Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nicekang2020/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The chronological order of the sockpuppets are: Happy Rainbow 2022, then 2601:184:4700:4320:94DA:CAC:2379:2083, then Nicekang2020

All three accounts only made edits to only the page Lee Jae-myung (with the exception of one edit from Happy Rainbow 2022). First the sockpuppet Happy Rainbow 2022 was used, then the IP address 2601:184:4700:4320:94DA:CAC:2379:2083, then the account NiceKang2020. These edits were often called out for being extensive, large-scale, and unproductive. The edits essentially always read as biased towards politician Lee Jae-myung and like pro-Lee campaign propaganda.

A significant piece of evidence linking these three accounts is that these accounts started and stopped usage one after another, after the previous account's edits on that page were reverted. As soon as Happy Rainbow 2022 stopped using their account, likely because of essentially all of their edits being reverted and their account receiving warnings, 2601:184:4700:4320:94DA:CAC:2379:2083 soon afterwards started usage. Then after 2601:184:4700:4320:94DA:CAC:2379:2083 had their edits reverted, that account stopped usage and the account NiceKang2020 started usage (2601:184:4700:4320:94DA:CAC:2379:2083's contributions history does not immediately show that all their edits were reverted, but they were, which I will shortly explain).

A second significant piece of evidence linking 2601:184:4700:4320:94DA:CAC:2379:2083 and NiceKang2020 is that all 10 edits from the IP account (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10), done in quick succession, were on the speech "Pragmatic Foreign Policy for the Great Transformation Era". I found this speech to be rather unnotable itself so I took the section on the speech down and reintegrated its policy information into broader topics on Lee Jae-myung's policy beliefs (edit). After this, 2601:184:4700:4320:94DA:CAC:2379:2083 stopped usage and within an hour usage on the account NiceKang2020 started, which immediately added back the large section on the speech "Pragmatic Foreign Policy" using essentially the same talking points.

This user while using the account Happy Rainbow 2022 was warned multiple times by multiple users who reverted their disruptive edits. undid their edits twice (1 2) warning them both times about their biased POV. undid a massive edit for being "unsourced and possibly promotional". undid twice undid massive edits by Happy Rainbow 2022 (1 2) calling them covert promotion. Fully disclosure, I reverted JavaHurricane's second revert because I had thought that edit by Happy Rainbow 2022 was useful, then JavaHurricane reverted my revert, then I reverted that revert (still siding with Happy Rainbow 2022's edit) and edited the information to be less biased. I was ultimately wrong. When the sockpuppeteer moved to the IP address, only I reverted their edits, taking only the important parts of the information on the speech and integrating them into appropriate sections. NiceKang2020 has not had their edits removed yet because their edits are the most recent edits on the page Lee Jae-myung. In one of their edits, NiceKang2020 reverted a 6000+ character revert by bot.

Another piece of evidence is the similar username naming convention between the accounts Happy Rainbow 2022 and NiceKang2020.

Something else to mention is that the single edit done between all three accounts that was not to the page Lee Jae-myung was an edit by Happy Rainbow 2022 to the page Kim Jisoo, which interrupted a redirect to the disambiguation for Kim Ji-soo and gave a bio for a local South Korean political activist. Holidayruin (talk) 08:16, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked and tagged the named accounts. Blocked the IP for 48 hours. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 11:26, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Their first substantive action is to make an edit request to Lee Jae-myung relating to his foreign policy, which is something prior accounts have been interested in.

Their username follows the pattern ("something pleasant" + year) as well - translates as "Blue Sky 2021". firefly ( t · c ) 18:28, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 18:44, 16 October 2021 (UTC)