Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Americanpie1996/Archive

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Newly created account which went straight to a UPE draft of the puppeteer, Draft:EchoSlim.  Onel 5969  TT me 10:01, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Master warned and sock blocked indef. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:11, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

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Hello. I think that Fashionjoker was blocked due to the User:Lasagna98/User:KweennyG spamfarm, so maybe this report belongs there.

Anyway, onto the report: MSampieri is the older of the two accounts, and their edit history is solely articles that Fashionjoker has also edited. MrsSnoozyTurtle 06:32, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * - Draft:Marco Castelli (designer) is a UPE target, and given the overlap, I think MSampieri should be blocked. Requesting CU to confirm and look for sleepers (or possibly relations to other sockfarms). MarioGom (talk) 16:43, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * - Fashionjoker is ✅ to, still looking -- RoySmith (talk) 17:43, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Also confirmed to and  to  -- RoySmith (talk) 17:50, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * looks to be unrelated, but there's not a lot of data to go on there. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:55, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * This seems to be the same sockfarm as NY141st. There's probably quite a few more accounts. I'm trying to get a more complete picture. MarioGom (talk) 22:11, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, I guess I should have listed these; they're in the cuwiki notes, but apparently never got tagged so probably not easy to find. From the notes, I'd say these are all some combination of ✅ and  to KweennyG:
 * -- RoySmith (talk) 22:42, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks Roy! - This  is not the first edit of some newbie, coupled with the CU result, please, indef 123kingkong. There's a chance that MSampieri and NY141st are customers rather than the paid editor, so we can let them be at the moment. I can take care of tagging and moving the case later. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 00:50, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I've blocked, and I'll give you for free - ✅. I agree this is KweennyG.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:33, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Ooh, and also - that's them too, consider it ✅.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:55, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * - Can someone merge this case to NY141st and move the resulting case to Americanpie1996 (whatever action sequence makes more sense). Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 16:59, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * . I've tagged all as confirmed but feel free to modify my tags if you wish. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:45, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Confirmed works fine for the entire batch I found. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:18, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

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Newly created account, which one of the first edits was to go to the draft (Draft:Daniel Jonathan Popper) of the puppeteer and move it to mainspace, after making the prerequisite 10 edits. See this  Onel 5969  TT me 09:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * Plus who created . Definite spamfarm vibes from Sockpuppet investigations/Americanpie1996.  - Please compare to that case and check for other accounts. --Jack Frost (talk) 13:34, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * These are all ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 22:56, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * is -- RoySmith (talk) 23:01, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * - is already blocked as a KweennyG sock, who in turn is Sockpuppet investigations/Americanpie1996, so let me dig a bit more. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:04, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The following are all . I did a quick check of behavior.  Most look quite spammy, but Nahum0525 looks like they might be legitimate.  I'd like for somebody else to take a closer look at the behavior of all of these.   -- RoySmith (talk) 23:21, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll hold off any tagging until the behavioral investigation is done. I'm assuming at this point that this will need to get merged into Americanpie1996. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:24, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merged case to Americanpie1996, blocked PixelatedLion and CosmicCactii. I don't think Nahum0525 is related. IrshadMakhami and Asiatvstudios seem spammy, but a different type of spammy. The latter hasn't edited in several months anyway. Closing. Spicy (talk) 22:04, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

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PixelatedLion edited Draft:Roberto Rivera (businessman), which has been edited by socks of this master. Steeler.nayshun has edited Draft:Merchants Fleet, like Rivera, recently edited by PixelatedLion. This is very suspicious considering the topics (spammy writing style).

Also, can we check if this is related to Sockpuppet investigations/Americanpie1996 sockfarm?(there is some overlap). US-Verified (talk) 10:52, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * PixelatedLion is to Americanpie1996.  There's not enough data on Steeler.nayshun to say much that's useful, but they do appear to be using a proxy. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:31, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I also see who is ✅ from .  -- RoySmith (talk) 13:34, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

- PixelatedLion was already blocked by User:Spicy as noted here. Steeler.nayshun is quacking pretty loudly, but I think we need a bit more evidence. I don't know if SPI has their version of WP:ROPE, but that's my sense of this. - jc37 20:05, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing because the account hasn't edited since February. If they edit again and there's more evidence, feel free to re-file., thanks for your comment. In the future you're free to close it yourself. Admins are the primary enforcers of the sock policy and are more than welcome to close cases with no action :) TonyBallioni (talk) 22:53, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

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Same edits to @properties as previously-blocked Jvineiners. Likely stale, unfortunately, but filing in case helpful. They're headed towards a spamblock anyway Star   Mississippi  13:45, 7 February 2024 (UTC)


 * cc @Clovermoss @Theroadislong from actions on latest version Star   Mississippi  13:46, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * Okay, the archive is stale, but we have a lot of promotional editing and zero-edit sleepers that are all internally confirmed. Will post the list. Courcelles (talk) 16:04, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * These are all identical to each other and I've blocked the lot: Employmentadda, Oliver4you, Wikivicky90, RamRamWiki1992, Gamaydone, Tanyaagnew, BabalGum, RimaSenn, WiviWeb, DDavidRoni, Lee Dima, VikiWiki4010, David renoo, ZinPlan, YamaYame, CemtoCim, VimataRa, Timo David, Rimpa Ramo, Simon Tuffer and Akhilraj4010. Courcelles (talk) 16:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * With how much mess there is around the Jiani Zeng article and the associated AFD, protections will be issued now. Courcelles (talk) 16:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Holy crap. Talk about a hornet's nest. Thank you @Courcelles Star   Mississippi  01:36, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * For scripts:
 * Spicy (talk) 10:33, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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This user account is 3+ years old; did the mandatory ten edits, then went to sleep for 3 years; woke up to mainly edit their user page (I think the intention is to make it look like an established account?), and has now created two articles with socking in the past.

First is Draft:Jiani Zeng. This was deleted following an AfD Articles for deletion/Jiani Zeng that only closed yesterday, which seems a bit too much of a coincidence to me timing-wise. That version had been created, and then defended at the AfD, by multiple socks of Americanpie1996, so it seems like an obvious master suspect to me.

Second is Draft:Butlr, which is connected to the other draft in that Zeng is a co-founder of Butlr. This draft was previously created by, who is apparently also a sock... but of a different farm, that of.

Other than DahSound themselves, I couldn't find a connection between these two. Could be that DahSound is unconnected to either, maybe a new UPE chasing the same bounty, and not a sock at all? I dunno, this is as far as I get. Requesting CU to confirm, as the evidence is a bit sketchy, and to check for sleepers. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:29, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

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I was coming here to say the exact same thing, but DoubleGrazing beat me to it. :-) In any case, now removed threads on their talk page like and  set off alarm bells in my head, especially when from memory the two articles mentioned above look very much like the other original articles before they were deleted. -Kj cheetham (talk) 13:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * From a technical perspective, DahSound doesn't look much like Americanpie1996 or Aniflower; but from a behavioural perspective, the Butlr draft is identical to the sock's deleted draft, and the fact that this account showed up to recreate UPE sockfarm articles almost immediately after they were deleted is a pretty clear indication of meatpuppetry. So I will block them for that. (They were also verging on a WP:DE indef anyway; they've been blocked before). Spicy (talk) 22:16, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

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Sleeper account re-activates just to edit @properties, a favorite target of this sockfarm. It's the exact same draft as last edited by Employmentadda. Star  Mississippi  13:34, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ I added two, one active, one sleeper as well.  Courcelles (talk) 16:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, deleted the creations. Courcelles (talk) 17:03, 20 February 2024 (UTC)