Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arifys/Archive

28 March 2016

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I was alerted to these users on an Outreach page where they both tagged a user's page for deletion, for no discernible reason. I decided to look at their edits on this site, and noticed that both of their user pages are of similar build (on Outreach, they both have the same name listed on the e-mail option), and they edit similar articles (mainly around Indonesia) with similar summaries which are quite vague. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:11, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

I am adding Editing EgyptAir Flight 181 to the mix, as their patterns fit Arifys' recent Meta editing patterns. I also think it might be good to open up a case there for Stewards, but I will let the closing administrator make the call on that one. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 10:51, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The two accounts were just confirmed on Meta to be socks, and I think the Egypt Air one was just there by chance when I suspected a sock. Feel free to close this as it appears as though they abandoned the other account, and will be using one from now on. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 06:48, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

I hope this helps, as we just blocked this and another account on Meta for sockpuppetry. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:57, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  13:45, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Case closed, as requested by the filer.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:56, 8 April 2016 (UTC)