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Suspected sockpuppets



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A bunch of brand-new accounts (in a few cases, existing accounts which suddenly came to life after long periods of inactivity), all arguing on Talk:Naomi_Osaka that the subject's ethnicity is Haitian.

Opening this case on behalf of User:Fyunck(click), who brought this to my attention. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:54, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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Add to the list Mothermania, Boldenj, and TruthandLight6 per. There's no way this is a coincidence. Vivexdino (talk) 14:58, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Do not add new suspected puppets when I'm in the middle of a check without at least pinging me. It's a pain in the butt.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:14, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * My bad, sorry about that. Vivexdino (talk) 15:26, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * A student (178.132.29.134) from my university (Center_for_Research_and_Interdisciplinarity) contacted me because he received your message. Yug (talk)  08:34, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Obviously some were socks but it also appears that was correct about the web. A Twitter and Instagram account put out some out-of-context fabrications that probably caused the mad rush of brand new single post editors to flood the Naomi Osaka article...and they're still flooding it. The Naomi Osaka talk page is now an entangled mess. It took me awhile to track these links down, and there could be more, but I hope this helps. Blame me for bringing this to RoySmith's attention. It should have occurred to me that a web post could be the culprit. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:41, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * After checking up contribution, the current 2 edits by User:178.132.29.134 were made by me yesterday : I indeed don't always connect to my account when in Chromium Incognito mode. Then a student from the university noticed the warning message today. So to be clear : 1) IP address 178.132.29.134 seems to be my university (Center_for_Research_and_Interdisciplinarity) open wifi ; 2) There could be more edits in the futur than just mine when not logged, but I don't expect these contributions to be problematic or puppets. Yug (talk)  10:33, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ❌. These aren't meat puppets either. My guess is there's something on the web drawing people here to make similar claims.
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * . Please create a new case with Researchonlineabc as the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing. GABgab 15:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. See Sockpuppet investigations/Researchonlineabc. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:58, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please create a new case with Researchonlineabc as the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing. GABgab 15:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. See Sockpuppet investigations/Researchonlineabc. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:58, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. See Sockpuppet investigations/Researchonlineabc. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:58, 11 September 2018 (UTC)