Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rubiesar/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Brand new account showing up to submit a Rubiesar draft, Draft:BJ Sam similar to past socks; their other edits thus far are all to BLPs, including a single-edit creation of a new draft. CU seems warranted if the logs are fresh enough. signed,Rosguill talk 17:00, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to the master (as is, whom you've already blocked.) . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:34, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Brand new account popping up to create content related to Draft:BJ Sam at that page as well as Draft:Sammy wonder and Draft:BJ Sam (Sammy Wonder), following the pattern of prior socks showing up to promote this artist. Not sure if the CU trail has run cold yet so I'm requesting that in case it's still an option. signed,Rosguill talk 16:43, 21 May 2023 (UTC)


 * , in that case, noting the sleeper-like start to the account and their monomaniacal editing focus,, blocking. signed,Rosguill talk 16:31, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * Account in the archive is stale. Pinging  in case they have something to add. Courcelles (talk) 16:23, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Nope - don't remember all that much about this case., I would use your judgement on this. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:50, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Marking the case for close now that User:Rosguill has blocked on behavior. EdJohnston (talk) 02:50, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same obsessive interest with Sammy Wonders, now an article at BJ Sam I accepted this at AFC before seeing this SPI archive. CU requested for sleepers etc 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 08:47, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * Technically this is pretty likely. Both accounts (master and proposed sock) are dotting about a bunch of different IP ranges, but they all geolocate to the same place, and they look alike in other ways. I don't see any others, but given the way they jump ranges there might easily be others I can't see - come back if you see any more. Blocking and tagging, closing.   Girth Summit  (blether)  19:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
We have another attempt at Draft:BJ Sam, this time by newbie S7070. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:14, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * In view of the increasing likelihood of sleepers I am suggesting CU 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:22, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I have followed S7070 to frwiki, and see they are active there with w:fr:Utilisateur:S7070/Brouillon, which is a draft for BJ Sam. Please will the SPI team alert their French counterparts, or consider whether we have reached the threshold for Global Locks. This is a likely UPE farm. 🇺🇦  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:28, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Added 197.148.73.155. I recognise that any CU will not link the IP to any editor nor identify them in any way.
 * Added two stale editors and one stale IP. Added for completentess and recording, likely no action possible. Found by searchin for "BJ Sam". Additions are: Honosing, 41.73.99.191, and Splendeeds. 🇺🇦  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 16:54, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * has already been blocked and tagged. I've tagged as suspected given their block.  and the 41 IP are stale and I can't see where the 197 IP has done anything actionable. Crosswiki spamming reported at Meta Wikiproject:Antispam. I don't think there's anything left to do here; closing. --Jack Frost (talk) 09:16, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This one is pretty cut-and-dried, especially as they specifically say they are a sock. They mention also that they are the subject of the relevant articles. Might be a good idea to salt the draft pages, since that would likely stop all of this from continuing (and maybe the article-space ones with a link to this SPI just to let others know?). Tollens (talk) 01:29, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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Just blocked by as an indirect consequence of a Teahouse post. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 16:25, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

For the record, was apparently also blocked as part of this sockfarm (I don't see them listed in the archive). 199.208.172.35 (talk) 16:51, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * . Already blocked. Salting pages is often counterproductive, especially in these circumstances. . —Jack Frost (talk) 12:04, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Like at least one previous sock, Lo9999* showed up at the Teahouse to ask about approval of a draft on BJ Sam which they've created on the IP's talk page. The IP had previously posted a similar draft, which was subsequently removed. User:Aniekan7777/sandbox/BJ Sam has a non-deleted example of a previous version of this draft, if that's at all useful. Obviously a check user can't do anything wrt the IP so I wasn't sure whether to request CU or not. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 15:27, 12 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Lo9999* now blocked after opening an investigation against themself. Huh. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 18:22, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hope it's not because of something I said? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 18:31, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * Adding a stale editor, Splendee who has three deleted contributions here, and who has uploaded a picture (with VRT sanction!) to Wikimedia Commons(File:BJ Sam musicale.jpg. Addition is for completeness. The more of these we nuke the better. 🇺🇦  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 18:49, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * Sockmaster seems to still be in control of Splendee account, so blocked that. Lo account tagged as suspected, IP left alone as stale. Closing. DatGuyTalkContribs 20:15, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Brand new SPA, creates yet another version of Draft:BJ Sam, which suggests they're from the Rubiesar farm. Also, some weird edits to the talk page of IP 197.148.73.155, so maybe worth looking at that, too? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * That's them. Blocked/tagged.  IP not recently active, so didn't dig into that deeply.   Case closed. Courcelles (talk) 13:39, 29 January 2024 (UTC)