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22 June 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Every single one of these accounts is gaming ACPERM in the same way to post promotional content about topics prone to native advertising. This is a new way of finding spammers, so there is likely to be false positives. MER-C 19:40, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 In progress. @MER-C: What do you mean by "native advertising"?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. There is one more account I found:

MER-C 14:17, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Confirmed to Group 1. Blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]


02 July 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Bunch of SPAs popping up here with equally similar and ridiculous edits, removing AFDs and generally making a mess of things CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 15:17, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I had some doubts about this master at first but the last two also appear to be gaming similar to the last set of socks. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 15:20, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Added a bunch of accounts (Logdev66 - Metropolis11) maintaining promotional content on SK-II. This second batch comes from Special:Undelete/Helping Hands Care and Nursing at Home created by ILoveMyHounds (talk · contribs) and recreated in User:FalloutChick40/sandbox. ILoveMyHounds was CU blocked in a batch that has overlap on Fiona Scott Lazareff, Eastridge Mountain Bike Trail Centre, Alvexo and SK-II -- see AlbertFlanders (talk · contribs), EdwardBranch (talk · contribs) and BaguetteMember (talk · contribs). AvidFisherman comes from User:EdwardBranch/sandbox.

The remaining two accounts (Liresceti and Albasarangee) are evading ACPERM in the same way as the socks above. Ping @Lyndaship: for interest. MER-C 16:00, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed to each other,  Likely to group 1 in this SPI:
 Confirmed, but Red X Unrelated to anything:
The rest are Red X Unrelated/on their own proxy. I saw quite a few proxies in the rest of the results too...so it could be the same person. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 05:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, blocked without tags. @DeltaQuad: -- what were the users on unique proxies? They should be blocked as well, proxy use in covert advertising cases == sockpuppetry. MER-C 09:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

13 July 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

The suspected sock master (DreamBigLosAngeles) made a number of edits to Draft:Al Rucker, including two attempts to move the article to the mainspace. They were eventually blocked for being a sock via Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ErnestCarrot, but only on the basis of editing Draft:Al Rucker and not via checkuser. Freespiritlosangeles joined the project a week after DreamBigLosAngeles was blocked, making a number of edits to Draft:Al Rucker. I saw these but ignored them as they seemed relatively benign, but today was informed by another editor that Freespiritlosangeles had executed [3] a copy-paste move to their sandbox and submitted it to AfC in a likely attempt to scrub the draft's history. This seems to be a clear DUCK canidate, as the editing styles and names of the two are almost exactly the same. SamHolt6 (talk) 15:44, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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For the record, I had Give me blue clouds and avacado CUed on IRC a few days ago for maintaining promotional content on Charles R. Conn (see User:EdwardBranch/sandbox). The account was unrelated. MER-C 15:29, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This might be a similar instance in which an article or draft created by a sock of ErnestCarrot is edited by new, unrelated editors who re-add the same information; I got the impression that DreamBigLosAngeles was too amauterish to be involved with ErnestCarrot. Unhappy clients maybe, or new COI editors?--SamHolt6 (talk) 17:05, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 Clerk assistance requested: Regardless of the filer's comment, please merge this to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ErnestCarrot.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:12, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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