Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ErnestCarrot/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Every single one of these accounts is gaming ACPERM in the same way to post promotional content about topics prone to native advertising. This is a new way of finding spammers, so there is likely to be false positives. MER-C 19:40, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

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. What do you mean by "native advertising"?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Native advertising, or equivalently "sponsored content", is a form of advertising that aims to mimic the format and content created through normal editorial processes of a platform. See, e.g. and WP:NOHIDDENADS. In Wikipedia native advertising is the paid insertion of content whose intention is to promote something, whether declared or not. I use the phrase "native advertising" instead of "paid editing" to make it clear that these activities are against policy and, when not disclosed on the article itself, potentially illegal. MER-C 09:07, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Group 1 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other. This group uses proxies liberally. Therefore, "confirmed" varies between and actually confirmed. I've omitted alread-blocked accounts.
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Group 1:
 * Group 3 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-2:
 * Group 4 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-3:
 * Group 5 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-4:
 * Dz nko is to Group 1.
 * The following accounts are ❌:
 * Onihiro
 * Bahantikem
 * Zoe.pe.ele
 * Lololylo
 * Floopy235
 * Eramritasharma
 * Groups 1-5.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Group 1:
 * Group 3 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-2:
 * Group 4 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-3:
 * Group 5 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-4:
 * Dz nko is to Group 1.
 * The following accounts are ❌:
 * Onihiro
 * Bahantikem
 * Zoe.pe.ele
 * Lololylo
 * Floopy235
 * Eramritasharma
 * Groups 1-5.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Group 4 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-3:
 * Group 5 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Groups 1-4:
 * Dz nko is to Group 1.
 * The following accounts are ❌:
 * Onihiro
 * Bahantikem
 * Zoe.pe.ele
 * Lololylo
 * Floopy235
 * Eramritasharma
 * Groups 1-5.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ❌:
 * Onihiro
 * Bahantikem
 * Zoe.pe.ele
 * Lololylo
 * Floopy235
 * Eramritasharma
 * Groups 1-5.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. There is one more account I found: MER-C 14:17, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * See intersection on Fiona Scott Lazareff and.
 * See intersection on Fiona Scott Lazareff and.
 * ✅ to Group 1. Blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets







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Bunch of SPAs popping up here with equally similar and ridiculous edits, removing AFDs and generally making a mess of things CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  15:17, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I had some doubts about this master at first but the last two also appear to be gaming similar to the last set of socks. CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  15:20, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Added a bunch of accounts (Logdev66 - Metropolis11) maintaining promotional content on SK-II. This second batch comes from Special:Undelete/Helping Hands Care and Nursing at Home created by and recreated in User:FalloutChick40/sandbox. ILoveMyHounds was CU blocked in a batch that has overlap on Fiona Scott Lazareff, Eastridge Mountain Bike Trail Centre, Alvexo and SK-II -- see, and. comes from User:EdwardBranch/sandbox.

The remaining two accounts (Liresceti and Albasarangee) are evading ACPERM in the same way as the socks above. Ping for interest. MER-C 16:00, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ To group 1 in the last SPI:
 * ✅ to each other, to group 1 in this SPI:
 * ✅, but ❌ to anything:
 * The rest are ❌/on their own proxy. I saw quite a few proxies in the rest of the results too...so it could be the same person. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, blocked without tags. -- what were the users on unique proxies? They should be blocked as well, proxy use in covert advertising cases == sockpuppetry. MER-C 09:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other, to group 1 in this SPI:
 * ✅, but ❌ to anything:
 * The rest are ❌/on their own proxy. I saw quite a few proxies in the rest of the results too...so it could be the same person. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, blocked without tags. -- what were the users on unique proxies? They should be blocked as well, proxy use in covert advertising cases == sockpuppetry. MER-C 09:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, but ❌ to anything:
 * The rest are ❌/on their own proxy. I saw quite a few proxies in the rest of the results too...so it could be the same person. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, blocked without tags. -- what were the users on unique proxies? They should be blocked as well, proxy use in covert advertising cases == sockpuppetry. MER-C 09:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, but ❌ to anything:
 * The rest are ❌/on their own proxy. I saw quite a few proxies in the rest of the results too...so it could be the same person. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, blocked without tags. -- what were the users on unique proxies? They should be blocked as well, proxy use in covert advertising cases == sockpuppetry. MER-C 09:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The rest are ❌/on their own proxy. I saw quite a few proxies in the rest of the results too...so it could be the same person. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, blocked without tags. -- what were the users on unique proxies? They should be blocked as well, proxy use in covert advertising cases == sockpuppetry. MER-C 09:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The rest are ❌/on their own proxy. I saw quite a few proxies in the rest of the results too...so it could be the same person. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, blocked without tags. -- what were the users on unique proxies? They should be blocked as well, proxy use in covert advertising cases == sockpuppetry. MER-C 09:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually verify that they were proxies, it was more a sweeping statement. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Blocked:
 * for restoring Al Rucker (see ). MER-C 19:08, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * for restoring Al Rucker (see ). MER-C 19:08, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The suspected sock master (DreamBigLosAngeles) made a number of edits to Draft:Al Rucker, including two attempts to move the article to the mainspace. They were eventually blocked for being a sock via Sockpuppet investigations/ErnestCarrot, but only on the basis of editing Draft:Al Rucker and not via checkuser. Freespiritlosangeles joined the project a week after DreamBigLosAngeles was blocked, making a number of edits to Draft:Al Rucker. I saw these but ignored them as they seemed relatively benign, but today was informed by another editor that Freespiritlosangeles had executed a copy-paste move to their sandbox and submitted it to AfC in a likely attempt to scrub the draft's history. This seems to be a clear DUCK canidate, as the editing styles and names of the two are almost exactly the same. SamHolt6 (talk) 15:44, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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For the record, I had CUed on IRC a few days ago for maintaining promotional content on Charles R. Conn (see User:EdwardBranch/sandbox). The account was unrelated. MER-C 15:29, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
 * This might be a similar instance in which an article or draft created by a sock of ErnestCarrot is edited by new, unrelated editors who re-add the same information; I got the impression that DreamBigLosAngeles was too amauterish to be involved with ErnestCarrot. Unhappy clients maybe, or new COI editors?--SamHolt6 (talk) 17:05, 14 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Added for insisting that Alexa Curtis (blogger) be in mainspace (see ). MER-C 10:55, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Added for . MER-C 16:41, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Added for . Note: Draft:Square Off (company). MER-C 16:01, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Added four accounts showing the characteristic evasion of ACPERM. MER-C 09:11, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

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Regardless of the filer's comment, please merge this to Sockpuppet investigations/ErnestCarrot.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:12, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:33, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and probably ❌ to anyone else:
 * Brinkposts
 * Opelroved
 * The technical data for the remaining accounts varies between apparently ❌, maybe, and . If the behavior justifies blocking, then block.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Articles deleted for future reference:
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The technical data for the remaining accounts varies between apparently ❌, maybe, and . If the behavior justifies blocking, then block.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Articles deleted for future reference:
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The technical data for the remaining accounts varies between apparently ❌, maybe, and . If the behavior justifies blocking, then block.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Articles deleted for future reference:
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the remaining accounts for a SPI clerk to consider. MER-C 18:51, 5 August 2018 (UTC)