The three IPs are obviously the same person, and he/she has not hidden this fact. [1] [2] [3] [4] JoshuSasori, the user I believe to be the sockmaster, was banned indefinitely a few days ago for making personal attacks against me and harassing me across numerous articles. After this ban, a number of IP accounts suddenly appeared and started making very similar edits to JoshuSasori. Given that these accounts have been limited to posting on move requests, it seems highly unlikely that this is just some non-Wikipedian who happened to, for instance, request to revert a recent move of an article on an obscure Japanese film as their first edit. This activity is, however, highly consistent with JoshuSasori's former activities. It is also hard to take as coincidence that this user with similar activities would show up only a couple of days after JoshuSasori was banned. [5] Further, if they are indeed the same person, then JoshuSasori has been evading a ban imposed on him for name-calling, disruptive behaviour and making a personal threat against me. He would also have used his puppets to cast two votes in Talk:Shōtarō Ikenami#Requested move to Shotaro Ikenami, turning the move request from 3:2 against, to a 3:3 tie. [6] [7] elvenscout742 ( talk) 07:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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The above IPs are all the same person, and have not hidden that fact. [8] [9] [10] [11] JoshuSasori, the user I believe to be the sockmaster, was indefinitely blocked for harassing me. Shortly after JoshuSasori was blocked, the above IPs all started editing in very similar areas to him, and following me to at least one entirely unrelated discussion. [12] If I am right, then JoshuSasori has not only been evading his block, but voting multiple times on Talk:Shōtarō Ikenami#Requested move to Shotaro Ikenami. I previously posted an SPI here for three of the IPs, and they were blocked for a week, but because it's a dynamic IP that doesn't seem to have hindered their activities much. This needs a CheckUser and if they are found to be the same a range block will be necessary. JoshuSasori, shortly before being blocked, followed me to Talk:Tales of Moonlight and Rain and voted against me, derailing an RM where there would otherwise have been a clear consensus. When I re-posted the RM (the obvious reason for the previous close was JoshuSasori following me, and he is blocked), his sockpuppet 123.225.49.155 appeared and offered the same argument, and this is currently threatening to derail the RM a second time. User:Cuchullain, User:TParis and User:In ictu oculi have all also noted this. elvenscout742 ( talk) 02:19, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
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The Mysterious Island account was created
[23] only two days after JoshuSasori was blocked
[24] and has proceeded to make over 1000 edits. They work in the same areas (particularly Japanese film), and have edited 185 of the same articles. Mysterious Island is too knowledgeable to be a new editor and follows much of Joshu's MO, including replacing Japanese names with English translations (compare
[25] and
[26]), removing or altering
macrons - often as the very next edit after Joshu (
[27] and
[28];
[29] and
[30], etc.), and participating in
RMs to do the same.
However, evidence from today clinches it as far as I'm concerned: After
Elvenscout742 moved
Yoko Ogawa to
Yōko Ogawa, an obvious Joshu sock
started an RM to remove the macron. When someone opposed, Mysterious Island showed up to
move the page anyway. Call me cynical, but this looks like Joshu, unable to move the page unilaterally as an anon, bringing in his
good hand sock to get his way. If it is Joshu, he's also double-voted at least in
this RM started by a sockpuppet.
Cúchullain
t/
c 02:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Cúchullain
t/
c
02:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
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This sockpuppet investigation was opened on behalf of Elvenscout742 in an effort to evade scrutiny of his actions. See this. Mysterious Island ( talk) 02:33, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Quack quack. Sure, it's theoretically possible there's a new user out there with an understanding of RM and a desire to change some Japanese names. It seems less likely, though, that said user would use "Who do you think I am? If you suspect me of being someone's sockpuppet, open the SPI." as his or her edit summary for every one of his or her edits. So I decided to follow the advice therein. BDD ( talk) 16:23, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
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No, I'm neither JoshuSasori nor Mysterious Island (JoshuSasori's sockpuppet). Please see the evidence below.
