Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AichiWikiFixer/Archive

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Self admitted block evasion, same disruptive edits CUPIDICAE💕  19:46, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

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Same behavior as previous socks AichiWikiFixer and JapanMunicialityRedirecter (trying to mass-move articles about Japanese cities to remove the prefecture from the title, see Special:Diff/1042277491 and Special:Diff/1042484227), and the username is similar to that of the previous sock "JapanMunicialityRedirecter". --Ahecht (TALK PAGE ) 15:10, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * for and, as always, no comment with regard to the IP address. --Yamla (talk) 19:24, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
 * NRTJ by Yamla. Disruption continues on 2001:4450:8300::0/40; there's too much collateral on that range for a full block, but conveniently the disruption is localized to just two pages, so  for one-month partial block of  from pages Requested moves/Technical requests and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan.  -- Tamzin  [cetacean needed] (she/they) 20:57, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
 * done. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:10, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Roy. Closing. This may well just funnel them back into registered accounts to get around the anonblock, but at least those will be easier to keep track of. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 19:41, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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In cleaning up after the previous filing, I noticed that a number of the RMs requested by IPs on 2001:4450:8300::0/40 ( projectspace contribs only ) were actioned by this account. The account was created on 9 September after previous requests were denied and since then has focused exclusively on municipalities in Japan, China, and the Philippines, with a special interest in disambiguation by administrative subdivision. After making gnomish edits for a week in that topic area, they found RM/TR conveniently a mere minute after an IP from that range re-submitted the previously-denied request. Popped back with perfect timing again a week later.

There's enough to block on behavioral evidence, but since the last check here was only a possilikely, and this account was created two days after that, I'm requesting CU in hopes of establishing a firmer trail and seeing if there's any sleepers. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 20:57, 25 September 2021 (UTC) forgot some words 02:51, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * . --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 21:00, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Technically, this account is only a weak to the previous accounts reported under this SPI. However, it is ✅ to  (which is blocked behaviorally, not based on CU data). There are no other accounts visible at this time.  ST47 (talk) 03:14, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Not sure yet whether this needs to be split. Please don't archive yet.Also, Think you forgot to tick the "block" box for NLI.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 03:31, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I don't think you need to split it. There does seem to be a behavioral link, could just be one user with two different ISPs (home and work for example). ST47 (talk) 03:35, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. I remain very confident in the behavioral evidence here, in particular due to the timing of the actioning of RM/TRs, so I'm going to tag alt-masters based on that. Now fine to archive.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 04:06, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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Behavioral match with recently blocked AichiWikiFixer sock. signed,Rosguill talk 21:46, 27 October 2021 (UTC)


 * @Rosguill could you be more specific about the behavioral match? I did a very quick look and noticed that the timecards don't match, and Omri is both the only account that uses mobile and the only account that attached to enwiki after being created on another project. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:15, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * They have a similar pattern of creating what appear to be rather odd character substitutions in redirects, particularly J for K (e.g. Special:Diff/1047384286, Special:Diff/1045537656), and in a very similar topic (Asian, primarily Chinese, place names), as well as having similar, if not terribly distinctive, patterns of edit summary usage. signed,Rosguill talk 23:30, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Looks pretty likely for me, but I'd like to see what CU says. CU seems warranted given that it's a not-new-seeming new account interested in Chinese and Japanese place names and the role of commas therein (cf., ), as well as maps (ctrl+f "map" at and ). They've been on this account since the end of July, so it would be a little surprising for them to have evaded CU on the last two checks, but, at the same time, neither of those checks gave us very conclusive results.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 22:25, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Whoops, you posted your comment while I was writing mine, and I didn't see it till after (one of those not-an-EC ECs). Is this comparison enough, or would you like me to do some more digging? --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 22:28, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I was just making an observation based on a cursory examination. If you feel it should be endorsed, I trust your judgement.  But I can't get behind the "ctrl-f" thing; all right-thinking people (i.e. Mac users) spell it Command-F :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 22:42, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 22:43, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Not logging in ❌ to Omri.kotok -- RoySmith (talk) 22:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Well this isn't the kind of thing someone would be engaging in meatpuppetry to do, so I guess we'll have to rule this one a coincidence. Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:33, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Again I manage to not-edit-conflict with someone. So I'll elaborate a bit based on Rosguill's comment: I'm pretty confident now that these aren't the same person. Omri.kotok has contributed quite a bit to hewiki, and, looking at their talkpage there, hasn't run into much trouble. (Their early edits also don't look very new-user there, but not necessarily sockish either.) While I sadly no longer speak Hebrew well enough to gauge their fluency, at the very least no one there has taken issue with their language skills. AichiWikiFixer has edited from Phillipine IPs in the past, and, while living in the Phillipines and speaking passable Hebrew aren't mutually exclusive, it's a rare combination, and I'm not aware of any AWF sox in the past demonstrating proficiency in Hebrew. There's definitely some weird overlaps—enough so that I don't regret endorsing—but I'm not surprised by the CU result. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:42, 27 October 2021 (UTC)