Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LOCK177/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Please check this user. Both user's editing behavior like same/duckling. Ariandi Lie Let's talk 17:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - there's more than just these two here, give me a minute...  Girth Summit  (blether)  22:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to one another:
 * That's all I can see within the CU window; well, that and a huge amount of LOUTSOCKing, but I didn't come across any other accounts. Blocking and tagging. Girth Summit  (blether)  22:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's all I can see within the CU window; well, that and a huge amount of LOUTSOCKing, but I didn't come across any other accounts. Blocking and tagging. Girth Summit  (blether)  22:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's all I can see within the CU window; well, that and a huge amount of LOUTSOCKing, but I didn't come across any other accounts. Blocking and tagging. Girth Summit  (blether)  22:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's all I can see within the CU window; well, that and a huge amount of LOUTSOCKing, but I didn't come across any other accounts. Blocking and tagging. Girth Summit  (blether)  22:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
All three of the registered accounts are already blocked - the first two based on behaviour, and the latter primarily for a username violation. The IP address (currently unblocked) has made identical edits to that of already-blocked - compare e.g.  &,  & .Regarding the accounts, I'm filing to request CheckUser to check for sleeper accounts (as sleepers were found in an archived case), in addition to the fact that the evidence against  may not be sufficient to tie it to LOCK177 on its own - it seems suspicious that an account with that username edited an article  frequently targeted by LOCK177 socks over the past few weeks (after previously remaining dormant since June 2022); however, I'm not sure that this is sufficient in and of itself for a finding of sockpuppetry from this master. (To be clear, I understand that no CU comment can be made regarding the IP).If there are any queries, or if I've filed anything poorly, then please let me know. All the best, &zwj;—&zwj;a smart kitten[ meow] 23:20, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * AHTEURAME and SAKAMATABAKU are ✅ to each other and to the master, . Sockuptery is using proxies which is not something the master and socks have done. As they're already indeffed, I'm not going to spend too much time thinking about what sock drawer they might belong to.  but the IP linked in the SPI has not edited in several days so a block for any reason would not be worthwhile at this point. Spicy (talk) 14:22, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar behaviour to other socks & to the master - addition of unsourced content, with a large article overlap to the master & confirmed socks: overlap with LOCK177, overlap with ABAHKORUPSI, overlap with LUI116X, overlap with AHTEURAME, overlap with SAKAMATABAKU. In addition, the username is in a similar format to other accounts operated by this user.Requesting CheckUser for sleepers. I'd also ask that semiprotection is considered for the frequently targeted articles. All the best, &zwj;—&zwj;a smart kitten[ meow] 15:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

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Incredibly, but no sleepers turn up. Courcelles (talk) 16:47, 21 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Spoke too soon, I need to add . Courcelles (talk) 16:49, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, reverted, semi-protected a few. Case closed. Courcelles (talk) 16:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar all caps username, only three edits so far diff 1, diff 2 and diff 3 were to restore the version by another sockpuppet of them, KIRACHI000. User3749 (talk) 09:20, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * Courcelles (talk) 12:02, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar all-caps username, large article overlap. Has restored edits made by previous sockpuppets, see e.g Special:Diff/1209526167/1211764206, Special:Diff/1209526653/1211765331 &zwj;—&zwj; a smart kitten [  meow ] 10:42, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * That's them. Reverted, blocked, tagged.  Case closed. Courcelles (talk) 14:13, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
CheckUser ✅, filing for the record. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)