Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nicky Haugh
Nicky Haugh
- Nicky Haugh (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
11 November 2024
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– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
Suspected sockpuppets
[edit]- Footballsoapverse (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Both accounts have the same behaviours - Greatly expanding the plot and lead sections of soap opera character articles, not using edit summaries, putting original research, adding unneutral statements and much more. An example is Dan Sullivan (EastEnders) and Steve Owen (EastEnders) - both accounts have expanded the plot and lead several times, and not used edit summaries and added unneutral sentences. Additionally, Fotballsoapverse was created after Nicky Haugh was blocked from editingn in 2022, after ignoring community concerns for years. I could give many many more examples but to summarise: it quacks like a duck. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 14:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- What do you mean by that? DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
@0xDeadbeef: I did not include specific refs because nearly all of their refs show similarities between the two. But I will go some examples:
Example of Nicky expanding the lead of Dan Sullivan (EastEnders) with excessive info - [1], example of Footballverse doing the same - [2] - There are many more examples in the history showing both accounts expanding the storylines sections
Example of Nicky expanding the storylines section of Steve Owen (EastEnders) - [3], example of Footballverse doing the same - [4]
Other examples of Nicky expanding storyline sections - [5], [6], [7], [8] and [9] (but there are many many many more - it is not worth putting all of them).
Other examples of Nicky expanding leads with original research - [10] and [11]
Other examples of Footballverse expanding storylines - [12], [13] and [14]
Other examples of Footballverse expanding lead - [15]
In addition to their similar writing styles, both accounts do not use edit summaries and do not respond on their talk pages. I do appreciate them contributing to Wikipedia, but they repeatedly have added extremely excessive details that are unsourced in the article and made things unneutral, and we tried asking NickyHaugh many many many times to stop but they did not. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 16:43. 13 November 2024 (UTC)
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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Check declined by a checkuser - Data will be stale. Izno (talk) 17:52, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Check users have access to data from only the previous 90 days. It generally isn't worthwhile to go looking when prior accounts were last editing earlier than that cutoff. Izno (talk) 18:41, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Just realized this connection was already suggested in the archive. At the time the number of edits was too few to make an assessment. Given the timeline, this is probably them. But regardless, there's probably a block here for same faults as the master. Which is probably why it's worth just blocking them and moving on. :') Izno (talk) 19:32, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
- Check users have access to data from only the previous 90 days. It generally isn't worthwhile to go looking when prior accounts were last editing earlier than that cutoff. Izno (talk) 18:41, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Specific diff links indicating the connection between Footballsoapverse and Nicky Haugh (one edit from Fsv and one similar edit from NH) would be useful. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 12:41, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
- Reading soap opera summaries to determine whether there is a clear connection was not fun. Anyways I blocked for disruptive editing and potential sockpuppetry. Not putting tags, closing. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 10:11, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
