Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gomezprieto/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
There is a very large ring of promotional accounts on behalf of Antonio Arnaiz-Villena active on Wikipedia.
 * Gomezprieto is the first that I could find but that doesn't mean it is the earliest. Right off the bat he starts adding references by Arnaiz-Villena to articles,, , ,


 * JavierAlonso arrived next and picked up where Gomezprieto left off on the Estrildidae article and updating other articles Gomezprieto had already added references to, and adding more himself , ,


 * Norfolk202 spent December 4, 2013 making pointless minor edits before diving into Antonio Arnaiz-Villena on the 16 making what he claims "REQUESTED WIKIPEDIA INFORMATION IS ADDED" which is overly non-neutral.


 * Philly93 tracks down some of JavierAlonso's edits and updates them., , before adding his own to new articles , ,  He is also the first to openly claim "we" are editing based on someone else's advice.


 * Carduelis90 arrived on January 11 to add a paper by Arnaiz-Villena to Scarlet finch


 * Wisconsin86, who was also created on January 11, made his first edit to expand the previous editors citation before going on a spree adding the same paper to other articles., , , ,  and more.

The odds are there are more I have missed. Some work independently but most seem to work where a previous one left off. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 15:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Already before filed this report I had found and blocked Wisconsin86 as a spam account, and a link search for URLs posted by that account then led me to believe that there were almost certainly other accounts spamming for Arnaiz-Villena, but I have not yet done the checking necessary to determine what accounts those are. At present I am on my phone, which makes it awkward and fiddly to do the necessary checking, but I will try to look into this more thoroughly when I am on a computer, unless of course by then someone else has completed the job. JBW (talk) 19:02, 18 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I found a hoard more of them. All on the same range ThaddeusSholto (talk) 19:23, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 147.96.128.47
 * 147.96.128.54
 * 147.96.128.92
 * 147.96.60.129
 * 147.96.128.160
 * 147.96.128.224
 * 147.96.128.254


 * I also found this two outliers which aren't on the same range as the others. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 19:23, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 195.76.34.73
 * 212.85.39.220


 * . You can add . HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * And . HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 20:57, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Wisconsin86 and Carduelis90 are the only two non-stale accounts on the list and they're ✅ to each other and the two others I found. The others are behaviourally almost identical and I'm blocking them because reuse of old accounts is common with promotional editors. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 21:09, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Just like the other socks, newly created account that solely adds papers by Arnaiz-Villena and Gomez-Prieto  to bird articles. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 22:45, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . Blocked. JBW (talk) 20:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)