Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Profile100/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets


A little less likely:

Unlikely based on behavior:


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I noticed over a dozen new accounts editing Goldin Finance 117 in the past eight days. Page history shows them. The oldest sock in the list is eight days old, and the accounts have 1-12 edits to their credit. Except for Profile100, the accounts are more or less sequential with the edits, as in when I checked the creation dates they are in the same order as the edits. I guess this suggests a group activity. It might be some kind of school project, or maybe a school for paid editors... ThatMontrealIP (talk) 16:27, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow, this is still going on! I am betting on a social-media driven thing, a botnet, or perhaps there is a teacher somewhere teaching Wikipedia editing who has this on their syllabus.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 00:35, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * I checked a few of these at random and they appear to be in completely different areas of the world. I don't understand what's going on here. – bradv  🍁  01:58, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * - I was going to take a look at this tonight from a ping, but i'll look in the morning if no one beats me to it. Not sure i'll be able to improve the result, but we'll see. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 06:10, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Ya there is no sense to CU data. If they are the same, the only thing I could think is a botnet. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:30, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I added a few more that have popped up since the original batch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoySmith (talk • contribs) 19:23, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Fixing ping to User:Callanecc on behalf of User:RoySmith --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 22:40, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * After looking at a bunch of diffs, I'm convinced these users are all connected in some way. There's just too much coincidence of timing and some of the specific edits made.  For example, this by AdamoCena and this by Bajantala touch the same sentence.  But, the bottom line is they all seem like perfectly reasonable edits, correcting minor style or grammar errors, so I don't see how this can be called WP:ILLEGIT.  Maybe somebody's just running some "We're all stuck at home in covid quarantine, so let's learn how to edit wikipedia to help pass the time" class by video conference?  So my recommendation is to do nothing other than continue to watch and wait. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * If there are blocks to be made it'll need to be purely on behaviour. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:11, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've pulled out a few that have sufficient other editing history that they don't seem like part of the same group. These seem less likely to be part of the sock farm. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:28, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * And another few that seem "a little less likely". -- RoySmith (talk) 00:32, 19 May 2020 (UTC)


 * You could that it's breaching ILLEGIT by splitting edit histories. Even if it is the same person, it doesn't look like it's necessarily causing any harm, in fact on the whole it seems to be net positive. I've move it to the request clerk assistance queue so someone else can have a look but I'd be tempted just to monitor for now. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:38, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , Nobody seems to have picked this up, and there's no recent activity on Goldin Finance 117, so how about I close this for now? -- RoySmith (talk) 12:32, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , yeah, let's do that for now. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:16, 26 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Closing with no action taken. If they start up again, please open a new case. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:47, 26 May 2020 (UTC)