Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Paulika1995/Archive

26 December 2013

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The above accounts have been confirmed, through behavioural evidence, to be sockpuppets of User:Paulika1995, and have already been blocked for disruption and/or sockpuppetry. The following characteristics and behaviours are typical of the account operator: Not all of the user's edits are problematic, but he or she edits so prolifically that it's a huge chore to check everything for copyvios and other problems, and to do the associated cleanup.
 * concerned exclusively with Romanian reality and talent TV shows, particularly Celebrity MasterChef (Romanian series), Vocea României, MasterChef România, Românii au talent, Te cunosc de undeva!, Next Top Model (Romania), Top Chef (Romania), X Factor (Romanian TV series), Mireasă pentru fiul meu, and associated articles
 * always marks edits as minor
 * copyright violations (including unattributed copying within Wikipedia)
 * repeated section blanking and unexplained removal of content
 * no communication whatsoever, including edit summaries

The user continues to create new sockpuppets as the old ones get blocked. As there are too many affected pages to semiprotect, I'd like to request a checkuser to see whether an IP block or IP rangeblock (which would necessarily include a block on account creation) is feasible. Psychonaut (talk) 12:12, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Master is, all other accounts listed are ✅. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  06:02, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Rschen7754 06:04, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

03 April 2014

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Previous sockpuppets repeatedly recreated articles on MasterChef Romania, always marked edits as minor, and were completely uncommunicative. This one's the same; it has recreated the article for MasterChef Romania Season 3 under two different titles. Psychonaut (talk) 18:08, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * In response to your request, Bbb23, one peculiar characteristic of Paulika1995 is that they create multiple versions of the same article under slightly different titles. (This is before any of the articles have been deleted; that is, they create duplicates while the original article is extant.)  For example, Paulika1995 created MasterChef România (season 1)  and a couple months later created the duplicate MasterChef (România season 1) .  Similarly, Ennybenny402 created MasterChef (România season 3)  and then the next month created MasterChef România (season 3) .  While it's plausible that a new and entirely unrelated editor would come along and create a Masterchef Romania article, it's vanishingly unlikely that they'd create two copies using the same article title scheme as the previous sockpuppet(eer)s.
 * Regarding the quality of the articles, if you check the earliest versions of the articles the known sockpuppets create (at least, the ones that aren't copied and pasted from other Wikipedia articles) you'll see they're just as poor as Ennybenny402's, with the same empty or misformatted tables, broken wikicode, poor grammar, etc.:   —Psychonaut (talk) 10:21, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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, I got the article intersection and the minor edits easily enough, but I need more, and I feel I'm doing too much work to get there. For example, it looked to me like the editor, when recreating the season 3 article, didn't recreate it as the confirmed socks did. The new editor did a very poor job in comparison. Made me wonder why. In addition, all of the confirmed puppets did much more than this new editor has done. If you could give me more connections, it would be helpful.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:09, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * , thanks, and sorry for the delay (slipped through the cracks). Based on your diffs, there's enough duck for a block. Indeffed and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:09, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

01 June 2014

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These three accounts have perfect behavioural matches to the previous socks, having made the same sort of typically problematic edits to the same narrow set of Romanian reality TV articles: Again, all of the above sorts of problems are typical of the previously confirmed sockpuppets. Psychonaut (talk) 13:58, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * User:SurvivorPanama repeatedly recreates the same articles under various titles. For example, an article for the first season of Splash! Verdete la Apă was created no fewer than four times:    .  The only other significant contributors to the Splash! articles are User:Squashno1., User:RedDog995, and the previously confirmed sock User:Periferigenilerimini.
 * They all perform unexplained section/article blanking, removal of maintenance templates, or removal of sourced content:.
 * All three accounts always mark edits as minor. (See their respective contribution histories.)
 * They show a complete lack of communication, whether for templated warnings or for personalized attempts to solicit dialogue (e.g., ).
 * Some of them occasionally post copyright violations, usually by plagiarising other Wikipedia articles (e.g., was largely copied and pasted from X Factor (Romania season 2), and  from Celebrity Splash!).
 * Their edits typically contain a lot of English language and wikitext errors.


 * DeltaQuad, what's the damning evidence you've found? If you share perhaps we can make use of it in the event of future reports. —Psychonaut (talk) 09:09, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * - - Given the accounts are somewhat established, could a CU please take a look for confirmation and a check for sleepers as well, thanks. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:08, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * RedDog995 is a ✅ match to . Everyone else is, so I can't confirm a match to the master. That being said, these two accounts are on the same IP address as at least one sockpuppet in the December 2013 case. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:26, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * On the basis of both the technical evidence and behavior, I went ahead with blocking RedDog995. Ennybenny402 has already been blocked as such. Seraphimblade Talk to me 21:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I have found some pretty damning evidence that ties SurvivorPanama to the group, and since Squashno1 was created just after the SurvivorPanama, and has many similiar article edits, i'm blocking it too. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  03:26, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Sadly, the information I found still falls under the purview of the privacy policy, and it's deleted anyway. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  20:31, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

21 July 2014

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This account's sole purpose is recreating deleted articles by Paulika1995 socks, such as Splash! Vedete la Apă (season 1) and Splash! Vedete la Apă (season 2). It also marks all edits as minor, just as with the previous socks. Psychonaut (talk) 08:14, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

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 * stamp* *stamp* *stamp*. ✅, blocked and tagged. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  23:57, 21 July 2014 (UTC)