Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Radiophoto/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
There's an ongoing AfD at Articles for deletion/The Gray Area which I opened. User Grayareapod has a stated, but not properly disclosed, COI, and is somewhat vociferously objecting to the deletion. They were joined by Radiophoto (a few edits back in 2016, and now this AfD !vote) and a new SPA Yeraki. I reckon some or all of these could be puppets of one type or another.

The article to which this AfD relates, The Gray Area, was created back in 2017 by SPA, and subsequently edited by other SPAs , , , , and. I'm not necessarily saying they're part of the same farm, but thought I'd mention in case connections can be found between them and the more recent SPAs.

Some of the accounts that I'm calling SPA have made a few unrelated edits, but always within the same topic area, ie. radio drama, podcasts, etc. --DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:21, 25 April 2023 (UTC) DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:21, 25 April 2023 (UTC)


 * PS: We now have new account also joining the fray. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:16, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - suspicious behaviour, please compare the accounts. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 09:08, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 13:36, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * These accounts are all ostensibly ❌, but due to proxy use is probably a better description.   is clearly using proxies.   is ✅ to .  The others could be proxy-using socks, or could just be canvassed fans of the blog podcast.  Reading the naive comments in the AfD, I'm actually leaning towards the later, but I'll leave that to a clerk to decide. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:53, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Article is now deleted. Closing without further action. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:19, 14 May 2023 (UTC)