Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BenHDev/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Sockmaster was focused on creating Architecture of HarmonyOS, and blocked after repeated policy violations and incivility. Following that, BenHDev created at least one sock that tried to recreate that article (User:Falcon590). Newbie2025 was created on August 20 and just recreated the talk page for that article). (Updated) edit after this report were made include reinsertion of a medium.com link that the sockmaster repeatedly used as well as restoration of a section that the last sock had tried to add; blocked per WP:DUCK. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:16, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * For easy reference:
 * --Jack Frost (talk) 12:04, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Just noting for posterity that I have blocked TNKopper as a sockpuppet of BenHDev based on behavioral evidence. The account was created on 27 August, five days after the last known sockpuppet,, was blocked. Like BenHDev and their socks, TNKopper seems to be a single-purpose account around the subject area of HarmonyOS, attempting to introduce sweeping changes to articles frequently edited by the other accounts, including HarmonyOS, HarmonyOS version history, EMUI, and Huawei Mobile Services. Multiple copyvio warnings on their talk page, just like BenHDev, and some more telltale signs in their talk page responses. DanCherek (talk) 23:52, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked and tagged. DanCherek (talk) 23:53, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account was created in November 2022, about 2 months after the last confirmed sock User:TNKopper was blocked and immediately began editing the same subject areas (primarily HarmonyOS and related pagees). OhNo itsJamie Talk 22:40, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There isn't a lot to go on in the CU logs for these accounts, but what little there is would be consistent with this being the same person. The article overlap is quite striking - they're both effectively SPAs for the same set of articles, using the same sources and making the same sorts of edits. Blocking, tagging as suspected.  Girth Summit  (blether)  08:47, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Created about 1 month after last sock, User:Manutidue was blocked, editing nearly the same small group of HarmonyOS-related pages. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:01, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ to the last sock reported.  firefly  ( t · c ) 09:49, 4 November 2023 (UTC)