Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CLxAgency/Archive

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All have common interests in one article Jared Andre Sawyer Jr. and advertising, and have either contributed, defended or similarly behaved; also 2 involved socks also collaborated at Jor'Dan Armstrong. SwisterTwister  talk  01:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

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Noticed the accounts originally on Articles for deletion/Jared Andre Sawyer Jr., and at first thought they were just good faith fans. Upon further examination, I think they might be a UPE editing group.

All of the accounts above commented in support of keeping on the above AfD, some having it as their first edit.

Paoola.mahe and Creativeworld2 both show signs of creating commissioned works beforehand and pasting it into Wikipedia:,.

Ross724 follows a somewhat similar article creation pattern: creating the text nearly perfectly, and then adding all the citations at once four minutes later. This article was also edited by Leon729.

Leon729 and Ross724 in addition to having similar usernames and commented on the AfD both also edited the article created by Paoola.mahe as one of their first edits

Creativeworld76 in addition to the similar username has started inserting Sawyer into other articles.

I'm not sure if this is meatpuppetry or socking, so asking for CU to sort out the accounts and also to check for potential sleepers or connect this to a previous farm. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:55, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note, I've merged these two reports to include the additional diffs I found without realizing that ST had filed this already. Its also worth noting the behavior of the named master on Commons suggests that this isn't just a promotional family related to Sawyer and other Christian groups, but a general PR firm see commons:User talk:Creative2world. Most of those files were original copyrighted proofs of promotional headshots that were not available in an unaltered format on the internet, suggesting they were given to the account by a client. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:58, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Additional behavioral evidence linking some of the socks ST named: Leon729 today added promotional content to the Sawyer article . They also have been removing COI tags from articles . There is also an intersect with Ulricb24 today . TonyBallioni (talk) 16:51, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:47, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - to discern the meats from the socks and find sleepers.
 * ✅ the following two to each other:
 * ✅ the following group to each other:
 * Additionally, the following account is to the second group:
 * The two groups appear ❌ to one another.
 * Some rangeblocks will be applied. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 02:59, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This is evidently PR group CLX europe. Tagged and closing. GABgab 22:29, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Additionally, the following account is to the second group:
 * The two groups appear ❌ to one another.
 * Some rangeblocks will be applied. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 02:59, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This is evidently PR group CLX europe. Tagged and closing. GABgab 22:29, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Additionally, the following account is to the second group:
 * The two groups appear ❌ to one another.
 * Some rangeblocks will be applied. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 02:59, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This is evidently PR group CLX europe. Tagged and closing. GABgab 22:29, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Additionally, the following account is to the second group:
 * The two groups appear ❌ to one another.
 * Some rangeblocks will be applied. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 02:59, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This is evidently PR group CLX europe. Tagged and closing. GABgab 22:29, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The two groups appear ❌ to one another.
 * Some rangeblocks will be applied. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 02:59, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This is evidently PR group CLX europe. Tagged and closing. GABgab 22:29, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

19 January 2018
originally reported at Sockpuppet investigations/Parkings2

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A word for word recreation of Parkings Shanghai Henlius Biotech (as Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc.) CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  15:23, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Please confirm the similarities between Shanghai Henlius Biotech and Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. If this the case, please block the master for a few days for promotional editing, and the sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:54, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * both indef'd: the creation of other pages by the master is enough combined with the socking to push this to a spam only block. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:21, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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Removed the PROD tag on an article created by the master other drafts created by this account are spammy and follow similar patterns of how they create articles and show other UPE signs. Requesting CU to confirm and look for other accounts. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:18, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * According to the CU log, Oflander shares a common /24 range with socks in Sockpuppet investigations/CLxAgency/Archive. Those accounts are stale so I can't compare further.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  05:13, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * and were both created on the same day and should be watched as possible to . They are on the same IP and have the same UA as Lily but there is a time gap.
 * Good enough for me, re: the CLxAgency SPI. Both clear UPE and other similar traits. I've blocked indef without tags. I'll let a clerk decide what to do in terms of whether to copy this over, so not closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:59, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I find it quite unlikely that there would be two independent UPE farms operating on the same /24 within six months of each other. CLxAgency was stale at the time of the original Parkings2 case, so no check would have been done between the two. As such I've merged the cases. After I clean up I will move the case to the oldest account. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Oflander is the oldest account here by far, although they did not edit at all until very shortly after the first group of CLxAgency accounts were blocked. I believe this casts some doubt on their association to this case, as does a lengthy discussion on their talk page. On that basis I'm declining to move the case, and I suggest that Oflander's block should be considered a spamblock and not necessarily a sockpuppetry block. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:28, 1 May 2018 (UTC)