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24 June 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Pro forma. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:53, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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02 July 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Not entirely sure about these, so listing here for a second opinion. Some telltale signs present but not all plus some differences.

Articles:

СтереПашка made substantial edits to uk:Playrix which is a known Wikibusines client. See m:Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam#Wikibusines_round_3/m:Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Wikibusiness. I also blocked a swathe of accounts last month that have been locked but not checked:

Probably stale

[end] MER-C 12:50, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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06 July 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Similar patterns of speech at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hum3D, Flytermit's activity has been almost entirely limited to edits to the related article, Hum3D, created by Kuba Ali. Meanwhile, Leksunski appears to bee engaged in clear meatpuppetry with respect to the other two, as they disclose on their user page that they are a former employee of Hum3D and all of their efforts have been focused towards keeping that article. signed, Rosguill talk 17:32, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Given that the CU ended up inconclusive, I think that there is sufficient behavioral evidence for a block, but as I'm nominally involved due to participation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hum3D I'll leave it to someone else to make the call. signed, Rosguill talk 16:31, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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20 July 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

While working on the CCI for KatBet, I came across this addition that was copied from Rivalry (film), and originally added by OrlaBan in March 2022 (OrlaBan was later blocked as a Bodiadub sock). I'm not familiar with this case overall, but looking into it some more I saw some similarities between KatBet and OrlaBan, including rapid additions of plot sections to film articles, copyright concerns, and the tendency to add a bunch of text across multiple edits, and then append a citation as a separate, final edit. DanCherek (talk) 17:00, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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14 September 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Seemingly a sockring of UPEs. Master creates Dominic McGregor, Pesding uploads image to commons. Pesding also edits Thomas Schaller (artist) which was edited and moved to mainspace by Ajaxauden. Requesting CU to see if it can uncover any more editors. SmartSE (talk) 14:32, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FYI @Praxidicae: SmartSE (talk) 14:47, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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01 November 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

See below. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:20, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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13 February 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

M.M.Kargan has been making edits to IATA (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), seeking to downplay sourced content about the its history. The IATA page was previously edited by Freoanlsji (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), a confirmed sock of Bennet43.

M.M.Kargan has also edited other low traffic articles targeted by this sockmaster. See interaction timeline.

Finally, like other socks of Bennet43, M.M.Kargan has been active on low traffic pages of the simple English wiki in areas that are vulnerable to UPE. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 23:07, 13 February 2023 (UTC) — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 23:07, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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30 March 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Same promotional cruft added to Softeq as previous sock Fairou (talk · contribs). [3] vs [4]. DatGuyTalkContribs 21:08, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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03 July 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

F1 Anton (re)created Tomas Fiala, a founder of Ukrainian Dragon Capital (company), article about the company was created by Bodiadub sockpuppet Wellring. Wellring also edited article about Fiala in Ukrainian Wikipedia. F1 Anton also created Tokar.ua that is affiliated with the ukrwiki admin whom Wikibusnes tries to discredit regularly (case) and it seems to be part of some tricky game. Anntinomy (talk) 18:59, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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04 November 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Noonbecks created 18 September. First edit was precocious creation of a draft in sandbox 20 Oct, then moved quickly to main space. No further edits till 4 November: precocious recreation of Jason Dady at Jason Dady (chef), last created by blocked sock User:Coolscohan. Not sure if this merits a CU. Wikishovel (talk) 11:30, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: COIN entry mentioned by Anntinomy below archived to Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_190#Jeanie_Roland_and_her_restaurants. Wikishovel (talk) 20:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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17 December 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Checked Puloylang for recreating Eric Sim at Eric Sim (lecturer). Spicy (talk) 00:51, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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As a whole, this group is  Highly likely to Elizabethhope89 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) from the previous filing. All accounts  Blocked and tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Noting the following sockpuppets on Commons (uploading images used in deleted spam articles):

Special:Undelete/Draft:Tobias Zwingmann references the existing Wikibusines client Rapyd. There is no doubt this Elizabethhope89 group is Wikibusines. MER-C 02:24, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

03 January 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

I suspect there is UPE going on here, so a check may be useful (but I'll leave that for the clerks to decide). Giraffer (talk·contribs) 12:49, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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12 January 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

I noticed that all 3 accounts were created only in 2023 and they don't have much consistent activity. They all have a few days of activities and then there's nothing. I also noticed they engage in disruptive behavior by constantly nominating articles for WP:PROD without proper justification. The most obvious being nominating article for having no references when there clearly is. For example two of the accounts nominated Georgy Darakhvelidze for PROD stating the same reason it had no source despite this being untrue.1&2

I also noticed they do not respond when people try to engage them in the talk page.

I am pretty sure there are other accounts as well but I haven't encountered them yet.

More examples:

34 5 6 7 8 9


Imcdc Contact 15:53, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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25 January 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

I'm filing this after a brief discussion at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#impossible.sg (permalink). These accounts, all listed in order of creation, were created, edited for a day or so, disappeared for a spell, then returned for 1 more day to make more edits. On this final day, somewhere in their edits, they sneaked in a spam link to impossible.sg, a digital marketing agency.

