Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/IntermezzoMan/Archive

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The suspected sock was registered two weeks after the master account was created. They first created Wynne Bennett in their sandbox and a week after the master posted the same page in the main namespace. The suspected sock was inactive since December 23 and returned today to remove the undisclosed paid tag from Draft:Wynne Bennett. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 04:49, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked ConstellationTeam as a pretty obvious UPE. My guess is that that these accounts are two different people. Compare, for example, Special:Permalink/997227363 by ConstellationTeam to Special:Permalink/995794710 by Sarahtaylorstudio - fairly different designs but they contain similar key phrases, to me that's more indicative of multiple mercs working off of the same "script" from their client. I'd like a checkuser here to be sure, though. GeneralNotability (talk) 04:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * - Mz7 (talk) 22:56, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The technical data is a little strange. I can say ConstellationTeam is ✅ to the following accounts:
 * The reason I say the data is strange is because it encompasses several different ranges with one main geographic area, but some of which are in different areas of the world. This leads me to believe that this is a group of separate users that may be sharing accounts or otherwise coordinating their editing in some way. The behavior also seems relatively distinctive, e.g. compare the user pages and the general editing style of the accounts. Against that backdrop, Sarahtaylorstudio is  to these accounts; they're not on any of the same IPs, though they have disclosed their paid editing, which I don't think the other accounts have. I don't have any solid evidence beyond a hunch, but some of this is reminiscent of Sockpuppet investigations/Jaktheladz, which was a large group of accounts that had a similar technical pattern of sharing accounts and spent most of their time making minor edits to articles with edit summaries like "improving grammar", "adding wikilinks", or "adding citation". Mz7 (talk) 23:49, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've the confirmed accounts as sock puppets of IntermezzoMan, the oldest account.  Please move this case under IntermezzoMan. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 00:22, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved per request. Like I said earlier, pretty sure Sarahtaylorstudio is a separate paid editor, so not rolling them up as part of this group. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:27, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The reason I say the data is strange is because it encompasses several different ranges with one main geographic area, but some of which are in different areas of the world. This leads me to believe that this is a group of separate users that may be sharing accounts or otherwise coordinating their editing in some way. The behavior also seems relatively distinctive, e.g. compare the user pages and the general editing style of the accounts. Against that backdrop, Sarahtaylorstudio is  to these accounts; they're not on any of the same IPs, though they have disclosed their paid editing, which I don't think the other accounts have. I don't have any solid evidence beyond a hunch, but some of this is reminiscent of Sockpuppet investigations/Jaktheladz, which was a large group of accounts that had a similar technical pattern of sharing accounts and spent most of their time making minor edits to articles with edit summaries like "improving grammar", "adding wikilinks", or "adding citation". Mz7 (talk) 23:49, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've the confirmed accounts as sock puppets of IntermezzoMan, the oldest account.  Please move this case under IntermezzoMan. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 00:22, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved per request. Like I said earlier, pretty sure Sarahtaylorstudio is a separate paid editor, so not rolling them up as part of this group. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:27, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've the confirmed accounts as sock puppets of IntermezzoMan, the oldest account.  Please move this case under IntermezzoMan. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 00:22, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved per request. Like I said earlier, pretty sure Sarahtaylorstudio is a separate paid editor, so not rolling them up as part of this group. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:27, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

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23.31.30.41's editing pattern is exactly the same, creating the same kind of promotional articles and tagging draft talk pages using MediaWiki:AFC-add-project-tags.js just like user. I don't want to spill the beans but if you compare pages created by 23.31.30.41 and ConstellationTeam you'll get an idea what I mean. If you still want to know please ask me privately.

