Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AdhiOK/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Endemol_Shine_Group&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portfolio_Entertainment&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiger_Aspect_Productions&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mr._Bean_(animated_TV_series)&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=9_Story_USA&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snoopy!_The_Musical_(TV_special)&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WildBrain_Entertainment&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunny_Bunnies&action=history

You can see in the histories of these pages and their contributions both accounts acting rather strangely, where one edits and the other reverts, almost a good hand bad hand situation. Also I've seen them blanking pages without reason and submitting blank/test drafts to AfC. The number of times one edit of one account has followed another of the other account is so high it's almost impossible to be coincidence. Also see the interaction logs. PrussianOwl (talk) 06:26, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * A very possible explanation is that they are reverting someone they think is disruptive (whether right or wrong). Editor Interact shows its just a handful of articles - I've seen a lot worse and a lot closer interactions. This is a fishing expedition. Recommend close w/o action. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:38, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm a little more cynical/suspicious about this than Amanda, but given that other people have been reverting Josiahthemovieexpert157's edits as well, I'm more inclined to think vandalism or WP:CIR on their part. Closing with no action taken. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:21, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
AdhiOK was blocked on the second of April for long term issues with competence, disruption and ownership of articles. Since the block they have obviously taken to logged out editing to continue to edit here. The IP's edits have an enormous amount of overlap with the articles that AdhiOK was editing, they display the exact same behaviour of mass reverting edits and they use almost identical edit summaries, complete with stupid amounts of full stops in sentences where they do not belong. If you want to compare a pair of diffs look at the edit summaries of these edits. I think this rises to the level of WP:DUCK. 192.76.8.70 (talk) 02:18, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * IPs are in Indonesia, which Adhi has previously acknowledged living in. Compare to  to . Same interest in entertainment, especially Warner, Disney, and Indonesian networks. And some very very obvious edit summaries that I will decline to spell out here, the most obvious of which IP192 has highlighted in their filing. The only way this isn't socking is if it's a very good joe-job; either way a block is in order, and for what it's worth I think the latter to be quite unlikely. : . The IPv4 is stale for blocking, but if it resumes editing can be reported to AIV with a link to this SPI.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 06:43, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
 * per Tamzin. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 10:55, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Ks0stm. Closing. As this is a recent block of an experienced user who's requested an unblock twice, but no sock tag is called for, will leave a note on their talk for recordkeeping in case of further unblock requests. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 16:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same IP range as last time, same edit summaries. Logged out editing to avoid their block has resumed now the one week block has expired. 192.76.8.70 (talk) 16:38, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Yep... exact same range that was blocked in this SPI a few days ago, and obviously still being used by the same person. - please block  for one month (anon-only, account creation blocked). Thanks, Spicy (talk) 18:33, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 08:42, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
IP in the same range as the archives, same topic area, same edit summaries. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * It's them based on edit summaries and subject area; they look to have been bouncing around on 180.252.48.0/20 for a while now. There's too much collateral to warrant blocking the /20 at the moment and anything smaller won't capture their last couple of addresses so we're left with whack-a-mole for now. - Please block  (their last two addresses) for a week. --Jack Frost (talk) 18:13, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * IPs given a week off, closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 10:09, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * On review, neither of those IPs has edited in a week - I could've sworn when originally reviewing that they had recent edits. As such I'm not sure that blocking them for a week is warranted given they appear to be very dynamic, and so I've unblocked. firefly  ( t · c ) 12:53, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same in one of their usual topic areas. This IP is on a "/48" that has already been mentioned in the archive, though it is within a different "/64" than last time (action was only taken on the earlier "/64" previously).  WC  Quidditch  ☎   ✎  06:44, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * This report was good at the time, but the IP has been quiet for a couple of weeks now. I looked at the /48 to see if they've moved to another range, but I don't see anything that looks particularly like them for the past week or so. Closing without action at this time.  Girth Summit  (blether)  20:04, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
IP editor in the same subnet as the socks in the archive, same focus (television articles) same behaviour (reverting other editors) same edit summaries with daft amounts of periods. They seem to have been using this range consistently since the beginning of March. 192.76.8.95 (talk) 17:09, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked range for 3 months, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:28, 5 June 2023 (UTC)