Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hychiang/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets





 * Stale suspected sockpuppets


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Both Alia Ritchie and Aris Wu are single purpose accounts who are only adding promotional content to four related articles (Asia Designer Communication Platform, Draft:Asia Designer Communication Platform, Annie Ivanova, and Ole Bouman). Minyuhuang is another promotion-only account (though not single-purpose) whose edit history looks like it has COI and/or UPE issues. This account has added promotional content to both Draft:Asia Designer Communication Platform and Annie Ivanova. There are also a bunch of other older stale single-purpose accounts adding promotional content to this group of articles as well (listed in the "stale" section above) so it looks to me like this sock puppetry or meat puppetry has been going on for years. Deli nk (talk) 19:45, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ plus:
 * . Please move to Hychiang.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:06, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 17:17, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please move to Hychiang.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:06, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 17:17, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please move to Hychiang.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:06, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 17:17, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 17:17, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The Hychiang sockfarm is a group of single-purpose accounts heavily promoting some related organizations and people. See Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_130. It is likely paid editing, in my opinion. Ole Bouman is an article that was created and edited by previous socks of Hychiang (see archive of this SPI). It was deleted in May 2018. Clansietsai is a new single purpose account that recreated Ole Bouman with highly promotional text. Deli nk (talk) 11:29, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Please check to confirm and identify potential sleepers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:04, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:28, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Between the technical evidence, and the quality of their English, this looks like a different person to me. Though that's not to say they weren't paid. Since they appear to have stopped editing for now, I'd suggest keeping an eye on them and reporting them to WP:COIN if their promotional editing resumes. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:04, 16 August 2018 (UTC)