Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ELFFORUM2022/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These five accounts are all attempting to add/promote subjects related to the European Liberal Forum and spam links to a website called “liberalforum.eu.”


 * ELFFORUM2022 tried to promote these subjects and add the liberalforum.eu on numerous occasions. They were blocked by Drmies on July 18, 2022, for advertising. A few weeks later, LoveEU55 created their account, and their very first edit was to make an almost completely identical edit to ELFFORUM2022’s first edit to the page.


 * The next day, LoveEU55 stopped editing and Gordon35rome was created, and this editor started filling in the “example” spots in the table that LoveEU55 had made the day before.  and started making more spots for table additions.


 * Gordon35rome stopped editing and two days later, Wikicarlo89 was created, and they continued the same promotion-oriented editing that ELFFORUM2022 did (matter of fact, their very first edit was used to promote the subject, a similar pattern to LoveEU55, and they also started adding more groups to that table as well).


 * Editforfun 1234 showed up today and immediately went to the page and started promoting, and if you look here, you will notice that the promotion in the “ELF Studies” section is exactly the same as Wikicarlo89’s first edit to the page . They also tried to add the link on other articles, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, which is something that ELFFORUM2022 also did.

I’ve noticed several patterns from these accounts. Most of them seem to only edit European Liberal Forum (with the exception that I just mentioned), they all appear to be editing with promoting the subject in mind, and I think it’s worth mentioning that LoveEU55, Gordon35rome,  and Wikicarlo89  all created their accounts within the 8:00 (UTC) time range on their respective days that they created their accounts.  ProClasher 9 7  ~  Have A Question?  13:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)  ProClasher 9 7  ~  Have A Question?  13:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Editforfun 1234, Gordon35rome, LoveEU55, Sofiabelfast2 are all confirmed, all blocked--for socking, for undeclared promotional editing. Edits such as this fall under that heading too. I will look at the others later. Drmies (talk) 14:17, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Also identical are Ontarioloro, Lolitaa535, and Wikicarlo89. They geolocate a few hundred miles away, but they are clearly identical to each other, and they make similar edits as the master here. I believe they should be blocked, but I have to run to class--a good reason for blocking other than under this heading is undeclared COI editing, promotion, and of course socking within that smaller group of three. Or just mark them under this one and call it meating. Drmies (talk) 15:56, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * For the script:
 * Spicy (talk) 22:28, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - please indef Wikicarlo89, Lolitaa535 and Ontarioloro as confirmed socks of each other and suspected socks of ELFFORUM2022 (I can handle the tagging if it's too annoying). Whether or not this group is the same person as the master, they're obviously working together to promote the same entity. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:34, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 09:06, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 22:28, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - please indef Wikicarlo89, Lolitaa535 and Ontarioloro as confirmed socks of each other and suspected socks of ELFFORUM2022 (I can handle the tagging if it's too annoying). Whether or not this group is the same person as the master, they're obviously working together to promote the same entity. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:34, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 09:06, 23 August 2022 (UTC)