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16 July 2020

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The Youcancallmejimmy account was created a little over a day after The Ultimate Boss (then DarklyShadows) returned from a self-requested indefinite block and announced he "won't be that active anymore". A while before the other account was created, DarklyShadows registered the name change. The second account was being used to obsessively edit Billie Eilish articles between 06:00 and 19:32 on on 14th July. Notably, TUA made no edits during this time. This is unusual for a user who had recently come back from an indefinite block. The behavioral evidence is there simply by looking at their interactions. These accounts, if proved to be the same person, are also not WP:SOCK#LEGIT as they're editing the same pages pretending to be different people, also reverting some edits by each other to be deceptive. NØ 03:32, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • So an account gets their own self blocked indefinitely to avoid scrutiny for their canvassing. Then they come back declaring the intention to quit and register a name change. One day later, an account created to act like a "newbie" starts having an obsession with the same pop singer, creating an overlap of 14 pages within a day, immediately citing sources like a pro. And this isn't enough reasonable suspicion? Pinging Mz7 because I have to disagree with GeneralNotability's take.--NØ 01:08, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Clerk declined - Insufficient behavioral evidence provided to justify a checkuser. From my own review, I do not see convincing behavioral overlap, and in fact the two have genre-warred - based on behavior I do not believe these are the same person. I'm not clear how not editing within a certain time is "unusual" when the user usually does not edit in that time window. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:46, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • So, in this case I am sympathetic to both views. I think GeneralNotability's skepticism is reasonable here. The two accounts do have some behavioral dissimilarities that suggest they may be two different people who both happen to like Billie Eilish. For instance, on a few occasions, The Ultimate Boss reverted Youcancallmejimmy: [1][2][3]. With that being said, I understand the source of MaranoFan's suspicion, and the observation about adding well-formed citations despite being brand new and editing from mobile is a valid point, and The Ultimate Boss has also done some suspicious things to make me question their good faith, e.g. [4][5]. To allay these concerns, I ran a check, and the results indicate that The Ultimate Boss and Youcancallmejimmy are indeed Red X Unrelated. However, I discovered in the course of my check that The Ultimate Boss has been socking with another account: Nirvanaisbae (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is  Confirmed to The Ultimate Boss.  Blocked and tagged: Nirvanaisbae indefinitely, The Ultimate Boss 1 week. No action with respect to Youcancallmejimmy. Mz7 (talk) 02:24, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

04 July 2021

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This is about one editor wanting to add mugshots to biographies of hip hop artists, all BLPs. Shoot for the Stars uploaded a bunch of mugshots; the list of uploads is here. All of the mugshots were deleted on Wikipedia. Beatlesfan210 picked up the task and uploaded the same photos to Commons: See list of uploads. Beatlesfan210 went around to the same biographies and re-added the photos.[6][7] Utah IP 98.33.227.117 joined the restoration.[8] After I reverted this series of actions, Shoot for the Stars came back to restore the photo.[9]

Checkuser requested to check for other accounts. Binksternet (talk) 05:53, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Binksternet Yes I admit what I did was wrong. I was about to mention that my Beatles account was mine but did not do it. You know I'm shooting for the stars, aiming for the moon 💫 (talk) 06:01, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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20 October 2021

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Possible block evasion by Shoot for the Stars who have a history of adding images of poor quality [10][11] and mugshots [12][13]. It appears that the editor hasn't learned anything and keep doing the same thing as before [14][15][16][17]. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 23:15, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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26 December 2021

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I noticed that this IP has been editing heavily in the same areas as TUB since TUB was community banned in August 2021 and their other socks were detected. The IP like TUB focuses on Pop Smoke related articles. The IP nominated two Pop Smoke-related pages for WP:GOCE/REQ.[18] TUB is a major contributor to both these articles. Knowing about the GOCE/REQ page is not typical of an IP. I'm not all that familiar with TUB but this does look suspicious to me. (t · c) buidhe 13:36, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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5 February 2022

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Block evasion by Shoot for the Stars who keep adding images of poor quality [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] and edit mostly Pop Smoke-related articles. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 20:24, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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