User talk:Spicy

Sockpuppet continues

Hi Spicy, last month you banned The Penfield Homunculus for sockpuppetry. Looking at the edit history of the FC Barcelona article, this user has continued under the name "Pròssia". Both leave similar edit summaries, edit Barcelona-related articles, and copy information from other (low-quality) articles into the FC Barcelona article. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 08:52, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Yep. Spicy (talk) 11:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Sligati

I was just posting a message to Ponyo asking her who the master was when I noticed you'd already dealt with it. One other thing I was going to ask her but will ask you instead: is there any easy way for me to figure out the master behaviorally?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:58, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

You tagged two minutes after my block. Are you really that fast, or were you already looking at it before I blocked?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:59, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Probably not. I checked because I thought it might be a sock of Denosio, and it wasn't; I wouldn't have figured out who it really was without the magic goggles. There are a number of topic areas that attract a lot of socking as well as a lot of unrelated users with similar behaviour and interests. These include hurricanes, Indian movies, beauty pageants, and RuPaul's Drag Race. I wouldn't have thought visa policies would be one of these topics but here we are. I saw the block on the SPI IRC feed, which logs all sock blocks, and thought it was worth a check. Spicy (talk) 23:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Cleo Cooper

Hello, Spicy,

Can you tell me anything about this account? They registered this account years and years ago and then suddenly became active and became a regular patroller who I ran into on a daily basis. You say the account is "compromised" but are they a sockpuppet? They seemed to know their way around the project, nominating articles for AFD discussions and tagging pages appropriately for speedy deletion. Thanks for any information you can offer. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:59, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

I guess they must have bought that account somewhere! Can Bjorn Gulden, Nick White (comedian), Sarah Riggs and Lee O'Denat be draftified, if there is no master? Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 06:22, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

What's certain is that it's compromised. It's probably connected to the accounts mentioned here. Spicy (talk) 13:31, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Spicy,

I'm echoing Liz's question. Why were they marked as a sock but the block notes stated "compromised"? Was it a mistake? Please clarify. Thanks --- thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 14:24, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

They were not "marked as a sock". Spicy (talk) 14:33, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Spicy: Can you please take a look at this? Blablubbs seems to be away. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 14:39, 2 May 2024 (UTC)