Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kousai orfahli/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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It became clear to me that the three accounts are connected when the first two, with very low mainspace edit counts (3 and 7 prior edits, respectively) voted 'keep' on Aldi Brothers, an article created by Hidar.ayube.

The sockmaster, on 4 December 2017, drafted on article about a Syrian artist on their user page as an autobio (since deleted). Three days later, the sockmaster tried to amend an article where a footballer appears to share part of his name with that of the editor 1 2. The additions match the user name.

Then in November 2019, Carla.tima creates a draft article in their sandbox for the same artist.

Hidar.ayube has created four articles and Aldi Brothers, referred to above, is at AfD. The user came to me to ask for advice, which I provided on their talk page on 2 January 2020. Part of it reads: "but is the topic discussed in depth?" The following day, Carla.tima (7 edits) picks up on this rationale in the deletion discussion: "Some sources are not in deep but also it meets GNG."

Behavioural evidence includes the user names, made up of capitalised given name and lower case surname for all three users. The poor English is consistent for all three of them.  Schwede 66  20:11, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * Almost certainly socks, but all three are current, so requesting CU to be sure. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:13, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
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