recent TAWT socks and they seem much more savvy than this editor (e.g. often using WP policies and jargon in edit summaries - see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dory_Funk]). I'm not at all convinced that this is the same user. I can't account for the "3 years" thing, but perhaps they were just lying because they thought that would make their edit stick. Also, 2017 was 5 years ago (feel old yet?) Spicy (talk) 16:32, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

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