Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Risala99/Archive

10 March 2012

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 * Suspected sockpuppets (Starmedia)




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After looking at longterm editing patterns at Fernando Espuelas and Starmedia, I believe further investigation is warranted. Since 2006, a series of single-purpose accounts have been created, often only used for a day or so, that would appear to be the same user. Similarities in editing style, articles edited, and edit content exist. Users Wikirola, Marianoatorre, Eltito1, Risala99, 50%off, and Mattsughasina all had edits on both the Espuelas and Starmedia articles. I realize that much of this will be considered stale since it goes back a ways. The indented accounts have edited within the past month. Gobōnobo + c 03:52, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . If further investigation is warranted, please present evidence such as diffs, page histories and log entries explaining a) how these accounts belong to the same user and b) how they are being used abusively. This is the preliminary means by which to conduct an investigation, not the CheckUser tool itself. WilliamH (talk) 04:36, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

I was about to ping the filer for diffs, but with the given description and the simple contribs of the accounts this was really self-evident. The following are ✅ indistinguishable based on technical evidence: During the last three months all those accounts only edited the two pages mentioned. The pages should be closely scrutinized with regards to COI editing. In my opinion all suspect material should very liberally be removed, or the articles should be stubbed outright, and indef semi-protection be applied afterwards. Amalthea 14:07, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * - and sleepers? --  DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:40, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅, but no other accounts that I saw. TN X Man  13:28, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All tagged as socks of Risala99. T. Canens (talk) 06:16, 15 March 2012 (UTC)