96.92.2.89 located in the same area as another anon. Their first edit was to submit Draft:Quiktract for a review and then starts editing Draft:MATTE (creative studio). GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 16:47, 19 January 2021 (UTC)


 * +user StarGrove who was registered a day after ConstellationTeam was blocked and submitted their draft for a review. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 03:40, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * +user Star50th4thPete who created Draft:Charles Eisendrath that master started in their sandbox. Please also note that Star50th4thPete created "Scandale" in that StarGrove copy-and-pasted the same contents at Draft:Scandale (lingerie) on January 19-20. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 18:17, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * +MKSpainBest registered yesterday and created Draft:Charles Eisendrath a copy of User:IntermezzoMan/sandbox. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 19:27, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

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might be related to this group. See Sockpuppet investigations/Boyjords2020. Mottezen (talk) 18:08, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * I started digging here but based on and your recent edits, this looks to all be the same group?--  Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * and
 * have editing and behavioural overlap too (this IP is linked to the farm and overlaps with Starjupiter here and Historywriter overlaps here). Blablubbs | talk 23:23, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * As an addendum, there's also a bunch of linked IPs and there's some technical weirdness involved (beans!) – . Blablubbs | talk 23:31, 3 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Also found the long-stale . and I am quite convinced that Star50th4thPete, MKSpainBest, and HistoryWriter are all related to this group., closing. G5 date, by my count, is 17 January 2021. There are a couple of very BEANSy tells for this group - happy to provide them privately to admins/SPI folks on request. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:43, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * For the record, the following accounts are ✅ to past Intermezzo socks:
 * I've PanerPalm and PMPanerai, which hadn't been blocked yet, and updated some of the tags. Mz7 (talk) 05:07, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , Based on what you wrote above, I was going to update Historywriter1932's tag to confirmed, but not sure if you intentionally left that one as suspected? And,, it's unclear what should happen to Calidub01 which you mention you found? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:38, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , I've updated Historywriter's tag. Calidub01 hasn't edited since August 2019, so I don't think any action is needed there. I think we can archive this now. Mz7 (talk) 00:44, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry I was out for a few days, I trust Mz7's opinion on this and will defer unless you need me to look. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 23:15, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks -  Calidub as suspected. Mz7 appears to have updated the tag on historywriter. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:45, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I've PanerPalm and PMPanerai, which hadn't been blocked yet, and updated some of the tags. Mz7 (talk) 05:07, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , Based on what you wrote above, I was going to update Historywriter1932's tag to confirmed, but not sure if you intentionally left that one as suspected? And,, it's unclear what should happen to Calidub01 which you mention you found? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:38, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , I've updated Historywriter's tag. Calidub01 hasn't edited since August 2019, so I don't think any action is needed there. I think we can archive this now. Mz7 (talk) 00:44, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry I was out for a few days, I trust Mz7's opinion on this and will defer unless you need me to look. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 23:15, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks -  Calidub as suspected. Mz7 appears to have updated the tag on historywriter. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:45, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry I was out for a few days, I trust Mz7's opinion on this and will defer unless you need me to look. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 23:15, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks -  Calidub as suspected. Mz7 appears to have updated the tag on historywriter. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:45, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

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Pro-forma. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:35, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Found while looking at (courtesy ping ). There are a bunch of proxy IPs involved too, not bothering with those. They're evading pretty hard, but the shoe still fits in a number of ways., closing.  --Blablubbs (talk) 14:39, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * too. In case someone comes here from a speedy nomination (I don't have the time to go through right now, unfortunately), I note that almost all IPs there is substantial overlap with can usually be considered part of this group. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:46, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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All 3 accounts have posted suspiciously similar Keep votes (similar formatting and arguments not based in policy) at Articles for deletion/Simona Galik (Tennis Professional), and have similar editing patterns, each of them working on drafts with a bunch of edits within minutes of each other; the 2 secondary accounts both cleared out their user talk pages within minutes of each other Special:Diff/1086346971 Special:Diff/1081402407. CU requested to see if these are socks, UPE or something else. Iffy★Chat -- 21:05, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * I think this might be . Still looking into it, though. --Blablubbs (talk) 21:13, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm convinced by behaviour that this is indeed IntermezzoMan; I don't want to go into details because they're evading, and they're pretty decent at it by now. Merged, . Paging and  as two CUs familiar with this lot – mind having a look? --Blablubbs (talk) 21:25, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * FrancoisSic is absolutely IntermezzoMan. ArizonaAltier and Alyona Kira are likely them based on certain technical indicators. No sleepers visible. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:11, 17 August 2022 (UTC)