Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KumaPanda/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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Although separated by some time, each shows a substantial interest in WebToon and its family of WebComics. Susan.Liss has just been indeffed as a promotion only account, and is active on several other language Wikipedias

KumaPanda has a talk page link on sockpuppetry placed there by which seems to me to warrant a hard stare https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=AquilaXIII&users=Alexaclova112330&users=KumaPanda&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=enwiki

I am not sure whether there is any use in CU for these accounts because KP is stale, but I am requesting it based on my firmly held suspicion that WebToon has started a large multi-wiki campaign for recognition, thus giving me the thought that sleepers may already exist Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 20:49, 23 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I just added GriffinFreitas per Spicy, below. I think I have unmoved all their moves that were against our rules. Thsi is suggestive of an"interesting" operation. Backs my CU request. Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 22:35, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Judging by the comment by below, we may be dealing with a set of meat puppets. The first person plural pronoun is evident.  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 23:12, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * FWIW, is another recently active account who is doing paid editing for WEBTOON. While the paid editing is disclosed, they are moving their paid articles directly to mainspace which is the same thing that got  blocked. I'm not sure this is a matter for SPI as opposed to COIN, but while we're here, I thought I may as well note it. Spicy (talk) 21:19, 23 July 2021 (UTC)


 * @Spicy Grateful. I found two more  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 22:48, 23 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi this is ! I'm an intern at WEBTOON and was wondering if I could get some more insight into this whole investigation. Obviously we are new to Wikipedia and still learning the ropes and I apologize if we overstepped. I thought I was doing okay with my citations and writing because I had three articles get reviewed and several linked to WikiProject Webcomics. Any information or advice would be much appreciated! GriffinFreitas (talk) 21:19, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
 * @GriffinFreitas The process is simple and formal.  An official of the Sockpuppet Investigation Team will make an initial assessment of whether there is a case to answer, and will make recommendations to a further official if behind the scenes work to check user status is required. Accused parties are entitled to make a defence. This defence is about the usage of multiple accounts. No-one is interested in the quality of work. Wikipedia has a zero tolerance policy to sock puppetry with a very small number of individual exceptions. The officials will determine the outcome. Once started the process must reach conclusion as determined by the officials. As the reporting editor I have no access to any behind the scenes checking. My role begins and ends with making the best report I am able to.  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 23:28, 23 July 2021 (UTC)


 * @ Fiddle Timtrent Faddle Talk to me I was just trying to be courteous since you seem like you've been doing this for a long time. I used "we" because we are literally two interns attempting to do a task we were assigned. We tried and made mistakes, but calling us meat puppets seems pretty rude, doesn't it? I just want to know if the work I've been doing for the last two months amounts to nothing. I've been trying to learn Wikipedia, collect sources, and do the site justice even though, yes, this is my job. I think I asked fairly reasonable questions, so it did not warrant talking about me like I'm not even here. GriffinFreitas(talk)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I don't have time to review this in its entirety, but courtesy ping as the admin who blocked . Blablubbs (talk) 23:32, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
 * If this is going to be handled here instead of WP:COIN, it's appears to be a case of WP:MEAT and paid promotion as opposed to a one person/multiple accounts socking scenario.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:56, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm closing this with no further action. The KumaPanda account seems to have been abandoned; the other accounts have either been blocked, or they have made the necessary PAID declarations, and appear to have stopped editing. Hopefully the message will have got through to the WEBTOON people about paid editing requirements, and provided they restrict any future editing to draft space/AfC/article talk pages, they don't need to be blocked.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:24, 25 August 2021 (UTC)