Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rahfatsalman/Archive

24 August 2014

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Melpon created Vegas Weddings which User:Mamadoutadioukone was working on in a sandbox before they were blocked. General editing patterns are also very similar - i.e. creating obvious paid articles on non-notable subjects. As you can see here they also cross over with Kaledit at VidCruiter.

OneoNater displays a similar behaviour in general and specifically to Mamadoutadioukone by creating articles in sandboxes with very similar titles e.g. User:Mamadoutadioukone/sandbox/SMB User:Mamadoutadioukone/sandbox/MTL (any others) and User:OneoNater/sandbox/YA.

Is it possible to see if there are any other accounts linked to these two? SmartSE (talk) 21:55, 24 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I have also added Svenstpaul who is editing in a similar manner and specifically editing Troy Fodemski (including removing the COI template) which User:Greg115 created, who was blocked as a sock of Mamadoutadioukone. SmartSE (talk) 19:32, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


 * And Bouake123 who I found has a Wikipedia Portfolio at dewiki which is almost exactly the same as this one in Mamadoutadioukone's sandbox. SmartSE (talk) 19:46, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Rahfatsalman created Godinterest which is listed in the portfolio linked above. They also created Draft:Kashif Saleem which Reusha 007 then used to create Kashif Saleem (CEO). SmartSE (talk) 20:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Skyheight23 has been working on Adobe Creative Cloud (also listed in the portfolio) and using similar sandboxes: User:Skyheight23/sandbox/ACC. SmartSE (talk) 21:55, 27 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I've added Bostonscribe to the list. Bostonscribe has also been working with identical sandboxes, using the same style and conventions, and also has been working on an Adobe article in a sandbox: . There is additional off-wiki evidence, but the style similarities and Adobe relationship should be enough. - Bilby (talk) 13:04, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

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. I'm endorsing this partly to possibly clear up some confusion (at least in my mind) as to who is the master of some of these accounts and if there is more than one master despite the apparent overlap in MO. At the same time, among the accounts listed (several other accounts are referred to in the evidence), the oldest is Rahfatsalman, not the master. I'll wait for the CU to see if anything needs to be done about that.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:48, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Also see Sockpuppet investigations/Ireneshih which might be related., if you've got some time and the inclination a behavioural analysis would likely be the best course of action. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 16:53, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link, . I think I'll take the easy way out and wait for the CU before trying to sort through the behavior in greater depth. :-) --Bbb23 (talk) 17:04, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * The following accounts are fairly related:


 * The following accounts are / connected to each other, however are ❌ to the previous group:


 * The following accounts are ❌ to each other and the other 2 groups:
 * In this context, it appears we have multiple sock masters with similar behaviour. PhilKnight (talk) 21:21, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * , it's not clear to me whether the first group is related to Sibtain or no one is. I think the answer is no one, but I wanted to be sure before I attempt to sort this mess out. Thanks (I think).--Bbb23 (talk) 21:30, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I don't know. Sibtain and his confirmed socks are all stale. PhilKnight (talk) 21:40, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Following your email, on the basis that Opellured is a confirmed sock of Sibtain, groups 1 and 2 are unrelated to Sibtain. PhilKnight (talk) 22:38, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Based on the clarifications, I am going to assume that none of the listed accounts is a puppet of Sibtain. With that in mind, my hope is I'll work on this tomorrow as (a) I'm operating on very little sleep and (b) I have off-wiki plans.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I don't know. Sibtain and his confirmed socks are all stale. PhilKnight (talk) 21:40, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Following your email, on the basis that Opellured is a confirmed sock of Sibtain, groups 1 and 2 are unrelated to Sibtain. PhilKnight (talk) 22:38, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Based on the clarifications, I am going to assume that none of the listed accounts is a puppet of Sibtain. With that in mind, my hope is I'll work on this tomorrow as (a) I'm operating on very little sleep and (b) I have off-wiki plans.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

I moved this open report to Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone with the intention of blocking those accounts related to that master (Group 1 above). I was unaware of how the Wiki software worked and thought I could keep the history of both masters' pages. I won't go into the gory details, but that wasn't possible. The history at Mamadoutadioukone is, I believe, correct, but the history of this open case has been lost. I am not going to finish clerking this until late next week because I'm leaving on vacation.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:26, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Copied and pasted (with changes) from Sockpuppet investigations/Sibtain 007.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:35, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Accounts in Group #2 tagged. Bbb23 (talk) 21:38, 13 September 2014 (UTC)