123Aristotle

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16 August 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


All are WP:SPAs here to promote a Chinese flautist named Wang Shuxuan. Timmyshin (talk) 19:51, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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02 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

This master was registered in early August, but only became active today to support the sock's page, Joseph Shen. Compare usernames, edit summaries ([1][2]). Requesting CU because 1) there may well be other socks in this promo farm and 2) this may be User:Mokezhilao. Thanks, GABgab 02:41, 2 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added James Sitars, an SPA on Leonardo8964's Wong Man Li. GABgab 21:04, 2 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The following are  Confirmed:
A connection between this group and Mokezhilao is  Possible, but by no means clear.
  • I took a look at these articles, and I think the style is different from Mokezhilao and most of his socks. My guess is they are not the same person, but there may be a relationship (e.g. work for the same advertising company.) Timmyshin (talk) 23:00, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

05 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

These seem to be SPAs intent on promoting Chinese companies. Itpediaoo started expanding Man Wah Holdings Limited right after Leonardo8964 was blocked as a sock of 123Aristotle. There is overlap between this group of editors and the ones already blocked at Che Jianxin, Wong Man Li, Red Star Macalline Group Corporation Limited, and the deletion discussion for Joseph Shen. Note that VissarionovichStalin is already blocked as referencing Josef Stalin. –FlyingAce✈hello 22:26, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Added User Createdinger and 124.116.220.202 as per edits in similar style on Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur) pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 21:47, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Clerk endorsed Please compare these accounts (+ ReykjavikMax (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)) with each other and the above sockfarm. Thanks, GABgab 23:29, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
And Accountness888 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). GABgab 15:36, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

07 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Apparently using Chinese input method to enter a character in Joseph Shen's AfD discussion and gives "Reserve" vote which is the same as the other two that are determined to be socks. -★- PlyrStar93. →Message me. 🖉← 12:22, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Another "Reserve" vote in Joseph Shen's AfD discussion. -★- PlyrStar93. →Message me. 🖉← 21:20, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please note that this case are involved cross-wiki abuse, all accounts have been globally locked. SA 13 Bro (talk) 18:50, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Blocked and tagged. GABgab 18:43, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

08 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Editing of Draft:Wang Shuxuan and recreation of Wang Shuxuan after deletion. The former was edited by a known sock and the latter originally created by the master. Usernames are awfully similar as well. Primefac (talk) 13:34, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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13 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Re=created Red Star Macalline Group Corporation Limited. Sleeper check at CU discretion, as I'm not 100 familiar with this farm. CrowCaw 15:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I noticed that this user created Red Star Macalline Group Corporation Limited, which apparently blocked user Aristotle123 has done as well. Since I only noticed this while checking for previous deletions and links to the page; I'll enter this report, and let other people take it from here. If the article needs to be deleted under G5, I'd highly recommend salting it.  I dream of horses (My talk page) (My edits) @ 08:32, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Blocked and tagged, article deleted. GABgab 15:28, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

24 October 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Recreating Sun Yuchen/Yuchen Sun/Justin Sun as Draft:Yuchen. Timmyshin (talk) 19:51, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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03 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Sun Yuchen / Yuchen Sun / Justin Sun again as Draft:Justin Sun. Timmyshin (talk) 01:59, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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09 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Created Draft:Tiger pan = Tiger Pan which was repeatedly created by Mokezhilao's socks. Timmyshin (talk) 21:10, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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11 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Both accounts were created this month. Made a ton of redirect requests on Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects between them, all involving Chinese characters, not unlike the sockpuppet User:Jooktmggs about a month ago. Very suspicious. And the articles 独之占鳌头 created are all promotional in nature. Timmyshin (talk) 02:20, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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14 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


CrystalYu created Draft:Tiger Pan just a few days after Draft:Tiger pan was deleted. XipoXinjushi exhibits the same behavior as the 2 socks above. Timmyshin (talk) 21:46, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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17 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

As per obvious. All  Blocked without tags, but please check for sleepers (Laohuangdidi is an apparent sleeper). Thanks, GABgab 01:46, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Clerk endorsed - Endorsing my own request. Thanks, GABgab 01:46, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 No sleepers immediately visible. ~ Rob13Talk 22:47, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]


19 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

According to links in the article, Draft:Wang Chun is the wife of Zhanglijun = Zhang Lijun (business person) = Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur) = Zhang Lijun(enterpriser) = Zhang Lijun(disambiguation) = Draft:Zhang Lijun（CEO） Timmyshin (talk) 21:06, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As Ammarpad put,Cool-ying likes moving Articles of people submitted for AFC review(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cool-ying). And you can check his contributions,which sound like promotion and advertisement KommossMM (talk) 15:44, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I second GAB's opinion that KommossMM (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is as suspicious as the one he/she's nominating. Timmyshin (talk) 17:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Uh,I agree with Ammarpad and Timmyshin.(talk) 16:57, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, GABgab 17:10, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • @GeneralizationsAreBad: I don't think I have any useful advice on tagging, but I had a thought the other day that for this sort of merge of cases with complex, overlapping histories, you could just straight-merge them into one archive and then collapse the older reports under a "previously reported under <oldcasename>" banner. It doesn't seem to matter that the revision history will be mangled, as long as it's all in the same place. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:40, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

