Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MediaCheck/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

All of these accounts share the same interest in editing NZ television shows and related personalities. The editing is highly promotional. Evidence:
 * All three accounts share similar naming practices
 * All three (although the third is quite stale and edited minimally) show connection in the editor interaction analyzer
 * Above analyzer link shows the articles they are interested in, which are all connected by production companies
 * Master account says they are "new to editing" but they are very good at moving articles, Immediately placing a Speedy G7 after I started an AFD, requesting that the article at AFD be draftified for future work, removing excessive citations with the comment "remove cite overkill", and adding promotional material.
 * Master account repeatedly denies COI, but also says "we are not a company" when talking bout their editing. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 05:34, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Postscript:, I have added as  suspected sockpuppet. The interaction analyzer shows similar edit interests, the name is similarly formatted and the account itself seems to admits they are editing for commercial/promotional reasons. No edits since 2015 though.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 17:27, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , I also just added new (as in today) user with same article protection interests and same language as MediaCheckNZ. See their contribs, which sort of say it all.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 22:58, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * Cabayi (talk) 07:39, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * - Please confirm. Cabayi (talk) 07:41, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * and are ✅  Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:19, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Moving to MediaCheck, the oldest account. Cabayi (talk) 10:34, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * - Please block the master for 3 days & indef the socks. Cabayi (talk) 10:37, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * . NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:00, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Please compare the blocked accounts against, which removed the UPE tags on Mike Puru and The Café (New Zealand TV program) . Thanks, GABgab 19:41, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * as they seem to be using a proxy.  Salvio Let's talk about it! 20:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Edit summaries, content, registered 8 hours after the master was blocked, ... ST47 (talk) 15:52, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * old but worth blocking, I suppose. I think that's everyone, so this should be ready to be closed. ST47 (talk) 16:29, 6 April 2019 (UTC)