1. At the very same time (around 15:30, 19 February 2013) when I was editing Yoshishige Yoshida as 124.85.41.37, Mysterious Island was editing Donald Richie, Talk:Yūji Oda and Talk:Edogawa Rampo. So I'm not the same person as Mysterious Island.
2. JoshuSasori opposed the requested move at Talk:Densha Otoko (film), which I had nominated as 123.225.44.23. Additionally, I removed the photo from Takayuki Yamada, which he/she had previously restored twice.
3. JoshuSasori undid my edit as 123.224.83.130 at Kōji Yakusho, which was due to my fault.
4. JoshuSasori also reverted my edit at Manami Konishi, which was due to my removal of material without explanation. The next day, I reverted again with explaining the reason in the edit summary.
5. See also Talk:Shigehiko Hasumi, where he/she and I had a truly heated discussion. In fact, JoshuSasori seemed to think I was another editor who had mediated there.
So I'm not the same person as JoshuSasori. 123.224.191.243 ( talk) 17:49, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
The anon has been blocked by TParis.-- Cúchullain t/ c 20:09, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
-- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 00:49, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm filing this on behalf of a retired user (who was harrassed off-wiki by Sasori) - my own, admittedly cursory, check of the contribs for the user's listed above suggests similar editing areas and habits to Sasori, but I haven't spotted anything especially blatant. Requesting checkuser for a reasonably definite yay or nay. Yunshui 雲 水 19:54, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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Believe what you want, I'm not a sockpuppet... I am (not) Iron Man ( talk) 23:50, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Both accounts primarily edit in Japanese cinema area. Slowends shares JS's infamous hatred of macronsdiacritics.
[51] Slowends account created while last sock, Wistchars, was under investigation,
[52]
[53] but delayed first edit
[54] until after Wistchars blocked,
[55] perhaps to avoid CU ending him before he starts. Slowends shares JoshuSasori's interest in peer review for the article on the film Ugetsu Monogatari.
[56] Like Wistchars, Slowends enjoys sharing dummy barnstars with his own IP socks.
[57]
[58]
Hijiri 88 (
聖
やや)
10:38, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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Trollvenlout/屁汁野郎 has just driven one productive editor off Wikipedia with a "wall of text" attack on the administrator's notice board. Now 屁汁野郎 wants to drive another one off. What is the point of it, 屁汁野郎? Why don't you spend your time and verbal abilities on making Wikipedia pages. Why do you enjoy destroying other editors? And even more mysteriously, why do the administrators support this fruitcake in his antics? 窓際族の屁汁野郎! Slowends ( talk) 11:04, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
JoshuSasori was in the habit of calling Hijiri88 a troll [60]. And now we have a brand new editor posting [61]. Granted, Hijiri88 was in conflict with a half a dozen other banned users, so it could be another one of those, but a check-user can determine that. Someone not using his real name ( talk) 01:24, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
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WP:DUCK. SPA for attack on Hijiri88; identifies as sock of unnamed previous user in first post. In ictu oculi ( talk) 01:27, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
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I think it would be a good idea to run a check user.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 12:18, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
I don't know if it's User:JoshuSasori or not, but it's obviously a sock, since, well, it basically explicitly states to having been in past disputes with Hijiri88. I've indeff'd the account; if someone still wants to run a CU to find out who the master is or look for sleepers, feel free. Qwyrxian ( talk) 12:15, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
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@ Lukeno94: please see above, for some reason my earlier post of evidence didn't catch. In ictu oculi ( talk) 16:10, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Self admits to being JoshuSasori on Toddy1's Talk page and Nishidani's talk respectively. Also has given up/compromised all the passwords on User talk:Hiding in a bowl of rice page. In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:53, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
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Probably a waste of time for a 1-edit sock, but evident given the trouble on that 1 page so going through the motions for housekeeping purposes in case it gets used again. In ictu oculi ( talk) 07:55, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
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It's been a really long time, but the reason for that is probably because I stopped keeping an eye out for tell-tale socks of this user when he (mostly) stopped his off-wiki harassment of me, not because there was any good reason to believe he wasn't evading his ban.
