Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alan MB

Tbhotch

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Please note that a case was originally opened under Alan MB (talk · contribs) but has been moved to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tbhotch. Future cases should be placed under Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tbhotch.

14 October 2021

– A user has requested CheckUser. An SPI clerk will shortly look at the case and endorse or decline the request.

Suspected sockpuppets

• [nil User:Alan_MB] ([[User talk:User:Alan_MB|talk]]^{[nil +]} · [nil tag] · [[Special:Contributions/User:Alan_MB|contribs]] · [[Special:DeletedContributions/User:Alan_MB|deleted contribs]] · logs · filter log · [[Special:Block/User:Alan_MB|block user]] · spi block · block log · [[:m:Special:CentralAuth/User:Alan_MB|CA]] · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Would not have noticed but User:Alan_MB is a dormant account which used to edit only on matters related to Mexico. This account was active between 2006 and 20017 After 5 years of inactivity It has recently engaged in a massive blanking of sources of the article Dia de Muertos [1], in support of the POV aggressively pushed by User:Tbhotch, also based in Mexico city and also editing on the same issues. Upon being reverted, the article was immediately and aggressively reverted by Tbhotch here [2] and here [3], showing a strong emotional attachment to this particular edit which I believe he has resurrected his dormant account to work with in tandem. Both accounts have edited on similar articles including Vicente Guerrero, Felipe Calderon, Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas, Emilio Portes Gil, Luis Echeverría among literally doznes of others. This being a sockpuppet is literally beyond question, the evidence is overwhelming. There is a nearly complete overlap and the sockpuppet has been resurrected and used maliciously. Most interestingly, both accounts have heavily edited Naucalpan an obscure locality near Mexico city where it is clear this user is from. Cristodelosgitanos (talk) 20:05, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Some additional evidence: Well over 60% of Mexican dormant account User:Alan_MB's 239 edits were on 39 articles also edited by User:Tbhotch?[4] Tbhotch thus used his dormant account as a sockpuppet to blank the article Dia de Muertos and then, incidentally, used his main account User:Tbhotch to maliciously initiate a sockpuppet investigation against the person who reverted and questioned him on talk page, namely me.Cristodelosgitanos (talk) 21:19, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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I am completely open to admins CUing my account. The only account they will find is Tbsock (talk · contribs). This report is very childish and a poor response to your own SPI. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 20:09, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

BTW thanks for your comment, I have found another pattern. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 20:11, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

There is no need for CUing your account. The behavioral evidence is absolute. You are both from the same small locality in Mexico, there is complete overlap in the dozens and dozens of articles you edit. You have resurrected this dormant account for canvassing on an article you have been aggressively edit warring on. There is no point even denying it. You are User:Alan_MB. Its literally impossible to deny. Why do you even bother? --Cristodelosgitanos (talk) 20:15, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

We live in the same locality solely because we have edited the same page? No, for real, request a CU, or are you afraid of something? (CC) Tbhotch^™ 20:18, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't really need to say anything else. You shouldn't have used an account which is so obviously yours to engage in sockpuppetry. You would have done better opening a new account. --Cristodelosgitanos (talk) 20:23, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Well, I can say the same for you. Stop using new accounts, you don't fool anyone. Good night. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 20:26, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

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