Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Liliylo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Liliylo was registered 10 May 2023 and Mellow775 on 25 May 2023. They both edit aggressively with a pro-Ukrainian/anti-Russian POV but on quite specific linguistic/etymological points. The top 3 articles edited by Lilylo (and 63 of their 83 edits) are Ukrainian language, Krajina, and Name of Ukraine; they are also 3 out of the 7 articles edited by Mellow (13 of their 34 edits):
 * In Ukrainian language they have the same focus on the theory that the Ukrainian language separated from Russian much earlier than normally accepted. See, for example, they see a statement that Ukrainian is a descendant of Old Slavic as a pro-Russian POV - see this from Liliyo and this from Mellow. Note also the similarity in edit summary styles in those 2 diffs - with the unusual reference to linguists as "scientists". (Note that this edit was likely done by the same sockmaster editing logged out via a Paris IP
 * In Krajina (etymologically related to the word Ukraine) they both focussed on moving the meaning of the word away from "frontier", and similar, to "country" eg see this from Liliylo (or this from Liliylio) and this from Mellow. (There is a Ukrainian POV that sees linking the word with "frontier" implies that the country is merely a Russian borderland.)
 * In Name of Ukraine they both made similar points as in Krajina: see this from Liliylo and this from Mellow (or this from Mellow). DeCausa (talk) 16:05, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

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. Courcelles (talk) 21:41, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * - Courcelles (talk) 21:35, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Courcelles (talk) 21:40, 17 August 2023 (UTC)