Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/隐世高人/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I've been the victim of a coordinated campaign of harassment regarding the page List of modern armament manufacturers, my thanks to, , , and others for help in that regard. If you are unfamiliar I suggest you start by skimming from today to December 2020. I believe that all of the above accounts have the same master: 隐世高人 ("Hidden Master" in Mandarin). All accounts use a similar editing style and even recycle edit summaries. If we examine just the three accounts which have edited outside of List of modern armament manufacturers the overlap is staggering (of 112.45.194.17's seven total edits they overlap with both UBQITOSW and 隐世高人 for six of those edits, the seventh only overlaps with UBQITOSW's edits). Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 04:39, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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Just a quick question; does the Sock list template ping the registered users listed in the template? I checked the template's documentation page, but didn't see any indication that listed users are notified. Thanks in advance. Cheers - w o lf  05:59, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Not an admin help thing, but no ping is used so no. Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:08, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * The regular help me template won't work on this page, but the admin one does, so that's why I used that. But anyway, thanks for the reply. - w o lf  09:20, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 14:25, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 隐世高人, UBQITOSW, and Bulleye Jackie are all ✅ to each other., but given that they're all stale, I'm just going to close this. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:43, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Looking a bit deeper into the page history these really stood out to me, there is consistent overlap especially at hotspots like List of ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy, List of current ships of the United States Navy, and List of equipment of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. Looks like the pattern of adding non-notable companies to List of modern armament manufacturers goes back a long way. Note that 亚特兰蒂斯缔造者 ("Atlantis Creator") is actually older than 隐世高人. These are just the IPs which have significant edits on other pages, if I had to guess the vast majority of the IP edits post 2010 have been this sockmaster. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 05:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * None of these have edited after 2017, and the /16 that most of these IPs are on has been silent since 2018. . --Blablubbs (talk) 08:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This duck was missed in the original search as it was used for the foreign relations cluster but not the military one, account was made in 2015 (same year as 隐世高人) but largely slept until more recently. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 16:50, 9 May 2022 (UTC) Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 16:50, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * This account hasn't edited in 5 months, so closing per WP:BLOCKPREVENTATIVE. On a more practical note, if they become active again, we'll also have fresh CU data to compare against our notes. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:28, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
I checked in on a number of likely sleepers to see if any where active, this one was active yesterday. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 17:35, 10 May 2022 (UTC) Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 17:35, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Their edits are focused on military equipment *and* Chinese foreign relations (see the master's 50 most recent edits, please also compare to the stale account above). Just a note but the global linked on the user page is *not*  although that does appear to be the correct one. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 19:08, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * On the raw CU data, ❌, but due to proxy use.  I do note that although they have 466 edits, they're flying a userbox which claims 30,000+, which is kind of fishy. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:53, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - what is the evidence that this is a "likely sleeper"? From a glance, the editing habits look quite different (the confirmed socks seem to be focused on edits about military equipment, while this one is not). n.b. the claim of having 30,000 edits is true if you take global edits into account: . Spicy (talk) 18:51, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * We'd need a lot more than shared (common) interests to take action here. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 21:06, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Pro forma, via an unblock request. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:43, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to each other and a past confirmed sock. Given, I'll pre-emptively point out that the technical data is not consistent with some people merely sharing a proxy. Notes to that effect can be found on cuwiki. (Re-), closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:48, 18 September 2023 (UTC)