Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mar3ini/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Not sure if it is sock- or meatpuppetry, but some strange stuff. Cinecubano12381 creates Draft:Levi C. Maaia on 10 November, 02.48. 8 minutes later Mar3ini moves it to the mainspace. This was the first edit by Mar3ini since January... Mar3ini is a SPA focused since 2013 on Levi C. Maaia and his company, and may have a serious COI here (see also this, and off-wiki evidence I can send to ArbCom if really necessary). Both accounts are the only "keep" votes so far at Articles for deletion/Levi C. Maaia, where they use the same very idiosyncratic method of signing: [User:Cinecubano12381|Cinecubano12381-en] and [User:Mar3ini|Mar3ini-en]. Note that the "new" account Cinecubano used this signature first, so it's not a case of a new editor copying the signature of an older one. Note also that Mar3ini did the trick of letting "someone else" create an article for their company, and then "aprroving" it, already in 2012.

Cinecubano then, as their fourth edit, went to User:Filmbuff1981/sandbox, which turns out to be a brand new sandbox about the same person Maaia, created by a new account who has not edited any other page. Fram (talk) 10:19, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * . The peculiar formatting was solely introduced by Cinecubano in these edits, but I think there is enough here to warrant a closer look. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:08, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * is . Same rough geographic area, but that's pretty much it – the technical data would appear to be more consistent with coordination than sockpuppetry, though it cannot rule out the latter. I will however note an extreme proximity in signup time (Filmbuff1981: 00:03, 10 November 2022; Cinecubano12381: 00:04, 10 November 2022). --Blablubbs (talk) 11:17, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * - please indef all 4 accounts listed above. The behavioural evidence strongly suggests that Cinecubano12381 is engaging in illegitimate meatpuppetry, if not sockpuppetry. No action with the IP at this time - it hasn't edited in a week and the logged out editing looks accidental. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:46, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ,, indeffed as confirmed;  indeffed as suspected. IP left alone as stale, as requested. Closing. DatGuyTalkContribs 10:11, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * is . Same rough geographic area, but that's pretty much it – the technical data would appear to be more consistent with coordination than sockpuppetry, though it cannot rule out the latter. I will however note an extreme proximity in signup time (Filmbuff1981: 00:03, 10 November 2022; Cinecubano12381: 00:04, 10 November 2022). --Blablubbs (talk) 11:17, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * - please indef all 4 accounts listed above. The behavioural evidence strongly suggests that Cinecubano12381 is engaging in illegitimate meatpuppetry, if not sockpuppetry. No action with the IP at this time - it hasn't edited in a week and the logged out editing looks accidental. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:46, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ,, indeffed as confirmed;  indeffed as suspected. IP left alone as stale, as requested. Closing. DatGuyTalkContribs 10:11, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ,, indeffed as confirmed;  indeffed as suspected. IP left alone as stale, as requested. Closing. DatGuyTalkContribs 10:11, 18 November 2022 (UTC)