Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JJoestar90/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Two of these users have been blocked for undisclosed paid editing, and the master looks similar. All four accounts were created in September 2023. All of them used similar edit summaries, like "copyedit". All four intersect on Chuck Gallagher, an article not created by any of them and not a oft-edited article (almost no page watchers). I've requested CU to confirm and look for others. Bbb23 (talk) 01:34, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ... Spicy (talk) 23:56, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Coca12 and Marshathomas2023 are ✅ to each other.
 * also showed up in a check of the above; it looks pretty similar, but there's a small technical difference that gives me pause..
 * , a blocked sock of WP:Sockpuppet investigations/BrookeCook, is technically to the above.


 * JJoestar90 and Kyoumahououin09 are at best, leaning  to each other and to the above. They geolocate to the same country but are using different ranges and ISPs. This doesn't rule out UPE meatpuppetry.


 * Kyoumahououin09 shares a range with WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Abbasshaikh124, but they're using an older browser version compared to those socks.
 * Regardless of who's a sock or meat of whom, this all looks pretty spammy to me, but I'll leave it to a clerk or admin to make the final determination. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Kyoumahououin09 for UPE because, of the unblocked accounts, they are active now and they have created various pages. As to the rest, including the disposition of this report, I'll leave that to others.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:13, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Blocked Joestar due to CU findings in the below case. Tagged Marshathomas and Coca as confirmed to each other. I'm going to leave Kyouma untagged, and no action with NobitaxShizuka for now as they have not edited recently. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 21:50, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The sockmaster is currently blocked on suspicion of undisclosed paid editing. This block has been in place since 20 December 2023, when it was applied by. The user had been working on GFS Builders & Developers at the time, while the article was still in the draft namespace.

After the master was blocked, was created on 23 December 2023. The user has made 3 total edits as of the time of my writing. All of those edits were on that day, and they consisted of a minor change to the page, submitting the page for AfC review, and adding project templates to the talk page. That the account suddenly sprung up to do this was a bit odd, and warrants some level of suspicion given how hard it is to accidentally encounter non-indexed drafts.

After a reviewer declined the submission of the draft, was created on 31 December. That same day, the account made two edits to the draft, which they followed up with another edit to the draft a few days later on 2 January 2024.

Less than 30 minutes after Preko 3 edited the page on 2 January, began to make edits to the article draft. During these edits, the user moved the draft to the mainspace and removed the AfC templates.

Based off of this pattern of sequential accounts to edit the draft and move it to mainspace, as well as the already existing UPE block on the master, I think that there is good reason to suspect that these accounts may be related to the master. As such, I am requesting that a CheckUser investigate to see if there is technical evidence connecting these accounts. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 05:43, 9 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I take note of the 18 December 2023 report, though I would like to include JJoestar90 again; there is likely additional technical evidence due to their editing in January, and there are now two other accounts that might be useful to check it against. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 05:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Preko3 is basically ✅ to JJoestar90. Preko2 is technically but it's obviously the same person. I'll block all of these. Spicy (talk) 21:40, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Kyouma remains / to Joestar. I'm going to move the case to JJoestar90 and leave Kyouma untagged for now. Spicy (talk) 21:44, 9 January 2024 (UTC)