Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pathofkarma/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
All these spammers are the same. It's highly likely that there are more of these and there is a superior sockmaster - who? MER-C 17:25, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

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CU can't really help much. There's likely P2P proxy use, and each account is in a different country (suspiciously so). One of the countries does jump out a bit, as being known as a hub for UPE operations, but I don't have much to add to that. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:33, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Spammers blocked and spam quarantined. Thanks. MER-C 12:36, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

This group is trying to influence AfDs from sometime, so this was long due. Following are some behavior similarities:
 * and voted "keep" on Articles for deletion/Igor Litvak.
 * ,, , and User:Marc TW, all voted "keep" in order to influence the result of Articles for deletion/Michael Frederick Marcotte.
 * and JK.Kite edited Talking Rain like, (already tagged as spam).
 * created Peter Mallouk, while they used JK.Kite to defend it, Articles for deletion/Peter Mallouk (clearly, something fishy there). JoshPeterP also edited Creative Planning.
 * ,, and User:JK.Kite voted keep and influenced the result of Articles for deletion/Unicorn DAO
 * and User:JK.Kite edited Veem.
 * A suspicious vote by Elena Marcus D on Articles for deletion/Dana Parish.
 * All of their socks use visual editing, most were registered in 2020 or 2019, and their userpages are remarkable written in similar tone. for their opinion. Pathofkarma is the oldest sock of this group. 2.51.229.167 (talk) 21:13, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * Agreed that these are similar. Not sure who the sockmaster is but I have definitely seen this before. MER-C 10:49, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Very little of use from CU, unfortunately. Every account is in a different country. I would say it is moderately to highly likely that these accounts are using residential proxies, which could tie them to one of several UPE groups, but nothing more useful than that. - if you think they're votestacking, I say go ahead and block. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:00, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm going through the evidence, and probably will add some more accounts. This might take some time. MarioGom (talk) 21:32, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
 * There is a possible relation to CowboyKing, but I have not found a very strong link, so I'm leaving this unmerged.
 * I'm adding the following accounts to the report:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:
 * There is an overall trend of spammy pages and apparent AFD coordination to save some of these spammy pages from deletion (especially in recent creations, not in earlier years). Here's a summary of the overlap:


 * User pages have various tells, here's a summary of all of them, including accounts in the archive:


 * Most accounts have a very similar edit summary style, illustrated in the following table (numbers represent how many accounts in this report used each edit summary):


 * Here's an individualized assessment with some additional evidence:
 * Pathofkarma: Creation of Unicorn DAO, later keep-brigaded at AFD (see table above). Related to Unicorn DAO, JK.Kite also supported Pathofkarma's move request at Talk:Nadya Tolokonnikova. Note karma as a shared theme with JK.Kite.
 * JK.Kite: Extensive AFD brigading, very similar edit summary style (see tables above). Used cleaned tone (see DarkMilly notes).
 * Marc TW: Tried recreating Draft:Swift Navigation soon after a previous creation by a COI account. Usage of as per my analysis in AFD, along MontDuo12, which is not unique, but very infrequent . Thanks on their user page, common to many accounts in this report (see table above). AFD brigading, similar edit summary style.
 * Jonna G12: Overlap on Talking Rain. User page thanks . The account was blocked early for spam at Polygon Group, so there was no time for larger evidence build up.
 * Anja Martin: Creation of Dan Legg, later defended at AFD by JK.Kite against consensus. Spammy creation at Eddie Mullon. Similar edit summary style.
 * Elena Marcus D: AFD overlap at Unicorn DAO. Supported by JK.Kite on an AFD nomination at Articles for deletion/John DeBlasio. Likely spam creation at RoseHosting. Similar edit summary style.
 * Maria Taylor40: Extensive edit summary overlap. Refers to headings as h1 (not unique, but uncommon, see edit summary table). Used cleaned tone (see DarkMilly notes).
 * Anaya Levine: Created Michael Frederick Marcotte, later brigaded at AFD by a few other accounts in this report. Thanks user page . Extensive edit summary overlap.
 * Samantha Mont: AFD brigading at Michael Frederick Marcotte. Thanks user page and dodgy COI disclosure . See also MontDuo12.
 * MontDuo12: AFD brigading at Igor Litvak. See also Samantha Mont. Extensive edit summary overlap.
 * Cara T Williams: See user page and compare to JillViktor37 and DarkMilly.
 * LeviTune: Created Eli Joseph, later JK.Kite voted keep at AFD. Overlap at Talking Rain, including uploading marketing materials to Commons, see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by LeviTune, including Flickrwashing, which is a common technique by UPEs uploading copyrighted works to Commons. Thanks user page.
 * JillViktor37: Created Igor Litvak, later keep-brigaded at AFD by MontDuo12 and Marc TW. User page with thank you for accepting me here, like DarkMilly . Edit summary overlap.
 * DarkMilly: Low edit count, but removing UPE tags from a random article, and created Nicole Sahin which was probably spam. See JillViktor37 notes. Used cleaned tone as edit summary, which only JK.Kite, JoshPeterP, and Maria Taylor40 have used since 1 January 2020 to present.
 * KatieR44: Compare user name to SelenaMark55. See TiffanyWhitely's notes. Edit summary overlap.
 * SelenaMark55: Edit summary overlap. Refers to headings as h1 (not unique, but uncommon, see edit summary table).
 * LauraKinney: Compare user page with AshleyFredo's . See overlap on Veem.
 * TiffanyWhitely: Extensive edit summary overlap. Refers to headings as h1 (not unique, but uncommon, see edit summary table). Compare edit summary when creating user page  to KatieR44  and AshleyFredo.
 * JoshPeterP: Created Peter Mallouk, later keep-voted by JK.Kite. Thanks user page . Used cleaned tone (see DarkMilly notes).
 * AlyxMaxtron: Thanks user page.
 * Based on the above analysis, this is obviously a UPE op, and sockpuppetry for spam and AFD manipulation. Please, indef all accounts listed in the original report, as well as the ones I have added here. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 19:42, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. G5 date for this batch is 2019-09-07 (Jonna G12). MER-C 09:00, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Case moved from AshleyFredo to Pathofkarma. Tagged socks in the archives. MarioGom (talk) 09:52, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Found two new accounts and some old blocked accounts:
 * New accounts:
 * both used "thanks" on their userpages . More evidence like User:MeetDobra created an article on QuickMD and then
 * both used "thanks" on their userpages . More evidence like User:MeetDobra created an article on QuickMD and then
 * both used "thanks" on their userpages . More evidence like User:MeetDobra created an article on QuickMD and then


