Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AnonymousReality/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I came across a new article, Shailen Vandeyar, and it's an obvious promo piece. Probably undeclared paid editing by a WP:SPA (User:Karenluying) that got PRODDED and Karenluying removed the PROD. SPAs are very often socks so I had a look around and I've managed to trace it back to User:AnonymousReality via 67.70.252.154; what gave it away was the work on Wikidata by the IP address that links everything together. AnonymousReality used to, which I assume is code for contact me via Wiki-email and I will see what I can do for you. Anyway, I made the connection between AnonymousReality and the IP accounts because lines 1 to 3 in the table below.

See table in my user space (tables seem to bugger up this form)

Mervik Haums is the same kind of person (an internet entrepreneur) as the next person set up by the IP address, Shailen Vandeyar. Hence, lines 3 to 5 in the table link the first three accounts mentioned.

Now having a look at what else AnonymousReality worked on in Wikidata, I find that 142.120.127.198 set up Liran Mizrahi (another entrepreneur) and after the last IP edit, AnonymousReality edits this 1 minute later. And earlier today, a new SPA creates an article draft (lines 6 to 10 in the table). 142.120.127.198 and AnonymousReality also worked on the Wikidata item for Convexted, a YouTuber, within 1 minute of one another (lines 11 and 12).

I shall note that AnonymousReality edited the WD entry for Keelan Leyser and that article was previously deleted (some years ago) with the article creator User:Michaelmuch identified as a sockpuppet of Newzealand123. I don't know whether there is a connection but given that I've requested for a checkuser to have a look, we might as well have a look at any connection that may exist.

As stated in the OldID of AnonymousReality, their artist name is Zuvney. Their entry on fandom.com tells us that they are "a Canadian-moroccan Entrepreneur, Musical Artist, Esports Manager & Designer". WHO.IS for 67.70.252.154 points to a Canadian school. The WHO.IS for the other IP points to the same geographical area.  Schwede 66  23:18, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * User:AnonymousReality is ❌ to the other two named accounts. No comment on the IPs. I share the filer's suspicion that some paid editing could be going on. The regular deletion processes may be able to deal with most of this. Judging from behavior, it is unclear if the accounts and IPs you have gathered in this report are actually related to each other. Checkuser does confirm that User:Batuhan Durmuş is editing from a different country than User:AnonymousReality, a thing which may be suggested by the account names. EdJohnston (talk) 02:41, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, how surprising!  Schwede 66  03:04, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I can't think of anything else to do here, so I'm marking for close. EdJohnston (talk) 02:25, 14 July 2022 (UTC)