Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gweilo60/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
"Youtuber Serpentza" and "Lei's real talk" are new accounts created after Gweilo60 was blocked for a number of undiscussed and since reverted moves and disruptive edits (contributions), particularly changing the names of things systematically across multiple articles in line with those moves (this has yet to be fully correct back). Both appear to have been used to create the impression of support for these moves in requested moves initiated after the block by ip addresses (Mount Lu, Guling, Jiangxi). For comparison, Gweilo60 had disputed the names of articles elsewhere (Lushan Botanical Garden, Lushan Conference) without initiating formal requested moves; related discussions also occured on the user's talk page (talk) Several of "Youtuber Serpentza" early edit summaries are blatantly dishonest (contributions), including claiming to revert an undiscussed move or amend vandalisms while reverting efforts to restore articles after Gweilo60's moves. (The dishonest summaries are in-fact copy-pasted from the summaries of previous editors.) These accounts/ips appear to use the same imperfect English and display activity around the same articles, which corroborates a connection. User:162 etc. and User:Silikonz have expressed the same conclusion, but I don't know if they have already initiated an investigation. – Scyrme (talk) 01:57, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * , I have not. Thanks for ping. Silikonz 💬 02:02, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * The three accounts above are ✅ to each other and to:

. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:44, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the two IPs that have edited recently (today), the 14. IP for one week, and the 120. IP for 3 days. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:07, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
First edit was to restore an RFC (which was removed in the preceding edit) started by an IP blocked as a sock of Gweilo60. A clear WP:DUCK. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 16:05, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:35, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
readding rfc section that was added by one of the sock acct/ip on Talk:Mount Lu and Talk:Guling, Jiangxi. WP:DUCK. – robertsky (talk) 03:53, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked one week, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 03:09, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Reverting a sock edit at Talk:Mount Lu. Username (Laoway) is a variant of the master's username (Gweilo). Both means foreigners in the various Chinese languages/dialects. – robertsky (talk) 04:06, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Certainly more likely than not to the master, and ✅ to two others:
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 09:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 09:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 09:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same range as the last IP sock, same distaste for the name "Mount Lu". Compare: (from the last IP sock), to  (this IP), to the sockmaster:. I will admit their English is getting better, though.  -  Sumanuil  '''.  (talk to me) 04:53, 25 March 2023 (UTC)  -  Sumanuil  . ''' (talk to me) 04:53, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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Practice makes perfect. Blocked for 3 days. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:09, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
For record purposes. IP reopening discussions on the various editors' talk pages with regards to Mount Lu's RM discussion. Similar to the previous IP being blocked. – robertsky (talk) 06:10, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked two days, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:35, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
for records purposes. might be a proxy given that whatsismyipaddress.com returns it to be from Korea. revert vandalism on the same talk pages/user talk pages as with the sock master and previously/currently blocked ip addresses. – robertsky (talk) 08:28, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * See also Here. All of these seem to pass the WP:DUCK test.  -- Jayron 32 12:02, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * This case was valid when it was raised, but the IP has gone quiet - I doubt they'll return to it. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:52, 7 April 2023 (UTC)