Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pauldereck/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I came across this because of an edit war at Beast (2022 Indian film) in which the three users supported each other. After investigating more deeply, I saw a similar phenomenon at Vijay (actor) in which the editors would revert other users and then restore their edits using different accounts. For example, on October 16, 2022, an editor reverted Ratih2000. Ratih2000 reverted back labeling the other editor's edit vandalism (this is common in the edit wars I've seen involving these three accounts). A little over a week later, Ratih reverted a different user calling that editor a vandal. After some back-and-forth between Ratih and two users, Pauldereck jumped in and restored Ratih's edit. Other similarities: all three have one-sentence userpages; their timecards are very similar; they have very few edits outside of article space. Bbb23 (talk) 18:44, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I don't think that CU is going to be much use here. All three accounts are definitely using proxies at least some of the time, and I am doubtful about the IPs they're on that Spur doesn't flag as such. The behavioural evidence you've presented, alongside some other BEANS stuff I observed, is persuasive. Blocking, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:18, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
After opening an ANI report on two editors adding gratuitous mentions of Vijay to unrelated articles, I checked what links here for Vijay (actor). In addition to Parrot-den and Firewaterair (reported at ANI), I found the same pattern of edits by Healove and Goodgirly, as well as Pauldereck who I saw had been blocked for sockpuppetry.

Parrot-den and Firewaterair restore each other's edits after reverts. All four being reported make a lot of edits to Vijay (actor) and all four add similarly worded mentions of Vijay to unrelated articles and three of them falsified ref titles (just as Pauldereck did). Samples of falsified ref titles: Parrot-den Healove and Firewaterair. Schazjmd  (talk)  21:15, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

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Note: I and Courcelles had a discussion here regarding Pauldereck being a sock of Bothiman. This SPI can be moved under Bothiman if the point I raised makes any sense or its all good. <3 Jeraxmoira (talk) 17:45, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * All blocked. Range between confirmed and likely, and as before, significant proxy use. Courcelles (talk) 21:34, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged as proven, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:33, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same types of edits as and, both blocked socks of : adding gratuitous mentions of Vijay (actor) to unrelated articles (see  and .)  Schazjmd   (talk)  14:00, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked per behavioral evidence. Thank you for reporting this. —  Newslinger  talk   07:41, 23 June 2024 (UTC)