Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mastersun25/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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On the Ganja, Azerbaijan article (article edit history, all the suspected socks started doing the same edits as the suspected sockmaster after his first edit was reverted (removing The Armenian name from the article). They were used as throwaway SPAs, with some of them being created minutes before editing on the article. All the IP addresses geolocate to Baku, Azerbaijan. Also 2 of them are similarly named (Nik0305 and Nikiten). - Kevo3 2 7 (talk) 11:16, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * users seem to use the same false balance argument, as evident here and here. - Kevo3 2 7 (talk) 11:59, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
I don't have any account other than this. I always use one and the same computer to make my edits and I don't even live in Baku or even Azerbaijan to this matter. I do believe though that it makes zero sense to add an Armenian name to the preview of this article, since the city is not located in Armenia, Artsakh or historic Armenia, and Armenians have never accounted for the majority of Ganja's population in its modern history. It is true though that they did comprise a significant part of city's population at some point of history, but with that logic, we should as well add an Azerbaijani name to the Yerevan article. Sincerely, --Mastersun25 (talk) 11:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * UPD: Replying to second comment by Kevo: it was not me, but this argument indeed makes perfect sense and deserves a comparison for its double-standard. No one would add an Azeri name to the Yerevan article, right? I suggest that you should engage more into this discussion instead of trying to get me banned. It is a really childish way to behave. Sincerely, --Mastersun25 (talk) 12:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I've added two more users to the suspected socks list, as well as reorganizing the list so the named accounts are first. I've left the alleged master in place, even though it's not the oldest account. All of the named accounts have made the same edit to the Ganja, Azerbaijan article, e.g, Superorange83's edit. Despite the similarities, I believe we need a CU to sort this out, including whether any of these users are related to Sockpuppet investigations/EljanM.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:12, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I've EC protected the article because of this collection of editors; it would be good to drop it back to confirmed, but this is not acceptable ATM - unfortunately, it may be CU-proof due to them being meatpuppets - we have had a large amount of social-media generated AA disruption recently, so that would not be surprising. Black Kite (talk) 17:56, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
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 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
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 * Given the CU results and Black Kite's comment, I'm inclined to suspect social media-based canvassing/meatpuppetry. I'm opting not to block anyone; ECP is the way to go here. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:12, 18 July 2021 (UTC)