Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Masteryoda/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Started again today with this edit by the IP (I know, no comment will be made) alleging an issue with the AfD and requesting Please support Vicky requesting Wikipedia team to reupload her profile.. has been edit warring at a closed AfD, where Mpress, Ubering cacti also involved along with a bunch of IP/SPAs. Courtesy for any other insight. Unclear if sock or meat, but whatever housekeeping is possible to stop the disruption would be much appreciated. Star  Mississippi  17:13, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm also unsure if it's sock or meat puppetry, but it was bad enough that the AfD had to be semi'd. I'm expecting that it will turn out to be coordination and meat puppetry. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:18, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * adding who just showed up to revert my redirect on a settled-ish AfD.  Star   Mississippi  17:23, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * What the hell all that means??? AfD??? Sockpuppetts?? Seriously... WendySpears (talk) 17:34, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Adding to the report. User's first edit to to make a WP:REFUND request for the article. —C.Fred (talk) 17:37, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Though I've got a feeling the Victoria Asher edits will be meat puppetry/off-Wiki canvassing, per . —C.Fred (talk) 17:41, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * thanks, and thanks for the protection. As AfD closer I was too Involved to do it so had been resorting to whack-a-mole. Star   Mississippi  18:04, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * undoubtedly meat, but adding some of the brand new/sleepers only activated for this. They're clearly Not Here. Adding one more who is creating Draft:Vicky T Star   Mississippi  15:16, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I hope if I eventually become a semi-famous musician that I have fans ardent enough to dredge up their 9 year old Wikipedia accounts to edit on my behalf. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:21, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * CU - I'm declining CU because it looks obvious to me that this is a case of off-wiki canvassing. The behavioural pattern is consistent with this and considering that the subject has posted about the page deletion on her social media, it's overwhelmingly likely that these are just fans and not socks. In this case, running CU would expend a lot of effort to tell us something that we already know (that these are different people editing to promote the same cause). I will however leave this open in case an admin wants to block some or all of these accounts as WP:NOTHERE/WP:MEAT at their discretion. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 02:17, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Spicy. Thinking we definitely shouldn't reward these accounts making a point but leave it to someone uninvolved. Star   Mississippi  18:17, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * No one has chosen to act on this in several days, and it looks like most of the disruption has died down, so I'm just going to close this. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 04:30, 18 May 2022 (UTC)