Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HungNguyen19181945/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
HungNguyen19181945 was blocked from editing early this April for disruptive edits including the constant additions of excessive non-leadership personnel (chief of staff, etc.) to the leadership sections of various United States military commands. Such edits would also contain misuses and spamming of icons in violation of MOS:FLAGINFOBOX and unnecessary addition of external links in violation of WP:EL. This user is quick to revert others' reversions of his MOS:FLAG edits despite such reversions including clear pointers to WP:BRD and MOS:FLAG. The block ultimately took effect as the user failed to respond on his talk page to any complaints or requests for comment on his edits.

ZhukovEisenhower1945 appeared less than a week after HungNguyen's block with near-identical edit patterns on the articles of U.S. military commands and rapid restoration of his edits when they are reverted, including by admins. For example, on United States Special Operations Command, had his three reverts and a fourth occurred over a 24-hour period, it would have been a violation of WP:3RR. In order to avoid a case of mistaken identity (though the edit pattern is remarkably similar), I have also requested CheckUser.

However, I will note that some of these articles already had MOS:FLAGINFOBOX violations - of these, some were heavily expanded to problematic levels by this/these user(s), per the "excessive non-leadership personnel" point above.


 * Unified combatant commands


 * United States Africa Command (by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Central Command (by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States European Command (by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Indo-Pacific Command (by H.N., by Z.E., by Z.E., by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Northern Command (by H.N., by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Southern Command (by H.N., by H.N., by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Space Command (by H.N., by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Cyber Command (by H.N., by Z.E., by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Special Operations Command (by Z.E., by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Strategic Command (by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * United States Transportation Command (by Z.E., by Z.E.)


 * Others


 * Air Force Reserve Command (by H.N., by Z.E.)


 * United States Fleet Forces Command (by H.N., by H.N., by Z.E.)


 * United States Second Fleet (by H.N., by Z.E.)


 * United States Army Reserve (by H.N., by Z.E.) SuperWIKI (talk) 10:47, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The behavioural evidence is convincing enough that CU is unnecessary., closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
ACPP10122728 first started edits on 13 May 2023, around a fortnight after H.N.'s last sock, ZhukovEisenhower1945 was blocked. Edits adding flags to infoboxes are very similar to past edits by Nguyen and Z.E. Also notable is the creation of Template:Country data Wikipedia pages, similar to prior socks. Reversions of prior reversions to edits by their original account also exist.


 * United States Naval Forces Europe and Africa: by Z.E.; by ACPP, reversion of prior edit


 * United States Sixth Fleet: by Z.E.; by ACPP, reversion to prior sock edit


 * Country-data edits: by H.N.; by H.N.; by ACPP; by ACPP; by ACPP


 * SuperWIKI (talk) 13:07, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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While we do get fast studies on Wiki, ACPP10122728 created Template:Country data Belgian government in exile 10 odd days after starting to edit and has created a number since. HungNguyen19181945 also has a history of creating these templates - see contributions. Cinderella157 (talk) 02:57, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

I am also seeing a pattern of adding the age template to infoboxes for wars - eg HN and ACP. Cinderella157 (talk) 00:21, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
All accounts now blocked. No sleepers for now. - Mailer Diablo 20:30, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * - please compare to previous accounts to confirm. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 02:21, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ the following accounts belong to each other:
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 12:52, 21 June 2023 (UTC)