Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Odoveer/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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Both of these accounts have been involved in uploading non-free files for use on the Simran (actress) page. Their recent edit summaries (Odoveer, 25 October; Goshlion, 23 October) have been identical when doing so.

The images uploaded are generally marked as their own work, so even if they aren't literal sockpuppets, there would be strong coordinated UPE concerns. I suspect that there may be other accounts as well (whether they be sleepers or part of a sockfarm), so I am requesting checkuser. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 00:35, 26 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Looking a little deeper, I may have misidentified the sockmaster. Odoveer made their first edits in 2012, whereas Goshlion made their first edits this year. Additionally, there appears to have been additional users involved in this.


 * appears to have changed to image in Simran's infobox to [a new image https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simran_(actress)&diff=1020466654&oldid=1019744344] in April 2021, taking it from this website. They had uploaded the image on commons, which promptly deleted it for lacking permissions.
 * uploaded multiple a COPYVIO images on commons and then repeatedly substituted them in for the lead image in August 2020. They even attempted to substitute in a photo straight from imgur, though it failed for obvious reasons.
 * (red flag username) initially uploaded a file to commons in 2019. That file was then inserted into the article by Simran legal team. Subsequently, as the commons logs show, Goshlionre-uploaded a file by the same name, TWICE, after the initial file was deleted, and re-added a file by that name to the article.
 * uploaded a copyvio image to commons for use in this article in 2019, saying it was sent to me personally. They subsequently inserted it in this edit. The user has previously uploaded what appears to be photoshoot photos of Simran, including c:File:SIMRAN ACTOR.jpg, which has been up since 2012.

From the above, there appears to be some sort of coordinated effort to update the individual's photo with no respect to copyright grounds. There's some evidence (via commons descriptions and usernames) that some editors involved may have had contact with the Simran team when uploading photos and later inserting them into articles. This appears to be a part of a sock farm that's dedicated towards this article (and perhaps a few others). Some of the accounts are no doubt stale, as I think that there might well be something coordinated here that has spanned years. But, I still think a CU could be helpful in capturing technical information on the socks that have more recently edited. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 02:32, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

I apologize to the clerk who may have to move this to a more appropriate location, owing to the ages of the involved accounts. I should have been more thorough before opening this at its current location. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 02:32, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * I believe Odoveer and Goshlion are the same, between the Likely result and the behavior patterns. Bumblejo appears to be possibly using proxy/VPN of some sort, and there is overlap on an rather wide IPv6 range block with Goshlion, but behavior overlap is not quite the same.
 * The rest are stale but some of the behaviors do look similar to Odoveer.
 * Clerk: Case needs moved to earliest, Odoveer. No blocks placed, I am not opposed to a more experienced checkuser rechecking these results. -- ferret (talk) 19:57, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Case moved. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:08, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocking and tagging Odoveer and Goshlion. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:01, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Case moved. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:08, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocking and tagging Odoveer and Goshlion. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:01, 1 November 2021 (UTC)