Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mayank120/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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This is a bit confusing. My attention was first brought to Vsehmogushiy2 as they authored the now-deleted AUDT Coin. Their behavior was odd because the article was tagged for speedy, and they removed the tags (impermissible but certainly not unheard of) and nominated the article for deletion at Articles for deletion/AUDT Coin with the following statement: "keep Australian ERC-20 stub, references are 50/50 so I need a help nod being removed so I'm bringing it here. No references by David Gerard and fails WP:A7 are not real, bcs my article is not about person or animal." David Gerard had tagged the article per A7 and G11; it was ultimately deleted per G11. I deleted the AfD.

I next noticed that the article had been approved by Halakievsk in this post. Halakievsk is not a new page reviewer. Indeed, they have only 70 edits since creating their account here in August 2020. In looking at Halkievsk's global contributions, I saw that they were indeffed for sock puppetry at ru.wiki with the master being Mayank120. Not speaking Russian, I used an inline translator to translate the Russian page where the ru.wiki CheckUser evaluated the various accounts and made their findings. This is where I found the other accounts listed in this report, although Vsehmogushiy2 was not listed despite having edited at ru.wiki. I included them because of the behavioral connections.

The various accounts show an overlap in the following interests:
 * gaming/gambling. Vsehmogushiy2 South Dakota Commission on Gaming; Roman lll Great Canadian Gaming; Halakievsk Malta Gaming Authority; Mayank120 British Columbia Lottery Corporation; Art3m1a1 Horse racing in Japan; LidiaLidia12 Malta Gaming Authority
 * keys/locks (often adding spam refs). Mayank120 Rekeying; Art3m1a1 Time-delay combination locks; Halakievsk Car key
 * crypto currencies. Vshmogushiy2 AUDT Coin; Art3m1a1 Talk:Dai (cryptocurrency); Roman lll Token (disambig page); Halakievsk Diem (digital currency)

Some additional behavioral connections. First, there is actual overlap in articles (you can use the editor interaction analyzer for that). Second, Art3m1a1 added this odd post to Vsehmogushiy2's Talk page right before Halakievsk did (noted earlier). Also, Art3m1a1 add this truly bizarre post to their own Talk page ostensibly approving a draft for creation with this statement, reminiscent of Vsehmogushiy2's nominating statement at the deleted AfD: "Also it could be deleted bcs of no consensus" (not the "bcs" instead of "because" in both).

This is all I have the energy to do this morning. I know that some accounts are stale, including the master, so I obviously don't expect those accounts to be checked, but I think there is more than enough here to warrant a CU of the non-stale accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:59, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

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I'll note only that (a) the AUDT article was obvious generic crypto spam (b) the approval was malformed - the approved version of the article had a leftover AFC comment in it - David Gerard (talk) 13:37, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I was laughing 3 minutes reading this detective story. Parttime it's true, I was blocked in Russian wiki by asking another user to edit the page I create by myself. Today I am working with English version if I see some new in Draft space or Australian stub I help another people. So we had previous suggestions with this users, that could ne same, but it's not multiple. Also I had a successful article last month and decided to approve more, but doesn't read the rules clear. I am sorry about that. AUDT Coin and others are deleted by some AFc problems, I understand. For Mr. Bbb23 I had a funny ru present that maybe could understand:  Regarding to all wiki users, Halakievsk (talk) 16:37, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The non-stale accounts are confirmed to each other, as in at least sat in the same room but probably the same person. I found two further matching accounts: I also checked, per Kalinowskiy. They appear technically unrelated. -- zzuuzz (talk) 22:23, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - what I'm seeing here is a spam farm that pivoted to UPE. Endorse for sleeper checks. I'm pretty confident that Art3m1a1 and Halakievsk are related (spammed the same domains a while ago), less confident about Vsehmogushiy. I've blocked them all for UPE/covert spam in the meantime. I'll be spending some quality time with COIBot to see who else might be related here. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks zzuuzz, appreciate the check. Concur that that last account is unrelated to this farm. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:54, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged socks as various flavours of suspected and proven. Archiving. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 10:25, 26 September 2021 (UTC)