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=== [[User:Screwdryver]] === |
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Latest revision as of 09:29, 19 November 2025
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This case was moved to [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/{{{1}}}]] from Screwdryver (talk · contribs). Future cases should be placed there.
I initially attempted to file a report using Twinkle but hit a page-protection error, so I’m submitting this manually.
The account User:Screwdryver was inactive from February 2013 until 19 November 2025. After more than 12 years of inactivity, the account returned and, in a short burst, made a series of trivial or near-zero-change edits (mostly spelling/typo fixes with identical or very similar edit summaries), followed immediately by multiple !votes at AfD.
Chronology on 19 November 2025 (all times UTC):
- 03:47–03:54 — A rapid sequence of very small edits to unrelated articles (e.g. Hanif Paribahan, Blood Cult, Juan Padilla (second baseman), Rock Ventures, Autokon, Atec, Killing of John Acropolis, Herbert Myrick, List of tallest buildings in Fort Lauderdale) with summaries like “comapny typo” or “spelling”, many of which are 0-byte or single-character changes.
- 04:00–04:08 — More minor spelling edits to articles such as Gas-operated reloading, Python (programming language), COVID-19 recession and Acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T (with the latter followed by a comment at the AfD: “I just fixed a typo, and then I see that the whole article could be deleted? What?!”).
- 04:11–04:59 — In quick succession, the user posts multiple AfD !votes:
The AfD !votes use short, generic reasoning (e.g. “keep”, “weak keep”, “neutral”), and in at least one case (the AfD for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liveops) assert the existence of “numerous independent sources” on Newspapers.com without actually showing any.
A 12-year-dormant account suddenly returning, making a cluster of trivial edits across unrelated articles, then rapidly participating in multiple AfDs with generic and weakly supported !votes appears inconsistent with normal editing behavior and is suggestive of possible sleeper or sock activity used to influence deletion discussions. I am not alleging a specific sockmaster; I am asking whether this account’s behavior warrants further technical or administrative scrutiny.