22 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Recreating Draft:Tiger Pan Timmyshin (talk) 19:20, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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" Blocked and tagged. GABgab 01:29, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]


23 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

All of these accounts (and the IP) created AfC drafts moved to mainspace outside of the AfC process by Biyadishamo (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki), who I behaviorally blocked above after the CU finding because they also moved a draft of a CU confirmed sock into mainspace from AfC.

Creations: [7], [8], [9]

Moves by Biyadishamo: [10], [11], [12]

Requesting CU to confirm and check for other accounts. Realize there will be no CU comment on the IP, but listed it for the record. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:56, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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30 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Recreation of Justin Sun as Justin Suen which is kind of interesting since the title isn't even salted... CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 14:13, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Blocked and tagged, page deleted. GABgab 17:00, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]


30 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


I'm not totally sure, but Draft:Wendy Yu has the Mokezhilao-feel to it. Then I realize that Naoziwatele created Wendy Yu last year which was deleted unanimously via Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wendy Yu. Requesting checkuser for both. Timmyshin (talk) 20:26, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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01 December 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Recreating Draft:Justin Sun. Timmyshin (talk) 20:38, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Blocked and tagged, draft deleted. GABgab 21:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]


03 December 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Draft:Qu Yi (Musical Actor) looks suspicious. Timmyshin (talk) 14:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:GeneralizationsAreBad I might have been wrong. Feel free to close it. Timmyshin (talk) 16:24, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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@Timmyshin: I'm sorry, but I'm just not seeing it. Could you please clarify the link? Thanks, GABgab 16:04, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK, closing. GABgab 17:49, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

08 December 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Recreating GeekPwn, which was deleted by User:Alex Shih in October, as Draft:GreekPwn (with a "r"). GeekPwn was first created by User:Wj887, a suspected sock. (User:GeekPwn is already blocked but not tagged.) Timmyshin (talk) 21:30, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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12 December 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Recreating the Zhang Lijun couple (Draft:Wang Chun & Zhanglijun = Zhang Lijun (business person) = Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur) = Zhang Lijun(enterpriser) = Zhang Lijun(disambiguation) = Draft:Zhang Lijun（CEO） = Draft:Zhang Lijun (disambiguation)) as Draft:Zhang Lijun v1 and Draft:Wang Chun v1. Timmyshin (talk) 20:07, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Blocked without tags. GABgab 17:51, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Now tagged. GABgab 16:04, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

13 June 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

(Suspected users and IPs in this case)

(What I've submitted to meta-wiki, some are scale in zhwp)

(Suspected IP(s) in other case, which performs same actions like Chaopi)

Firstly, On Apr 15 2018, Assezde.Paroles, the socket puppet of 123Aristotle (comfirmed by zhwp's cuer), voted at Chinese Wikipedia's AfD (diff url). 

*((Vk))。诸位用户，作为新手，不太了解维基百科的相关社群规则，试采冒犯规则。现已经移出相关内容。鄙人认为：
1、用中文谷歌搜索词条中文名称，有2800条结果；用英文Google搜索Liu Lisi,则有732,000条结果，用百度搜索中文名称，有102,000条结果。足见颇具关注度，并非路人甲。
2、谷歌新闻搜索中文名称，有两篇[[法国国际广播电台]]专题报道：[http://cn.rfi.fr/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20161111-%E5%9C%A8%E5%B7%B4%E9%BB%8E%E4%B8%BA%E8%87%AA%E5%B7%B1%E5%88%9B%E4%B8%8B%E4%B8%80%E7%89%87%E5%A4%A9%E7%A9%BA%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%BE%E8%AE%A1%E5%B8%88%E5%88%98%E5%8A%9B%E5%8F%B8 在巴黎为自己创下一片天空的设计师刘力司]以及[http://cn.rfi.fr/%E6%B3%95%E5%9B%BD/20170712-%E8%AE%BE%E8%AE%A1%E5%B8%88%E5%88%98%E5%8A%9B%E5%8F%B8%E7%9A%84%E5%B7%B4%E9%BB%8E%E7%9B%9B%E5%AE%B4 设计师刘力司的"巴黎盛宴"]。足见颇具关注度。
3、卢森堡[[RTL集团]]电视台专访：[http://www.rtl.lu/lifestyle/people/994065.html Reportage: de Concierge vun de Räichen]。足见颇具关注度。[[User:Assezde.Paroles|Assezde.Paroles]]（[[User talk:Assezde.Paroles|留言]]） 2018年4月15日 (日) 13:17 (UTC)

Translation:

This sort of statement behavior attempts to prove that an item has noteability is exactly the same as what User:07989Didyoueatanything did before (diff url). Based on my understanding of this user's behavior, User:07989Didyoueatanything is probably 123Aristotle's socket puppet.

