Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Moody2019/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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All, with the exception of Slowtp, have contested deletion for an article relating to Iraqi football Articles for deletion/Al-Dair SC in a very non-standard way, by voting not delete as opposed to keep and using very similar language. Interestingly, Sambein and Admosb had both been dormant for a very long time until that AfD had started, which is highly suspicious and usually indicative of sockpuppetry or off-wiki canvassing.

They all have a shared interest in only editing within Iraqi football and, specifically, all have a common interest in editing 2020–21 Al-Mina'a SC season.

Both started their user pages at the beginning with a single letter or single short word. Admosb started with 'u'. Sambein started with 'Y'. Moody started with 'Hi'. Saimari started with '.' Slowtp started with 'Yes'.

Also see below for a log of bizarre interactions between the accounts involved: Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:18, 22 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Moody with Slowtp
 * Moody with Admosb
 * Moody with Sambein

Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:19, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

( the below was a duplicate filing at Sockpuppet_investigations/Saimari, copying here for future reference)

The 4 of these accounts were previously investigated here here with inconclusive results (although it was determined that they were likely unrelated to that investigation's main sock which ended up being blocked as compromised account.

Since that time, it looks like Saimari remained the only active one and the others laid dormant... Until this deletion discussion: Articles_for_deletion/Al-Dair_SC. The three accounts suddenly woke up after months of inactivity to defend Saimari's article (and with very similar wording). Slowtp added here because it was involved the last time. BlameRuiner (talk) 08:48, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

UPD: it looks like this should be redirected to Sockpuppet investigations/Moody2019. Apologies for the duplicate --BlameRuiner (talk) 08:53, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Most accounts were previously investigated here: Sockpuppet investigations/Mr. Port/Archive. --BlameRuiner (talk) 08:55, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm struggling to understand the CU result. From what I can tell, they were determined to be likely socks but, because no misuse was detected up to that point, no action was taken? I would now say that stacking votes at the AfD Articles for deletion/Al-Dair SC would now count as misuse. Interesting to note that Mr Port is now indeffed for having a compromised account. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:03, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

The evidence has not been presented in a clear way, which must be done in a sockpuppet investigation. Please consider the following points:
 * The evidence, if existent at all, has been unclear.
 * The case against this supposed sockpuppet is muddy at best.
 * All of the accusations are ambiguous.

I think that any fair minded person would conclude that there is no sockpuppetry going on here. I have confidence that the right decision will be made.HotdogElephant (talk) 19:32, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The above is a new user's second edit, whose other edit has been on another sockpuppet discussion. Wikinights (talk) 19:39, 25 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Collapsed comments by blocked user. Wikinights (talk) 20:10, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * except for Slowtp, who is . All of the accounts appear to be closely related from a technical standpoint, often appearing together on the same IPs within a small range, but the accounts appear to use different devices, which do not overlap except for Sambein and Admosb, who do use the same device. Overall, the behavioral and technical overlaps combined tell me that there is clearly some kind of coordination going on between these accounts—if it is not sockpuppetry, then it is likely WP:MEAT. All non-stale accounts, closing. Mz7 (talk) 05:28, 31 July 2021 (UTC)