Requesting CU because a formerly prolific sockpuppeteer with a currently live account, but said account not being very active, implies the existence of others. I know the CU data for JS is all very stale, but if NYFO has other accounts they should show up (I think?). The last few bullet points above have me absolutely convinced that NYFO is JoshuSasori.
Hijiri 88 (
聖
やや) 13:18, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Hijiri 88 (
聖
やや)
13:18, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
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Same basic deal as last time: strong interest in Japanese cinema [72] and intense dislike of me (even to the point of hounding). These two factors sent up red flags for me immediately, with the only reason not to open an SPI being a lack of a "smoking gun" like the Narihira edit NYFOM made, but the lack of such a smoking gun doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't the same person; given the number of accounts JS was operating back in 2013, I wouldn't be surprised if, during the four years no one was checking for new socks, he went through a large number of throwaway accounts, and examining this accounts earlier edits could probably connect it to some other account that mysteriously stopped editing around the same time, which could probably be connected to another, and so on... And this throwaway account definitely was someone's sock, or at the very least a troll trying to undermine the WP:GA system -- an account with 2K edits and 29 GA reviews looks very much like either an experienced editor editing under a new account without disclosing their old accounts, or a troll. My money (I'd say there's about a 90% chance) is on the former, but in either case their GA passes (the vast majority of their reviews, it seems) should probably be reexamined, and doing so if they were already blocked as a sock would be a lot easier. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 03:47, 24 December 2018 (UTC) Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 03:47, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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Suspected puppet hasn't edited in four months. Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:04, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
All three of these accounts share JoshuSasori's dislike of macrons in articles on Japanese topics [73] [74] [75] [76] as well as a suspicious interest in me and whatever it is I'm up to. [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] Moreover, the three accounts have !voted with each other in discussions at a rate a bit too incredible to be accepted as a coincidence given their low edit counts. [86] [87] [88] (Colin Gerhard and Patiodweller have 206 and 329, respectively, and while Worldlywise, the oldest account, has 2,359, all but a tiny portion are -- probably semi-automated -- minor article edits, since 1,550 of his edit summaries have included the words "Olympic results" and all but 85 have been marked as minor.)
Requesting CU even though the main account is very stale for two reasons: (i) the fact that these accounts have been showing up out of the woodwork every now and then for over seven years makes it very likely there are other sleepers, and (ii) even if the accounts cannot be CU-connected to JoshuSasori, they are very likely connected to each other and possibly to other sock accounts.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 06:35, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
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WP:DUCK. Account apparently created for the sole purpose of insulting at me on the talk page of an article on an old Japanese film (JS actually followed me to the same article previously, shortly before his first block). Requesting CU because there are likely to be other sleepers. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 00:22, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
If you believe someone is using sockpuppets or meat puppets, you should create a report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations.is quite problematic -- if I believe in good faith that there is sockpuppetry afoot, I'm essentially violating the policy by doing anything other than filing an SPI, but the direct effect of doing so is just going to be that they don't make any more edits while logged into that account, thus making CU permanently impossible...? If you are technically able to run a check but it would just be a violation for you to do so without more direct evidence, well ... again, I can appreciate why the rules are apparently kept under wraps, but we know JoshuSasori was sitebanned in March 2013 before making multiple sock accounts that were still actively editing at least as recently as September 2018 (which just happens to be the last time I checked). If that and the shared interest in Kurosawa films aren't convincing enough, I'm happy to agree to disagree and drop the issue until something else happens. Sorry for pinging you again (I wasn't sure if you are watching this page and didn't want to give the impression of leaving you high and dry and coming back the better part of two days later), and happy editing. :-) Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 06:52, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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Pro forma, see below. GeneralNotability ( talk) 20:13, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