Secondly, the user 07989Didyoueatanything created Liu_Youju just 3 days after Hola.Spada.Verso.il.Sorriso created the same one on Chinese Wikipedia. According to the fact that article Liu Youju on Chinese Wikipedia is likely a press release, and the username Hola.Spada.Verso.il.Sorriso is similar to User:Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Finci (the socket puppet of 123Aristotle), I wonder if 07989Didyoueatanything is also a socket puppet.

云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 09:32, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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31 August 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


Another WP:SPA for Justin Sun Timmyshin (talk) 19:10, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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29 January 2019

Suspected sockpuppets

Clearly a paid account, almost certainly from China, articles written in styles very similar to those by the 123Aristotle farm. Timmyshin (talk) 22:49, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Added 5258若批评不自由则赞美无意义 and 3 Jiangsu IPs concerned, Created almost the same article on zhwp, which was created by 123Aristotle (Chinavip) before per log. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 05:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed

 Blocked and tagged.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 10:27, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Three of the accounts listed by the filers are stale so  Behavioural evidence needs evaluation.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 10:45, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]


20 February 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


HelenLeeJY's only contribution was editing Draft:Kuai Shou a few hours after it was created by SylviaSu0217. These 2 accounts are clearly related. I'm requesting Checkuser because I think the article also shows some 123Aristotle traits. Timmyshin (talk) 00:42, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Red X Unrelated to the master but  Confirmed to each other. Meatpuppetry is possible. Same IP, different OSs, no phones involved.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 11:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]


22 February 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


See m:SRCU#5258若批评不自由则赞美无意义@zhwiki. Also, this account is used to create articles about Chinese companies e.g. RoboSpace. Request for finding sleepers. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 07:53, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed,  Blocked and tagged,  No sleepers immediately visible.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 13:49, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

09 March 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


Like his previous sock Coqja'uv, made a bunch of seemingly pointless edits (like changing "28" to "twenty-eight") to get to autoconfirmed, then drops a promotional article on something in China. Timmyshin (talk) 01:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Pink clock Awaiting administrative action Please indef Qünileliq-OZY (talk · contribs). Cabayi (talk) 11:57, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

15 March 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


Exact same MO as the previous socks: numerous pointless and sneaky edits to get to autoconfirmed (All he did to CBS Interactive was inserting citations, but if you look carefully these were already cited in the article. For List of songs recorded by Zubeen Garg he simply reversed the order of a chronological table.), then creates a promotional article on a Chinese subject - in this case the creator of a "new" cancer treatment scheme with a prominent weblink in the infobox. Requesting Checkuser because the likelihood of potential sleepers appears large considering the recent frequency of SPI reports. Timmyshin (talk) 20:59, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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04 June 2019

Suspected sockpuppets

Similar editing patterns including but not limited to:

  1. Connectedtech and Gurufintech both edited Draft:AMTD_Foundation
  2. Sadmnmn created AMTD_Group, where COI templates were persistently removed by Connectedtech and Regaliaman. Fingururu and Samchong89 also edited this article.
  3. Samchong89, Fingururu, Regaliaman, Seeyoulaterxyz, Sadmnmn and Connectedtech all edited Calvin Choi.
  4. Seeyoulaterxyz translated Marcellus Wong (created by Fingururu) to Chinese Wikipedia zh:王锐强, Samchong89 translated Calvin Choi (Created by Sadmnmn) to zh:蔡志坚
  5. There was one warning related to Calvin_Choi on Sadmnmn's talk page on zhwiki
  6. Both Seeyoulaterxyz and Fingururu created their user page with hello and a sign, which is similiar to what 123A does.
  7. LTA 123A likes to use username including "89" as well (Samchong89). 94rain Talk 07:11, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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18 September 2019

Suspected sockpuppets

See [13],when admin delete Draft:Calvin Choi(reason,G5: Created by a banned or blocked user (123Aristotle) in violation of ban or block) in 4 June 2019,this user re create it in 17 September 2019[14]. MCC214#ex umbra in solem 08:54, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed

Stale but related and now blocked:

 Blocked and tagged
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 15:50, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

06 December 2019

Suspected sockpuppets

It seem connects to the paid editor Sadmnmn (talk · contribs) that blocked from this SPI (See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/123Aristotle/Archive#04 June 2019) The new user that recreated Draft:AMTD Group (the old draft was moved to Draft:AMTD Group (China) and deleted on 4 June 2019; userspace draft also existed in User:Sadmnmn/sandbox) Matthew hk (talk) 08:49, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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10 January 2020

