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17 February 2017[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Hidden Tempo is topic-banned from American Politics - The Patriot Way shows up shortly thereafter, and the two crossed their accounts here and here. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 00:33, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for immediately reporting this possible infraction, NorthBySouthBaranof. I didn't realize I was still logged into my other account, The Patriot Way, when I made the last edit. Usually I'm pretty good about not giving tendentious activist editors a reason to get rid of me, but today I was careless and forgot to log out first. So, it seems that in addition to "informing" people with whom you disagree that they don't know how the world works[1], failing to ever add material that could reflect negatively upon one group of individuals (which I am banned from mentioning by name), and never making an edit that reflects positively upon another group (also banned from mentioning), you may be able to actually further cleanse the project from views that differ from your own by pouncing on an opportunity to use a roundabout backdoor method to simply get rid of one of these editors altogether. If I'm to be perfectly honest, I can't blame you - it's a rather neat and efficient strategy to promote your own worldview and silence dissent. But really, it'd be much more respectable to simply have a real debate. Cheers! Hidden Tempo (talk) 01:54, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

Declined CU as unnecessary given Hidden Tempo admits the socking (see above). Sock blocked as an account created to evade a topic ban. Master blocked for topic ban evasion. -- Euryalus (talk) 19:16, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • Nothing more to do per Euryalus's comment and actions. Closing case. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:49, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

26 May 2018[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]


That Mr. Daniel Plainview was someone's sockpuppet was clear, so a checkuser investigation was warranted. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:35, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Checkuser data and CU logs point to this being Hidden Tempo, and a behavioral comparison seals it. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:35, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

23 July 2018[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]


See interaction analyzer.

  • Both accounts have made edits to articles and talk pages related to the media, typically adding POV-violating wording under the guise of fixing lies, or debating about the "liberal media".Hidden Tempo:[2][3]; Parkrun1999:[4][5]
  • Both have made similar edits at Cenk Uygur involving InfoWars [6][7].
  • Both incorrectly refer to slander (rather than libel):Hidden Tempo:[8]; Parkrun1999:[9][10]
  • Both declare that they are here to fight:[11][12]

- MrX 🖋 00:16, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

Red X Unrelated. However, Parkrun1999 is a sock, but the name of the master is complicated. I will hopefully address this tomorrow. In the meantime, I've put the case on hold.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:18, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

15 August 2018[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]


See below. —DoRD (talk)​ 12:23, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

  •  Possible to  Likely. As with Mr. Daniel Plainview, there is no direct connection, but the behavior and available CU evidence suggests that this is Hidden Tempo. —DoRD (talk)​ 12:23, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

09 November 2018[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Pushing the same right wing point of view in a similar manner on similar topics, and CharlesShirely is clearly not a new account.

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  • Related to the comments in support of the same RfC mentined above, Mr. Daniel Plainview (sock of Hidden Tempo) actually !voted twice as Plainview in that RfC, as well, possibly, as CharlesShirley [15], [16] O3000 (talk) 19:40, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

Red X Unrelated. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:50, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

10 June 2019[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]


Username; precociousness; master has been intermittently socking on the same page lately (most recently on May 17 via 174.210.14.152 and 2600:1012:B012:26DF:680A:15FC:C0CA:52B1, blocked by TParis); similar POV and writing style. Banned user is known to change IPs so behavioral analysis might be required. Also note, I reported Throwaway060519 to TonyBallioni the other day but I suspect Tony is busy with other things. R2 (bleep) 20:36, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

Red X Unrelated, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:30, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

22 April 2020[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]


ST47 (talk) 07:00, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

These are both highly  Likely to Hidden Tempo.  Blocked and tagged. ST47 (talk) 07:00, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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