Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Obiwana/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These two SPAs appeared out of the blue to help out Obiwana in an edit war on this page. Obiwana actually created Ruskmox's userpage, which pretty clearly removes all doubt as to who was behind Ruskmox. The similarity is rather striking here: Obiwana: Ruskmox: Xi'anlo: This socking is just the icing on a very large cake, made with cupful of disruptive content removal, a pinch of NPA violations, a bag of copyvio, and a sprinkling of edit warring, mixed well and baked on CIR. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 14:38, 21 January 2023 (UTC) Edited 14:48, 21 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @Girth Summit: Do users often thank you after you give them a CU block? Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 00:12, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Both ✅ to one another. Bad faith attempt to evade scrutiny in an edit war - indeffing all three accounts.  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:37, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Hagemaruii has been edit warring on atomism much throughout 2 February 2023. Upon them being reported to AN3 (link) a new account is created which reinstates one of Hagemaruii's edits vs.

I'll note that Hagemaruii's intimate familiarity with wikicode makes it rather unlikely that this is their first account, so there may be an earlier master.

Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 08:09, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * - this is . Give me a minute - there are more socks, and the cases will need merging.   Girth Summit  (blether)  11:58, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, both of the accounts above are ✅ to Obiwana, along with the following:
 * Don't see any more; blocking, closing. Girth Summit  (blether)  12:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Don't see any more; blocking, closing. Girth Summit  (blether)  12:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
(Partly) restoring Obiwana's and previous sock Hagemaruii's edits and other megaphone-ducky stuff: vs ;  vs ;  vs ;  vs

CU please look for others. Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 14:22, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ - don't see any other accounts at present. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:26, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
vs

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Also a clear wp:impersonator.

Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 20:12, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged.-- Ponyo bons mots 20:39, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Again, we have a brand new user back trying to solicit edits to the pages targeted by this person (see /Archive). Similar writing style too. Clear DUCK. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 10:18, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Also, four already-blocked users, ,, and  seem likely to be this person as well, but weren't identified as such when blocked. They are certainly the same as this user though, and this user is a clear DUCK to Obiwana.

Also, some diff pairs: 







Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 10:32, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


 * @Dreamy Jazz:Any comment with regards to and ? If nothing else, @Graham87 has apparently noticed these as behaviourally confirmed. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 07:48, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I had no idea about the sockmaster until now. I know checkusers don't comment on IP's but I also blocked 155.186.197.72 for the same reason. Graham 87 08:38, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to each other:


 * Case seems to now be . Comparing CU data to historical data (over 3 months old because it has expired from CheckUser tables), I'd call this to the case (WP:BEANS as to why). Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:16, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Further checks have found more results. Group 2 ✅ to each other and directly to the master account :
 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:23, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Group 1 (the two accounts first found) and Group 2 share similar geolocation. Going to give it a result.  Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:32, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Reopening for those two.
 * Those two are on similar wide ranges to the accounts above. Ppppphgtygd uses a similar device type to the others, whereas, Christiano de aryande does not. CU wouldn't be conclusive enough, so would need a look at their edits to determine what tags would be used. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 09:58, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Everything seems to be dealt with. Closing. Spicy (talk) 01:28, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Back on same topics, same sort of edits, only two contribs so far, but the pattern is getting rather obvious. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 17:18, 30 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Behavioural evidence has improved since then, with some restoring sock edits. Which promptly got them attention, and a block. So, we're done? Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 01:21, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * , but it's really no more than sharing a very large IP range. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:40, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the duck's quacking is deafening by now. Blocked and tagged. Graham 87 01:27, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:29, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Edits, especially to Sridhara and History of botany. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 14:41, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * . Dreamy Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 14:42, 7 June 2023 (UTC)