Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Democfest
Unicorn123SL
- Unicorn123SL (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Populated account categories: confirmed
06 April 2024[edit]
– A checkuser has declined a request for CheckUser, and the case is now awaiting a behavioural investigation.
Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
- Leftregister (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
On 11 October 2023, User:Democfest was blocked indefinitely. Two weeks later User:Leftregister made their first edit. Leftregister's primary areas of editing have been on articles about Australian buildings, cities, emergency services and transport (often, but not always, around the placement and quality of images), all areas in which Democfest edited extensively.
Democrest was keen on replacing infobox images with montages in Australian cities, e.g. Wollongong, Leftregister has done so at Geelong and Hobart.
Comparing Leftregister's edits to Democfest's edits, all of the former account's top ten edits, (New South Wales Police Force, List of tallest buildings in Sydney, Central Coast (New South Wales), Gosford, Perth, Wollongong, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Hobart, Canberra and Sydney) have previously been edited on multiple occasions by the latter account, with the three in italics in both top tens.
Not that the block here applies to other Wikimedia projects, but a giveaway is that on Commons, Democfest's last edit on 27 November was to edit an image with Crop Tool 1.5, a tool the editor used extensively. Leftregister used the same tool for the first time 18 hours later and has continued to use regularly, including within the last two days. Dvzk (talk) 13:45, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Comments by other users[edit]
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]
- Declining CU as there are no non-stale accounts to check against;
Behavioural evidence needs evaluation. This was also opened under the incorrect name and should be moved to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Unicorn123SL.-- Ponyobons mots 20:35, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
