Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NormalguyfromUK: Difference between revisions

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20 January 2026

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Suspected sockpuppets

1. Albanian–Yugoslav border war (1921): NormalguyfromUK’s socks would remove the Status quo ante bellum from the infobox in this article and replace it with the Albanian victory. [1][2][3] Today, on the newly created account, they are trying to remove the Yugoslav military victory from the same article. [4][5]
2. 1638 Ottoman expedition against Kelmendi: NormalguyfromUK’s socks would remove the Ottoman victory from the infobox in this article and replace it with the Albanian victory. [6][7][8] The newly created account states on the article’s talk page that this was not an Ottoman victory. [9] Kajmer05 (talk) 11:53, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

   In the article I mentioned in option 2, there were no disruptive changes until March 2025, [10] but suddenly the user appeared and has been exhibiting the same behavior since December 2025. [11][12][13] It could be no one other than NormalguyfromUK who is interested in both Albanian-Yugoslav wars and Ottoman-Albanian conflicts. Kajmer05 (talk) 16:16, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

   @PhilKnight Hi, I apologize for pinging you. Immediately after this user, the temporary account ~2026-43717-2 (talk · contribs) I mentioned below suddenly appeared and made the same changes as the current account. [14][15] These are the same person, and they both engaged in edit war on the same articles; I don’t think this is a coincidence. Specifically, the IP addresses of the temporary accounts you’ve blocked match, and they’re in the same location. ~2026-37739-7 (talk · contribs) ~2026-36621-1 (talk · contribs) Kajmer05 (talk) 22:11, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

   After the temporary account was blocked, the main account repeated what the blocked temporary account had said on the same talk page. [16][17] Both of them say that this expedition ended in 1383. Kajmer05 (talk) 15:30, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

   And our evidence is accumulating even more. Yesterday, the blocked temporary accounts removed the Yugoslav military victory from the infobox, [18][19] and the page was protected. The main account came to the article’s talk page and argued that it was not a Yugoslav military victory. [20] Kajmer05 (talk) 15:37, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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20 January 2026

– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.

Suspected sockpuppets

1. Same edits in the same article. [21][22][23][24] They are deleting the content found in the infobox. They also share the same IP address with this temporary account. ~2026-25170-0 (talk · contribs) Kajmer05 (talk) 20:27, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
2. They also keep mentioning (French historian/French language) throughout the same article. [25][26][27] Kajmer05 (talk) 20:40, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

22 January 2026

– This SPI case is new and awaits sorting.

Suspected sockpuppets

1. After being blocked on the same talk page, [28] they came back with another temporary account and said that this was not an Ottoman victory. [29] Also, their locations remain the same.Kajmer05 (talk) 09:54, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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