Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Steptacular12
Steptacular12
- Steptacular12 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Populated account categories: confirmed
13 June 2024[edit]
– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
- Convert12 (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 the Steps discography article, Convert12 restored pretty much the same edits there as did the Steptacular12 account: diff by Steptacular12, diff by Convert12. The major takeaway here is the addition of the "25 Revisited & Alternated Videos" section.
Then after the article got semi-protected, both Steptacular12 and Convert12 have appeared to game to get autoconfirmed permissions, by adding "|2" to reflist templates, or adding reflist templates with "|2" parameters in them:
- Edits by Steptacular12: example 1, example 2, example 3
- Edits by Convert12: example 1, example 2, example 3
Both accounts marked them as minor edits too. — AP 499D25 (talk) 02:19, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Comments by other users[edit]
- Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
- An important note is that several IPs from Vietnam have been involved in the same activity:
- I reported this disruption two days ago at WP:ANI#Declared manager of the UK pop group Steps. Binksternet (talk) 05:39, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]
CheckUser requested and endorsed by clerk - given all of the activity around this, might be worth a check of the accounts. (Obviously not requesting for IPs.) TheSandDoctor Talk 23:51, 15 June 2024 (UTC)- The accounts are
Confirmed to one another, also Constantly45. Blocking all. Will leave this open so that someone else can consider the IPs. Girth Summit (blether) 14:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC) - Closing per the above and without any action on the IPs as they haven't edited in a number of days, have no recurring history of this, and a block probably wouldn't prevent anything given the dynamic nature of most IPs. TheSandDoctor Talk 16:21, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
