User talk:Spicy

A barnstar for you!

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For removing the egregious personal attacks at Ponyo. Thank you. JeffSpaceman (talk) 21:30, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Alvin1783

I recently came across this account Alvin1783, he clearly is not a legitimate new user, evident through the articles he has created. His articles are identical to another SPA's articles-[1]. They are worded, designed, sourced exactly the same way, they have the same average article length, same images, same grammatical style, same POV, same content demarcation, and both accounts used Article Wizard to create their articles. Alvin1783 is a duck quacking into a megaphone. He is also active on a page that was targeted by HaughtonBrit in the past; both pushing the same POV on the page. Would it be possible to run a check on him? Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 17:13, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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)