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20 April 2016

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This is quite a complex situation, not necessarily Sockpuppetry, but possibly multiple accounts acting in concert (and, it must be said, not necessarily knowing that one person should generally not use multiple accounts) - and perhaps the behaviour documented below warrants some other form of Admin intervention. I have nominated Gavinfulikeswikipedia as the Master because for unstated reasons he has abandoned the Gavinfu2016 account - otherwise I would have nominated Gavinfu2016 as the Sockmaster. Apart from the User name, Inarafu2016 has stated "I am User:Gavinfu2016 sister" (sic), so for that reason and the overlap of edit histories that User is listed here.

IP 113.135.87.188 is included because of the shared editing history with Gavinfu; and also because of this edit, awarding six Barnstars - including three copied from my own User page - to Gavinfu, purporting them to be from several different Users including Inarafu and A single box; which is one reason why A single box is included - at the time of the "awarding" of all those Barnstars, A single box had only made one edit (apparently since deleted). A single box is also included because of these edits asking about a "Gavinfu-created" article, but which was actually created by IP 125.39.145.14, hence the inclusion of that IP. The third IP, 117.34.184.214, is included because of this, which fraudulently purports to suggest that I somehow have had a hand in assessing the Draft, even though that was the first-ever version of it. IP 117.34.185.24 is included because of the obvious overlap in editing with 117.34.184.214.

On the User page for Gavinfu2016, there are several items evidently copied-and-pasted from elsewhere, including the "User Busy" note at the top of the page, which is copied from the Talk page of User:wiae (who has been declining submissions of several Draft articles created by IPs whose editing histories closely overlap those of Gavin and Inara). There is also a section in which Gavinfu basically claims to be an Admin - listing number of pages protected, Users blocked, Users created and so on. The pie chart is also strange, dated as it is several months before the Gavinfu account was created.

I am aware that not much can be done about the IPs, dynamic as they are. However I think something should be done - the Drafts and articles that are being created by these registered and IP accounts are either poor-quality articles on subjects for which articles already exist (Draft:Beijing Centrel Sky Tower); copied-and-pasted from other articles (Draft:History of Americain Airlines, Draft:History of Air Greenland); of irredeemably awful quality (Draft:Air New Zealand Boeing 747 hijack); out-and-out hoaxes (Draft:Line 20, Beijing Subway, Draft:Cathay Pacific Flight 418, Draft:China Western Airlines) or combinations thereof. I subscribe to the view that competence is required, and this group of accounts is not competent - which itself is evidence that this is one person using several different accounts. YSSYguy (talk) 11:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

It seems that Gavinfu has not quite abandoned the Gavinfu2016 account after all - he made these edits after I opened this SPI. YSSYguy (talk) 21:10, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

A single box has made these edits to Gavinfu2016's User page, listing some articles created. Only one was created by Gavinfu2016; three were created by A single box. Between them, the subjects of this SPI have now created half-a-dozen hoax articles. YSSYguy (talk) 14:35, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

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I don't think there's any question that all of these accounts/IPs are being operated by the same person, but this looks to me like a user who's careless about logging in, not someone socking intentionally to disrupt. Although competence might be an issue, that's a subject for a different forum. I'm going to leave a note on the most recently active account's talk page and ask them to stick to one account and/or declare their alternates, but I think that's all we can do here. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 15:25, 10 May 2016 (UTC)