Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DavidWittas/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
See this archived AN/I thread for background. CornyTheEditor, OffifialEditor, and ObjectAnimator were confirmed to be sockpuppets of DavidWittas. Last week, the vandal returned with, which is currently blocked.The ObjectAnimator account's edits were generally adding nonsensical car assembly locations and promptly self-reverting. This is what the IP was doing last week, and this new account is behaving identically. Sable232 (talk) 15:20, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * - The behavioural evidence is convincing. Please indef the sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:43, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * . Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 11:24, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 13:16, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar behavior to some of the previous socks and the plethora of IPs. Things like adding fake auto assembly locations and deleting titles from references and then self-reverting, and the disruptive use of European size classification on American cars. Sable232 (talk) 21:21, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

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Very similar disruptive editing behavior, see related page WP:VIP.

Also hope express your opinion. 迷斯拉10032号 (talk) 08:41, 17 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Disruption has resulted in an ANI report. I'll link back here. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 12:47, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
 * They're now indefinitely blocked for their disruption. Might as well see what the outcome here is anyway. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 04:24, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * Account is now blocked, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 10:17, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Noting for the record (prior to archiving) that is ✅ to .  Girth Summit  (blether)  21:36, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Disruption mostly consists of adding misinformation and then self-reverting as is characteristic of this vandal. The account was created within minutes of the last edit from the most recent IP used. Sable232 (talk) 21:23, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

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I am positive that this is our editor; the IP is close enough to GamingGrape20000 and everything else (technical, behavior) matches. Drmies (talk) 14:34, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same target articles, same characteristically odd wording. IP included because the account started editing within an hour of the last IP edit. Sable232 (talk) 21:06, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * , DatGuyTalkContribs 19:40, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * For the record, the two accounts are ✅ to each other and to previous sock . Tweaked the tags.  --Blablubbs (talk) 19:41, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Targeting similar car-related articles. This edit is pretty obvious. 101.128.126.247 (talk) 08:25, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

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This edit proves that DylanEditor is DavidWittas. This LTA has also been recently active on IPs in the 115.99.0.0/16 range. --Sable232 (talk)
 * - The edit uses the distinctively odd "To be completely abandoned" wording that's a characteristic of this vandal. --Sable232 (talk) 23:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * -, : why this edit proves anything? Could you elaborate a bit more? MarioGom (talk) 23:30, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * - Ok. I see . DylanEditor is clearly them, FUNKWITHME is likely too. Requesting a check. MarioGom (talk) 00:04, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 01:04, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * DylanEditor is ✅ to FUNKWITHME. That pair are  to BigBadWolfDaddy2009 and DrakePunk2088888 from the archive.   -- RoySmith (talk) 01:15, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocking the two new accounts; I'll leave it to a clerk to figure out how to tag them. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged as proven, DylanEditor based on the likely result + duck, FUNKWITHME based on transitivity. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 08:14, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created immediately upon this LTA's most recent IP being blocked, for the purpose of restoring the IP's edits, including the vehicle assembly location vandalism this LTA is known for. Sable232 (talk) 22:46, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * Duck blocked. Izno (talk) 02:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 03:56, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
User:Sable232/LTA - Geolocate returns Chennai, more car edits, more assembly edits Vossanova o&lt; 16:25, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * Now blocked. Spicy (talk) 00:38, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Hitting some of this LTA's favorite targets by restoring edits of one of the sockmaster's recent IPs. Also the tampering with vehicle size classes indicative of this LTA. Sable232 (talk) 21:35, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

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The more I look at these sorts of situations the more convinced I am that all articles about production cars probably need permanent extended-confirmed protection. I don't know why this type of article attracts so much sockpuppetry and disruptive IP editing, but it seems extremely pervasive. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 04:34, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Good grief. I wish there was an easier way to block these kinds of abusers when we find them.  Mr.choppers &#124;  ✎  18:23, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * See my notes at Sockpuppet investigations/MrDavr -- RoySmith (talk) 15:53, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Restoring the edits of previous IPs and socks, e.g., , ,. The IP is from a range known to be used by DavidWittas, but the recent accounts were blocked as socks of MrDavr. I'm puzzled at the link between the two because MrDavr started out with a completely different editing style than DavidWittas, but I'll leave that assessment aside; Pufferfishmax appears to be a sock regardless. Sable232 (talk) 00:17, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to some old DavidWittas socks ( and ). Editing out of a range that would be consistent with - I think it's fairly likely that the two cases are the same person. Pinging  - I'll put some notes on cuwiki, do you think we should merge?   Girth Summit  (blether)  09:47, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree that OffifialEditor, CornyTheEditor, and Pufferfishmax are all confirmed to each other. I'm still not sure what to do about merging the cases.  I'm inclined to say better to leave them apart for now.  It's not a great inconvenience to track them as two separate cases, but if we merge them and it turns out that was not correct, that'll cause more confusion than it's worth. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:00, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Fair enough - I'll just close this now. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  14:18, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Alleged sockpuppet edit on 22 July (Object of this report):

Confirmed IP sockpuppet edit on June 2

Confirmed sockpuppet edit on May 31

They've been on an editing spree for nearly 5 hours, from what edits i've analyzed, they're mass-restoring reverted sock edits.

Additional proof: 22 July 31 May FutureFlowsLoveYou (talk) 14:48, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * The IP has been blocked for vandalism - no further action required, come back if they pop up on another IP (or just go to AIV). Closing.   Girth Summit  (blether)  16:57, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This account's third edit was to restore a disruptive edit from an IP used by this LTA. "List of vehicles" were a favorite target of DavidWittas and the most frequent kind of page edited by this account, although the edits are not as obviously disruptive. Most recently, this barely-comprehensible post on my talk page where the user thanks me for reverting "their" edit - one that was made by DavidWittas' most recent IP sock,. Sable232 (talk) 14:48, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * , blocking as suspected. RoySmith (talk) 23:08, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
All but admitted to being the same person as ILovePixarCars2028 (the previous sock); same edits to lists of a manufacturer's vehicles. Sable232 (talk) 23:28, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to . Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:51, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Targeting the usual topic area. Rearranging engine lists in infoboxes is something this LTA has done in the past, and the sock's edit here matches one from a recent IP. Sable232 (talk) 23:55, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * - Please compare to and .  Vanjagenije   (talk)  15:29, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Salvio giuliano 16:27, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocking and tagging as a suspect. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)