Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rand Editor/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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for these new accounts (all created in the last couple of days). They are all editing in the same narrow group of articles:
 * and various other military aircraft
 * and various other military aircraft
 * and various other military aircraft
 * and various other military aircraft

Across all of them, the edits are a mixture of pointless, changing to valid but inferior wording, unhelpful, and occasionally there is an ok-ish edit as well. Overall, their contributions are a bit disruptive, being reverted by a number of different people. Not outright vandalism, but certainly not good quality. Note also the lack of edit summaries across them.

It all just seems too big a coincidence, that so many new accounts, with similarly themed names across a bunch of them, would show up at once and start working on a very narrow slice of the encyclopaedia. If they are not WP:SOCKs, they must be WP:MEAT. I believe I'm not alone in my suspicions, as another editor has referred to them as socks when reverting them.

Requesting CU, both to actually be sure about it before any sanctions, and to find any that I missed, or possible sleepers.

Murph 9000 (talk) 23:19, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * All the accounts are ✅ except Testingminorchanges, which is . Looking for other accounts is very difficult because with one exception the servers are corporate and the technical data may be unreliable. All accounts blocked and tagged. Rand Editor is actually not the oldest account, but it's not important. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:41, 20 September 2016 (UTC)