Does this look like a new user?

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Does this look like a new user?

Post by wexter » Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:21 pm

Wikipedia - "Barely competent and paranoid. There’s a hell of a combination."

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Re: Does this look like a new user?

Post by ericbarbour » Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:08 pm

Hell no. He/she/it/shit showed up September 28 and started patrolling; two days later the beast set up a CSS file for bot operation.

Sock, very likely. One of millions.

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Re: Does this look like a new user?

Post by wexter » Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:48 pm

Here is the Twinkle connection;
He/she/them is definitely a Sock of an administrator or established user.

"20:57, 7 November 2022 diff hist +401‎ Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism ‎ Reporting 65.117.99.115. Tag: Twinkle"
Wikipedia - "Barely competent and paranoid. There’s a hell of a combination."

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Re: Does this look like a new user?

Post by Bbb23sucks » Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:03 pm

This user is even sketchier Probably one of the weirdest new users I have ever seen. There are so many things wrong I don't even know where to start - their username contains "(talk)" obviously in reference to Wikipedia discussion. Their first edit is to their userpage - creating it with the only text being a quote from a Wikipedia policy wrapped in a rarely used html/wikitext tag that few advanced users know about. The next four edits are more reason - just a few grammar tweaks. Then, they install tools, grind shortdescs for a bit, then install RedWarn within ten edits and immediately set advanced configurations. Install more tools, grind vandalism for a few days, then leave permanently after less than a hundred edits.

Edit: A few months later, they return and make three bizarre edits to testwiki for no discernible reason. They also made edits to Wikidata within their first few days.
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