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21 December 2012

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Most of these users have edited pages related to sexuality. 게이큐읭 and Urea1 both !voted keep in the AfD for MTF cross-dressing. After the close of the Afd, Nojomi1 and 게이큐읭 both reverted the close of the AfD (to date, this has been the only edit for Nojomi1). 정과 and 게이큐읭 both reverted attempts to turn the article into a redirect, the latter doing so after a consensus to redirect at AfD.

Jeonggwa and Urea1 both removed speedy deletion templates from the redirect, which was created by Urea1. They both posted to the talk page just 5 minutes apart to give reasons why the redirect should be kept.

Furthermore, most of these users appear to be Korean, or at least have a strong interest in Korea. This is obvious for 게이큐읭 and 정과 (both usernames are in Hangul). Jeonggwa is a type of Korean confectionery. Gajwa is a railway station in South Korea. I believe Nojomi might have Korean meaning too (I'm not certain on this). 58.29.38.128 is a Korean IP address (see [//toolserver.org/~overlordq/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?lookup=58.29.38.128 whois]).

In terms of Korea-related editing, both 게이큐읭 and Gajwa have edited Janggi, with Gajwa repeating an edit by 게이큐읭 after it was reverted. 게이큐읭, 정과, Gajwa and 58.29.38.128 have all made edits relating to Korean railway stations: e.g. 게이큐읭 created Sinnae Station; 정과 created a disambiguation page from the redirect previously at Seongsan Station; Gajwa edited Byeollae Station; and 58.29.38.128 edited Template:Gyeongwon Line (Sinnae Station is on this line). Non-railway edits related to Korea include Urea1 editing Rason and creating Rajin-guyok. Jeonggwa's only Korea-related edit is adding an inter-language link to Ministry of Education and Science, which repeats previous edits by Urea1 after they were reverted.

게이큐읭 recently created a new Looshpah V template, which Urea1 later edited as well. A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Service awards reached the consensus that this template should not be part of the official service awards scheme for now. Both 게이큐읭 and Urea1 contributed to the discussion to say that it should be (and were the only users to give this opinion).

게이큐읭 and 정과 have both contributed to a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements. This discussion was started by Unbitrium123 (as the account's only edit), who I believe might be the same person. I base this partly on Unbitrium123's poor English, and 게이큐읭 editing Unbitrium123's opening comment (see the first diff in this paragraph). The edit summary is also interesting: It gives the name of the previous section on the page rather than the new section they are starting, with no other comment. This is the same style of edit summary used by Urea1 when starting a new section (e.g. Talk:China). 58.29.38.128 also edited the Unbitrium discussion in support of the others mentioned here.

Other minor similarities: None of the user accounts have a user page, and none have set their gender in preferences. Urea1 and Nojomi1 have the same naming style (both having a '1' suffix). Where the accounts have contributed to talk pages, they seem to have a similar writing style, with a poor grasp of English.

I feel that the overlap between these accounts is too great to merely be coincidence. I am requesting checkuser for this due to the number of suspected sockpuppets I have found; it seems likely there may be more that I have not found. Also, for the accounts with only a few edits (Nojomi1, Unbitrium123 and the IP), a checkuser might be necessary to confirm the relationship between the accounts if the behavioural evidence alone is not enough. – PartTimeGnome (talk&#160;&#124; contribs) 00:40, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I didn't originally check for blocks outside of the English Wikipedia; as 정과/Urea1 says, they are globally locked (see CentralAuth). This was for sock puppetry on the Korean Wikipedia (see Steward requests/Checkuser/2012-11 and the Korean sockpuppet investigation for evidence). As well as the lock, [//ko.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User:%EC%A0%95%EA%B3%BC&uselang=en they are blocked] on the Korean Wikipedia (Google translation of block reason: "Multiple accounts of abuse: eat unchanging age Unicode kkolri").
 * Checkuser on Meta confirmed 코리안파워, Dragonwalk and Orora as socks of 정과, so I have added them to the list at the top of this page (all three are blocked at ko WP and also globally locked). 게이큐읭 was also a suspected sock puppet in that investigation, but was found to be unrelated. It's possible that 게이큐읭 is a meat puppet rather than a sock. – PartTimeGnome (talk&#160;&#124; contribs) 22:05, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * I am Jeonggwa, 정과. but I have no relation with other account. because 정과 locked, I made jeonggwa and urea1. --Urea1 (talk) 01:02, 21 December 2012 (UTC).

I will never use jeonggwa. --Urea1 (talk) 01:06, 21 December 2012 (UTC)ㅡ

I have no other account except 레즈큐읭. --게이큐읭 (talk) 10:54, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

I have no reration of other group. I think i made geneticgirl accout when i couldnt remember my password--게이큐읭 (talk) 19:19, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

In south Korea. Harf of people live in seoul metropilitan area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 게이큐읭 (talk • contribs) 04:05, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * that all groups are related to each other, unless noted
 * Group 1 - ✅ to each other, to Group 3:
 * Group 2 - ✅ to each other:
 * Group 3 - ✅ to each other, to Group 1:
 * Group 4 - ✅ to each other:
 * Locked account
 * Group 5 -
 * Group 3 - ✅ to each other, to Group 1:
 * Group 4 - ✅ to each other:
 * Locked account
 * Group 5 -
 * Group 4 - ✅ to each other:
 * Locked account
 * Group 5 -
 * Locked account
 * Group 5 -
 * Locked account
 * Group 5 -




 * CU isn't, and there is a possibility of shared IPs here, but the coincidences lined up enough for me to report these users. They did all come from the same city, even sometimes the same ISP, rangeblocks are practically impossible. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  14:45, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I went through and based on grammar/behavioral/names I'm leaning towards all of them being socks. Without being terribly specific they use similar korean constructions for their names which are unusual. NativeForeigner Talk 00:44, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I see any behavioural correlation between the accounts (including those listed in the same "group"), though I don't speak Korean. I'm going to close this investigation without action, because these accounts are all inactive and any effort expended in a detailed evaluation would therefore reap little benefit to the project. AGK  [•] 11:04, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

27 November 2014

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Per User talk:Anna Frodesiak#Small question, -revi, an admin at Korean Wikipedia confirms that 놋쇠리아 is a sock, one of 200+ in a Korean Wikipedia LTA case. I've deleted his single contribution, a subway station article, and blocked him already. No CU is needed because he is confirmed by his global contribs. I've just filed this for the record. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:51, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

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