Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MonkeyKingdom/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Apparent co-ordinated editing, possible COI/undisclosed professional editing. User MudduAwulira was created on the same day (22 May 2017) that an ANI was started against MonkeyKingdom for uploading copyrighted materials. Behaviour changed as of that day with the majority of contents editing done by MonkeyKingdom, while MudduAwulira took over the image side. About 1/3 of articles edited by MudduAwulira were created by the master - the interaction tool shows edit frequencies often within under an hour of each other. The sock was active between 22 May 2017 and mid Sept 2017, the master up until September as well. Both took a break and did a couple of edits in December 2017 on the same article. The master became active again in June 2018, in the same month the sock again uploaded pictures for articles of the master. On my talk page, the master used the word "we" when referring to his edits and corrected himself when questioned if professional editing is taking place. However this is not credible, a) given the nature of editing (politicians, influencers, law firms, etc), the contents (personal information well beyond publicly available information, see Draft:Richard Jabo) and the quality of images (professional portraits).
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 * user interaction pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 13:30, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * On my talk page, the user now declares he is a photo journalist for a Ugandan newspaper and that he uses separate accounts for English Wikipedia and Wikimedia. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 19:32, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * Sock indeffed, master blocked for 3 days. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:37, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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IP editors created a copy of Draft:Richard Jabo as Draft:Richard Jabo (Economist). The master had previously submitted a defective article and was identified as using two accounts. During the 3 day temp block of the master, the IP editors created an identical article in draft - I imagine to give the appearance of a clean slate for the article. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 17:00, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * - CU will not connect IP's to named accounts. Sro23 (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The IP's are both stale at this point. Closing without action. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:38, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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The suspected sock was registered a week after MK was blocked by, their fourth edit was to "clean" the draft:Pascal Mouawad and then after making a few random edits they submitted the draft for a review. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 11:31, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * I'd like to add Omnipremier to this list. Only a couple of contributions but has coincided with Omniscient. The name coincidence is interesting Fiddle   Faddle  19:53, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * The Mouawad article is crawling with paid editors, disclosed and otherwise. My suspicion is that these are two more of them. The two of them haven't broken sock rules (editing is separated by several months), but I will block both as UPE. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:50, 14 August 2020 (UTC)