Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Reds1lv/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These accounts are all created for the singular purpose of attempting to create/undelete and prevent the deletion of Alley of Angels (Sometimes "Alley of Angels (the English version)"). Reds1lv is an account created to "Keep" the original article at Articles for deletion/Alley of Angels. Voroniev created a draft of the article Draft:Alley of Angels a few days ago. The rest of the accounts and ip's started spamming Requests for undeletion and Wikipedia talk:Requests for undeletion for "Alley of Angels (the English version)" to be undeleted today. No accounts or ip's have any other purpose and the constant switching implies bad faith. Terasail [✉️] 15:03, 1 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I decided to go back and do a more in depth check for accounts posting this nonsense and came across "Olesya12345" which I added to the bottom of the list. They posted on WP:UND as well as User talk:Liz. And some more ip's but I don't think adding more ip's will add much. I really appreciate the 12345 in the name just to get a new username... Terasail [✉️] 21:20, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Other IPs requesting at WP:RfU in the last 3 days are 5.18.187.81, 176.59.104.10,  37.235.231.79,  2a03:d000:850a:23bf:1:0:3d00:a979, 85.249.28.236,  2a00:1fa2:4481:68dc:0:66:1647:1701,  37.29.37.173,  128.72.159.51,  78.153.6.47,  212.19.20.124,  178.129.91.184,  2a02:810d:54c0:6a4:4c9d:f619:8d07:28d4,  and 94.131.99.154. RfU has been protected third day in a row, and these requests come up when the protection expires.  Jay  💬 08:22, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Obviously CUs cannot comment on IPs, so this is offered only as an additional data point for private consideration: IP 77.137.75.234 (not referenced above) erroneously requested restoration of Alley of Angels on the Commons' UDR page. Эlcobbola talk 21:04, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Distinct individuals coming possibly from twiiter #AlleyOfAngels. Jay  💬 11:51, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Please compare the named accounts. I think that this looks more like a case of off-wiki canvassing based on the listed IPs (a highly diverse set of mostly Russian IPs that do not appear to be proxies). However, it's possible that some socking is going on and CU should help to sort this out. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:42, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ,, and are  to each other at best, but arguably in  territory.  and  are technically ❌ to everyone else. No clear signs of proxy use or other technical evasion measures; all in all, technical data would seem more consistent with these accounts being operated by distinct individuals – I do note striking wording similarities at . . --Blablubbs (talk) 11:10, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Agree with all above that this looks like off-wiki coordination and not sockpuppetry. I will leave it up to someone else to determine whether these users should be blocked for WP:MEAT/WP:NOTHERE. As a practical matter, I think implementing semi-protection and/or an edit filter until the social media storm blows over would be a more effective way to deal with this than playing whack-a-mole with dozens of IPs and accounts. Spicy (talk) 00:35, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Nothing else to do here, without prejudice of admins blocking IPs for disruption at Requests for undeletion or elsewhere. . MarioGom (talk) 11:03, 8 December 2022 (UTC)