Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kyle.sivvenxo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Trinitydevine had been disrupting several articles mainly linked to fictional characters on Wikipedia. These mainly concern subjects linked to the soap opera EastEnders. They were given a series of warning but never acknowledge or attempt to stop their behaviour. On 19 December I reported them via ANI, as you can see the report was lost in the mix and was not addressed by an admin. Trinitydevine's edits did come to an end and Rosette01x became active soon after on 21 December making identical edits to Trinitydevine and the disruption has continued. All engage mainly in mobile editing, triggering the edit summary warning. Rarely give edit summaries, but the times they have they look similar.

A common theme is removing characters contained in character lists and creating new separate articles using the information. The IP given was making similar edits to Trinitydevine prior to their first edit - some examples below..


 * By Trinitydevine:


 * By Rosette01x:


 * By the IP:


 * Trinitydevine adding unsourced episode numbers to Hollyoaks related articles:


 * Rosette01x adding unsourced episode numbers to Hollyoaks related articles:

I am requesting check user. If this editor is willing to create an account and edit the same articles without any qualms then they have probably been doing it for a while and have sleeper accounts waiting. Rain the 1 13:19, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * It appears as if is another IP-sock hop, given their recent edits at Joel Dexter, John Paul McQueen and Mercedes McQueen, amongst others.   livelikemusic   ( TALK! ) 18:04, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:30, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * . The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:31, 29 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Overlap in editing in both timestamp and page rules out both forgotten password + privacy alt. Based on the warnings on the master accounts talk page, it seems that they switched accounts to avoid scrutiny. Therefore blocking both accounts indef. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:39, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The IPv6 address is now blocked and the IPv4 hasn't edited in years. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 04:31, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The day after the block for sockpuppetery this IP springs up making the same changes to Hollyoaks articles. Adding in unsourced episode dates

Just like Trinitydevine: and confirmed sock account Rosette01x

Is there anything that can be done since the editor will more than likely IP hop on this range and continue with their disruption. Given the amount of of edits to articles in one hour, they are quite disruptive.

A new sock account has appeared editing links are the style, same group of articles etc (Ravi Gulati (EastEnders), Freddie Slater, Freddie Slater (EastEnders), List of EastEnders characters (2004)):


 * Pennyestelle: (The edit summary alone gave it away)
 * Trinitydevine:
 * Rosette01x:

Rain the 1 20:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked the account and IP range based on behaviour (I didn't run any checks). Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:52, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

QueenStaceySlater - account created on 2 January when previous sock was blocked. Usual edits of splitting characters from yearly lists but the usual information removal was finished by the other account, Honeysweetlike. I do not understand why a new editor would automatically know how to split a list, and for this other new editor to finish off and continue to maintain it. The just seems like a continuation of the previous editing behaviour from all previous confirmed socks whereby a new account spring up, splits information from a soap opera list and sprinkles edits in-between.

Honeysweetlike - account created on 4 January - returned to edit this article which was created by blocked sock Trinitydivine, which was also edited by Rosette01x and suspect IPs - they're returning to update the article. Triggers the usual "Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit" warning when they edit. Editing the EastEnders lists:


 * These edit summaries are matching the those from the sock blocked 2 days prior Rain <b style="color:green">the 1</b> 21:29, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Group 1, ✅ to each other and to Trinitydevine:


 * Group 2, ✅ to each other and to Trinitydevine:


 * These are all evading a block of some kind, so I'll block them, but to figure out whether these belong to the same case. A technical 2O wouldn't hurt either. A lot of things about this case are odd. Spicy (talk) 23:52, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * After some contemplation I've decided that Group 2 is probably a different individual and have split that case to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Thecheeseistalking99. Moved this case from Trinitydevine to Kyle.sivvenxo and tagged those accounts. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 04:38, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Fat hev has appeared with a username directly linked to an EastEnders character, Heather Trott. Only purpose of the account is to disrupt the project continuing the spate of copy and paste, fan cruft splitting from list sections creating standalone articles for EastEnders and Hollyoaks. Same edit summary tags. See these diffs:

Fat hev also returned to Bex Fowler and Ravi Gulati (EastEnders), which were previous sock creations revisited by previous blocked socks such as Rosette01x and Honeysweetlike. (See edit history). This diff demonstrates a return to undo a previous redirect performed by myself after the user got a block for socking. <b style="color:blue;font-family:Times New Roman">Rain</b> <b style="color:green">the 1</b> 20:18, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

They just continue to cause disruption and nothing has been done splitting new characters from lists written in-universe. Just like the previous socks. All the while still getting to edit their favourite articles, Zack Hudson. Here are more diffs that mirror all the diffs in every other confirmed sock case linked to this.... I think another check user would be good to weed out the sleeper accounts.<b style="color:blue;font-family:Times New Roman">Rain</b> <b style="color:green">the 1</b> 22:07, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked. Leaving open in case a CU wants to take a look under the hood given the previous batch. Izno (talk) 21:26, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 22:33, 8 June 2024 (UTC)