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Recreated article Kuei kuei after it was deleted by the criteria of CSD G3 via Afd. Seems to be a duck. Ayub 407 talk 09:54, 9 August 2016 (UTC)




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I wasn't originally going to open an SPI, but I'm concerned that there might be an account I missed. Long story short, on August 6 LowKeyFame created the article Kuei Kuei. It's almost entirely a hoax - and I only say almost entirely because there does appear to be a Vine or other social media profile for someone by that name. Everything else in the article is a hoax, as the person isn't nearly as popular as it's claimed on the article and didn't do even a quarter of what is claimed. The hoaxing is quite easy to pick out and in some cases even hilariously done. I don't normally point this out in that fashion, except that in one case they tried claiming that this news story was about Kuei Kuei... and was an award for being an "aspiring rapper". Looking at the source you'll see why none of that is true.

How the others come into this is that FanBoyJosh tried adding information to the article and arguing against deletion on the article's talk page, whereas Shaun Petters only made an argument against speedy deletion on the talk page. Both try to argue that Kuei is insanely popular and been featured in various forms of media - their arguments differ in length but are generally written the same way.

This looks to be meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry, just a couple of kids trying to pull a prank on Wikipedia during the last bit of summer vacation. I just want to make sure that I got them all. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:01, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize there was one open already, so just merging. I'm also adding one more account that I found, Sam Canning290. They tried to argue for inclusion at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Kuei Kuei. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:03, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅. You have them all...for now. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 11:48, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

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Another Kuei Kuei spam at Kuei + Kuei Chol Kuei created by  CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  18:21, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * Likely User:DonHarding as well. Created the initial blatant hoax at Kuei Chol Kuei.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:33, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, after some investigation, there's more going on here: I did a Special:Undelete search of Kuei and found Kuei Awsm, which based on its deleted content, is patently part of the same hoax, astroturfing campaign (and online searches connect the names directly, as the same person) – so add to the list:


 * User:HelpPeopleGrown2016 – who created that page, after it was deleted, when it was first created by
 * User:Kueiawssm – who also contested its speedy deletion on its talk page and also created the lower case title, Kuei awsm, which in turn
 * User:Justcamein edited, obviously in support of the hoax, within one minute of Kueiawssm's edits; and then there's
 * User:Kueiawsm – who I found through Special:Listusers, who has no edits (included deleted) but, based on the name, is impossible to not be connected, and thus should be considered a sleeper account.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:14, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I added them all to the checklist. FWIW I think the two originals probably warrant a duck block... CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  20:38, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Can we compare the first two suspected socks?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:19, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are . Blocked without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 09:00, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Tagged as socks of LowKeyFame. Other accounts are stale, so I'm closing this.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:24, 23 April 2017 (UTC)