Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/112qw34er/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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See specifically,  and. Some similarity in first two names. General pattern of very fast, almost robot like edits to awards lists articles and sections in actor articles removing content. Geraldo Perez (talk) 08:14, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * FWIW, I suspect all three are the same editor. But Qwefghbnm and 112qw34er definitely are... This kind of rowspan obsession editing is not unique, so I do not discount the possibility that these are more recent socks of an older SPI case. But because CheckUser can only go back 6 months, it's not too likely that they will be matched to an earlier case. So we can at least look at these accounts for socking for now. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 13:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for looking into Mickeydee15 – that was the other SPI case I was thinking of, but I didn't want to say because I didn't want to bias these results, and because I figured it was "stale" by this point. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 23:25, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This is strange. 112qw34er and Qwefghbnm have a huge overlap and a similar style of disruptive editing - I'm pretty convinced they're related. Finrod the faithful doesn't have much overlap (although they only have a handful of edits), uses edit summaries, and some of their edits seem productive. But they're making the same pointless edits on two of the same articles within days of the other accounts, which is highly suspicious: .  to clarify the relationship between these accounts and check for others. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 10:23, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 14:47, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 112qw34er is ✅ to Qwefghbnm. The technical data says:
 * are also the same. The technical data is pretty irrefutable, but my brief look at their editing histories didn't spot the rowspan stuff, so I'm asking a clerk to verify based on behavior.  Finrod is ❌.  I know I saw another SPI within the past couple of days where brand new users were editing rowspan attributes, but for the life of me, I can't remember which one.  If somebody has a lot of time on their hands and needs something to keep themselves entertained, maybe slog through every SPI that's been opened in the past 3-4 days and see if anything pops out? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:01, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @RoySmith: I think this group might be the same as Sockpuppet investigations/Mickeydee15/Archive – could you have a look at the log data and see if that checks out? --Blablubbs (talk) 15:07, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * With the usual proviso about how log data is unreliable, Mickeydee15 appears to be ❌. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @RoySmith: I think this group might be the same as Sockpuppet investigations/Mickeydee15/Archive – could you have a look at the log data and see if that checks out? --Blablubbs (talk) 15:07, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * With the usual proviso about how log data is unreliable, Mickeydee15 appears to be ❌. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)


 * FWIW, I'm pretty sure the accounts found by CU are the same as the master - same interest in Indian cinema (especially awards lists) and keyboard smash usernames.All of these accounts (including Finrod, who I'm confident is unrelated based on the combination of behaviour and CU) use the visual editor - I have to wonder if the rowspan thing is a VE glitch? Spicy (talk) 15:16, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I concur about the other two; pending a determination on the relationship to Mickeydee15.  --Blablubbs (talk) 15:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I've also gone ahead and set this from in progress to checked. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:22, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I tagged the two blocked accounts as confirmed to 12qw34er per RoySmith's comments above (feel free to adjust the tagging if I've misinterpreted). The Mickeydee15 case seems behaviourally different as well as technically. No action with respect to Finrod the faithful at this time, per CU. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)