Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hazooyi/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I believe we are scratching the surface of a UPE/sock/meat farm here. The account Cece GFI went dormant after using an open proxy IP and being blocked from using that. They created Yinka Ash, an article at AfD right now for being a pretty obvious UPE job. After they went dormant, 5 days later Anoghena Okoyomoh took up the editing at Ash. Hazooyi, an account which only voted in one other AfD discussion to save their own UPE article (Alex Heckler, it was deleted, although a BUNCH of new accounts appeared on that AfD to vote Keep) appeared out of nowhere to vote "keep" in the Ash AfD and voted in a couple of other AfD's the same day, I assume in a half-hearted attempt to cover their tracks. Now that the AfD on Ash looks like it's going to be a "delete", Cece GFI has magically reappeared as well and has engaged in a conversation with Anoghena Okoyomoh, although while they were logged in, apparently Okoyomoh was not. Not sure how useful the checkuser will be because of the previous use of proxies (I'm sure they're being careful), but the WP:DUCK information is there, with all the cross-editing and cross-voting of the non-notable UPE articles involved. I'm sure at least 2 of these are related, and I'm pretty sure all 3 have some connection. Fred Zepelin (talk) 19:43, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * CU doesn't have much to say here. Anoghena and Cece are in the same country. Hazooyi is not. Proxy use is unlikely., naturally. Spicy (talk) 16:36, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Just noting that I asked for a second opinion from Blablubbs re. Hazooyi, and he has blocked them as a sock of, along with . Spicy (talk) 21:10, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Behaviorally, I'm seeing a lot of differences between these two accounts and the Hazooyi and Gilabrand accounts. Combined with the lack of Checkuser evidence, there isn't enough to issue a block. The Wordsmith Talk to me 17:54, 12 March 2024 (UTC)