Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ausgepragt/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I recently uploaded 4 images of German Shepherds, two of which replaced low-quality JPEGs uploaded by users Ausgepragt and Stockhaarig. I made a point of cleaning up the metadata fields and properly linking to the credited sources. Within a day of uploading, 4 different accounts edited the fields to match those of the original uploads:


 * Diff: Sequelsuccessor
 * Diff: Latestlogin
 * Diff: Aufnachfolger
 * Diff: Letztessignon

Here are the original metadata fields for comparison:


 * Ausgepragt's upload
 * Stockhaarig's upload

Each of the 4 edits were made around the same time by accounts with no prior contributions to Wikimedia sites:


 * GUC: Sequelsuccessor
 * GUC: Latestlogin
 * GUC: Aufnachfolger
 * GUC: Letztessignon

I can't fathom what their motive may have been, because there was no reason to revert the changes I made. Nonetheless, I strongly suspect sock-puppetry to be involved, given the suspiciously similar timestamps and empty modification histories.

Concerning Stockhaarig's involvement: his upload contained similar markup and language as Ausgepragt's upload, and their user pages had identical templates identifying them as speakers of Japanese, German, and English. Both accounts also have histories limited to the pages they edited or created; I suspect their owner may have others. — OmenBreeze (talk) 08:35, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * This case should be filed on Commons:Requests for checkuser if requesting a CheckUser check, otherwise you should create a new section on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections with the evidence presented here. Sockpuppet investigations can only deal with sockpuppetry on the English Wikipedia. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:39, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:41, 7 February 2020 (UTC)