Spicy

June 2024

Hi, FYI regarding Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Isuzu.tf/Archive#29 May 2024, this user's edits (Cappuccini Fiorentini) have appeared on my watchilst and the editing pattern looks similar. Cheers — Gor1995 𝄞 16:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Tricky tagging

So I want to tag Encyclopédisme as a suspected sock of Reman Empire, but also as a confirmed master (I assume you saw the accounts when you ran your check as well). What's the easiest way to do this?-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:29, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

I dumped it all into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Reman Empire.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:35, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

You can do this with SPIhelper, although the interface isn't intuitive and you have to tag the master manually. I've tagged the accounts. Spicy (talk) 22:37, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

My inclination was to go with two separate tags but thought I may be overlooking one of the tags that cover multiple masters/suspects. Is there a tag for "good riddance to bad rubbish"? Because I would plaster that one all over those accounts. -- Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:42, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Good hand sock?

Harpick was created on June 16 and has made 255 edits since. First things they did were to create a userpage and a Talk page. Then they launched into countervandalism. They set up autoarchiving on their Talk page on June 24. I don't remember how I found them, but on June 27 I asked them about other accounts. We had this disjointed conversation where they repeatedly evaded the question. Please see the latest discussion on their Talk page. They still refuse to answer my question, and I'm afraid I got rather sarcastic. Either the sarcasm sailed right over their head, or they intentionally refused to return like with like. If the latter is the case, good for them - not a good idea to piss off an administrator, even if he deserves it. :-) After our last conversation on the 27th I wasn't going to ask for a check, but I have their Talk page on my watchlist, and their response to GoldRomean felt like deja vu, so here I am.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Surprise. They're a sock. Spicy (talk) 22:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm shocked. I'm also curious. Did you have any inkling who they were before you ran the check?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Not really, the antivandalism socks are hard to tell apart from each other. Spicy (talk) 22:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)