Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Elyelm/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I blocked AmazighAcademic for personal attacks. blocked Elyelm, apparently for being a sock of AmazighAcademic. Zeblade12 made the identical edit to Elyelm and AmazighAcademic the next day. I missed that because I didn't have the article on my watchlist and don't normally look at Moroccan articles. What triggered this report is an edit-warring report filed today by against Zeblade12 at Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring and Skitash's comments about the various users/accounts listed here. Behaviorally, some of this is a bit complicated (almost beyond me, to be honest), so I'm requesting a CU to sort it out. Bbb23 (talk) 21:53, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Thank you for filing this report. While I don't believe that the mentioned users are directly sockpuppets, I am well aware that they are engaging in WP:MEATPUPPETRY. These users are enlisting assistance off-wiki and encouraging the creation of new accounts to edit war and cause all sorts of disruption. For instance, I encountered this post on Reddit calling on users to revert 's constructive and well-intentioned edit on Tamazgha, depicting it as having ill intent being agenda-driven (even though M.Bitton merely moved the unverifiable text into a footnote). This resulted in multiple IPs and single-purpose accounts targeting and vandalizing the page, including SaraWiki123, Rumihoney, Aniguran, Algerien berber, 154.121.29.44 and 2A02:A472:E083:1:710C:1407:4A6F:B45A before an admin stepped in to protect the page.

Furthermore, that particular subreddit features many other posts, including this one, in which a user (I am pretty certain it was AmazighAcademic) was pointing to edits and calling on users to start edit wars and cause disruption. Despite the edits being justified and primarily centered on the lack of sources and verifiability for the removed content, they were portrayed negatively and framed as malicious. By examining the comments, you can find a few familiar usernames, such as Elyelm. This particular comment on User talk:Zeblade12 by H0x7c00 confirms the meatpuppetry allegations. It's clear that there is coordinated off-wiki activity influencing Wikipedia edits. Skitash (talk) 22:37, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Moved from clerks section: MarioGom (talk) 15:15, 25 May 2024 (UTC)


 * No reason blocking an account if the account is not participating in vandalism. 74.56.56.152 (talk) 10:23, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Just for clarification, I am Rumihoney and I simply reverted changes that were made that were unwarranted for the page “Tamazgha” the very noun is in Amazigh language and it’s inscription in its native language and Tifinagh script have repeatedly been deleted upon being moved to the footnotes, this is an act of vandalism and cultural cleansing, there is no such behaviour in any other page about a territory, France is written in its native language, French in brackets but every single pages related to Amazigh culture are repeatedly violated.
 * If my behaviour which is undoing active violations of this page is considered vandalism then surely there needs to be a more thorough investigation on the matter. 74.56.56.152 (talk) 10:40, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * If there is a connection between these accounts, it appears to be WP:MEAT. That being said, Elyelm created the ✅ sleeper, which I've blocked. created the account , which they have not used. If you block one, you should block both. --  Ponyo bons mots 21:30, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * There was off-wiki canvassing / meatpuppetry, as Skitash documented above. Given that disruption ceased, I will close this case. If off-wiki harassment continues, and that can be linked to any account, I would encourage anyone affected or witnessing it to report to ArbCom and/or T&S, since that should be enough for an indef or global lock. MarioGom (talk) 15:27, 25 May 2024 (UTC)