Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KBBY2019/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Block evasion. created 12 Oct. First edit on 18 Oct was a straight paste of the initial, spammy version of Draft:Kim Dong-su (author) at Draft:Kim Dong-Su (author). Old:, new:. Wikishovel (talk) 09:25, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * . MarioGom (talk) 21:35, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Technically pretty . There are some other accounts that might be sleepers, but I'm not quite confident enough to block - come back if you see any similar shenanigans. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:27, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
created today. Immediately uploaded "own work" photos of Cho Eunyoung and Draft:Kwon Yoon-duck to Commons, and added the Kwon Yoon-duck photo to the draft. Tried to clone the Kwon Yoon-duck draft to their sandbox, perhaps in the belief that this could be moved to main space without confirmation. Next, rewrote Lee Ho-baek (created by master) in a single unsourced, spammy plop:. Same again shortly after revert, with usual lack of response at user talk. Master was still posting unblock requests to their user talk as recently as 18 Oct 25 Oct, so it might be helpful to post there about yesterday's SP block. Wikishovel (talk) 09:51, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Adding, created 10 Oct, just noticed that this SPA did a very similar spammy page-rewrite attempt, very similar to pre-cleanup version by master , and removal of templates, , at Cho Eunyoung an hour after account creation. Wikishovel (talk) 10:03, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 22 Oct, made a nearly identical edit to 's reverted edits:  Wikishovel (talk) 11:15, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 's latest edit is removal of AFC from Draft:Lee_Gee-eun, created by : Master and all socks have a thing about AFC templates, and repeatedly remove them from drafts. Wikishovel (talk) 12:45, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Adding, created 17 Oct, has made few edits, one of which was this large, spammy, precocious edit to Lee Myung-ae (created by master) , sourced only by KBBY links and quite similar to the original version by master. Also, readdition of unsourced awards to Noh In-kyung (created by master), Wikishovel (talk) 10:18, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

At this point it looks like a CU is warranted. Wikishovel (talk) 11:29, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Adding, created 23 Oct. First edit was precocious creation 24 Oct. of Draft:Soyung LEE, another children's book illustrator article in a style that mirrors previous article creations by master, with similar sourcing. Wikishovel (talk) 12:45, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

User:331dot has just declined master's latest unblock request: pinging in case they're not aware of this SPI. Wikishovel (talk) 09:39, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Adding, created today. Ten minutes after creation, first edit was precocious creation of Draft:Choi Sook-hee, usual topic and style with the usual KBBY and Bologna book fair references, using photo uploaded by blocked sock User:Sunmini0327. Second edit was to oddly remove all of the references from Draft:Kim Dong-su (author), created by master:. Wikishovel (talk) 08:22, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Adding, created 22 Oct. First edit was an overwrite of redirect Draft:Hyojung with another precocious KBBY client bio, then repeated the recreation today following correct revert by a third editor. Two more precocious drafts followed, then re-added spammy, poorly sourced, near-as-dammit reversion to master's version at Lee Gi-hun. Wikishovel (talk) 14:50, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Adding, created 12 Oct. First edit was another precocious KBBY client bio at Draft:Oki S. Han (Han Sungok). Second edit was another odd removal of references, this time from Draft:Kang Hye-sook, created by master, with identical odd edit summary to that of above:. Then, 20 minutes later, master posts to user talk once again asking to be unblocked:. Wikishovel (talk) 18:52, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  08:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ to the proposed master:, ,.
 * to the above, and ✅ to one another: and.
 * More work to do on this but I'm out of time. Will block the accounts above, and come back later today if nobody beats me to it. Girth Summit  (blether)  08:17, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, so the other three reported accounts are technically to the above - they geolocate to the same city, and they are using the same (common) user agents, but they don't overlap on any specific IPs. I'm blocking them as suspected. There are a number of zero-edit accounts on the various IPs that might be them, but without any behavioural evidence to go on I'm not prepared to block - come back if any new accounts start causing similar disruption.   Girth Summit  (blether)  11:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
created 40 minutes ago. First edit, six minutes after creation, was to oddly blank without an edit summary a whole referenced section from Draft:Kim Dong-su (author)  created by master, like previous socks User:Minminmin2  and User:Jericeye. Followup edits, minutes later, were submission of AfC for Draft:Kim Dong-su (author) created by master, and recreation and submission of Draft:Choi Sook-hee, last created by User:Minminmin2 and speedied G5 a week ago. Wikishovel (talk) 12:47, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:15, 14 November 2023 (UTC)