Suspected sockpuppets

See zh:Wikipedia:元維基用戶查核請求#123Aristotle,some user said this three user's is 123A. MCC214#ex umbra in solem 06:07, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Behaviourally, they have no connection with the sockermaser based on en-wiki edit (two accounts had no edit at all). But viewing the editing of Susan2019 in zh-wiki, yet seem another SPA for the deleted AMTD Group article (the company may pass WP:NCORP, just full of paid editor(s) to recreate it). Hire different person as paid editors, technically not a block evasion (as observed by change in tone in each recreated draft and article of the company in en-wiki), but seem blockable as blatantly paid editing. Matthew hk (talk) 18:28, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Two of the users have no edits here, and the third only a few. Insufficient evidence to take any action. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:42, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

06 January 2022

Suspected sockpuppets


Cross-wiki long-term covert advertising. Most of articles are of low or just no notability. WP:CITEBOMB all the time with low-quality press releases and irrelevant sources.

To make themselves innocent, these accounts tend to write (or translate) a bunch of non-advertising stubs about reservoirs, waterfalls, mountains, rivers, power stations, Chinese newspapers, etc,. consecutively.

On zhwiki, some of these accounts follow the same pattern: anonymous IP accounts create advertising articles; when such articles are nominated for deletion or marked as not meeting Notability, they remove deletion templates and/or vote for Keep in deletion discussions a few days later; IP accounts add more advertising words another a few days later. On enwiki, they never or seldom participate in discussions.

When warned for advertising, some of them tend to remove warnings selectively from their talk pages.

Some of these accounts have intersections with identified sockpuppets of 123A. And some have intersections with each other.

It takes some luck and coincidence to list them here. So it is predictable there are more unidentified active sockpuppets to be found.

  • Created Mornsun, Draft:Lin Ning, Draft:Soontrue(Special:Diff/979362982), Draft:Weiying Technology.
  • Created a bunch of non-advertising articles for Chinese magazines or newspapers.
  • DJ Qian(Chinese: 钱德君) of which the Chinese version is zh:钱德君.
  • Created decades of non-advertising articles for rivers and Chinese magazines.
  • from where Stella Phang (see meta SRCU below) also removed deletion templates (Special:Diff/60741352) on July 24, 2020.
  • Created decades of other non-advertising stubs on enwiki and zhwiki, for Chinese newspaper, magazines, historical Chinese political terms etc,.
  • Olight, which contains WP:CITEBOMB, and was edited by 1989ChenKongkong1225 and Democracy Never Dies (see the meta SRCU below).
  • Created a bunch of non-advertising articles for temples in China, Chinese traditional weapons, etc,.
  • HUION with similar CITEBOMB. The subject under the alternative name "Huion" has been deleted multiple times[20] (seemingly involved with another PAID account DoratomGo[21], which appears to be unrelated to 123A, active in viwiki ).
  • Decades of non-advertising articles for waterfalls, corridors, rock paintings, plains, mountains, other geographical features mainly in China, historical Chinese political terms etc,.

Please also check those accounts (Magoroofu, Oortaorguus Swdy, 7.ESlebedie8.FREIHEIT, Stella Phang, Democracy Never Dies, 西范特斯卢克德马里, Roogérs.Joosé, Xogk-Frederick, Wentwentgogone, Sakiey, Sotonepheen, Otleiz) listed in m:Steward_requests/Checkuser#Stella_Phang@zh.wikipedia. (Do I need to list them one by one in CU templates here?)

虹易 (talk) 14:40, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Added several newly found accounts. 虹易 (talk) 09:14, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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All non-stale accounts reported above have been CU-blocked and locked, plus:

Lots of socks

The remaining accounts are stale. I'll also throw in

21 February 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

These three accounts were created several months ago, but only began editing in January/February 2022, shortly after the blocks of a large group of socks from this farm [25]. Each account made a number of minor edits to game ACPERM and then created fully-formed articles about likely-UPE topics in mainspace. See contribs [26][27][28], article creations [29][30][31][32][33]. The behaviour is somewhat different from the last batch of socks reported here, in that they don't also create articles about non-spammy topics to cover up their UPE activity. However, I believe these accounts are related to 123Aristotle based on the subject matter of their creations (brands with a presence in Asia - compare to known Aristotle123 creations such as Barenbliss, QCY (brand), Olight, Zepp (brand), etc.) and a number of idiosyncrasies in the way they create articles and the sources they cite, which I don't want to disclose in public but can explain to CUs/clerks privately if it's not obvious. Spicy (talk) 21:24, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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01 April 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Making same edits as LTA Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/123Aristotle. 331dot (talk) 13:42, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked, but brought here for the record. 331dot (talk) 13:45, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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