Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abduvaitov Sherzod 2/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Both are new accounts with similar editing patterns and an almost identical username. Both introducing errors to articles. First account: diff1; diff2; diff3. Second account: diff4. Both accounts also posting 'greetings' to completely random user accounts (first one here is retired for many years) - first account: diff5; diff6. New account: diff7. Quack erat demonstrandum. May be an innocent explanation, but user has persisted in introducing factually incorrect content despite a warning, and WP:CIR. Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 18:10, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Yep, same user. As one of their accounts is already blocked, I've blocked the other one as well. Closing. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 03:37, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Page created immediately after suspected sockpuppeteer was blocked from editing the Article namespace. Sockpuppet thanked me for an edit in my talk page where I blanked out random sealioning comments by the sockpuppeteer. A quick check of the sockpuppet's edits and their user page shows that they are making exactly the same kind of nonsense edits that the blocked user did, and has the same speech patterns reflected in their user page. User has only made two edits, to Ethiopia, inserting unsourced population statistics here and here similar to those fabricated by User:A.Viki Wiki7. nf utvol (talk) 11:39, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

NOTE: Another user noted that there are no fewer than 17 accounts that start with the name "Abduvaitov Sherzod" followed by a number of alphanumeric combination, all of which were created between December 2023 and May 2024 and three of which have been blocked. They have been added to the list. nf utvol (talk) 13:27, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


 * And now Abduvaitov Sherzod 08 is pinging Admin talk pages asking why they got blocked...seems like an admission of sockpuppetry. User bans are clearly not working here. nf utvol (talk) 16:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

The user is continuing to disruptively edit and vandalize multiple pages (mostly geography related) with the additional sockpuppet accounts discovered by the CheckUser. I think we're getting to the point where an IP block might be called for. nf utvol (talk) 00:14, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've indef'ed that new set. But I agree, given the number of accounts we're dealing with and spread of article targets, we need CU action on underlying IP(s). DMacks (talk) 02:25, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
 * I'll clarify, since I mentioned it in the ANI report and never said anything else: The globally locked account might be unrelated, the block happened at the same time as other related names at the UZ Wiki because it was reported in the same AIV-like board, even if admittedly 8 minutes before a Sherzod account (link).
 * So despite 1. User:Abduvaitov Sherzod 08 saying they edited the Russian Wikipedia, which the 08 account didn't, but some others reported and this locked account did, and 2. the locked account mentioning the word Sherzod ; I just don't know enough to judge if the behaviour matches. – 2804:F14:8085:6201:79B8:8DAD:273E:E996 (talk) 00:30, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Sockpuppet investigations/Abduvaitov Sherzod 58 already exists from February 2024. Should merge. Looks like "Abduvaitov Sherzod 2" is oldest. Noting also several of them are active on uzwiki. DMacks (talk) 13:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Also: username match and tag-team with others on uzwiki. DMacks (talk) 13:42, 23 May 2024 (UTC) Now added into preceding full list. DMacks (talk) 18:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I've indef'ed all of the ones that weren't already indef'ed, linked to this here SPI but not bothering to tag userpages yet, pending clerk merger to identify which master we should use. DMacks (talk) 18:21, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:


 * The following accounts are to each other and  to the above accounts:
 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:07, 27 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Marked as needing clerk attention to deal with the case merging. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:13, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Backing off the username stem a bit finds some more. Most look too old and not editing enwiki, but also have behavior matches xwiki as well (any CUs here know those at uzwiki?) and size and longevity of the problem overall. DMacks (talk) 02:32, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Merged case, tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 17:08, 8 June 2024 (UTC)