Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gregkarais/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

As I laid out in my first COI noticeboard post about this user, both Not Your Average Wikipedia and CanadianWikilover created an article on someone named Greg Karais. That article has been created and deleted three times now. Greg Karais (the person) is the publisher of a magazine called Yukon, North of Ordinary. Five of the socks listed (and both of the IPs) have edited that article, including Gregkarais (the editor). Those accounts and the 76.9.53.147 IP were also involved in editing the same (now deleted) articles about Canadian musicians.

In my second COI noticeboard post about this user, I connected the accounts Pellycrossing, Bctoday, and the 76.9.53.147 IP to editing of Gurdeep Pandher, who lives in the Yukon (as does Karais). The IP responded to that posting by removing some of the puffery from the article.

The latest account, The Multi-Instrumentalist, has been working on Draft:Terry Gillespie, about a Canadian musician. This draft was started in May by CanadianWikilover. The 76.9.53.147 has also worked on the draft recently. YukonAwesome created the same article in or around March (which was deleted following Articles for deletion/Terry Gillespie).

This appears to be a user either editing with an obvious conflict of interest in some cases. It is possible they are also a paid editor using sockpuppets to avoid detection. World&#39;s Lamest Critic (talk) 22:50, 10 September 2017 (UTC) World&#39;s Lamest Critic (talk) 22:50, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * for the non-stale accounts, and for sleepers to see how widespread this is. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:08, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - Katietalk 19:22, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * These accounts are ✅ to each other and to, a blocked sock of . They are also ✅ from , a confirmed sock of Autistic Furry:


 * Bctoday and Pellycrossing are ✅ to each other and to the larger group based on geolocation, but there is a significant technical difference.
 * All blocked awaiting tags. Although technically the same, there's a small geolocation difference between the larger group and The Random Edmontonian. If the behavior matches, we should merge this into Autistic Furry. If not, well enough. Katietalk 19:48, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * All accounts are indeffed and tagged, including the master; this shows strongly of coordinated paid editing. I've elected to keep these accounts separate, as there's indication that That Random Edmontonian is a compromised account, and the behaviour between this case and Autistic Furry doesn't seem to match. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:27, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Blocked on commons as sock - see c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by CanadianWikilover Ron h jones (Talk) 14:07, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - This case is Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:50, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Sro23 (talk) 00:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)