Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Militaryfactchecker
Militaryfactchecker
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19 November 2024
[edit]– A checkuser has completed a check on relevant users in this case, and it is now awaiting administration and close.
Suspected sockpuppets
[edit]- PAWPERSO (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
I strongly suspect that User:PAWPERSO is a sockpuppet of User:Militaryfactchecker. See this page for more information. In this case there are two suspected sockpuppeteers, Militaryfactchecker and BritishSpaniard. Judging by the similarity of the latter’s edits (and the edits made by their sockpuppets) to the edits made by the former, I believe both are the same person. BritishSpaniard was blocked separately, and their SPI case did not formally establish a link between them and Militaryfactchecker. You can see at the page I linked to that most of these accounts started editing after an account got blocked. This is true for PINAC9 (a suspected sock of Militaryfactchecker) and BritishSpaniard. I haven’t tracked this case for a while so you can see there’s a gap between late 2023 and today, and I'm not sure how many socks there could have been in the meantime. Anyway, the person behind all those accounts almost exclusively edits pages related to the British armed forces. Below is some behavioral evidence--similarities between Militaryfactchecker, BritishSpaniard, and PAWPERSO, and other socks linked to both sockpuppeteer accounts.
Use of forward slashes in edit summaries
British Spaniard: "Split up current / previous"
PAWPERSO: "11 Signal Brigade disbanded / 7 Signals Group"
Militaryfactchecker: "667 squadron replaced by RAF pumas/disbanded"
PAWPERSO: "removed facebook/instagram/outdated/broken citations"
Militaryfactchecker: "Removed unproven slander/ negative view of the regiment."
Similar use of numbers and abbreviations in edit summaries
Militaryfactchecker: "667 squadron replaced by RAF pumas/disbanded"
PAWPERSO: "678 Squadron AAC disbanded"
BritishSpaniard: "No. 100 Sqn disbanded, updated other units etc"
Dolphinwaxer: "667 Sqn no longer at Brunei"
Dolphinwaxer: "6 Reg AAC at Wattisham"
PAWPERSO: "11 Signal Brigade disbanded / 7 Signals Group"
Dolphinwaxer: "5 and 4 med regt disbanded, redesignated 2 and 3 med regt (after the original regts were disbanded), future soldier reforms"
Use of "lmao" in edit summaries in a somewhat disruptive manner (but not blatantly disruptive)
British Spaniard: "Unsourced and if RAF lawyers actually do a 3 month SERE course i'll eat my hat lmao, definitely not true"
General snarky/aggressive remarks in edit summaries
PAWPERSO: "Not how wikipedia works Ivan. There is multiple reputable and reliable sources. Cope tho"
Militaryfactchecker: "Not at all. Don't undo things you're clueless about? They're now used on the C8s. Leave"
Dolphinwaxer: "It's not copyrighted, it's been changed you clown"
Anti-left wing / pro-right wing user page content
CptJohnMiller: "Dislike communists and lefty snowflakes."
BritishSpaniard: "Hell No. This user is opposed to communism."
PAWPERSO: "This user supports Donald Trump, trusting that he can Keep America Great."
—Nythar (💬-🍀) 00:22, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
[edit]- The old accounts from this case are stale, but based on the IPs I see in the CU logs I would call this Possible based on geolocation, but nothing stronger than that on the technical data alone. Behavioural evidence needs evaluation Girth Summit (blether) 12:09, 19 November 2024 (UTC)