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The three IPs are obviously the same person, and he/she has not hidden this fact. [1] [2] [3] [4] JoshuSasori, the user I believe to be the sockmaster, was banned indefinitely a few days ago for making personal attacks against me and harassing me across numerous articles. After this ban, a number of IP accounts suddenly appeared and started making very similar edits to JoshuSasori. Given that these accounts have been limited to posting on move requests, it seems highly unlikely that this is just some non-Wikipedian who happened to, for instance, request to revert a recent move of an article on an obscure Japanese film as their first edit. This activity is, however, highly consistent with JoshuSasori's former activities. It is also hard to take as coincidence that this user with similar activities would show up only a couple of days after JoshuSasori was banned. [5] Further, if they are indeed the same person, then JoshuSasori has been evading a ban imposed on him for name-calling, disruptive behaviour and making a personal threat against me. He would also have used his puppets to cast two votes in Talk:Shōtarō Ikenami#Requested move to Shotaro Ikenami, turning the move request from 3:2 against, to a 3:3 tie. [6] [7] elvenscout742 ( talk) 07:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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The above IPs are all the same person, and have not hidden that fact. [8] [9] [10] [11] JoshuSasori, the user I believe to be the sockmaster, was indefinitely blocked for harassing me. Shortly after JoshuSasori was blocked, the above IPs all started editing in very similar areas to him, and following me to at least one entirely unrelated discussion. [12] If I am right, then JoshuSasori has not only been evading his block, but voting multiple times on Talk:Shōtarō Ikenami#Requested move to Shotaro Ikenami. I previously posted an SPI here for three of the IPs, and they were blocked for a week, but because it's a dynamic IP that doesn't seem to have hindered their activities much. This needs a CheckUser and if they are found to be the same a range block will be necessary. JoshuSasori, shortly before being blocked, followed me to Talk:Tales of Moonlight and Rain and voted against me, derailing an RM where there would otherwise have been a clear consensus. When I re-posted the RM (the obvious reason for the previous close was JoshuSasori following me, and he is blocked), his sockpuppet 123.225.49.155 appeared and offered the same argument, and this is currently threatening to derail the RM a second time. User:Cuchullain, User:TParis and User:In ictu oculi have all also noted this. elvenscout742 ( talk) 02:19, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
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The Mysterious Island account was created
[23] only two days after JoshuSasori was blocked
[24] and has proceeded to make over 1000 edits. They work in the same areas (particularly Japanese film), and have edited 185 of the same articles. Mysterious Island is too knowledgeable to be a new editor and follows much of Joshu's MO, including replacing Japanese names with English translations (compare
[25] and
[26]), removing or altering
macrons - often as the very next edit after Joshu (
[27] and
[28];
[29] and
[30], etc.), and participating in
RMs to do the same.
However, evidence from today clinches it as far as I'm concerned: After
Elvenscout742 moved
Yoko Ogawa to
Yōko Ogawa, an obvious Joshu sock
started an RM to remove the macron. When someone opposed, Mysterious Island showed up to
move the page anyway. Call me cynical, but this looks like Joshu, unable to move the page unilaterally as an anon, bringing in his
good hand sock to get his way. If it is Joshu, he's also double-voted at least in
this RM started by a sockpuppet.
Cúchullain
t/
c 02:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Cúchullain
t/
c
02:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
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This sockpuppet investigation was opened on behalf of Elvenscout742 in an effort to evade scrutiny of his actions. See this. Mysterious Island ( talk) 02:33, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Quack quack. Sure, it's theoretically possible there's a new user out there with an understanding of RM and a desire to change some Japanese names. It seems less likely, though, that said user would use "Who do you think I am? If you suspect me of being someone's sockpuppet, open the SPI." as his or her edit summary for every one of his or her edits. So I decided to follow the advice therein. BDD ( talk) 16:23, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
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No, I'm neither JoshuSasori nor Mysterious Island (JoshuSasori's sockpuppet). Please see the evidence below.