 * added tags to the talkpage . Use of word "bio" in edit summaries by User:Automatetox (like noted before in a table), and use of visual editor matches them to this case.
 * added tags to the talkpage . Use of word "bio" in edit summaries by User:Automatetox (like noted before in a table), and use of visual editor matches them to this case.


 * There are old accounts (blocked) like
 * which are behaviorily very similar to this and private evidence verifies it (some of them have tickets for verification of evidence). Maybe we can connect User:DiamondDiana or any other to this case, as this may speed up cleanup/spam deletion process (not sure how to do it). Thank you. 86.98.191.67 (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * which are behaviorily very similar to this and private evidence verifies it (some of them have tickets for verification of evidence). Maybe we can connect User:DiamondDiana or any other to this case, as this may speed up cleanup/spam deletion process (not sure how to do it). Thank you. 86.98.191.67 (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * which are behaviorily very similar to this and private evidence verifies it (some of them have tickets for verification of evidence). Maybe we can connect User:DiamondDiana or any other to this case, as this may speed up cleanup/spam deletion process (not sure how to do it). Thank you. 86.98.191.67 (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * which are behaviorily very similar to this and private evidence verifies it (some of them have tickets for verification of evidence). Maybe we can connect User:DiamondDiana or any other to this case, as this may speed up cleanup/spam deletion process (not sure how to do it). Thank you. 86.98.191.67 (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * which are behaviorily very similar to this and private evidence verifies it (some of them have tickets for verification of evidence). Maybe we can connect User:DiamondDiana or any other to this case, as this may speed up cleanup/spam deletion process (not sure how to do it). Thank you. 86.98.191.67 (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * which are behaviorily very similar to this and private evidence verifies it (some of them have tickets for verification of evidence). Maybe we can connect User:DiamondDiana or any other to this case, as this may speed up cleanup/spam deletion process (not sure how to do it). Thank you. 86.98.191.67 (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * - Also see their user pages . Note that a few accounts from the previous report were not checked, I added a second batch after the initial check. Please, run a check and keep in mind possible residential proxy usage. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 08:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 13:49, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Much the same as the last two rounds: It does seem plausible that both of these are operated by the same person as the accounts from the last batch, but proxy use is very likely, so nothing conclusive from CU. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:00, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * - Please, indef Automatetox and MeetDebra. I think the relation to past SPI cases is very likely, but I don't think it's worth it to go through these past case pages, which might be mixing multiple sockmasters. MarioGom (talk) 17:45, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged; closing. MER-C 18:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)