Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DuplixD/Archive

04 February 2016

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This seems like a sock/meat situation to me. Uploader & Solver appears to have nominated Indian film Premam for GA status, then performed the GA review himself, which I'm sure is verboten. User has 232 edits under his belt, so what makes him an expert on GA articles is beyond me.

Uploader and Sm have several areas of intersection, some edits occurring minutes after one another, and I find it extraordinarily weird that they're intersecting in some really disparate areas:
 * File:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Score.jpg - an image for an American motion picture soundtrack
 * Light It Up (Major Lazer song) - an American electronic music album
 * File:Monsoon Mangoes Poster-1.jpg - an Indian Malayalam-language film poster.
 * Andrés Iniesta - a Spanish football player.
 * Jillionaire - a DJ from Trinidad (he's part of Major Lazer - see above)
 * Premam - an Indian Malayalam-language film

Sm Sangeeth Sm77 has 147 edits under his belt and thanked Uploader ten minutes after Uploader made a change to the GA review on Premam. This suggests that they could either be different people, or they're the same person who's trying to throw off suspicion. Sm Sangeeth also slapped a semi-protect template onto Uploader's page for no reason. I think a CU is warranted, and it might be fruitful to see if there are any other accounts out there. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:05, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:


 * These accounts are ✅:
 * Mike V • Talk 18:12, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Mike V • Talk 18:12, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Mike V • Talk 18:12, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

07 February 2016

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Sm Sangeeth Sm77 and his other recent socks were blocked around Feb 4 2016. This account was created on Feb 6. Almost immediately the user has an interest in GA nominations, which Uploader & Solver was trying to monkey with at Talk:Premam/GA1, where he nominated, then reviewed the same article.

There are intersections between Sm Sangeeth and The U Editor at Shabareesh Varma, where they both seem interested in infobox images. Also intersections at Premam. Sangeeth edited at Mohanlal, and probably not coincidentally, The U Editor nominated it for GA. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:02, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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The U Imager showed up two days before The U Editor, the day after the abovementioned socks were blocked, and made an edit to Premam the next day. The two have nearly identically formatted user pages: The U Imager and The U Editor; in both cases, "U" stands for "Ultra". Please add this account to the CheckUser.

As for The U Editor, I agree that having one's very first edit be a Good Article nomination is highly suspicious, especially when it's the same article that Sm Sangeeth Sm77 attempted to stick a GA icon a month ago in his sole edit there (linked to by Cyphoidbomb above), which was quickly reverted. I reported both of The U accounts to Drmies on his talk page earlier today, since he had not an hour before adjusted the block of Sm Sangeeth Sm77 to indefinite. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:59, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * These are obviously the same accounts, as CU confirms, and socks of Sm Sangeeth Sm77. Drmies (talk) 21:47, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

13 March 2016

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JO Bieson's edits were suspicious to me from very early on. For some reason, as a new user, he was suddenly interested in getting articles promoted to GA. I started wondering why that might be, and the only thing I could think of, is that GAs might be trophies for editing rings. "Look at how effective our disruptive team is!" I mean, JO's got a page for listing his GA nominations.

Commentary aside, editor pitched to me the idea that JO might be Sangeeth, so I started looking. JO has numerous weird areas of intersection with Sangeeth.


 * Jillionaire - Trinidadian DJ from American group Major Lazer.
 * Sangeeth
 * Uploader & Solver
 * JO Bieson
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Score - American film score article with only three contributors (minus the bot)
 * Sangeeth (created article)
 * Uploader & Solver
 * JO Bieson
 * Pavada (film) - An Indian Malayalam-language film (note that Bieson identifies as a Malayalee)
 * Uploader & Solver
 * JO Bieson
 * Premam - An Indian Malayalam-language film
 * Uploader & Solver - Added fake GA tag
 * Sangeeth - Removing fake GA added by Uploader
 * The U Editor
 * JO Bieson
 * Various socks - Admins will note that various Sangeeth socks were very interested in getting Premam to GA, on good faith or not]. This is largely what suggested to me that GA is a trophy of some kind, and is consistent with Bieson's interest in it.

