Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mustafdesam/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The Mvonthefloor account came to my attention because it posted a Retired banner on their user talk page, after almost a year and half of being blocked. It seems curious that someone would do that, so upon some looking into it, the draft that Mvonthefloor was blocked for continually resubmitting was taken up by Mustafdesam. I'm just wondering if they are connected like in a paid editing ring(one user "retired" so the other could take it up); Mustafdesam seems to only edit about Malayalam film industry people. 331dot (talk) 08:33, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * Looks like proxying or meatpuppetry to me. Zippybonzo &#124; Talk (he&#124;him) 06:22, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * The user has admitted here that I'm a constant traveller, so I may have used my account from various locations, that explains the "opposite sides and different IP ranges". Need an evaluation beyond CU. Overlaps at Thuramukham with one day gap with similar edit summary: .--The Doom Patrol (talk) 10:51, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Same country, but opposite sides and different IP ranges. . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 14:29, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * There's many accounts editing only in the Malayalam film industry area, so it is not an extremely rare niche. The presented evidence is suspicious, but not enough. I could jump to a bunch of other possibly related accounts, and I don't know if this is the start of a rabbit hole leading to a larger sockfarm, or simply coincidences among people editing in this area. So in the absence of further evidence, I'll err on the side of caution. . I'll note that Mustafdesam was blocked for copyvio, and has been warned for copyvio again after their unblock. MarioGom (talk) 10:41, 20 August 2023 (UTC)