Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/123Aristotle

'Note that prior cases are also archived at Sockpuppet investigations/Mokezhilao/Archive and Sockpuppet investigations/Ren Yifan/Archive''.

Suspected sockpuppets
Crosswiki LTA + UPE.

瑞機器人 created zh:郝琳 which was edited soon later by Mielisung. Rexregality, at Mar 14, created Zhang Lijun (economist) for which Mielisung uploaded a photo on April 11. Megustaatobe uploaded a copyvio photo of Charmaine Sheh, which was added to zh-yue wiki by Mielisung (zh-yue:Special:Diff/2069397). Mielisung created Ximivogue for which Atobesmile uploaded several photos. Jackmieling created SoundOn, for which Atobesmile uploaded the logo. Jockengmely created Draft:OceanBase which was edited by Jackmieling. Jockengmely also edited Charmaine Sheh (Special:Diff/1196629123) and uploaded a copyvio photo for that. Coen Hoenderken created Conference on International Exchange of Professionals for which Jockengmely made a edit Special:Diff/1191089198 and uploaded a photo. RyanMitch365 created ZWCAD which was edited by Jockengmely soon later.

Most accounts are active on enwiki, zhwiki, jawiki, etc. Most of articles they touched are related to Chinese persons or companies. They tend to create a user page and make dozens of normal edits (usually minor) before creating promotional articles, which matches the pattern of known LTA on zhwiki (maybe 123Aristotle or some others). I believe they are part of a huge sock farm(s).

Rexregality created several articles of American politicians, which is unusual for 123Aristotle or other zhwiki LTAs. I don't know why.

And, I am not sure whether RyanMitch365 is actually related. More evidence is needed.

虹易 (talk) 13:22, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ to each other:


 * The data we have for 123Aristotle is old; from a purely technical perspective, these accounts are to past socks (same country).
 * to above and each other, mainly due to lack of data; I would lean more towards these being technically unrelated:


 * Spicy (talk) 08:05, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 08:05, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 08:05, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 08:05, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Typical UPE.

XiaoMming, Romegw0923, 89.208.246.186 and PTGRobotWiki created or edited Xiao-i (also zh:小i机器人) and its co-founder Draft:Max_Yuan_Hui (also zh:袁辉).

XiaoMming, Romegw0923, 89.208.246.186 created or edited ATRenew, Draft:ATRenew (also zh:爱回收) and its CEO Kerry Xuefeng Chen (also zh:陈雪峰 (企业家))

PTGRobotWiki edited zh:名創優品 (a.k.a Miniso) which is connected with several LTA groups on zhwiki.

XiaoMming makes several normal edits before or during editing promotional articles, which matches the pattern of 123A (or other sophisticated LTAs).

虹易 (talk) 00:24, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ to each other and to 123Aristotle/the Jackmieling group above:


 * I'll block the confirmed accounts but someone will have to figure out how these should be tagged/filed.
 * . Spicy (talk) 08:15, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Edited zh:陈雪峰_(企业家) (a.k.a Kerry Xuefeng Chen) created by XiaoMming. Should be the same group with the above. I think there are more sleepers to be found.--虹易 (talk) 16:01, 31 May 2024 (UTC) 虹易 (talk) 16:01, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , obvious proxy use. Spicy (talk) 14:11, 9 June 2024 (UTC)