Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Patricialiew/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Promote zh:廖城兰 / en:Jacky Liew or Liew's book in a bunch of wikis. Abuse multiple sockpuppets to create and edit articles collaboratively; sometimes re-create deleted articles with another account with different disambiguation suffix; vote together with IPs or disposable accounts in deletion discussions (zhwiki; enwiki see below); make meainingless minor edits before creating articles; repeatedly advertise Jacky Liew in other articles (mainly on zhwiki); remove maintenance templates with IP sockpuppets; make false or intentionally misleading claims when questioned about COI.

All the accounts listed are typically SPA and can be safely WP:DUCK IMO. They are used alternately with clear chronological relations, possibly intending to circumvent patrollers and obviously controlled by a single person (or a small team?). Even though only focusing on Jacky Liew, their behavior patterns look somewhat sophisticated.

Patricialiew creates Draft:Jacky Liew (Si Gongzi) on Jan 30, 2021 with all sources being WP:PRIMARY written by Liew as a column editor. The draft was denied at that time. Several months later, Patricialiew together with its sockpuppets came back with a bunch of ridiculously low-quality press releases/advertorials newly published in mainland China. Then the article did passed AFC, but nominated for deletion just a few days later.

Several suspicious accounts kicked in the deletion discussion and voted for keeping, among which: Arrisontan is typically a sockpuppet; 167.98.47.71 was only active for 10minutes; appears to be a normal account at the first glance, while being blocked as a puppet of an identified sockfarm months later in SPI. Again, in the second deletion discussion raised by me this week, 2404:4402:17E5:9C00:E5D8:6E92:7F60:E144 (only active for 4minutes) and Babib90 (inactive for ~1year before voting in this discussion) kicked in, vote for keeping and repeat the points of that obvious sockpuppet even though these points have been refuted.

Other than the 11 listed, the several that appear in deletion discussion may need further discussion or evidence before ducking. It is worth noting that, even though most of the registered accounts are SPA and start to touch "Jacky Liew" soon after joining, Berantral, Babib90 and -samsepi00l are more patient before touching that subject, which might indicates WP:SOCKFARM. 虹易 (talk) 09:27, 17 June 2022 (UTC) 虹易 (talk) 09:30, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Please check the global contributions table.--虹易 (talk) 09:38, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * I'm going to write some code to emit a more thorough timeline (with links and fancy stuff) but in the mean time here's the link to the table. 0x Deadbeef 11:18, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's a better table: Special:Permalink/1099331241, it has links for each entry and the relevant pages, with logs and diffs all included. From an initial glance the (auto)creation of the sock accounts are suspicious with homewiki/time relating back to the other accounts, which makes them look less like MEAT. 0x Deadbeef 06:10, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, I have done quite a bit of analysis going over each user. I suppose an alternative to a wall of text is a concise list format, behold.
 * Concise list:
 * Patricialiew connection with -samsepi00l (blocked sock): Pliew copied word for word source (with same mistakes of putting name in brackets for the first name parameter "first=[Si gongzi]") created by -samsepi.
 * 203.106.183.173 as Patricialiew's logged out edits: commenting while logged out, before replacing it with own signature after 1 minute.
 * Arrisontan connection with Patricialiew and 203.106.x.x
 * created account on zhwiki after 8 mins since edit by Patricialiew on zhwiki, first four edits to 廖城兰 (Jacky Liew).
 * Arrisontan created automatically on mswiki one day after, where Patricialiew's logged out IP has edited mswiki before.
 * Waynecai connection with Arrisontan and Patricialiew
 * Created on zhwiki, 10 minutes after Arrisontan's edit on zhwiki.
 * Waynecai created article on a book by Jacky Liew. Patricialiew edits the article 20 minutes after creation.
 * 千禧一族 connection with previous accounts
 * created on zhwiki, one day after Patricialiew's edit on wikidata.
 * first edit is on wikidata. To the same page of Patricialiew's edit.
 * 日当たりの良い羽 connections
 * created on enwiki. jawiki account autocreated 3 minutes after.
 * Patricialiew creates Jacky Liew on jawiki. Three minutes after 日当's account was created.
 * first edit is on jawiki 10 days after account creation. perhaps intended as a sleeper.
 * first visit to svwiki, two hours before switching to Patricialiew and creating article on svwiki about Jacky Liew.
 * Silva Andre Koimes connections
 * created on zhwiki, 3 hours after 日当 first visited Commons. This is the fourth account created on zhwiki.
 * SAK creates Jacky Liew on ukwiki and adds the wikilink to wikidata.
 * Arrisontan visits ukwiki for the first time, 28 minutes after an edit by SAK on thwiki.
 * Stale: 60.52.194.110 Single purpose IP for promoting Jacky Liew on wikidata. Same ISP as 203.x.
 * 175.141.174.59: voting keep on zhwiki's AFD. Arrisontan votes keep as well 30 minutes after. Since 175.x never edited on enwiki, it would be None of Our Business.
 * Stale: 175.139.38.48 with two contribs to ms:Jacky Liew from 2021.
 * Although 115.133.45.185 has edited enwiki, they are stale with latest edits made 7 months ago. 0x Deadbeef 11:13, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the summary! I would like to request a global block for all sockpuppets if possible. --虹易 (talk) 01:18, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

zhwiki SPI case zh:Wikipedia:傀儡調查/案件/Arrisontan, through meta CU, meta:Special:Permalink/23568716, confirmed the following accounts to be related:


 * Additionally confirmed one more user, with no prior edits on enwiki: Liuujaa – robertsky (talk) 10:10, 28 July 2022 (UTC)


 * The 3 fresh accounts Arrisontan, Silva Andre Koimes, Liuujaa have been locked: Steward_requests/Global/2022-w33. There appear no activities for now. Future attention on Jacky Liew is needed. I am marking the case as ✅. 虹易 (talk) 05:44, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Got it. I feel sorry for that.--虹易 (talk) 11:38, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * While I agree with the decision to close the case now that the accounts are locked, please do not close SPI cases yourself in the future. This should be left to admins and clerks. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 11:35, 23 August 2022 (UTC)