Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nightowlanime/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Nightowl created Draft:Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo (BLP of a filipina author) and Draft:Night Owl: A Nationbuilder's Manual (book written by her) in September 2022. Both submissions failed and the pages were deleted. Now, after new SPA account Amylamentillo (user with the same name as Nightowl's BLP) recreated the two pages earlier this month at Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo and Night Owl: Nationbuilder's Manual, Nightowl came back to life to edit the book's page. Their return coincides with a suspicious new series of Lamentillo-related edits by those two Philippine IPs and recently created SPAs UltimatumPH and Hp8888 across multiple articles since November 11. Notice how Nightowl's name is the same as the title of Lamentillo's book, those two users are almost certainly the same person trying to game the system. I'm asking for CU to confirm and see if there are any more spam accounts that I haven't found. SparklyNights (t) 04:18, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Update. Amylamentillo just said on her talk page that UltimatumPH belongs to the publisher of her book, but made no comment regarding whether Nightowlanime is associated with her or not. SparklyNights (t) 04:52, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * These two appear ❌ All four of these show up on the same IP address(es).  By timeline and agent I think Suigeneris2023 is a sleeper for Amylamentillo. There's at least one event on 13 November that looks directly like UltimatumPH is not in fact the claimed publisher but instead a second account. They otherwise don't cross UAs. Nightowl and Amy share the same device characteristics but vary by browser. I think there is a clear case for meatpuppetry indistinguishable from socking for these 4, but I am not totally sold on sockpuppetry directly. Izno (talk) 06:14, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
 * - there's some more stuff here... DatGuyTalkContribs 12:57, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * - reviewing some stuff with other people. CUs can see cuwiki notes for now. DatGuyTalkContribs 15:20, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll go into some detail here as I believe the distinction will outweigh anything the socks can glean from a lack of discretion. Group 1: Group 2:  Group 3:  Group 4:   is ✅ to .  is .  is . The rest are all  to each other and the other groups. More data and some other accounts can be found on cuwiki. They're all locked, but blocking and tagging for good measure. Nuking all the creations under G11. DatGuyTalkContribs 14:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)