Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wazdanny: Difference between revisions

– An SPI clerk has endorsed a request for CheckUser. A checkuser will shortly review the case.

Checkuser will be useless here due to the lengths of time involved, but this account has re-created two articles, Joan Janet Bayliss and May OʼNeill [sic] (that were originally created by Wazdanny and their sockpuppets), with broadly similar content, which were deleted as a result of this AFD. If it’s not exactly the same person, well, as the blocking policy says: “New accounts which engage in the same behavior as a banned or blocked editor in the same context, and who appear to be editing Wikipedia solely for that purpose, are subject to the remedies applied to the editor whose behavior they are imitating.” Graham87 (talk) 15:13, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve added another one, because they created the Thomas A. C. Murrell article, which is also related to the Fairview Art Collection page, which was also created by a dormant SPA (and checkuser might help in this case). There are also some off-wiki connections I’ve heard about second-hand; I’m not sure if SPI is really the ideal venue for this but here I am. Graham87 (talk) 02:00, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve since received further off-wiki information and now understand that we’re dealing with meatpuppetry rather than sockpuppetry. Graham87 (talk) 02:12, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• CheckUser requested and endorsed by clerk – @Graham87, I believe off-wiki evidence should to the COIVRT queue. That aside, I am requesting CheckUser to connect Ryleyoneill and Longurb based on what’s here. Ryleyoneill’s username, given they are writing about May O’Neill, suggests that COI concerns are warranted. Longurb’s behavior, making ten mostly-small edits before creating an article on the eleventh edit, looks like they were gaming autoconfirmed. Ryleyoneill has indeed recreated Wazdanny’s articles, and the topic of Thomas A. C. Murrell connects the two (Ryley diffs [1][2], Longurb creation [3]). Longurb’s last edit was just barely within the 90-day window, so please take a look (or tell me that this was a bad request…) as soon as possible. Toadspike [Talk] 10:31, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]