Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mememento/Archive

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A whole bunch of similar edits with near-identical edit summaries interspersed with UPE: Attain (consulting firm) (created by Dimondbaklove), Phil Davis (businessman) (created by Dimondbaklove), Jason S. Lewis (created by Coldsweats). Mememento voted keep in Articles for deletion/Attain (consulting firm), Coldsweats voted keep in Articles for deletion/Phil Davis (businessman). MER-C 15:44, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

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Dimondbaklove appears to be a different person from Coldsweats despite having matching UAs. Usually, Dimondbaklove is circa 1200 miles from Coldsweats but on August 2 appears to have traveled to Coldsweats' area. Afterward, Dimondbaklove traveled more than 500 miles to\thru the vicinity of Mememento. The latter does not have the same UA. Meanwhile Aslantheking33 who is ✅ to Dimondbaklove on August 2 will travel back to their standard location which is more than 2800 miles away. All are using many, highly disparate ranges and only making a few edits while in each one. This may be tactical to obfuscate their edits and I didn't go through all those ranges (80 distinct IPs in about 70 big ranges, mostly in about four main areas) because it would have likely have taken several hours. I didn't see any proxy/VPN usage. Meatpuppetry is possible to likely so. I'll leave blocking to other admins. If someone wants to relist for another cu to take a deeper dive, I won't object and I wish them good luck. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  02:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:50, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked Aslantheking33. But we have another account:
 * with significant intersection on MDsave and the same general behavior. MER-C 11:08, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Matching UA to Dimondbaklove/Aslantheking33 but coming from another area of same country - they are all in the same country. Based on the timeline and edits of August 2, they are not technically related. Aardvaarkk is consistently in one place w/o proxy usage.
 * Matching UA to Dimondbaklove/Aslantheking33 but coming from another area of same country - they are all in the same country. Based on the timeline and edits of August 2, they are not technically related. Aardvaarkk is consistently in one place w/o proxy usage.


 * Blocked the remaining for meatpuppetry and WP:UPE. I also blocked:
 * for the same, see Articles for deletion/Phil Davis (businessman) and Special:Undelete/Cal Simmons/Articles for deletion/Cal Simmons. MER-C 10:07, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * for the same, see Articles for deletion/Phil Davis (businessman) and Special:Undelete/Cal Simmons/Articles for deletion/Cal Simmons. MER-C 10:07, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  20:38, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * is it safe to close this now given that all are blocked, or is there further investigation planned/ongoing? The SandDoctor  Talk 18:39, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I think we're done. Closing. MER-C 19:35, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Noting that Roundrobinguy67 was using a proxy that had been reported for heavy abuse.