Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GMCmcrow/Archive

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Here Silika. O. Silika signed as Silika. O. Silika but the sig actually points to User:Germcrow (now GMCmcrow).

GMCmcrow (previously under a different name) started editing in 2016 as an occasional editor until this year when xe became regular. First edit this year was a vaguewave delete !vote at Articles for deletion/Allied Wallet (4th nomination). Early May xe made vaguewave keeps !vote at Articles for deletion/Xanthochroid, Articles for deletion/Lynn Richardson (financial expert) , Articles for deletion/Hexany Audio. The later two afds were for articles created by User:Amandadoyle543 who has been blocked for "Spam / advertising-only account, likely covert advertising".

Silika. O. Silika (previously under a different name) started editing in 2017 as an occasional editor until this year when xe became regular. First edit this year was a vaguewave delete !vote at Articles for deletion/Allied Wallet (4th nomination). Early May xe made vaguewave keeps !vote at Articles for deletion/Xanthochroid, Articles for deletion/Lynn Richardson (financial expert) , Articles for deletion/Hexany Audio. The later two afds were for articles created by User:Amandadoyle543 who has been blocked for "Spam / advertising-only account, likely covert advertising".

Both created identical common.js

Both renamed their account in May

Both draftify articles User:GMCmcrow/Draftify log User:Silika. O. Silika/Draftify log

Both tag stale drafts, egs, -

Both are heavy users of twinkle and hotcat.

GMCmcrow was blocked by User:MER-C for "Using Wikipedia for spam or advertising purposes, covert advertising and failure to disclose paid contributions". Silika. O. Silika is also being used for spam or advertising purposes, xe has created four articles. Kambiz A. Merabi, deleted A7. Agnes Valentine (Swimwear Label), deleted as Unambiguous advertising or promotion. John Golden (businessman) afded as promotion. Jordy Zak, going to afd as promotion for non notable individual backed by PR. duffbeerforme (talk) 03:31, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

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Silika. O. Silika blocked as sock. I wouldn't be surprised we're seeing freelance meatpuppetry either. But there is more to this:



all voted the same way on Articles for deletion/Hexany Audio.



All four accounts substantially added Hexany Audio, with Mister305akamisterworldwide removing the spam tag as well.



also voted keep on the Hexany Audio AFD. Other AFDs with intersection include Articles for deletion/Sofia Symonds/Special:Undelete/Sofia Symonds, Articles for deletion/Matthew Carl Earl/Special:Undelete/Matthew Carl Earl and Articles for deletion/Richard Ludlow (the latter two related to Hexany Audio). Spam pages created: Red Hook Wi-Fi, Kenneth Estenson, Andy Frye, Draft:Scott Grimes (businessman), Juan-Pablo Amado, 10x Genomics; substantially edited: Player (band). Nubtrazolacine and ParinazF blocked for UPE and sock/meat. MER-C 09:19, 26 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Checkuser doesn't give back anything useful, I'm afraid - there are a variety of IPs from all over the world involved, and with the use of proxies and VPNs it's not possible to say anything more than that a CU check is . This one's going to need to be addressed on behaviour. Yunshui 雲 水 13:10, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * All accounts now blocked for UPE. Closing. MER-C 15:57, 5 August 2019 (UTC)