1. At the very same time (around 15:30, 19 February 2013) when I was editing Yoshishige Yoshida as 124.85.41.37, Mysterious Island was editing Donald Richie, Talk:Yūji Oda and Talk:Edogawa Rampo. So I'm not the same person as Mysterious Island.
2. JoshuSasori opposed the requested move at Talk:Densha Otoko (film), which I had nominated as 123.225.44.23. Additionally, I removed the photo from Takayuki Yamada, which he/she had previously restored twice.
3. JoshuSasori undid my edit as 123.224.83.130 at Kōji Yakusho, which was due to my fault.
4. JoshuSasori also reverted my edit at Manami Konishi, which was due to my removal of material without explanation. The next day, I reverted again with explaining the reason in the edit summary.
5. See also Talk:Shigehiko Hasumi, where he/she and I had a truly heated discussion. In fact, JoshuSasori seemed to think I was another editor who had mediated there.
So I'm not the same person as JoshuSasori. 123.224.191.243 ( talk) 17:49, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
The anon has been blocked by TParis.-- Cúchullain t/ c 20:09, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
-- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 00:49, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm filing this on behalf of a retired user (who was harrassed off-wiki by Sasori) - my own, admittedly cursory, check of the contribs for the user's listed above suggests similar editing areas and habits to Sasori, but I haven't spotted anything especially blatant. Requesting checkuser for a reasonably definite yay or nay. Yunshui 雲 水 19:54, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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Believe what you want, I'm not a sockpuppet... I am (not) Iron Man ( talk) 23:50, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Both accounts primarily edit in Japanese cinema area. Slowends shares JS's infamous hatred of macronsdiacritics.
[51] Slowends account created while last sock, Wistchars, was under investigation,
[52]
[53] but delayed first edit
[54] until after Wistchars blocked,
[55] perhaps to avoid CU ending him before he starts. Slowends shares JoshuSasori's interest in peer review for the article on the film Ugetsu Monogatari.
[56] Like Wistchars, Slowends enjoys sharing dummy barnstars with his own IP socks.
[57]
[58]
Hijiri 88 (
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やや)
10:38, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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Trollvenlout/屁汁野郎 has just driven one productive editor off Wikipedia with a "wall of text" attack on the administrator's notice board. Now 屁汁野郎 wants to drive another one off. What is the point of it, 屁汁野郎? Why don't you spend your time and verbal abilities on making Wikipedia pages. Why do you enjoy destroying other editors? And even more mysteriously, why do the administrators support this fruitcake in his antics? 窓際族の屁汁野郎! Slowends ( talk) 11:04, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
JoshuSasori was in the habit of calling Hijiri88 a troll [60]. And now we have a brand new editor posting [61]. Granted, Hijiri88 was in conflict with a half a dozen other banned users, so it could be another one of those, but a check-user can determine that. Someone not using his real name ( talk) 01:24, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
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WP:DUCK. SPA for attack on Hijiri88; identifies as sock of unnamed previous user in first post. In ictu oculi ( talk) 01:27, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
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I think it would be a good idea to run a check user.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 12:18, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
I don't know if it's User:JoshuSasori or not, but it's obviously a sock, since, well, it basically explicitly states to having been in past disputes with Hijiri88. I've indeff'd the account; if someone still wants to run a CU to find out who the master is or look for sleepers, feel free. Qwyrxian ( talk) 12:15, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
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@ Lukeno94: please see above, for some reason my earlier post of evidence didn't catch. In ictu oculi ( talk) 16:10, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Self admits to being JoshuSasori on Toddy1's Talk page and Nishidani's talk respectively. Also has given up/compromised all the passwords on User talk:Hiding in a bowl of rice page. In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:53, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
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Probably a waste of time for a 1-edit sock, but evident given the trouble on that 1 page so going through the motions for housekeeping purposes in case it gets used again. In ictu oculi ( talk) 07:55, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
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It's been a really long time, but the reason for that is probably because I stopped keeping an eye out for tell-tale socks of this user when he (mostly) stopped his off-wiki harassment of me, not because there was any good reason to believe he wasn't evading his ban.
