Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Longliveswift/Archive

29 January 2014

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Several accounts making very similar edits on the same two articles (The Script and Mytown) within a short timespan. Most accounts have either been created in the past 12 hours or very recently became active again after weeks to months of absence.

Although it is possible that these are various fans of The Script and/or specific members who all decided to edit the same articles on a whim in similar un-encyclopaedic manners (the use of certain phrases sadly is not as telling as it may seem at first glance, a quick google-search told me that several of these phrases are fairly common amongst the The Script fandom), I believe this is unlikely for the following two reasons:
 * The sheer amount of similar edits within a short time by so many different accounts (none of whom seem to bother with the rules and guidelines of Wikipedia and none of them have bothered creating a userpage)
 * How close to each other in registering or waking up they are.

This makes me suspect this is either a cluster of socks or coordinated within the fandom (and thus meatpuppetry).

I’d like to request a checkuser for multiple reasons.
 * I have only listed those accounts of which I could provide somewhat strong evidence and who have edited in the past 12 hours (else I would probably have a list of ridiculous amounts of accounts that almost certainly would include a lot of non-related fans making similar edits).
 * I have also only looked in-depth at the pages The Script and Mytown and cast a quick glance over a few other related pages; if there is something similar going on on other related pages with different accounts, I would not know.
 * Furthermore, the sheer amount of accounts involved makes it likely that I have missed at least one or two and/or that there are related accounts that have not yet edited.
 * Another reason is that if this proves to more likely be a coordinated “strike”/meatpuppetry rather than sockpuppetry (something that is for me impossible to tell at this point), I will have to keep an eye on those pages that are not yet protected and/or dig through the other related pages.

Evidence:

Glen Power or whole band + food and/or animal:

Longliveswift: 1, 2, 3

Azmarah: 1

Swagmcswagging: 1, 2, 3

Charliethescript: 1, 2

IP 92.40.63.113:1, 2

Glen Power becoming "Glen has the Power/Glen shows the Power/similar variations" AND/OR

giving Danny O’Donoghue the nickname “Diddly” and/or calling him Daniel/Danielle/Daniella AND/OR

giving Mark Sheehan the nickname “Ginger” or “Gingerbeard” (at times misspelled as Gingerbread) or making other remarks about their beard:

Longliveswift: 1, 2

Wecryts: 1

Opowerhan: 1, 2

Tracylawson4: 1, 2, 3, 4

TheScriptEdits: 1

Dannysfootface: 1, 2

Sionedscriptette: 1, 2, 3, 4

IP 88.134.143.139: 1

Remarks about Danny + wrecking ball:

Tracylawson4: 1

Dannysfootface: 1

Sionedscriptette: 1

AddWittyNameHere (talk) 00:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * Enough evidence there to warrant a check, for both confirmation of named accounts and sleepers Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:06, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, I don't know what is going on here. However...
 * It is that  and  are related, but I wouldn't count on it.
 * The rest of them are ❌. As far as I can tell, this must be some sort of off-wiki coordinated effort. except to point out that they geolocate to different countries. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:01, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing as all named users have been blocked indef, some per CU findings and the rest for vandalism. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The rest of them are ❌. As far as I can tell, this must be some sort of off-wiki coordinated effort. except to point out that they geolocate to different countries. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:01, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing as all named users have been blocked indef, some per CU findings and the rest for vandalism. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)