SarahKrauch appears to be a paid editor who works out of Fiverr (were they have gone through multiple accounts as we have had a number of them deleted). They made changes to a draft article by brand new user Lawrencelightman as their thrid edit. There six and seventh edits were to support the keeping [1][2] two another likely paid for article. The second was created by Race786. A couple of edits latter they support the keeping of the article here [3] by BirdBath0239. Legendarybroly also supported keeping this article and is another brand new account with the same pattern of editing.
To me this looks like multiple accounts opperated by a single person publishing multiple promotional articles for pay and than using their multiple socks to try to keep them from being deleted.
The style of Race786[4] is very simialar to that of SarahKrauch [5] None of them are obviously brand new users. There appear to be a bunch of older associated accounts but I have left them out. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:04, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
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Recreated article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sohin Shah, this time as Sohin Shah (entrepreneur). That article was one a sock (DWTSFan2015) attempted to add to List of New York University alumni, [6] which this editor has also done.[7]
Otherwise this editor has a similar fluffy edit history to the socks of adding and removing wikilinks to random articles. Checkuser request considering large number of previously discovered socks. Grayfell (talk) 03:38, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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Co-involvement pointed out by JzG at sockfarm nexus [8] and [9]. Brianhe (talk) 15:48, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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I'm seeing various signs that make me suspect that these users are undisclosed paid editors and could be controlled by the same person. To begin with the master, some of their first edits were to remove ((coi)) from articles written by Worthywords (talk · contribs) who I blocked for advertising: [10] [11]. In July 2016, they added this very spammy link, on the very day that the source was published. They also removed a coi tag from Fishel Jacobs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), an article created by a throwaway sock account (see User_talk:Bbb23/Archive_38#Suspicious_user). Marvel Fan 2016 has also edited that article only a day before Stars Stripes Forever: [12]. They also crossed paths at Sue Hershkowitz-Coore (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) within only two days: [13]. That article was also created by a throwaway and is about a very obscure author. Similar crossover at Margaret_Ann_Withers (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) [14] which was created by a sock of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FlowerStorm48 (stale) and of course they removed ((coi)) along the way. SmartSE (talk) 22:05, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
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Have commented on COIN & emailed SmartSE with some behavioral info related to more suspicious editing for public speakers/artists kind of material. The behavioral notes made by Bilby in another SPI here should be given careful consideration. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:58, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
I just found a reposted article originally created by User:FlowerStorm48 sockfarm. Bryan Creed Jack = Bryan Jack. Recent edits by Marvel Fan [22]. We also have a number of contribs from these new actors at Fishel Jacobs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), created by FriendsForever2016 (talk · contribs) in 2016 who appears to be CU confirmed FlowerStorm48 sock. Recent edits include Marvel Fan [23], Stars Stripes [24], Marvel Fan again [25].
There are more pointers to FlowerStorm48 through Elisa Pritzker (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Created by an editor who has only substantially edited 4 other articles [26]; edited by CU confirmed sock a couple days later [27]; most recently edited by both Boxing Day 2015 [28] and The American Farmer [29]. This is beyond credibility. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Double checked this time: Margaret Ann Withers (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was created by a CU confirmed FlowerStorm48 sock [31] then edited by Marvel Fan [32] and Stars Stripes Forever [33]. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:43, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
Checkuser note: This is tricky one, since all three are using a VPN or proxy to get around CU checks. Based on what I can find, I'll say that LOTR Fellowship and Stars Stripes Forever are Likely to be the same user, while Marvel Fan 2016 is Possible. Can't really give you more than that, I'm afraid. I'm not issuing any CU blocks here, so this needs a behavioural review from another admin. Yunshui 雲水 09:53, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
((Clerk Request))
The evidence provided by Bri along with the link I identified makes me fairly certain that this should be merged into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FlowerStorm48. SmartSE (talk) 23:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Carying over last investigation, in which CU stated Stars Stripes Forever was likely socking and both American Farmer and Marvel Fan possible, but neither seems to have been tagged. Several lines of evidence point towards these being related accounts at least WP:DUCK.
Logged ☆ Bri (talk) 17:12, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Above information in tabular interaction format. CU confirmed socks of FlowerStorm48 are bolded.
' | FlowerStorm48 | The American Farmer | Blue Sky Cotton | Boxing Day 2015 | DancingMirrorBall | Friends Forever 2016 (SunShades) |
I Love Figure Skating | Last5YearsFan | Marvel Fan 2016 | StarsStripesForever | StudioBand2015 | SuperFan 2014 |
FlowerStorm48 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
The American Farmer | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Blue Sky Cotton | CU | Pritzker | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Boxing Day 2015 | Pritzker | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
DancingMirrorBall | Gardner | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
Friends Forever 2016 (SunShades) |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
I Love Figure Skating | Musical Pairing | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
Last5YearsFan | Musical Pairing | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
Marvel Fan 2016 | Jacobs | - | - | - | - | |||||||
StarsStripesForever | Gardner | Jacobs | - | - | - | |||||||
StudioBand2015 | CU | Withers | Withers | - | - | |||||||
SuperFan 2014 | Taylor | Taylor | - |
Note, CastleKing1440 socks use same idiosyncratic edit summaries e.g. [58] [59] [60] [61] (CK) vs [62] [63][64] and have crossover at least on one apparently promo job, [65][66][67] ☆ Bri (talk) 04:25, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
Is there anything else I can provide to help move this case forward? ☆ Bri (talk) 04:00, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
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I'm sorry the filer has invested so much work in this, but there's really nothing that needs to be done here. The accounts are old, and the propriety of the reorganization is not worth the effort. I would concentrate on recent disruption when there is any as a more useful expenditure of time. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)