Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bmjc98/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Pro forma. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:09, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ despite fairly extensive proxy use. Bmjc98 is a disclosed paid editor who appears to have been doing promotional editing with the other accounts listed without disclosing. Cf. 2023081310000801. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:21, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
One of Bmjc98's known socks, Ladybug2023, created a promo piece Together Price (or Draft:Together Price, not sure which). Soon after they were blocked, a new user Sydneycindy was registered, and tried to create the same, which already got my spidey sense tingling. I asked the user to disclose any COI/paid they had, which they eventually did, and when I went to look at it, I saw that it was entered on their user page under a section heading 'DISCLOSURE' in all-caps like that, which is slightly unusual. And now I notice that Bmjc98's user page also has an identical 'DISCLOSURE' heading. (May seem a bit tenuous, but I can't remember seeing such a heading before, and now suddenly two appear at once?) Given how many accounts there are in this farm, some with and some without paid disclosures, could be useful to see if there are any obvious others around? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:31, 8 October 2023 (UTC)


 * PS: Haha, seems to be moot now! While I was writing that, Sydneycindy was being blocked by . :) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:35, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I hadn't see that this had started. I stuffed up and deleted the article and tried to block the account, but the block didn't go through. - Bilby (talk) 10:06, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh okay, makes sense now.
 * I'll still leave this case here, though, as I'm not sure what the protocol is. Apologies to the good folks at SPI if I should instead be removing it somehow. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:27, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * for a sleeper check. MarioGom (talk) 14:56, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to . is technically fairly, and is ✅ to . Don't see any others, but it's a fairly wide range. Blocking etc.  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:11, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Earlier socks of Bmjc98 had created Draft:Together Price. If I'm reading the logs correctly, three days after the previous attempt was speedied (on Oct 3), CGxoxo comes out of 15-year-hiatus (with only half a dozen edits before that, so looks like some sort of sleeper?) and creates Draft:Together Price again. Can't be just a coincidence, surely? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 16:25, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I've added Athenaathena07. They seem to have some sort of COI with regards to Together Price, which they stated at User_talk:Athenaathena07 but never went on to disclose (that I can find at least). They also uploaded eg. the logo used in Draft:Together Price as their 'own work', as well as some photos of the founders. I meant to include them in my previous report on this, but looks like I may have forgotten? --DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:38, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I was just coming here to raise CGxoxo, but I've also added Laurenceuuu - off-wiki evidence, but also Laurenceuuu returned spam about HornBlasters after it had been removed after Sydneycindy previously added it . Sydneycindy was the sock used to create Draft:Together Price the first time. - Bilby (talk) 23:42, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked Athenaathena07. Requesting CU for a sleeper check. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 05:42, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I've got Laurence as to master and a few others via historical IP (same range, but this is a proxy), and CGxoxo as  to Laurence via UA. Athena doesn't show up anywhere of interest and appears to be on a different continent from CGxoxo. . Izno (talk) 22:16, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I've reblocked Athena as an advertising only account. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 11:07, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing, the rest have been blocked and tagged by Bilby. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 10:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Email sent to paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org. S0091 (talk) 16:12, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked UkObong for UPE based on the contents of the VRT ticket. (They have disclosed paid editing with respect to one article but have not been honest about the extent of their paid contributions). CU data suggests that this is likely a different person behind the keyboard but the off-wiki data suggests WP:MEAT wrt. Bmjc98. Spicy (talk) 21:43, 9 June 2024 (UTC)