And without getting too psychological, it looks to me like JO Bieson is trying to sell a personality/brand. His user page, with custom graphics and a link to a JO Bieson Entertainment Website Facebook page. Sangeeth kinda did this before with the Uploader socks. "The Ultra Editor" On the other hand, he identifies as 14 years old, so maybe it's just a vanity thing rather than a paid editing thing. Who cares.

JO Bieson has a litany of sub-pages that he's transcluding into his user page. That's a new behavior and might be a tip-off for the future. And consistent with my "brand" suggestion, just like Bieson's keeping track of his GA noms, Uploader & Solver was logging his stats as well.


 * User:JO Bieson/AC
 * User:JO Bieson/Articles Created
 * User:JO Bieson/Editnotice
 * User:JO Bieson/GAN
 * User:JO Bieson/GA Nominations
 * User:JO Bieson/Status
 * User:JO Bieson/TI
 * User:JO Bieson/TPT
 * User:JO Bieson/TalkPT
 * User:JO Bieson/Talk page top
 * User:JO Bieson/Top icon
 * User:JO Bieson/UB
 * User:JO Bieson/UT
 * User:JO Bieson/Userboxes
 * User:JO Bieson/Userpage Top
 * User:JO Bieson/sandbox

Anyhow, certainly enough to warrant a CU and considering that Uploader & Solver and Sm Sangeeth Sm77 were editing simultaneously (see Jillionaire history circa 8 Jan 2016) it might be prudent to check for sleepers in case he's got something else cooking. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:19, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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I suspected him in the early days itself. Look at his initial edits, he does not look like a beginner in Wikipedia. Within a very short time span, he learned to add templates, markup language codes, licensing images, creating and adding categories, requesting page protections etc. In his fourth day in wiki itself, he nominated a GA review. --Charles Turing (talk) 18:39, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:20, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

22 March 2016

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The eagle-eyed noticed in DuplixD's log that he created an undiscovered account that's clearly related to this sock drawer, Sangeeth Sm77. On this basis, I have indefinitely blocked DuplixD and the previously unknown sock.

As for the IP, it's clearly the same guy, and here's why: At DuplixD's sandbox you see him monkeying around with page protection templates. He clearly logs out and tries to edit as the IP to see if somehow he has the ability to protect articles. The IP geolocates to Thrissur, Kerala, India, ISP: Asianet.

Looking at the logs, it appears that Duplix is the proper master, as this account was created on 26 March 2015. Sm Sangeeth Sm77, the previous sockmaster, was created 22 April 2015. It would be appreciated if you would please move the archive under this new master and flag the other SPI page accordingly. Thank you! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:58, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Cases are merged. All socks are blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:44, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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Behavioral suspicion and edit intersections with socks of DuplixD. His last edited sock User:JO Bieson has performed 18 edits on Action Hero Biju, while N Júnior has 32 edits. Also see both users extensive use of sandbox  (JO Bieson was blocked on 14 March before he can make further edits there). There is another section where N Júnior intersects with two of the socks of DuplixD (JO Bieson and Uploader & Solver), one is in, where N Júnior uploaded a new version of the original file uploaded by User:Uploader & Solver (remember JO Beision has edits on Action Hero Biju (film)). He done the same thing in, originally uploaded by JO Bieson. Both N Júnior and Jo Bieson use custom graphics for their signature  (weird for a new user, unless both of them knows html/markup language). And best for the last, DuplixD's last sock User:Sangeeth Sm77 was blocked on 23 March 2016, N Júnior was created on 24 March 2016. I believe check user tool can surely identify them. (Note: N Júnior changed his username from U+20B3) Inside the Valley (talk) 16:27, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * Added CUrequest to case status, because ItV has requested a CU. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:46, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * is ✅ but . There have been other accounts that upload a great many images and even accounts with the word "image" in their username. The only thing that is different, although I haven't done an exhaustive analysis, is the kinds of images ImageFreak uploads, which appear to be only sports-related. I think the accounts usually upload film and song related images.
 * Blocked and tagged the confirmed accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ImageFreak indeffed and tagged (see: vs.  and  vs. ). Case closed.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  12:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the confirmed accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ImageFreak indeffed and tagged (see: vs.  and  vs. ). Case closed.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  12:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)