Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bembo Bold/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The named accounts are SPA accounts with a long history (since 2009) of editing Owen Williams related subjects (mainly Owen Williams (artist) and the Yukon Arts Centre). The IPs have identical interests. See the interaction timeline, which puts them all together. It's all WP:DUCK autobiography work. --- Possibly (talk) 02:58, 10 May 2021 (UTC)


 * The Bembo Bold account is being disruptive, if someone could slap a block on the named accounts that would be appreciated. One week of protection on Owen Williams (artist) might also help. --- Possibly (talk) 16:09, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * the IP 205.234.62.145  is back, made 7 keep votes at the AFD, and three comments! Luckily they signed this diff as "Bembo Bold (Formally Critique & Calculation)". --- Possibly (talk) 23:36, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 205.234.53.90 is back, evading the block. Before this is eventually closed, can we please make sure the master is blocked indef? --- Possibly (talk) 03:09, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , I was just about to send you a new car for the excellent blocks and AfD close, but then along came User:OwenWilliamsYukon !!! I am pretty sure they are related. --- Possibly (talk) 05:15, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocked. Izno (talk) 05:28, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you all. Have a good evening.--- Possibly (talk) 05:30, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * and are obviously other accounts, going inactive at the same time that these two went inactive, editing the same deleted article, and putting the same person in other articles. Uncle G (talk) 02:03, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * That is interesting, as it would make the master as it was created two days before Bembo Bold. Both of them have made requests (Minimumminimum and Bembo Bold)for an Owen Williams page at Wikipedia:Requested articles.--- Possibly (talk) 04:13, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The accounts are ✅ to one another. .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:51, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocked the sock indefinitely, and the master for two weeks.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:40, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Master's block upgraded to indef per the IP activity below. courtesy ping. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 05:19, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I've blocked as definitely obviously the same user, based on Possibly's evidence and Articles for deletion/Owen Williams (artist). Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 04:56, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, I agree that is probably the same user, along with, and more can probably be found by looking at the histories of Bembo Bold's list additions for other low-edit accounts adding Owen Williams and/or links to their website. However all of these accounts are much too old for checkuser. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 05:19, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * everyone. and the underlying  are ranges to keep an eye on. Last edit on those that's obviously this person is from a week ago  so I don't think it makes sense to action this now. Everyone else is either indeffed or very, very stale – nothing left to do, closing.  --Blablubbs&#124;talk 09:05, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Edits from IP primarily concerns Owen Williams (a calligrapher) and their conflict with the Yukon Arts Centre. 205.234.53.90 is the primary, although 50.117.152.186 also appears to be used on occasion in close proximity to one another. IP 205.234.53.90 was brought up and temporarily banned from the previous SPI initiated on 10 May 2021. The IP 50.117.152.186 is also indirectly referenced in the last SPI, as it falls under the range of IPs that is suspected to be the associated with the sock. This includes voting to keep Williams' article in a recent AfD vote (see Articles for deletion/Owen Williams (artist) diff 1023065510, and making a request for the article on Requested articles/Biography/By profession.

Recent edits made by the two IPs largely concern the above mentioned conflict, or articles that would be of interest to the Bembo Bold/sockmaster (art and calligrapher, Whitehorse locale). Other recent edits appear includes adding links to expand the number of pages that link to articles where he's added Owen William links; and edits on articles of different Owen Williams in what I suspect is an attempt to mask their aim.

In the past two weeks, 50.117.152.186 began to editing on Owen Williams disambiguation page, by readding an entry for Owen Williams (see diff 1064434448), and proceeds to edit several articles that would be of interest for the sockmaster, including ones previously edited by Bembo Bold (calligraphers, Society of Scribes & Illuminators diff 1064549587)

Within two days of that IP's last edit, IP 205.234.53.90 appears again and begins making Owen William edits where possible (both related to the calligrapher, and otherwise). Of the ones related to the calligrapher, this includes adding his name to the Notable peoples list of Yukon University (diff 1065014475), University of Reading (diff 1065015631), and University of Roehampton (diff 1065014664). Today he blanked much of Yukon Arts Centre's content, before adding an sentence that seems to allude to the conflict between Williams and said arts centre (see diff 1065168498. Leventio (talk) 06:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Also sorta realized I typed yes for checkuser, before realizing that isn't possible with IPs. So my bad on that. Leventio (talk) 06:33, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * CU Spicy (talk) 08:44, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * One IP is already blocked, the other hasn't edited in a few days. I semi-protected Owen Williams for a while. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:34, 12 January 2022 (UTC)