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I have noticed similarities between the editing patterns of Owenglyndur and Enhazaam which I think makes an investigation by a Check User worthwhile. As Owenglyndur has been confirmed as a sock of Galamore by CheckUser (based on the tag on Owenglyndur's user page), I have opened the case under that username – apologies if that was not the correct procedure. I am less familiar with Galamore's editing so have focused on the similarities with Owenglyndur.

1. Topic areas: Both Owenglyndur and Enhazaam have overlapping topic interests: the archaeology of Israel (especially the Roman period) and nature environment. Archaeology of Israel: both have created articles related to this subject area, eg: Umm el-Umdan, Canaanite shipwreck, and Ein Gedi (archaeological site) by Owenglyndur and Ely Schiller, Assaliyye synagogue, and Horbat Ashun by Enhazaam. Nature/environment: Enhazaam created the article Field School (Israel), which relates to landscapes and nature. Owenglyndur created a now deleted article on the Jewish child Forest.

   Though Owenglyndur and Enhazaam have overlapped in few articles, how they have overlapped is significant. Owenglyndur created the original Hebrew article on Horbat Ashun on 18 August; Enhazaam created an English translation on 8 September. Similarly, Owenglyndur created the original Hebrew article on Hurvat Mi'ar on 1 August, and Enhazaam translated it into English on 5 September. These two Hebrew articles are low traffic, averaging about 1 view per day, reducing the likelihood of a chance intersection.

2. Unattributed translations: Both editors translated articles from the Hebrew Wikipedia into English without providing adequate attribution, which is required by the Creative Commons licence that Wikipedia uses. Enhazaam did this with Field School (Israel) (I left a notice on their talk page about this on 20 December) and by my reckoning least half-a-dozen other pages. Many of the pages created by Owenglyndur have been deleted, but they sometimes omitted that they were translations. As can be seen at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20240707, Giv'at Ha'yekavim and burial stone are marked as "Translation now attributed" which I think means that they were initially translated without attribution.
   • Note: Galamore also made translations without attribution, as noted in messages about it in July and October. Richard Nevell (talk) 18:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
3. Source falsification/misrepresentation: There were multiple instances in articles written by Owenglyndur of sources not matching the content Some examples can be found at Talk:Roman roads in Judaea. Typically, this would happen when an article was translated from Hebrew to English and batches of references were added without otherwise impacting the content. A similar approach is evident at Field School (Israel); the Hebrew article has a single footnote, while the English version has seven different footnotes. Done properly adding references would obviously not be a bad thing, but this appears to be done to make the article appear suitable for the mainspacce rather than improve verifiability. Ostensibly, the history section of Field School (Israel) appears to be sourced to footnote #6. A closer look reveals that the source is a newspaper article published in 1966, so it is not a suitable reference for statements relating to the 1970s or 1980s.
4. Time/day editing patterns: Both editors edited at similar times of day (79.4% 07:00-15:00 UTC+0 for Enhazaam, and 79.0% in the same window for Owenglyndur based on non-deleted edits), and days of the week (99.8% Sunday to Thursday for Owenglyndur and 99.9999% for Enhazaam).

Taken together, I think there is a significant overlap between the accounts. Richard Nevell (talk) 18:38, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do I need to explain here why I'm not someone else? Why I created articles of a certain type? Most of the articles I created are translations from Hebrew. I took a course with Wikimedia Israel that teaches how to write on Wikipedia, and they recommended starting with translations... I didn't think this would be an issue.

All the sources I added were meant to provide credibility to the information.

My working hours are simply the hours I'm at the computer... do I need to track my working hours??? Enhazaam (talk) 07:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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•  Clerk assistance requested: - Can we merge this into icewhiz since the master and all socks are tagged as IW socks? No opinion on the merits of the connection or the request to run a check. -- Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 17:03, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Moving back to CU request. Guerillero, please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icewhiz#Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments, 08 November 2024 version. Izno (talk) 21:47, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]