Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japansonglove/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Master altered Joseph Sam Williams from a redirect page to an article about a musician named Sam Williams. There is a musician named Sam Williams who is possibly notable as the grandson of Hank Williams and son of Hank Williams Jr. and making a bit of a name for himself, and all of the citations in this article are about that Sam Williams, but the article is not about that Sam Williams. None of the citations verify any of the facts in the new article, and all of the Wikilinks are fake links to simple.wiki, none of which lands on a valid page (but all of which appear as blue links because of how inter-wiki links work). After master's edits were reverted (here and again here), the sock came along to restore the original vandalism. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 15:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Obvious block evasion. Five minutes after account creation, redid edit by sock User:Keéhaaaa9. Compare previous:, current:. Wikishovel (talk) 09:59, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * Sock now blocked, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hold on, . I just blocked another bunch of socks. User:Samrecordsofficial is confirmed with User:Swiftfandom and User:Nospamwikinow. New to the picture are User:Namph34ds, confirmed with User:Samrecods2021. User talk:Stopnow220 is confirmed with User talk:Dichbainuocngoai. There's proxy use and VPN here and the IPs are mostly all over the place, but that these are the same person seems pretty clear to me. Fun! I'm going to semi-protect all those articles because this is stupid. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 18:02, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Fairly straightforward block evasion. This is what the article on SAM Records looked like before started editing it - a record company that existed between 1977 and 1991. Samrecordsofficial's version made it about a company founded in 2021. They were blocked for Promotional username, promotional edits. did the same, and got blocked for sock puppetry. Now Samrecods2021 and Stopnow220 are making the same change. Egsan Bacon (talk) 17:29, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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, what should we do with this?--Bbb23 (talk) 13:40, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Meh, it's all so obvious. I just checked Uzumee1, which I hadn't seen before, but found no other accounts. I think I remember the IPv6 from yesterday so there might be a bigger hardblock that we can place, but I doubt it's worth the trouble, esp. given how obvious it all is. But, eh, this is already covered in Sockpuppet investigations/Japansonglove; I would just merge this in there and not worry about the tags and precisely who's confirmed with whom. Drmies (talk) 16:02, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * - Per Drmies. Bbb23 (talk) 16:09, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge completed as requested. Closing. The SandDoctor  Talk 06:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Both immediately edited Draft:J.Williams and the subsequently recreated with same content on each account's creation. Possible WP:DUCKing here, but requesting CheckUser for connection and potential sleepers. Jalen Folf  (Bark[s])  03:46, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * And now another one has joined the editing farm. An AfD has opened at Articles for deletion/J.Williams. Jalen Folf   (Bark[s])  17:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the ping - just wanted to note that this is a lock evasion of Special:CentralAuth/Kashisaz, so locked all of these.  EPIC  ( talk ) 17:48, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @JalenFolf and @EPIC there may be another sock impersonating an administrator. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 11:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, locked that one too.  EPIC ( talk ) 12:13, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @EPIC they’re back. User:Namonofficialzks Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 17:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @EPIC and again, it seems: User:T2983. Adding back in the previous socked information. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 17:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've already opened that investigation below after this one's closure. Jalen Folf   (Bark[s])  18:00, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Clear meatpuppetry at the least. I've fixed the page histories.... Izno (talk) 17:54, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Confirmed to each other, and to:
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Japansonglove, where I've just merged this case
 * some previously blocked/locked accounts with an interest in "J Williams" that I won't bother compiling
 * , cc who seems to be locking these.  --Blablubbs (talk) 16:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * some previously blocked/locked accounts with an interest in "J Williams" that I won't bother compiling
 * , cc who seems to be locking these.  --Blablubbs (talk) 16:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Hijacking. Similar attempts were made at, , J. Williams (singer), and J. Williams. Jalen Folf  (Bark[s])  02:12, 20 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Editor is still active despite the opening of this investigation. User has made a relevant edit to BIRD Foundation here which included a link to J. Williams as another hijacking attempt. Jalen Folf   (Bark[s])  21:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * to previous accounts. Spicy (talk) 22:15, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * . . Spicy (talk) 22:16, 25 June 2024 (UTC)