Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Elliotthomaspotts/Archive
Elliotthomaspotts
- Elliotthomaspotts (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
05 August 2020[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
- Potts-E-20 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- ElliotPotts2004 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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I was aware that User:ElliotPotts2004 (created on 18 July 2020) was blocked on 23 July 2020 for vandalism, and I have just noticed User:Elliotthomaspotts (created on 2 April 2018) on my watchlist. In addition to the similar usernames, the accounts have edited articles related to British soap operas, particularly Coronation Street. User:Elliotthomaspotts has created unsourced BLPs for British soap actors [1] & [2], like User:ElliotPotts2004 did here [3]. I followed their contributions, which led me to User:Potts-E-20 (created on 9 June 2020). Again a similar username and have edited the same articles [4]. The IPs have also edited the same articles as the named accounts, including the Connor McIntyre article, and one of them is currently blocked for adding unsourced content. I'm requesting CU as I suspect there could be a couple more accounts floating around ready to be (re)activated. Please let me know if you want me to provide specific diffs. JuneGloom07 Talk 23:10, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
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In progress - Mz7 (talk) 03:35, 6 August 2020 (UTC)- Elliotthomaspotts and Potts-E-20 are
Confirmed to each other, while ElliotPotts2004 is 
Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely), and combined with the username similarity I think it passes the WP:DUCK test. All accounts 
Blocked and tagged. 
No comment with respect to IP address(es). Mz7 (talk) 03:44, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
31 October 2020[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
- Southportchampion04 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Editing similar articles as the previous accounts, which is mostly BLPs of British actors and British television dramas/soaps. The new account recreated the poorly sourced Katherine Dow Blyton article [5], after it was recently moved to the draft space. The User:Elliotthomaspotts account first created it in August [6]. A similar thing happened with Connor McIntyre. Please let me know if you want me to provide further diffs. JuneGloom07 Talk 23:02, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
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Clerk note: Blocked and tagged, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:32, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