Requesting CU because a formerly prolific sockpuppeteer with a currently live account, but said account not being very active, implies the existence of others. I know the CU data for JS is all very stale, but if NYFO has other accounts they should show up (I think?). The last few bullet points above have me absolutely convinced that NYFO is JoshuSasori.
Hijiri 88 (
聖
やや) 13:18, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Hijiri 88 (
聖
やや)
13:18, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
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Same basic deal as last time: strong interest in Japanese cinema [72] and intense dislike of me (even to the point of hounding). These two factors sent up red flags for me immediately, with the only reason not to open an SPI being a lack of a "smoking gun" like the Narihira edit NYFOM made, but the lack of such a smoking gun doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't the same person; given the number of accounts JS was operating back in 2013, I wouldn't be surprised if, during the four years no one was checking for new socks, he went through a large number of throwaway accounts, and examining this accounts earlier edits could probably connect it to some other account that mysteriously stopped editing around the same time, which could probably be connected to another, and so on... And this throwaway account definitely was someone's sock, or at the very least a troll trying to undermine the WP:GA system -- an account with 2K edits and 29 GA reviews looks very much like either an experienced editor editing under a new account without disclosing their old accounts, or a troll. My money (I'd say there's about a 90% chance) is on the former, but in either case their GA passes (the vast majority of their reviews, it seems) should probably be reexamined, and doing so if they were already blocked as a sock would be a lot easier. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 03:47, 24 December 2018 (UTC) Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 03:47, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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Suspected puppet hasn't edited in four months. Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:04, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
All three of these accounts share JoshuSasori's dislike of macrons in articles on Japanese topics [73] [74] [75] [76] as well as a suspicious interest in me and whatever it is I'm up to. [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] Moreover, the three accounts have !voted with each other in discussions at a rate a bit too incredible to be accepted as a coincidence given their low edit counts. [86] [87] [88] (Colin Gerhard and Patiodweller have 206 and 329, respectively, and while Worldlywise, the oldest account, has 2,359, all but a tiny portion are -- probably semi-automated -- minor article edits, since 1,550 of his edit summaries have included the words "Olympic results" and all but 85 have been marked as minor.)
Requesting CU even though the main account is very stale for two reasons: (i) the fact that these accounts have been showing up out of the woodwork every now and then for over seven years makes it very likely there are other sleepers, and (ii) even if the accounts cannot be CU-connected to JoshuSasori, they are very likely connected to each other and possibly to other sock accounts.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 06:35, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
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WP:DUCK. Account apparently created for the sole purpose of insulting at me on the talk page of an article on an old Japanese film (JS actually followed me to the same article previously, shortly before his first block). Requesting CU because there are likely to be other sleepers. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 00:22, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
If you believe someone is using sockpuppets or meat puppets, you should create a report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations.is quite problematic -- if I believe in good faith that there is sockpuppetry afoot, I'm essentially violating the policy by doing anything other than filing an SPI, but the direct effect of doing so is just going to be that they don't make any more edits while logged into that account, thus making CU permanently impossible...? If you are technically able to run a check but it would just be a violation for you to do so without more direct evidence, well ... again, I can appreciate why the rules are apparently kept under wraps, but we know JoshuSasori was sitebanned in March 2013 before making multiple sock accounts that were still actively editing at least as recently as September 2018 (which just happens to be the last time I checked). If that and the shared interest in Kurosawa films aren't convincing enough, I'm happy to agree to disagree and drop the issue until something else happens. Sorry for pinging you again (I wasn't sure if you are watching this page and didn't want to give the impression of leaving you high and dry and coming back the better part of two days later), and happy editing. :-) Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 06:52, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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Pro forma, see below. GeneralNotability ( talk) 20:13, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
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