Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belugajdm/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
A sock of Worldwar1989, TheGreatman1969, makes several edits to South Vietnam before being blocked. The content added is to the section "Relationship with the United States" and is specifically about American attitudes toward Vietnamese unification. Even though the section is more broad in its topic and a good chunk of the added content is already in the article elsewhere, the topic of Vietnamese unification is the actual focal point. A few days after TheGreatman1969 is blocked, the user Jumopil is created and makes several edits to the articles South Vietnam, 1955 State of Vietnam referendum, and Vietnam War... again repeating information and being focused specifically on Vietnamese unification. Later Jumopil gets warned by an admin for edit warring, and the Vietnam War article is locked to new users. The next day, three new accounts begin editing at South Vietnam's article, and obvious giveaways that they're socks are the style of their names (randomly arranged letters), time between edits (within the hour of each other), long explanatory edit summaries to communicate (instead of using talk pages without being asked to), and the aforementioned topics of interest. I am quite certain the new accounts are all socks of Worldwar1989, but even if they aren't, they're definitely socks of each other. Yue 🌙 05:23, 14 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Didn't notice this the first time, but Sumpoim says in the edit summary of their first edit to South Vietnam, "Restoration of information on the origins of the State of Vietnam, that I rewrote." The content restored was, of course, written by Jumopil. Turns out I didn't even have to write up much. Yue 🌙 17:03, 15 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Adding Starfish12342; similar username style as Worldwar1989's older socks, similar area of focus (Southeast Asia, Cold War, 1960s–70s), similar edit summaries, and similar editing times. Yue 🌙 00:13, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * Could you also check ? They have just reinstated one of the socks' edits. Cheers, Number   5  7  05:28, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:25, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other:


 * These accounts geolocate to the same side of the same country to socks in the archive. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:44, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked the accounts which are confirmed to each other as they are so many of them that (even if they are not this case), the socking is extensive enough for a block. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:46, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
 * @Number 57, confirmed and blocked that. Courcelles (talk) 05:46, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * When it comes to tagging, see my note in the case below this one - I'm not sure who this is, but I don't think it's Worldwar1989. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:38, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 00:01, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * the group as confirmed. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 17:28, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * EarthCharger as proven too, because a match in overlap and timeline, and I guess the checkuser block supports this too. MarioGom (talk) 18:15, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
User names, edits, geolocation. These are compared with each other; blocked but not tagged. Drmies (talk) 01:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC) Drmies (talk) 01:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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Another one appears to be. Cheers, Number   5  7  13:37, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The four accounts above are very very to the group in the above case, and to the following (which are confirmed to the group above):
 * All blocked. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:31, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, so I did a bit of digging to see whether I could tie any of the accounts listed here, or in the large group above, into the Worldwar1989 account or any of their socks. I compared against, and discovered that Worldwar1989 is not in fact stale, and has been editing as for a while now, out of their habitual ranges. Looks like they're in the same country, but a different city, as all of these untagged accounts.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:43, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Girth Summit, I just dealt with another small batch of sockpuppets below. I generally agree with your findings that this is a different user. Is it OK with you if I go ahead and just split this massive sockfarm off into its own SPI? Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:34, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, no objections from me, I think it's the right call. Girth Summit  (blether)  20:57, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * courtesy ping  The SandDoctor  Talk 05:15, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:26, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * the group of 3 confirmed as confirmed to Belugajdm, the group of 4 likely as proven. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 17:35, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * courtesy ping  The SandDoctor  Talk 05:15, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:26, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * the group of 3 confirmed as confirmed to Belugajdm, the group of 4 likely as proven. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 17:35, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
21winntoo just reinstated sock edits. I'm not sure this user is related to Worldwar1989 but they may be related to the subgroup above. Also check D3trmd. Annh07 (talk) 05:16, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Merged from duplicate report This edit restores changes made by CU-blocked sock Edemaviols here. Suggesting checkuser to look for sleepers/ Wham2001 (talk) 07:04, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ to the above accounts. is . Taken together with edits, I'd say it's practically guaranteed. I didn't see any sleepers. Note that, as per Girth Summit, this is likely not actually Worldwar1989, but, rather, a new master. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:28, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:29, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Re-tagged D3trmd as confirmed to Belugajdm. 21winntoo as proven. MarioGom (talk) 17:37, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Note: This is the "new group" from the two previous reports not Worldwar1989, but I thought it better to file here so that it can be split off to the correct place.

