Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Php7788/Archive

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Originally opened at ANI, but on further investigation I was able to link Jackjil667, who was editing at the same time as Sweety9909. The all edit or create hoax Philippine airline articles. All accounts have edited Astral Airways, as well as spamming content about it and wikilinking the page. This includes (but not limited to) Air transportation in the Philippines (i.e. Sweety9909 and Astralair778) and Template:Airlines of the Philippines (i.e. Astralair778, Flyastralairways and Sweety9909). There have been editors who have reverted the addition of content by these accounts and also editors edit Astral Airways to put that the airline is a hoax and should be deleted. Jackjil667 also created Draft:Divergent Air, however, none of the other accounts edited this draft (nor did it get to mainspace).

Astralair778 was the first account created (log) and was soft blocked. Jackjil667 was created after Astralair778's last edit (log). Sweety9909 was created after Astralair778's last edit (and after Jackjil667's creation) and has exactly the same userpage content (See User:Astralair778 and User:Sweety9909), so it is very likley they are linked. Flyastralairways was created after Sweety9909's and Jackjil667's last edit (log) and has a very similar username to the first account.

The main reason that this has been created here after posting at ANI, is because I later realised that Jackjil667 and Sweety9909 were editing around the same time (2-5 April) on Astral Airways. I believe that they have created multiple accounts in an attempt to avoid scrutiny and make it seem that there is more than one editor who believes this airline exists. The big red flag for sockpuppetry, is that Sweety9909 and Jackjil667 were editing around the same time on Astral Airways (this diff and 4 onwards shows this). I have requested check user, as there may be more hoax Philippine airline drafts and articles. It is abusive as it is an attempt to keep the hoaxes on Wikipedia. For more information / evidence the ANI section and the AfD for Astral Airways may be of use. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:25, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to one another:
 * Php7788 appears to be the oldest account. —DoRD (talk)​ 16:42, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Cabayi (talk) 11:48, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Case moved, socks tagged, closing. Cabayi (talk) 11:56, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Php7788 appears to be the oldest account. —DoRD (talk)​ 16:42, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Cabayi (talk) 11:48, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Case moved, socks tagged, closing. Cabayi (talk) 11:56, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Php7788 appears to be the oldest account. —DoRD (talk)​ 16:42, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Cabayi (talk) 11:48, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Case moved, socks tagged, closing. Cabayi (talk) 11:56, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Case moved, socks tagged, closing. Cabayi (talk) 11:56, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * - added after the report opened, but before an CU check was done
 * - added after the report opened, but before an CU check was done


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Similar username format (name then three/four numbers) to checkuser blocked accounts. Dormant for 6 days, until around 5 hours before the master's block was set to expire (first edit at 2:51 20 May 2019 and masters block was set at 1 day 7 hours from 00:32 19 May, which means it would have expired at 7:32 20 May). So, if connected, this would be ban evasion. Reason this account seems to be connected is their only edits (except from creating their userpage) are to Philippine topics, with two of the three mainspace edits being to Astral Airways. First edit removed all the tags, as well as the AfD notice at the top of the page. They removed citation needed's and disputed inline tags and tried to justify that this airline exists, by saying (without sources) that this airline was converted to Asian Spirit. This is (again) copying directly from the AirAsia Zest article (the exact wikicode was copied). In this edit, content added by the blocked sock (the "Fleet" section, i.e. Flyastralairways) was readded. Although it isn't exactly the same, the way it is structured (by using a table with three rows and three columns) and what is says is the same. It has since been removed by an IP. Their second edit removed the image which they had copied from AirAsia Zest (and because it was next to this sentence in AirAsia Zest, I suspect the user just copied to much).

Although a CU check was done yesterday, this account was not brought up and given the similarities and that this sockmaster created 3 accounts yesterday to spam this article, it seems likely that they would have made more accounts to go back to their other editing area (money in the Philippine) Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 08:16, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Another account just edited and removed the hoax tag, cn tags and disputed tags. It also readded the fleet table. I have added it above as no CU check has been done yet. Quack! Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 09:12, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear the second account was created after the sockmaster in this case was automatically unblocked, as the expiry was met. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 09:22, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * Cabayi (talk) 08:20, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please confirm & check for sleepers. Cabayi (talk) 08:22, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ and blocked awaiting tags. There are a couple of accounts that technically match, but until/unless they edit, there is no way to be sure, so . —DoRD (talk)​ 11:39, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. Cabayi (talk) 13:55, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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Another account submitting a draft on Astral Airways, which does not exist. See Articles for deletion/Astral Airways (2nd nomination).

This account quacks, but request CheckUser to look for more sock accounts that may have created more hoaxes. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:25, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

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✅

meatpuppet

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:46, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

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An article for hoax Astral Airways again has been recreated as a draft. See: Articles_for_deletion/Astral_Airways_(2nd_nomination). JESS7877 is the creator of the draft while Astralair998 is the only other editor. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 05:28, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, taggged, cleaned up, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:34, 16 November 2019 (UTC)