User Created on First edits Returning edits Spam diff Has edited since that day?
Barking snake May 16, 2023 May 16 December 21 [12] No
Sornabelli July 13, 2023 July 13-17 December 15 [13] No
Nibi et Loy July 25, 2023 July 25-26 December 13 [14] No
Aeida_Rosticolli July 25, 2023 July 25 & 28 December 13 [15] No
永恆的榮耀 July 26, 2023 July 26-August 7 January 8 [16] No
GeorlalLoudF3302 August 10, 2023 August 11 & August 18 January 12 [17] No
EditEagles January 10, 2024 January 10 January 24 [18] No
Checkkyu_Pag January 13, 2024 January 13 January 18 [19] No

Given the patterns, both behavior and the timings of creation and the returns (2 on December 13, 1 on December 15, 1 on December 21, 1 on January 8, 1 on January 12, 1 on January 18, and final 1 on January 24), I believe these to be the actions of 1 or more people representing this digital marketing company. The link has been blacklisted and these accounts are unlikely to ever edit again, but would request checkuser in the likely case that there are sleepers and to see if any other links have been spammed by this company. Thanks! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:11, 25 January 2024 (UTC) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:11, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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26 January 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Following a thread of spamming the link oneidentity.com, these accounts turned up, largely with the same MO.

The accounts already blocked as socks who were spamming the link are:

Table of suspected socks:

oneidentity.com, dates are MDY
User Created on First edits Returning edits Spam diff Has edited since that day? Fits pattern?
Kuvullauri 09/09/2022 09/09/2022 08/10/2023 [21] 3 edits on 11/17/2023 Except for returning for 3 edits
TaniaJol 09/04/2023 09/04/2023 09/04/2023, same day, no return [22] No No break, all edits on same day
AsterAski 06/07/2023 06/07/2023 12/11/2023 [23] No Yes
Cultured Connoisseur 02/13/2023 02/13/2023 09/19/2023, then 09/21/2023 [24] 15 edits on 10/07/2023 Except for 2 edits 2 days before spam and came back for a few edits 15 edits on 10/07/2023
ShipaBenz 11/08/2023 11/08/2023 11/08/2023, same day, no return [25] No Except for no break, all edits on same day
Lost in Social Media 08/29/2023 08/29/2023 09/13/2023 [26] No Yes
3-2-4 start 08/30/2023 08/30/2023 09/16/2023 [27] No Yes
Creatordrit 10/26/2022 10/26/2022 08/09/2023 [28] No Yes
Gree0eerG 02/09/23 02/10/2023 & 02/15/2023 08/17/2023, then 09/18/2023 [29] No Except for returning early for 6 edits on 08/17
AssiduousArchivist 02/04/2023 02/04/2023 09/19/2023 [30] No Yes
DUstone Pack 02/05/2023 02/05/2023 09/20/2023 [31] No Yes
Inquisitive inspector 02/04/2023 02/04/2023-02/10/2023 08/17/2023, then 10/10/2023 [32] No Except for returning early for 12 edits on 08/17/2023
DedicatedDataDiver 02/06/2023 02/06/2023 & 02/09/2023 10/11/2023 [33] No Yes
OperWordst 04/06/2023 04/06/2023 & 05/21/2023 10/12/2023 [34] No Yes
Priteless 08/13/2021 08/13/2021 & 08/27/2021 (7 edits), then 08/28/2023 12/11/2023 [35] No Except for waiting 2 years to finish their first round of edits
LoverOfHiking 09/22/2023 09/22/2023 12/11/2023 [36] No Yes
Yiovy 05/17/2023 05/17/2023-5/20/2023 12/12/2023 [37] No Yes
Naiwaar 05/30/2023 05/30/2023-05/31/2023 12/13/2023 [38] No Yes
Création mythique 06/13/2023 06/13/2023-06/14/2023 12/14/2023 [39] No Yes
Alioneidentity 07/03/2023 07/03/2023 07/03/2023, , same day, no return [40][41] No No, only 2 edits, both spamming the link

Thanks! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:01, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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onelogin.com is a clearly related domain that has also been spammed:

PakisOne has their own SPI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PakisOne (spam here: [42]).

Noting for the record that I have blocked recently:

See m:Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam#Wikibusines (2024). All are stale except for LotosL.

More spammers:

There are other signs that suggest Bodiadub is a plausible explanation for this spamming. MER-C 10:51, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • This technical fingerprint does not match what I have previously seen from Bodiadub, but there's certainly a possibility that it could be the same operator. MEAT is another possibility.
  • Same profile as above but  Confirmed to each other via shared proxy:
  •  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely) to SarahYeasyLife group and internally  Confirmed, note editing pattern:

09 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

The first report performed a check but proxy usage prevented any further checking. All three accounts were banned based upon looking up the habits. I brought this information to ANI at the link here. There was some additional info I would like to bring up.

