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

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  • 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]
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  • 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]

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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]

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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]

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This user randomly reverted one of my edits that reverted a previous sock. Blocked but not tagged as per procedure here. I'm basically looking for sleepers. Graham87 (talk) 04:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Group 1:
  • These accounts are   Confirmed to each other and   Possible to RichardHornsby in that they geolocate to the same highly populated area, but they're not really technically similar otherwise.
  • Group 2:

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I'm hopeful this is a pretty straightforward WP:DUCK situation. One of the socks discussed above, User:Randompandaeatcake, was edit warring on the page 1960 United States presidential election. Now this user, user:Nppfarcenter, has revived an older account and resumed the edit war with identical summaries (example one, example two) Yaksar (let's chat) 21:05, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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look, I am not sockpuppets, you can see that my account has been created for a while and has a lot of edits made. I think this accusation you leveled against me is ridiculous and unfounded. Nppfarcenter (talk) 22:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  Behavioural evidence needs evaluation No technical match. Primefac (talk) 12:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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User:AaronGolem, User:AaronGolem1, User:AaronGolem2, User:AaronGolem3, User:AaronGolem4, User:AaronGolem5 are all already blocked. AaronGolem6 was just created on 5 May 2024 and its first edits outside of Wikipedia:Sandbox and userspace was to Template:Cite New South Wales transport timetables (see page history), which User:AaronGolem1 has also edited in the past. All AaronGolem accounts have edited pages related to public transport in New South Wales. Pinging @Oshwah as they might be interested. Fork99 (talk) 07:55, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Initial contribution history is very similar to AaronGolem6 (already blocked per previous report; see Special:Contributions/AaronGolem6), initially editing WP:Sandbox, then Template:Cite New South Wales transport timetables (see page history). Also very similar username style to RichardHornsby, i.e. a common male first name followed by a geographical place name in New South Wales. Fork99 (talk) 05:32, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Immediate interest in railway stations in New South Wales as per previous socks; see contribution history. Very similar username style to previous socks; random common male first name followed by a random Sydney suburb name. Account's second edit was to Wikipedia:Sandbox, which other socks have also touched, e.g. AaronGolem6 diff and JamesRevesby diff. Fork99 (talk) 23:09, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Focus on Sydney transport articles and the sandbox as per usual; has also edited Draft:Miyosmart (which I've deleted as G5); the only other non-established editors to edit that page have been RichardHornsby socks. Blocked and tagged, but a check for sleepers might be interesting. Graham87 (talk) 07:47, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible WP:DUCK: very similar contribution history to User:AaronGolem, with edits to Wikipedia:Sandbox and the "Transport links" sections of railway stations in Sydney/New South Wales. Fork99 (talk) 04:47, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I am not a sockpuppet of RichardHornsby. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zxcv6666 (talk • contribs) 08:07, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Obvious ducks. Making the same "clearing the sandbox" edits in the Wikipedia sandbox, have both WP:PGAMED to EC by making 500 automatic edits in their personal sandbox. Edit the same New South Wales articles. Requesting CU to see about others. C F A 💬 18:14, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I am RichardHornsby's brother. I am not a sockpuppet of any of those accounts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miyosmart (talk • contribs) 04:58, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Both accounts are already blocked, but not for sockpuppetry.

Possible WP:DUCKS: Hun and Bmt vandalised Eungai railway station back in January and March, respectively. Just wondering if there's any technical evidence that proves their connection to RichardHornsby - considering that already blocked sockpuppets GenZalpha and Tsetstransport also vandalised the same article.

See the edit history for that article between October 2023 and now - less than 50 edits, so it should fit over one page. Fork99 (talk) 10:04, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Both accounts are stale, so there would be nothing to check. Primefac (talk) 12:25, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Another duck. Edits the exact same New South Wales articles (see contributions). Has made the same 0-byte changes on Template:Cite New South Wales transport timetables (see history) as many other socks in this series (ex: Special:Diff/1236498993 (MalachiPro) compared to Special:Diff/1228234412 (DavidConiston1234). The last 60+ edits on that template are all confirmed RichardHornsby socks. Zxcv6666 (above) has also edited that template (special:diff/1235547732). C F A 💬 21:18, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I am not a sockpuppet of any of these accounts. MalachiPro (talk) 02:04, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  Behavioural evidence needs evaluation No technical match or sleepers found. Primefac (talk) 12:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Another duck. Reinstating previous sock edits, same edit summaries, exact same NSW transport topic area. C F A 💬 20:09, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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"Opal" in username, similar to Opal5678, restored a sock edit right after creating their account. Note also that this happened around the same time that the IP above reported themself. C F A 💬 20:33, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Both IPs reported themselves ([2][3]), have made similar edits in the NSW rail topic area, and have made the same "clearing the sandbox" edits ([4][5]). C F A 💬 20:38, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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