Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cosmoid/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Bunch of SPAs on UAPx, asserting that any deletion is malicious, and also seem to have an inability to turn off their capslock.

I'm also suspicious of the original prod nom, which is an SPA trying to get it deleted with no edits anywhere else... which makes me think perhaps they are the same as the rest trying to get speedies/prods declined so they can't easily be tagged. Requesting CU for the two accounts. The IP is an obvious duck. PRAXIDICAE🌈 21:55, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Named accounts + Fafrotsky are ❌ to one another. Personally I'd say it's more likely that Fafrotsky and Stallspuk are on one side of this and Cosmoid and OSIRIS are on the other. . GeneralNotability (talk) 23:21, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on some off-wiki posts this appears to be a case of canvassing rather than socking. The major players have been partially blocked from the article and the page is semi-protected now, so hopefully that will take care of the disruption. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:22, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
I'm not sure whether is actually sockpuppetry or just meatpuppetry. Both Not the droid and Mungermentalmodel were created after the blocks issued following the previous SPI, but apart from being SPAs with an interest in Articles for deletion/UAPx, no obvious behavioral similarities stand out to me to link any of these editors to each other as the same individual. (They all have strikingly different personalities.) Nevertheless, it seems that, at a minimum, canvassing has continued despite the previous round of blocks and that harsher sanctions are in order.

Raised here because I thought this would benefit from the attention of individuals with specialized knowledge; if this would be more appropriate at ANI, I can raise it there. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 17:45, 12 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Worth noting that Special:Contributions/Not the droid you're looking for looks a heck of a lot more like a sockpuppet of an experienced user than the others. I would guess an LTA, but I'm not familiar with this topic area and don't know who to look for. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 17:52, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Comment - As I took part in the delete page of the article these SPA's were involved in, I don't think this is a case of sockpuppeting but rather meatpuppetry and brigading, If you check their organisations Discord from their website and search for 'Wikipedia', you will find calls for action from one of the mods on there for people to join in on the AfD to influence it, an example (blanked the name because I am not sure if I am technically outing?). So best guess would be the majority of these users are members of the UAPx discord who flooded in to defend their group's Wikipedia article. Tweedle (talk) 12:59, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Added uw-meatwarn to each of the user's talk page. Not sure if there's anything else to do here. The AfD will almost certainly result in deletion unless there's a dramatic turn. Actually, it looks like the AfD is overdue for closing, so I'll take a read through it now and close it.  —&#8288;Scotty Wong &#8288;— 02:55, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Nothing left to do here. Closing. --Jack Frost (talk) 05:52, 6 August 2022 (UTC)