Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mathieu Vouillamoz/Archive

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I recently came across Billyatthewheels, as for various reasons the editor is suspected of UPE. In looking into the situation, I noticed that recently a number of articles they created were nominated for AfD (in a manner which is also suspicious, but not directly related to Billyatthewheels). On thing that did jump out at me was the edits by IamJayYas

IamJayYas is a new editor that started editing about a week ago, and in the very small number of edits they have a surpassing number of crossovers with Billyatthewheels, both at articles and at AfDs.


 * Article space: IamJayYas edited two articles that had very recently been edited by Billyatthewheels: and
 * AfD: IamJayYas voted to keep on multiple AfDs regarding articles which Billyatthewheels created, in these cases prior to the subsequent votes by Billyatthewheels:
 * Edit summaries: Not a lot to go by here, as neither editor is prolific in leaving edit summaries. But what exists is similar, if brief. For example "Added my opinion in AfD" vs "Shared my opinion about AfD".

Finally, the keep comments written by IamJayYas seem similar to ones left by Billyatthewheels:
 * "Comment Multiple interviews can be found on different channels (including verified channels). A few References about her political career might be weak but overall the person seems notable enough. Thanks"

vs
 * "Comment- We can wait and see if someone adds more references. We can move it to draft if the article is not improved with significant coverage in a couple of weeks. I'm sure it can be improved because big actors are part of this movie so references can be find. Thanks".

At any rate, the edit summaries + high level of crossover on Billyatthewheels articles and AfDs certainly rings alarms. Bilby (talk) 21:04, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * Billyatthewheels and IamJayYas are ✅ to each other. Additionally, they are ✅ to  the lot. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:25, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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Mathieu Vouillamoz is the oldest account of this UPE (previously it was used for the creation of draft only, i.e. Draft:Lisa Camillo). It was stale for sometime, but became active again on 8 November 2021 when their account (User:Billyatthewheels) was blocked following a SPI. Their editing style is very much similar, like use of visual editor, interest in cricket articles and complains like: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tarannum_Yogesh_Dobriyal&diff=1054063868&oldid=1053964972 BTW I don't know if this is the right place or not but I saw a bit strange pattern of the nominator "JohnnyHunt". The account is created just 3 days ago, has done only 9 edits and all of them are related to nominating my articles for AFD or tagging them as spam. It can't be a coincidence and a bit concerning. Thanks Billyatthewheels (talk) 21:11, 7 November 2021 (UTC)] vs [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wavetec_(2nd_nomination)&diff=1056409803&oldid=1056274451 And I don't know if this is the right place to discuss but I saw a strange pattern of the nominator "J. D. S. Kumar" because the account is created just 20 hours ago, did only 4 edits and all of them are related to nominating my articles/edits for deletion or labeling me as a paid editor. Can't be a coincidence. Mathieu Vouillamoz (talk) 16:47, 21 November 2021 (UTC)] Other overlaps on pages like Mohammad Hafeez page where both edited the same section. ( vs ) and edits on page Mohammad Wasim (cricketer, born 2001) like where they immediately update based on recent match

Behavior evidence is enough here. Sleeper check requested as their editing pattern goes back to 2020 now. 92.25.238.141 (talk) 06:50, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 02:08, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I'd call Mathieu ✅, but certainly . I'm thinking it might be several people all operating out of the same location(s).  On the other hand, they're as closely related to the three accounts in the archives which  found to be confirmed as those three are to each other, so if you wanted to tag them as confirmed when you factor in behavior, I'm OK with that.  There's too much variation in both user agents and IPs to make a sleeper check seem worth while. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:28, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged as confirmed - behavioural evidence was convincing.. - Bilby (talk) 20:43, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:18, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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Interest in cricket articles or undisclosed paid editing, like previous socks, timecard match, visual editing. Overlaps with previous sock on Draft:Lisa Camillo and for cricket diff such as. Added Mbilalwiki (username match), FBedits and Afzlfc for overlap on Articles for deletion/The Pakistan Daily. 2407:7000:9D08:BE00:9DA6:38EF:75C4:6EEE (talk) 15:15, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 16:22, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Before anything else happens, I'll rename this case to, who is the oldest account. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * We CU-conflicted there . I was going to say that I'm ready to call the first three of these confirmed to each other, and the FBedits account pretty to them. Wonder whether you get a Billyatthewheels vibe from them though, all the old accounts are stale and I couldn't find anything useful in the CU logs.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:27, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, sounds like you've made more progress than I have, so I'll let you run with it. All I'll mention is that you should look at https://checkuser.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_Vouillamoz for a little surprise. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:31, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I've been staring at this for too long, and I've got about 60 browser tabs open at the moment - my instincts are telling me to call these four proven to each other, and suspected to Vouillamoz, but I'd appreciate a second pair of neurons on my thinking. I've put some more notes on CU wiki - what do you reckon? Girth Summit  (blether)  17:49, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hang on a minute, I just ran those IPs for MV through Bullseye - that wasn't what I was expecting. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:59, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * - OK, after some discussion on cuwiki, and despite some oddities in the CU data (which may or may not be deliberate attempts to obfuscate), I'm calling these four ✅ to one another, and suspected to Mathieu Vouillamoz/Billyatthewheels. Please will a clerk tag them appropriately and close? I'm going to drop a note at that AfD discussion they are attempting to derail now.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:47, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged as requested, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:00, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
User:Jamalahmadpk was blocked on 31 March 2022 and User:Fifthapril created their account on 11 April 2022. Then, they started to edit cricket-related pages, much like previous socks, most notably Asif Ali (cricketer, born 1991) and Hasan Ali (cricketer) (edited by the previous socks). Then they did UPE things and created a lot of Pakistani politicians' pages to get some rights, like becoming an AfC reviewer. After becoming a reviewer, they jumped on and started accepting their old client's pages: Among them, Draft:Lisa Camillo, has been edited by all of their socks (deleted now) and, now, they posted it from another SPA, User:Talalisediting, and accepted it with User:Fifthapril account (see Lisa Camillo (filmmaker)). Similarly, Alina Alam posted by User:Jamalahmadpk and somehow survived sock deletion, was acceped by them two days ago, after a submisssion by 39.43.1.5. Advance ZincTek, another page accepted by them (still with promotional content). Checking them may help discover more socks. 94.207.251.84 (talk) 14:18, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * Comment Girth Summit, can you also check AndyView, they finished up one of Fifthapril's articles. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 01:54, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Liz, just to let you know, I checked AndyView - they're no more than - same country, but using an IP range that Fifthapril and previous socks haven't been on. Feel free to block as suspected if you think it's them.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:45, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:33, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Fifthapril is ✅ to previous socks, and the editing pattern makes it look like they're up to their old tricks - that one I'm blocking. Talalisediting is - it's in the right place, but it's editing on an IP range the master hasn't used before (as far as I can see). Hard to be confident with so few edits. I'd suggest that any article this editor reviewed at AfC be returned to draft, unless it has had extensive vetting by other editors.   Girth Summit  (blether)  16:48, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

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User:Mate0Kapush created 20 April. Recreated spammy Emirates Draw today (last created by sock User:Fifthapril) at Emirates DRAW, inexplicably capitalised. Editing since April, then began creating articles in a burst leading up to Emirates Draw: two on 29 Sept (plus user page), three on 2 Oct, one on 4 Oct, and two today. Just thought that was rather odd, and consistent with the editing pattern of sock User:Fifthapril. If I'm wasting your time with this, then kindly hit me with my own shovel. Wikishovel (talk) 17:56, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * - UtherSRG (talk) 18:47, 16 October 2023 (UTC)