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Suspected sockpuppets



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Same area of editing (human rights, the middle east, technology), have edited many of the same pages. A few of the accounts have problems following copyright, and their user pages are all similarly structured: confusing quote, vague "Improve the encyclopedia" language. Note that the accounts rarely use edit summaries, if ever, and that most of their first edits are to their user page with an edit summary stating their name. Finally, they all seem to be focused on adding information about the negative human rights records of the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Either this is a case of coordinated meatpuppetry, an editor evading their block, or a combination. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌴Help out at CCI! 19:08, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * - strong overlap in human rights topics, especially painting Saudi Arabia in a negative light. Other indicators that Moneytrees listed also check out. The more prolific editors in this list have a pretty clear 9-5 timecard and the others roughly line up with the same 9-5, so this sure looks like a farm of some sort. I think there's enough here to justify CU to validate the connections and look for more. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:28, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * All of the accounts are ✅ to each other. Given the extensive use of proxies to edit, it may be more efficient to identify socks by behaviour first and then confirm technically.  Maxim (talk)  23:11, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * all. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:26, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets


It looks pretty ducky to me. Courtesy ping There may be more copyright violations in play here. Blablubbs&#124;talk 15:33, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
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 * Very significant amount of overlap given the low contribution count
 * Same distinctive lack of edit summaries
 * Same distinctive MENA work week timecard (no edits on Friday) ( vs. )
 * Same bland userpage style: vs.
 * Same interest in political topics, especially focused on the MENA region, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

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 * I am quite convinced that these accounts are part of the same farm, both based on the evidence presented and a couple of small behavioral tells. all. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:58, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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Same anti-UAE, pro-Qatar stance as previous socks. It looks particularly related to Lukas Kaufmann account. Note the usage of parenthesis in edit summaries of both accounts. Also similar English variant for both. Similar Middle East timecard. Large overlap: MarioGom (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * Tagged and bagged. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:10, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same focus in pro-Qatar, anti-UAE POV, often touching on Xinjiang as a proxy issue. Same (quite unique) edit summary style (see Firenice10 and others). Same kind of edits, frequently adding blatant copyvio or close paraphrasing on these topics. As far as I know per their logged out editing, they use residential proxies in Spain, but maybe cuwiki has more accurate notes for the registered accounts. MarioGom (talk) 17:37, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:52, 26 March 2022 (UTC)