Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AdanXX/Archive

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AdanXX was temporarily blocked on February 18, 2021, for mass removal of content across various articles, particularly BLP's of hip hop artists. Only two days later, on February 20, Danjack8800 created an account. Their editing patterns are extremely similar; Danjack8800 has been mass removing content from pages, mostly ones AdanXX did the same to, and editing and or creating drafts related to superheroes or comics, just like AdanXX. I don't even think this requires an investigating, it is too obvious, but of course it's needed for certainty. I suggest a range block before this user creates/jumps on another account. See below diffs as some evidence.

Unexplained removal of content to
 * Polo G: Danjack8800 vs AdanXX


 * Don Toliver: Danjack8800 vs AdanXX


 * Juice Wrld: Danjack8800 vs AdanXX. AshMusique (talk) 22:52, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Just a heads up,, , in case you don't notice, this user is still continuing with their mass removal of content, as can be seen in their contributions. Just a few hours ago, they inexplicably removed an entire section consisting of over 10k bytes from an article. AshMusique (talk) 14:37, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * - This really is ducky enough to block on behavior alone, but given the volume here, it seems likely there's more of them, so asking for a sleeper check. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:11, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * . They're in the same geolocation and on the same very wide ranges, but on different user agents. That's all I can really give you...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:54, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Looking at the extensive overlap, a bunch of technical similarities, and the fact that the newer account was created 2 days after the older one was blocked, I feel comfortable calling this proven, even with a nebulous CU finding. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:50, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

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AdanXX's sock Danjack8800 was blocked recently. Now, this account is removing the same content at Don Toliver's page, [here] and [here]. , as you blocked them last time, is a range block possible please, if this checks out? AshMusique (talk) 09:19, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * - We'll need a CU to figure out if a range block is feasible. Note: AdanXX is going to go stale in a couple of days.  I've already blocked Realkidadan1601, but held off tagging pending CU findings. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:08, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. Bagging and tagging sock. The range is very wide, but I'll look into blocking what I feasibly can. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   14:48, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

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Same continuous habit of mass removing content from pages, including, again, from the Don Toliver article: Rogue1601 vs AdanXX. Rogue1601 has also used the same M.O. of blanking pages and editing Marvel Comics and DC Comics-releated content just like AdanXX: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rogue1601 a portion of Rogue1601's regular comics edits] vs a portion of AdanXX' exact fashion of comics edits. The editing behavior and interests are clearly the same. AshMusique (talk) 19:13, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi, my apologies for only responding now. I had the tab open, but forgot to respond. I'm not sure if it's okay that I still present the evidence here,, could you possibly please kindly re-open the case? I'm not expecting the case to be closed successfully, but I consider the following diffs to be of concrete evidence. Also, apologuss for mixing up the riffs in my initial report, I copy pasted the wrong links. Please see below, Tamzin.


 * At Titans (season 3), AdanXX edited the same section as Rogue1601.
 * The history at the Justice League Dark Universe draft shows AdanXX created the draft, and recently Rogue1601 has performed numerous edits to it.
 * At Draft:Green Lantern (TV series), AdanXX edited the page, while Rogue1601 removed a mass amount of content.
 * At the DC Animated Movie Universe article, this batch of edits shows AdanXX performing various edits, including some being mass removals. Rogue1601 edited the page in July this year, two times, here and here.
 * In these three successive edits,, , , to List of Arrow characters, AdanXX inexplicably removed mass amounts of content, just as Rogue1601 recently did here (at the same page).
 * AdanXX edited The Walking Dead (season 11) eleven times, in this history batch alone, while Rogue1601 performed multiple back-to-back edits to the page, here and here.

Some of these edits may be lengthy periods apart, but alongside their similar interest in comics topics, I don't believe these are coincidences. AshMusique (talk) 20:11, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * . The Toliver diff you linked for Rogue is a diff by Adan, and the one you linked for Adan is a diff by Rogue to a page that does not mention Toliver. As far as I can see, Rogue's only contribution to the Toliver article is this addition of content. As to the removal of content from comics articles, I don't think it's necessarily a distinctive perspective for someone to look at an article like this and think that it needs a lot of content removed. I've made similar edits myself. (I say that without commenting on the merits of that particular removal.) These may be the same editor, but you haven't presented any distinctive evidence yet. Could you please respond with at least one diff from Rogue, and at least one diff from Adan or a previous sock, that show a behavioral overlap that is unlikely to be coincidence? Thanks.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 07:16, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing. Requested information not provided —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:50, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Reopening for now. Will take a look at this when I have a sec. I've moved your comment to the correct section. Also, just so you know, if you ping someone and forget to sign, they aren't pinged, even if you add your signature on the next edit. See Help:Fixing failed pings for more information. Personally, if it happens to me, I just ping the person via edit summary when I correct whatever the issue was.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 20:26, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid we can't infer much from the page overlap here. These are related pages in a popular content area, and many editors would likely match with AdanXX based on this. The removal of content is still not particularly distinctive, and Rogue's edits seem to give more care to preserving useful content than Adan's blind blankings did. That said, there's enough similarity at List of Arrow characters that I'm willing to endorse this for comparison against logged CU data. . --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 22:01, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * - Everything is stale and there's no notes in the CU wiki about this case, so unfortunately, it's back to -- RoySmith (talk) 01:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Moving to checked - there is indeed CU log data for past cases. Geolocates to the same area as past socks and shares an ISP with Danjack8800, but can't give you much more than that, multiple wide and very dynamic ranges are involved here. Back to you,.
 * Also, the following acounts are ✅ to Rogue1601:
 * (no edits, but given the name similarity to the above account...) GeneralNotability (talk) 02:01, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thankgs, GN. The fact that Rogue was socking takes away any assumption of good faith that they're not themself a sock, and provides another bit of behavioral evidence they have in common with AdanXX. It still doesn't quite get them to "proven", but strongly-suspected sock status + sockmaster status = they at the very least have some serious explaining to do if they want to continue editing here, explaining best done through an unblock request. for the following blocks (and, if you want, taggings):
 * as a confirmed sockmaster and a suspected sockpuppet of AdanXX
 * as a confirmed sockpuppet of Rogue1601 and a suspected sockpuppet of AdanXX
 * as a confirmed sockpuppet of Rogue1601 and a suspected sockpuppet of AdanXX
 * Thanks. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 02:46, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I blocked (without tags) Rogue1601 and Realyxvngdon. I refuse to block Yxvngdon as the account has zero edits.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:53, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Vanja. I'll keep an eye on Yxvngdon. . Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 22:27, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Vanja. I'll keep an eye on Yxvngdon. . Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 22:27, 24 October 2021 (UTC)