Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AsifHameedJP/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Media1021 was created in October 2021, but never made any actual edits to Wikipedia until beginning to create Draft:Tushar Kumar (Film Director) in April of this year; they then worked on the draft over several weeks until their last edit on May 9. Five days after that on May 14, Hezelina75 was created, made just enough edits to their userpage to accrue autoconfirmed status for the purpose of creating new pages, created an article about a city councillor on May 23 which was immediately moved to draft as undersourced, and then didn't edit Wikipedia again until today, when they went straight for the Tushar Kumar draft to mainspace it without a proper AFC review. But it's highly unlikely for a genuinely new user to know how to navigate the AFC queue for the purposes of finding or moving other people's drafts — with literally thousands of pending or unsubmitted pages in the draft space and drafts not being indexed by Google, it's profoundly unlikely for a new user to stumble upon somebody else's draft by pure chance, and far more likely that one way or another Hezelina already knew that the draft was there. And for added bonus, after not having edited Wikipedia in over a month, Media1021 suddenly came back again to make new edits to the article within a few hours of the pagemove, also suggesting that he already knew that the page was being moved. Bearcat (talk) 15:13, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * - per filer; please compare these accounts and check for others. This seems likely to be UPE, and the fact that the second account appears to have gamed autoconfirmed status makes me suspect there may be sleepers. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:50, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The two accounts appear to be ❌ from a technical standpoint, but frankly, I agree with the suspicion. Behaviorally, I think it's likely these are two individuals who coordinated to bypass the AfC process for the Tushar Kumar article. Mz7 (talk) 06:46, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I concur with the above - the sock account made ten blindingly obvious pointless edits to game autoconfirmed as noted by Spicy, seemingly with the sole purpose of moving the Tushar Kumar draft to mainspace. Absent any other substantive contributions I see no reason not to indef both for meatpuppetry / likely undisclosed paid editing. firefly  ( t · c ) 10:43, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
All are CU confirmed with each other and with User:Integrityrules17. Drmies (talk) 21:39, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:03, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Originally filed at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Annabananaxii. Spicy (talk) 20:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Kyle154 Participated in Articles for deletion/NFTStudio24, appearing to represent the company and then tried to recreate Draft:NFTStudio24 and then move it to mainspace with user ConsidererSy3d. ConsidererSy3d was created on 21 June, but did no edits until editing their user page and moving the draft to main on 16 July. Fulmard (talk) 18:35, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:42, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * is already blocked as an advertising-only account. I don't see a technical link to the master, so I will tag as suspected. The following accounts look like sleepers of that account:
 * The following accounts are ✅ to one another, and they are technically pretty likely to the proposed master - will block as proven.
 * That's all I see at present. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:52, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to be sure: you mean that and  are sleepers of ? The latter is making unblock requests, and this information would be relevant to any new unblock requests they might make. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 12:18, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * (sorry, forgot to ping you, User:Girth Summit) Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 12:20, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi . Yes - Kyle154 is operating out of exactly the same IPv6 IP (not even a /64 range - the exact same IP), on the same device, as those two accounts, and they are logging in and out of the different accounts within minutes of each other. In fairness to them, those accounts don't appear to have edited, so they have not evaded their block as far as I can detect. Girth Summit  (blether)  12:32, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Got it, thanks fro comfirming. Not socking, but it does put a bit of a different spin to their claims of not being a COI editor... Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 12:45, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Originally filed at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Annabananaxii. Spicy (talk) 20:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I see at present. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:52, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to be sure: you mean that and  are sleepers of ? The latter is making unblock requests, and this information would be relevant to any new unblock requests they might make. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 12:18, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * (sorry, forgot to ping you, User:Girth Summit) Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 12:20, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi . Yes - Kyle154 is operating out of exactly the same IPv6 IP (not even a /64 range - the exact same IP), on the same device, as those two accounts, and they are logging in and out of the different accounts within minutes of each other. In fairness to them, those accounts don't appear to have edited, so they have not evaded their block as far as I can detect. Girth Summit  (blether)  12:32, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Got it, thanks fro comfirming. Not socking, but it does put a bit of a different spin to their claims of not being a COI editor... Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 12:45, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Originally filed at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Annabananaxii. Spicy (talk) 20:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Originally filed at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Annabananaxii. Spicy (talk) 20:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Very specific type of autoconfirmed gaming (compare both accounts to Hezelina75). This is also reminiscent to Ayes2304a, a sock blocked at Sockpuppet investigations/Annabananaxii. MarioGom (talk) 23:19, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * Ran a quick check. The data for Annabananaxii is messy and would indicate that the case may consist of at least two groups in at least two different countries (the  group appears to be editing from an entirely different place than all the other accounts I had a look at), but I haven't done much digging. Comparing specifically to Hezelina75, it seems highly plausible that  is connected. . Both accounts  pending potential disentangling of the case(s). --Blablubbs (talk) 23:35, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Also noting that I think this might be connected to Sockpuppet investigations/Rakesh bhumihar given the shared gaming strategy; technical data is at least not inconsistent with that theory. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:39, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * To add some more confusion, this gaming strategy is also similar to Sockpuppet investigations/TheWeldere/Archive. MarioGom (talk) 22:36, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I've fixed a typo above. Also, in the hopes of making the results a little clearer:
 * The group looks ❌ to the other accounts at Sockpuppet investigations/Annabananaxii/Archive.
 * ,, and  are at least  to each other.
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 19:31, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * It looks like the Annabananaxii case is conflating two behaviourally and technically distinct groups. The first messes around with Philippine TV articles and engages in childish trolling. The second group (Ayes2304a & co.) are obvious spammers promoting subjects from the Indian subcontinent. The following accounts seem to belong to the second group:
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I will retag these as suspected to Media1021 and split the archive. I'm not sure there is much value in figuring out whether or not this case should be merged with other UPE cases. The technical data doesn't sound especially strong and I don't think the name of the case matters that much as long as the spammers end up getting blocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)