Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dellmatron/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Massive cross-wiki spam. Sites spammed (check COIBot reports for diffs):



Most of these accounts have only edited cross-wiki but (1) I have to report somewhere and (2) you might get lucky with logins. MER-C 17:59, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * See pt:Categoria:!Fantoches de GrinRedNeck for more (Lathalill blocked as part of this). MER-C 18:28, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * More spam added. MER-C 18:53, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I just keep finding more spam and there is plenty more out there. MER-C 09:28, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I think you'd be better off requesting global locks at m:M:SRG, since this is a cross-wiki issue, and since many of these accounts have no contribs here or don't exist here in the first place. As a first step I'm removing all of the stale and nonexistent accounts since there are so many here it's breaking one of my scripts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:16, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Having trimmed the list and run some checks, I've placed a few small rangeblocks that honestly probably won't help that much. There's very little benefit to CU in these cases: the majority of accounts have a very short life before being abandoned, they're using large networks that can't be effectively blocked without massive collateral damage or else using proxies which we can block but they just move on to the next. The most reliable approach to these spamfarms is WP:RBI, and you can also report the spam sites to the global spam blacklist. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:34, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Everyone left is locked, archiving. Courcelles (talk) 22:03, 5 July 2023 (UTC)