Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Geniusavatar82/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Master wrote Draft:Elmedia Video Player (also copy @ User:Geniusavatar82/sandbox) the 3 socks have only edited Draft:Elmedia Video Player including removing AfC declines. KylieTastic (talk) 12:02, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This lot are ✅. Blocked, tagged, closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 15:39, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
While investigating User:Afolabi bisola and User:Mark Evelyn who matched each other's behavior, an enwiki CU confirmed the match, and also noted that a steward/WD-CU confirmed a match to User:CatLover1. CatLover had previously been enCU-blocked as part of the User:Juliusiji pool. A steward who was locking various  also included User:Geniusavatar82 as a definite match (unclear if sock or meat). So here we are...the Geniusavatar82 and Juliusiji sets are one pool, of which Juliusiji seems to be oldest. ANI thread from May 2022 about some of them, just to keep this all together. DMacks (talk) 23:09, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * - filled the sock list based on the report comment. MarioGom (talk) 15:54, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * - maybe a CU can help to sort this out? MarioGom (talk) 15:54, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * There's not a lot I can add I'm afraid. Afolabi bisola and Mark Evelyn are indeed ✅ to one another, but they are editing out of some very busy IPs with lots of accounts (some of them socks from other cases) on them. CU logs for the older accounts indicate a possible connection, but in socks waters like these I wouldn't say that's enough to go on. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not wedded to merging these if it's not useful to do so. But there are a bunch here that were not mentioned anywhere on-wiki, wanted to make sure we have all the evidence since it's at a minimum a SEO shop with lots of clients. DMacks (talk) 17:38, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Also noting for the record that appearing as CIR, claiming ignorance/not-understanding of policies and standard messages is a typical MO. Suggests (in agreement with others' comments) that this is potentially MEAT, such as a SEO shop farming out edits to multiple individuals, or else simply sealioning by one ridiculously abusive editor. DMacks (talk) 18:07, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I won't touch tags at the moment. This report is good enough for documentation. We can review it again when further activity comes up. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 09:22, 9 December 2022 (UTC)