Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Crimsonalfred2022/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This looks like a WP:BLOCKEVADE by Crimsonalfred2022, who was recently (22 June) banned for repeated copyvios.

The most obvious evidence is for the first IP: on 27 June, they added two images to Cairo, a mere four minutes after Crimsonalfred2022 uploaded them on Wiki Commons (see , ). Incidentally, the images look like possible copvios too (they're grabbed from pinterest and tagged as public domain without evidence). They've done similar things elsewhere (e.g., , etc).

The first IPs' other edits are on the same topics as Crimsonalfred, namely modern Egyptian culture and people; e.g. their first edits were to Hassan Shehata and Mahmoud El Khatib, where the most recent significant contributor is Crimsonalfred2022 (see article histories:, ).

The second IP also looks like the same person: similar IP active only after Crimsonalfred2022's block, editing similar topics (e.g. Zamalek SC, List of Zamalek SC Honours, History of Zamalek SC, where the only other significant recent contributor is again Crimsonalfred2022).

I'd bet there might be other IPs being used, but these are the ones I could find. R Prazeres (talk) 19:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)


 * PS: Sorry for the redundant CU request, I didn't even realize I had checked that box. Must have been second nature after so many rounds at SPI/PaullyMatthews. R Prazeres (talk) 21:34, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Adding Masry684. This is an older account, but like the IP, it is suddenly adding photos uploaded to Commons by Crimsonalfred2022 mere minutes or hours at most after the latter's upload. It seems they've systematically added every photo Crimsonalfred2022 has uploaded since 1 July. E.g.:
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 * Also re-adding the same Crimsonalfred2022 images the IP added above at Cairo (,, compare with )
 * And of course, they have very close overlap in topics and are editing many of the same articles Crimsonalfred2022 edited (e.g. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mohamed Naguib, Alaa El-Hamouly, Zamalek SC, Mohamed Shehata (footballer), Cinema of Egypt, etc). Either Masry684 is serving as a meatpuppet for Crimsonalfred2022, or the two accounts are the same person. R Prazeres (talk) 17:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - CheckUser evidence may not be used to connect IP addresses to accounts. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:28, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Behavioral evidence shows a clear and obvious connection between these two accounts, making it a blatant case of block evasion.  The Wordsmith Talk to me 01:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)