This tickled a memory of a few accounts I saw in 2022, like <this one>. They would mass edit for stretches of time, all visual edits, and just add content to multiple pages - we eventually figured it was machine translated edits (or just sources) taken from other language versions of pages.
These* edits* by UnTixic: <diffs>* are translating content from the German version of that page, some lines are exact matches to Google Translate output.
These edits by PakisOne: <diffs> are translating content from the Swedish version of the page, the citation is also taken from there.
This edit by Wyndhan Han: <diff> is a translated edit from the Swedish version of the page, translation is an 100% match to Google Translate output. The citations however are not from the Swedish version.
I'm not claiming it's the same person, and I haven't looked deeply into most edits, a lot of the behaviour mentioned so far was not something I noticed in those 2022 accounts, but it just reminded me, so I'm mentioning it.

2804:F14:8085:6F01:B8CB:B95D:1E39:A7B1 (talk) 01:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC) (*edited 01:21, 20 January 2024 (UTC))

Now lets look at what13Joker13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has in common with previous ones:

I'm sure I can find more. But basically this seems to be another one of these accounts except now for Georgia. Wonder what checkuser will show this time.

Edit: Although not related to my investigation, I see PakisOne (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has also been connected to Spilled gunpowder (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Omonaki Baula (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) via Bodiadub (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

- Imcdc Contact 13:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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20 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Another one of these users. Wonder how many are there? Basically has the same profile and posting habits as the one from last time (refer to that to get what can of posting style these accounts have) . Another 2023 low posting account that has disruptive edits. Here are some similar disruptive edits: 1,2 and 3 .Also have the check the validity of articles created too. I see one of the swedish articles is a direct google translate copy from Swedish wikipedia. Similar to the above banned user.

Guess he didn't like me getting his other accounts banned so he's trying to target my articles. Will the checkuser produce another proxy result? Imcdc Contact 12:08, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: User has been banned for vandalism now per ANI. - Imcdc Contact 02:06, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding sock Hndi Uui. Four minutes after account creation today, recreated Victoria Repa at Draft:Repa Victoria. Victoria Repa was last created by blocked sock User:AlexAmberst in January. Requesting checkuser, based on the weight of activity above. Wikishovel (talk) 09:55, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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29 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Looking here, it looks obvious. Shabukoy and Comasjeans777 were blocked as a sock of this farm. Tehonk (talk) 18:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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26 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

New account Lobster555 created 17 February. Three days after account creation, precocious creation of spammy Draft:Daniel Illescas, then moved to main space. No further edits, then five days later creates Mark Shaw (author), a nearly identical copy of Mark E. Shaw, created by the briefly busy new account Mushroom1498 (created 7 January), and deleted 23 February following AFD. Writing and editing styles of the two accounts are very similar. Both accounts are almost certainly part of a much larger sockfarm. Wikishovel (talk) 10:02, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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07 March 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Checked Another day in the trench due to similar behaviour to the 26 January 2024 group and attempts to spam oneidentity.com [43][44]. Technical data is as expected. Correcting dwarf is  Technically indistinguishable with similar behaviour. Spicy (talk) 11:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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07 March 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Created promotional page Jean-Michel Cazabat, Correcting dwarf is the only other major contributor. Similar edit pattern, likely spam here: [45].

Webedebe and Daphnerudler created fr:Jean-Michel Cazabat.

I also blocked Marble cliffs two days ago for recreating BetterMe, a known Wikibusines article. There is a clear Ukraine connection. MER-C 17:20, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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23 March 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Author of the suspected UPE article Rentberry Inc.. They were one of the two of the substantial contributors to Biosphere Corporation, the other one is the Bodiadub sock Wellring (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). (I am not providing specific diffs, the histories of the mentioned article provide a better view than individual diffs.) Janhrach (talk) 18:53, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Add

as authors of interwiki versions. I have also blocked the following accounts for historical spam:

There is one recent account:

blocked for recreating Englishdom (platform) (see m:Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Wikibusiness#E). MER-C 10:14, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add Telegramjbwwiki (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) for recreating Wowcube cross-wiki. MER-C 20:14, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

15 April 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Very first action was to request undeletion of Eren-Verdi Asrin. Which has been edited by numerous Bodiadub-linked socks.

JohnGomezDeSantos created Eren-Verdi Asrin. JohnGomezDeSantos very first action was to edit Shota Nakajima who is a chef in Top Chef. Wikiwarrior222's edits also deal with Top Chef /celebrity chefs.

Possible that JohnGomezDeSantos and Wikiwarrior222 are part of Bodiadub's sock network, or are related to each other.

Either way there is possible UPE. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 00:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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23 April 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Both accounts created Dragon Capital (company). Equine-man (talk) 07:05, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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19 May 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

SPA Zuri K23 created 10 May, only edits so far are spammy recreation of Stewart Kyasimire at Stewart Kyasimire (filmmaker) via draft. Last created by blocked sock User:CosmicJourneyer. Wikishovel (talk) 07:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 21:15, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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