Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Modpixel/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Two accounts promoting an Australian actress. Editing timeline of the accounts suggests sockpuppetry. Modpixel first started editing on 31 March, then cease editing on 7 April. Orange flask started editing on 8 April, then cease editing on 11 April. Modpixel resumed editing on 12 April and Orange flask resumed the day after, on 13 April. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 02:31, 14 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Orange flask created an article titled Oakley Kwon during an ongoing AfC discussion of an article titled Oakley Kown, created by Modpixel a day earlier. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 02:35, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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I have added Hass mm too due to them creating simple:Oakley Kwon (don't have a diff unfortunately). They've also created simple:Biswajit_Jha which is a copy of the salted Draft:Biswajit_Jha and City Transformer which smells of UPE to me. SmartSE (talk) 17:07, 14 April 2023 (UTC)


 * The contents of simple:Oakley Kwon are logged in the filter log simple:Special:AbuseLog/418183. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 20:20, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I've blocked these three accounts without tags: it's fairly clear to me from the evidence presented here and their general editing pattern that they are, at the least, engaging in meatpuppetry and likely UPE. I suspect this is a case of different freelancers being paid to create the same article. However, I think CU would be useful in case there are other accounts linked to this UPE ring. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 21:10, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The three accounts are ostensibly ❌ but there's strong evidence that they're using proxies to deliberately obscure their true identity, so -- RoySmith (talk) 21:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Closing as the accounts have been blocked independently of CU results. Spicy (talk) 21:26, 14 April 2023 (UTC)