Repeating the same edit on the same article: Marlzwine, 21winntoo. Suggesting CU for sleepers but I imagine Marlzwine could be duck-blocked. Wham2001 (talk) 08:01, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * Posting here rather than opening a new section so as not to make clerk splitting harder, but based on behaviour IPs 103.105.219.15 and 110.174.70.218 are this user, continuing the topic and behaviour of D3trmd (similar behaviour to Peashahum too). CMD (talk) 03:10, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The privacy policy doesn't allow me to make connections between IPs and accounts (even when those accounts are blocked), so no comment here, other than to observe that the 103.105 IP hasn't edited for years, so we can safely ignore it, and the 110.174 IP has only made one edit, which has been reverted - if it causes any further disruption, come back and someone can look at it from a behavioural standpoint. Girth Summit  (blether)  12:38, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I reported them because of the obvious behavioural links from the series of edits both made over the last day or two. You as an admin can probably see the page history here more clearly than I can. Why that would happen and the IPs remain unblocked I do not know, but clearly someone has taken action since the time of my report, and I leave it to you to determine whether that is sufficient. CMD (talk) 16:00, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I can't see those diffs either - they haven't just been revdelled, they've been suppressed, so only oversighters can view them. I'm guessing the suppression removes those diffs from the contribution histories of the IPs, because I don't see them when I look at their contribs. I'll reach out to an oversighter in case any further steps need to be taken. Girth Summit  (blether)  16:44, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Swornhuo New account. CMD (talk) 01:46, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅ to the new group, along with:
 * Blocking etc. Girth Summit  (blether)  14:07, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * - please could the cases since 14 July be split out into a new case (named for whichever is the oldest account)? Might be worth making a note in this case that I found, an actual sock of Worldwar1989, while investigating the 19 July filing, but all of the rest of the accounts are somebody else.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:10, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:31, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Marlzwine, Pearcap, Rebagorvir, and Seabarry as confirmed to Belugajdm. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 17:41, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * - please could the cases since 14 July be split out into a new case (named for whichever is the oldest account)? Might be worth making a note in this case that I found, an actual sock of Worldwar1989, while investigating the 19 July filing, but all of the rest of the accounts are somebody else.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:10, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:31, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Marlzwine, Pearcap, Rebagorvir, and Seabarry as confirmed to Belugajdm. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 17:41, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Another suspect for the "new group": an SPA focussed on Land reform in North Vietnam. Diffs are not directly identical but this edit restores this sock edit. Suggesting CU for confirmation & sleepers. Wham2001 (talk) 07:41, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ To which is going to make sorting out this case even more fun. Blocking without tags, for now.  Courcelles (talk) 13:55, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:32, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Swornhuo as suspected after verifying that all these 3 are a behavioral match, including timeline, overlap and edit summary similarities. Livenbeam and Osmanwendi as proven too (also because of transitivity). Closing. MarioGom (talk) 18:10, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Self-admitted at Special:Permalink/1169423893. Cabayi (talk) 06:35, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * Direct match to . Both are already blocked, and the mess someone needs to sort out gets longer. Courcelles (talk) 14:56, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving cases from July 14 onward per 's request - oldest account from this group is . Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:33, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing case, as both accounts are already blocked. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:00, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * as proven, see their comment: There was indeed sock puppetry on my part (after I was blocked on July 16th), but I am not a sock of WorldWar1989. I'm not sure what to make of "direct match", but no objection if someone upgrades this to confirmed. MarioGom (talk) 18:12, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

