Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Blayttlyjg/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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(Filing with the caveat that I am, of course, aware that CheckUser cannot publicly connect registered accounts to IP addresses). A great deal of activity on Zhejiang University. Apologies for not linking diffs, but as a non-administrator I cannot access the revision-deleted edits. I can, however, access the edit summaries and a great deal of these IPs and accounts use "profile" when adding information to that page. The page has been from 24 September to 8 October. Many of these suspected socks (Blayttlyjg, Kjhalfh, ShengweiC55, 2601, XULI1995, Lilyli233, 89) had a hand in introducing copyright violations, judging by how those revisions were deleted and judging from the byte count of their additions. Following the semiprotection, Waslsg has engaged in a series of pointless cosmetic edits (example) to game autoconfirmed, with this coincidentally being their 11th edit, after they got through the protection. Kjhalfh has similarly engaged in whitespace edits elsewhere, and also returned to the University. I am requesting CheckUser due to suspected use of sleepers (I assume there will be other accounts linked to these trying to game autoconfirmed elsewhere so they can edit this page). Sdrqaz (talk) 00:44, 4 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Noting that I'm slightly baffled by the wildly different geolocations offered by the WHOIS – Britain, Germany, and America. Perhaps there is some proxy use here (either in the literal sense or in the sense of meatpuppets), but the "proxy check" tool has come up clean... Perhaps a member of the open proxies WikiProject would be helpful here (?). Sdrqaz (talk) 00:58, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Noting that I have added another suspected sockpuppet, Amkljll, due to more cosmetic edits on other pages, with their eleventh edit coming on the University, after being autoconfirmed. Sdrqaz (talk) 15:40, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Drmies, since you've expressed an interest in this user, I thought it'd be fair to ping you to this SPI... Sdrqaz (talk) 15:53, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * , thanks! Interesting case. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:22, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * CU blocks placed on, , , , , , , , , , . I'm looking at the rest. Drmies (talk) 17:33, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * OK--so the others (Shengwei, Lily, XULI) are all over the place. I think it is very likely that they are all socks of each other, including some of the IPs, but CU cannot confirm this. They should all be blocked--but they are not Blayttlyjg; I'm convinced they are not. Drmies (talk) 17:38, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Wait--after looking at this edit, I take that back: this edit connects the two groups. There is something going on that I cannot get at, but that edit suggests that indeed they are all the same. Drmies (talk) 17:45, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * , none of my proxy detectors are flagging on those either. That said, the article subject is in mainland China, so I would put good money on some kind of proxy/VPN being in play here to get around the Great Firewall. I've opted to bump the page up to ECP given the obvious permissions-gaming. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:04, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Checked by ~TNT (she/her • talk) 23:04, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I blocked the three suspected accounts (Shengwei, Lily, XULI) and tagged all of them. Closing.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  23:14, 29 October 2021 (UTC)