Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Martytanaki/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
User Martytanaki is banned from editing article Adom (artist) due to persistent disruptive editing. The user posted a request on that article's talk page to add a citation (here). The next day, user Dreykaa, a new account, made two edits with the same information phrased similarly. Also removed notability tag again, which was part of the disruptive behavior that resulted in the in ban the first place. Likely sock. Rift (talk) 01:10, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I got here from WP:AN and decided to run a check. The CU data is  and should be ignored.  On a related note, I've also opened Articles for deletion/Adom (artist) RoySmith (talk) 14:23, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, the only article they were interested in has been redirected and protected. Maybe we'll be here again next month when the protection expires, but closing for now.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:12, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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I'm involved, so just filing this for somebody else to look at. Previously examined accounts were all highly focused on Adom (artist) RoySmith (talk) 16:28, 7 August 2023 (UTC)


 * To fill in some background, what seems to be going on here is that Anthony Migliaccio, who previously performed under the stage name of Anthony Cosmo, has now rebranded themselves as Adom and is working their way around the internet doing SEO management to hide the connection between their new and old personas. RoySmith (talk) 14:33, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Having spent a considerable time reading and comparing the relevant editing histories, I have come to the following conclusion. The two recently created accounts and  have been created for the specific purpose of continuing the campaign waged by . ACmuisc has openly stated that he is the musician involved, and that his purpose is to make Wikipedia lead to web searches giving the kinds of result he wants for the purpose of promoting the image he wishes to promote. The other two accounts have been working to produce the same result, by substantially the same methods, and in some cases with strikingly similar phrasing etc. The timing of the creation of the accounts is also interesting, particularly for Dreykaa, which was created less than an hour after the original block on Martytanaki. The timing of ACmuisc is not so striking, but it was still a little while after Dreykaa was blocked. All things considered, I see the number of coincidences as too great. I shall therefore block ACmuisc and Martytanaki. (Dreykaa is already blocked.) Aliwikiaxpert looks as though it may be the same person as the others, but with only two edits so far, it is impossible to tell, so I will leave that account.
 * A consequence of this is that Martytanaki becomes the oldest account, so maybe a clerk can refile the case. JBW (talk) 20:58, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * - for training RoySmith (talk) 17:15, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Case moved to oldest account (Martytanaki), all socks have been blocked and tagged. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:07, 17 August 2023 (UTC)