Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ISECHIKA/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
While keeping an eye on the new user log, I noticed that numerous accounts were being created over the span of only a few minutes in Japanese and with similar writing. They all translated to relatively the same thing, which appeared disruptive or likely LTA activity that I've seen before. After looking through technical evidence, the users listed here are the result, some of which have already been locked due to LTA abuse on the Japanese Wikipedia project. All accounts have been indefinitely blocked and tagged. I'm filing this SPI report retro-actively for historical and record-keeping purposes.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   04:00, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Very likely not worth tagging. This LTA creates hundreds of accounts every month, with at least 20 thousand blocked accounts according to a query. 1234qwer1234qwer4 08:13, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 1234qwer1234qwer4 - Yeahhhh, I'm inclined to agree with you. The more sock accounts I find, the more I realize that tagging each sock isn't productive nor worth doing... ;-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   09:14, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * @Oshwah, would an LTA page translated from jawiki be beneficial or not? There already is one on jawiki and the LTA makes accounts here. aeschylus (talk) 00:08, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Aeschylus - I would think that it would be... You couldn't hurt anything by doing so... Sure, why the heck not? ;-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:11, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It may be a good idea to delete all pages in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_ISECHIKA. I see dozens of accounts of this LTA in SRG almost every other day and there is no reason to keep hundreds of tags. An LTA page might make sense to detect this, but hundreds of tags feels pointless. aeschylus (talk) 04:10, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * All listed accounts are ✅ to one another, and are indefinitely blocked and tagged. They are all from the same IP ranges, and with the same user agents between one another. Some socks found were already confirmed to and hence globally locked.  for all confirmed accounts listed here. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   04:06, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * FYI, I have deleted six of the tagged pages, as the usernames in question were grossly offensive (i.e. would be G3/G10 candidates if they were a page's only content), and tagging them means that they will show up in search suggestions. I do also generally agree with qwer's comment above. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 09:03, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Tamzin - Awesome! Thanks for doing that. I ran a spot check translation on a chunk of these accounts, but didn't find anything obscene or offensive. I obviously didn't run a translation check on all of them, though. The list is just too big. :-) If tagging isn't recommended per WP:DENY, that's an easy fix - I'll just delete each user page. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   09:13, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * , well, Special:Nuke is very fun to use, if you haven't before.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 09:19, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Tamzin - Indeed! It really is a lot of fun to use, and you're crazy to think that I've never indulged myself with such fun and used Special:Nuke before! :-P  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   09:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)