Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hurbad/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


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Following the recent discretionary sanctions authorised on the section, I have been keeping a close eye on disruptive activity, and there appears to be clear ongoing meat-puppetry and possible socking between editors SultanSanaag, Hurbad, Don.Omar and SolidMali (the last two being single purpose accounts.

Behavioural evidence:

- Identical Somalia-nationalist POV:


 * On Cal Madow: Hurbad, SultanSanaag.
 * Same behaviour on Badhan, Sanaag: Hurbad, SultanSanaag (...etc etc, there are many other examples of identical Somalia-nationalist POV).

- SultanSanaag reported editors Jacob300 and Dabaqabad on 19 January. The results came back as unrelated, so editor Hurbad tried again two days later on 21 January.

- All of this possibly explained away by chance and coincidence. The smoking gun here is Hurbad's declaration on Commons of being in contact with SultanSanaag: "The two file split has caused all the other maps to be effected. I have spoken with @SultanSanaag about this". The two users have had no public interaction on either Commons, or English Wikipedia.

Additional evidence with regards to Don.Omar and SolidMali:


 * SultanSanaag initiated an AfD proposal, this was quickly followed by a delete vote by editor Don.Omaar , this is notable because this was Don.Omaar's first ever edit . The new editor had no plausible way of knowing about this niche AfD other than canvassing by SultanSanaag outside of Wikipedia. Worth noting that another new editor SolidMali also voted delete as one of their first edits . Both new editors displayed PRECOCIOUS with full wiki-formatting and unusual familiarity with guidelines.


 * It is also worth noting that both new editors Don.Omaar and SolidMali created a fresh user page as their next edit following their votes on SultanSanaag's AfD, , and have had little to no activity since, and so appear to be single-purpose WP:BRIEFLY accounts.

As this is a case of MEAT, I am not sure including a checkuser is useful here as the master appears to have some understanding of how to evade technical checks, so requesting behavioural evidence to be looked at. Best regards -- Kzl55 (talk) 17:05, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Update:


 * Added FLG09 and HSA777 to the report per Commons finding, confirming FLG09 and HSA777, as well as likely-ing FLG09 and Hurbad.


 * HSA777 was the first voter in SultanSanaag's AfD, voting only 2 hours after the AfD was posted, their vote followed by Don.Omaar and SolidMali (as outlined above), all votes were in support of SultanSanaag deletion statement. These editors had no way of knowing about this niche AfD, especially given their accounts being relatively new.


 * Sonkoor has a similar editing history. Having registered recently, they made 5 very minor edits before promptly voting in the AfD, and their vote was in support of SultanSanaag et al. Once they voted they were inactive again for around 2 months . --Kzl55 (talk) 22:33, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Pinging as someone very familiar with Horn of Africa disruption, this is possibly the result of social media canvassing as discussed in the Horn of Africa disruption Arb case, any thoughts appreciated! Best regards --Kzl55 (talk) 17:13, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ to one another:
 * ❌ as far as checkuser evidence goes:
 * - no data available:
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌ as far as checkuser evidence goes:
 * - no data available:
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * - no data available:
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
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 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Closing per the above without further action. The SandDoctor  Talk 06:18, 11 March 2021 (UTC)