Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ManyVersions/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Suspiciously similar usernames and behavior (ManyVersions created an ANI thread similar to the one made by ManyPosts against me, and ManyKinds moved a rejected article from draftspace to mainspace in which ManyPosts made an edit to it a minute later) ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 17:54, 10 January 2023 (UTC)


 * we should move this to Sockpuppet investigations/ManyPosts SniperReverter (Talk to me) 18:11, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

ManyPosts should be combined with this one since Versions is the oldest account. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:26, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This might want to be combined with Sockpuppet_investigations/ManyPosts. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:11, 10 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Closing as a duplicate of ManyPosts which I've merged here. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:24, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
All have the same goal: get an article about a YouTuber into mainspace. Asking for CU to make sure we got all of them. SniperReverter (Talk to me) 17:57, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
 * KMPB in particular does also seem to have a YouTube channel with the same name as he has on Wikipedia, which he advertises - albeit poorly - on his user page SniperReverter (Talk to me) 18:21, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * im gonna ping @Blaze Wolf so he is aware where we are SniperReverter (Talk to me) 18:25, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I filed this under Versions since that was the oldest account by age. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:27, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, I filed it with this account as it was the active one. ManyVersions is retired according to their user page. SniperReverter (Talk to me) 18:31, 10 January 2023 (UTC)


 * appears to be in some of the same drafts, flagging for completion but no need to check per same stale note from Girth below. Star   Mississippi  18:49, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
And: This report of the two original and this third are spawned from WP:ANI and are currently active. Digging through a bunch of contribs finds a weak overlap (general subject focus, certain specific articles, CamelCase username): But they seem inactive since August. DMacks (talk) 18:05, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note - The following appear to be related to the creation of the Youtuber's article(s) per their deleted contribs:
 * (created Draft:W2S)
 *  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:14, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * using checkuser/checkIP instead of user links includes the centralauth link that helps track x-wiki behavior. I have no idea why we have so many variants of these. DMacks (talk) 18:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Updated  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:25, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 *  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:14, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * using checkuser/checkIP instead of user links includes the centralauth link that helps track x-wiki behavior. I have no idea why we have so many variants of these. DMacks (talk) 18:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Updated  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:25, 10 January 2023 (UTC)


 * - give me a minute to look at these other accounts, and to tidy up this report - there are several comments in the wrong sections. Please no more edit conflicts!  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:26, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, repeating what I said at ANI:, , , and  are all ✅ to one another. Only the most recent one was blocked when this was brought to my attention, I have CU blocked all, because it is clearly inappropriate to keep making new accounts to edit the same articles/drafts. The other listed accounts are stale, and they have not been checked in the past so there's nothing in the logs for them. Behavioural analysis, which I don't have time to do right now, would be needed to connect them to the recently blocked accounts - that's probably not urgent, since none of them have edited for years. If someone does that, and convinces themselves, this should be renamed to the oldest account, and socks tagged accordingly; if not, ManyVersions was the oldest account I detected, so it should be moved there and accounts tagged.   Girth Summit  (blether)  18:42, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit Thank you!!!  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:46, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I've tagged the confirmed socks. I don't see much value in investigating long inactive accounts. It's worth noting that while the Youtuber isn't notable in a Wikipedia sense, they do have several million subscribers so I wouldn't assume that everyone who's tried to create an article about them is a sock as opposed to a fan. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 02:37, 13 January 2023 (UTC)