WP:DUCK, making identical edits to previous sockpuppets on Reunification Day and Fall of Saigon. Loafiewa (talk) 01:50, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * This isn't Worldwar1989, it's - moving over to that case.   Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  11:06, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  11:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to one another, and to previous confirmed socks from this case:
 * Blocking all, closing. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  11:14, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Updating - the person operating the Trueberries account above appealed to Arbcom, and was unblocked. Reviewing the CU data, they appear to have been editing on the same device as the sockpuppeteer, in between one bunch of sock edits and another, but there was a time gap between the edits and it is credible that it's a shared device, so the benefit of the doubt was extended. The account has made no edits since being unblocked at the time I write this. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  20:26, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocking all, closing. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  11:14, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Updating - the person operating the Trueberries account above appealed to Arbcom, and was unblocked. Reviewing the CU data, they appear to have been editing on the same device as the sockpuppeteer, in between one bunch of sock edits and another, but there was a time gap between the edits and it is credible that it's a shared device, so the benefit of the doubt was extended. The account has made no edits since being unblocked at the time I write this. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  20:26, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocking all, closing. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  11:14, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Updating - the person operating the Trueberries account above appealed to Arbcom, and was unblocked. Reviewing the CU data, they appear to have been editing on the same device as the sockpuppeteer, in between one bunch of sock edits and another, but there was a time gap between the edits and it is credible that it's a shared device, so the benefit of the doubt was extended. The account has made no edits since being unblocked at the time I write this. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  20:26, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Updating - the person operating the Trueberries account above appealed to Arbcom, and was unblocked. Reviewing the CU data, they appear to have been editing on the same device as the sockpuppeteer, in between one bunch of sock edits and another, but there was a time gap between the edits and it is credible that it's a shared device, so the benefit of the doubt was extended. The account has made no edits since being unblocked at the time I write this. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  20:26, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

New account engaging in the usual blanking behavior on Vietnam-related articles previously made by other sockpuppets such as, , , , , etc. Not to mention their very first edit being going onto someone else's SPI archives, also mentioned by one of their other socks. John Yunshire (talk) 03:27, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * - there are a whole lot of socks in Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Gableinlet. A sleeper check seems in order. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:53, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
 * - I suspect there may be an older master here, give me a minute.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  10:06, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, so is ✅ to:
 * Both accounts have edited from an IP address that has previously been used by a number of confirmed socks from the case. There is a bit of a temporal gap between the confirmed socks and these two accounts' edits, but there are no other edits within the CU window on the IP, and the shared interests of all the accounts gives me very little doubt that it is the same person. In addition to this IP they share with Belugajdm socks, they are editing out of a range that was used by the Gableinlet sock drawer, and using the same UA - as such, they are at least  to this case, and all the accounts seem to share the same set of interests. I therefore think it highly probable that the socks in this case are connected to the socks from the Belugajdm case, and that the two cases ought to be merged.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  10:22, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge complete, accounts blocked, retagging a few.   Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  10:27, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Post close note - I just came across an IPv6 /64 range that ties together multiple accounts from the July/August Belugajdm cases with several of those from the Gableinlet sock drawer - that removes any room for doubt, I'm going to retag all as confirmed to Belugajdm. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  10:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Post close note - I just came across an IPv6 /64 range that ties together multiple accounts from the July/August Belugajdm cases with several of those from the Gableinlet sock drawer - that removes any room for doubt, I'm going to retag all as confirmed to Belugajdm. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  10:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Pro forma. All ✅,. DatGuyTalkContribs 22:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

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Brand new account making edits that clearly suggest long-term experience and a specific vendetta (e.g. Special:Diff/1194393140). Edits removing content at Vietnamese irredentism match the pattern of recently-blocked sock on the same page yesterday. signed,Rosguill talk 20:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * Very to previous accounts, plus
 * Spicy (talk) 10:13, 9 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Also.
 * Technical and behavioural evidence suggests this is WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Belugajdm. - please merge with that case. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 10:47, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:33, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 20:21, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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was CU-blocked (I don't know to whom) by after making. immediately restored that edit. — MarkH21talk 05:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * See above. Spicy (talk) 10:48, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Another newly created sock. John Yunshire (talk) 11:34, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * Confirmed and blocked. Drmies (talk) 13:20, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  11:45, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

New account's is identical to the blocked sock 's  and contains blocked sock 's. Taketaco uses almost the same edit summaries as Relaxpam, Myronmise,, and many of the other blocked socks. — MarkH21talk 03:28, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry to the clerk, I used the SPI mentioned in the block logs of the socks above. This should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Belugajdm. — MarkH21talk 03:30, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to each other:


 * It seems that these accounts belong to Belugajdm. Spicy (talk) 12:31, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 12:31, 11 June 2024 (UTC)