Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Iamchinahand/Archive

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These are all very recent and very targetted accounts. There behavior looks to be either paid editing or something similar. All look damn suspicious. All 4 accounts are new and almost exclusively target articles related to the Tesla car company. None of the accounts look like accounts that grew organically out of an interest in various Wikipedia topics.

Jane2040's account was opened 2 Sept 2019 with the creation of the rather obscure Martin Tripp topic. Tripp is a whistle blower who has alleged wrong doing at Tesla and has reportedly been the target of harassment and swatting on behalf of the company. Certainly Tripp is not a name well known outside of those who follow the ugly side of the Tesla car company story. The only other topic the editor worked on was Yield the seat culture in Taiwan. The account has been inactive since December.

Tinting2020 and Phyronian: This account and Phyronian made their first edits 3 minutes apart on 3 Dec 2019. Both accounts were active for almost 2 hours on that day. Tingting2020's last edit was 23:10 3 Dec, Phyronian's was 23:51. The accounts are active the next day from 16:01 to 22:13 (Tinting2020) and 16:34 to 23:58 (Phyronian). The two accounts are very active until early morning 11 Dec (Tinting2020) and 9 Dec (phyronian). All edits by Phyronian are related to the TSLAQ topic. Almost all edits by Tinting2020 are TSLAQ related.

Iamchinahand is again a case where the behavior just doesn't seem right. The account was opened in Oct 2019 and participated in a number of deletion discussions right off the bat. How often do new users start off editing in such areas of Wikipedia? The account went dormant at the end of Oct 2019 then 1 April started up again with a large removal of information from the TSLAQ article. On 4 April the account started an AfD for TSLAQ. Again, seems unlikely a new user would understand how to do such a thing. I've been here for over a decade and I still have to look up how to delete a topic (see Martin Tripp). The account has been exclusively targetting TSLAQ topics since coming back in April.

The behavior of all these accounts suggests some level of coordination either directly or possibly via meat puppetry. Springee (talk) 02:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)


 * All three accounts also bring up Twitter material as "evidence" of TSLAQ being "malicious" and push the "short and distort" narrative. Coupled with the gaps in editing history, I agree that their collective activity is very suspicious. QRep2020 (talk) 16:12, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Iamchinahand is using proxies, they are to Phyronian, and everyone else is . I wouldn't be at all surprised to see WP:MEAT and other off-site coordination in this subject area. ST47 (talk) 14:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going to agree with . It's likely different editors with possible offsite coordination. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:07, 10 May 2020 (UTC)