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03 November 2025
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Suspected sockpuppets
Main behavioral pattern (2023–present).
“Great Lithuanians” saga (June 2023–present):
“Noble privileges in Poland after the March Constitution” saga (September 2025–present):
- At an unknown date, Heroldicas creates pl:Przywileje szlacheckie w Polsce po konstytucji marcowej. On 10 September 2025 at 20:31 (UTC), a pl.wiki AfD is started, with the nominator calling the article a “biased essay”. Shortly thereafter, at 21:10, Heroldicas creates an equivalent en.wiki article Noble privileges in Poland after the March Constitution.
- During the course of the pl.wiki AfD, Heroldicas uses a single-purpose sockpuppet account, User:Daszkow65, to add a “Keep” vote, as confirmed by a pl.wiki CheckUser. Heroldicas receives a 3-day block for sockpuppetry on pl.wiki, which is extended for an additional 24 hours by a different pl.wiki CU. The AfD ends on 15 September with the article deleted.
Reclassifying historical figures as Polish instead of Lithuanian (mostly May 2024):
Later, throughout the month of May 2024, both Guccee and Heroldicas moved several articles on Grand Duchy of Lithuania nobles and noble families from Lithuanian-language to Polish-language names:
For the record, all of these moves were reverted. Also note that both Heroldicas and Guccee used the exact same, highly idiosyncratic edit summary, “Rightful name of the category”. In some cases, both accounts were used on the same article:
Recent beyond-the-pale (beyond-the-grave?) behavior on en.wiki (31 October 2025–present).
- On 31 October 2025 at 10:51 UTC, 2A01:110F:1B09:4E00:F53F:1280:A7EA:6138 leaves a “Keep” vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Great Lithuanians, forging their signature to impersonate deceased user Mathiasrex.
- At 11:17, after their deception was called out by User:Kelob2678, 2A01 doubles down on being Mathiasrex, saying they just lost account access.
- Minutes later, from 11:22 to 11:24, 5.173.154.61, editing from mobile, leaves a similar “Keep” vote, copy/pastes the same excuse about losing access to the Mathiasrex account, then quickly removes said excuse.
- About 12 hours later, on 1 November, the apparent single-purpose account ForestaSector is registered to comment on the AfD.
- ForestaSector subsequently engages in another familiar pattern, editing the article on historical figure Bruno Abakanowicz to just say “Polish” instead of “Polish-Lithuanian”. Note that, back in June, 5.173.154.23 had made the same kind of edit on the Bruno Abakanowicz article.
Other connections between these IP ranges and accounts (2024–2025).
Overlapping Wikidata edits:
Edits to Heroldicas’s pl.wiki user sandbox subpages:
I don’t usually get involved with wiki-drama, and strongly support AGF in most cases, but once I started noticing these coincidences I kept looking deeper and deeper, and now I figure that it would be wrong for me to not come forward with the evidence of this long-term disruption and sockpuppetry. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 03:00, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
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