Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CAUOU/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Beginning on April 30, CAUOU started trying to get a promotionally-toned and poorly sourced BLP of a musician named Lil Romy into Wikipedia by creating multiple identical copies of the same article at Draft:Lil Romy, User:CAUOU/sandbox and User:CAUOU/sandbox/Lil Romy. Their tactics included trying to cut-and-paste and/or pagemove the draft into mainspace themselves without proper AFC review (I actually had to salt the mainspace title to get that to stop), recreating one of the sandboxed versions a second time after it was deleted by an administrator as unambiguous advertising, and persistently revert-warring anybody who tried to disable or remove category declarations from any of the pages on WP:DRAFTNOCAT or WP:USERNOCAT grounds. After they received a sharp warning on May 6 about the categorization issue, they stopped editing Wikipedia at all — but then on May 10 Marija777 showed up, resubmitted the draft copy to the AFC review queue again, created yet another duplicate version at User:Marija777/sandbox which they also submitted to the AFC review queue, again tried to file both pages in mainspace categories, and then after the main draft version was rejected they immediately resubmitted it again on May 11 without actually making any effort to improve the sourcing at all. Bearcat (talk) 20:52, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 21:11, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. Indef the sock, 1 week for the master. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:14, 14 May 2022 (UTC)