Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/News-gk/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I noticed those accounts when doing a CU at hiwiki (where they were spamming) as part of my steward duties. I noticed that they're apparently connected with News-gk, who is spamming at enwiki. I'm hence passing this to enwiki CUs so they can investigate and take an action if appropriate Martin Urbanec (talk) 14:19, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * Most of these are one-off spam links (that is, each account spammed one domain), though I've globally blacklisted mpgk.in and thestudyiq.com since they've been spammed by a lot of accounts according to COIBot. Everyone is globally locked, I don't see a need to tag them since this is just spam. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:56, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * - Martin asked for CU to see if we can find any more socks in the group. Based on his summary of what he found I'm guessing this will be a difficult range for sleeper checks, but requesting that a CU take a peek in case I'm wrong (if this is a hard range, don't spend too much time on it) GeneralNotability (talk) 15:11, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Another checkuser has already worked in this IP range. Some IP blocks are already there. I'll send email asking for their advice for anything more to do. EdJohnston (talk) 17:20, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * – Range too large to effectively search for sleepers. EdJohnston (talk) 17:18, 10 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Everyone involved is locked, EdJohnston says sleeper check is impractical, nothing else to do. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 04:12, 13 November 2020 (UTC)