Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sadiecollective/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Spamming while blocked for spamming, either by human proxy or sockpuppets, after four failed unblock requests.

Compare the last revision of User:Sadiecollective/sandbox, noting the template at the very top, to the first revisions of the following pages that ironically contained a self-nomination for spam deletion:


 * Special:PermanentLink/936253396  (Draft:The Sadie Collective) by
 * Special:PermanentLink/930368247  (Draft:Sadie Collective) by

Since we seem to be dealing with undisclosed paid editing and dishonesty ("I am not affiliated with the organization."), and since there is apparently no way to search for deleted copies from similar socks, I'm requesting a checkuser to have a look at this more closely than I can. To find the master account, I had to use Google and a Wikipedia mirror that happened to show an old revision of CAT:RFU with the name on it. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:53, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Is it possible that it is several paid editors working together? We know for a fact that Liliana was paid and the new user who is unrelated managed to get the identical content from Sadiecollective's sandbox last year (which was deleted then, too.) Praxidicae (talk) 22:14, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Sadiecollective and Lilanna4ever are ✅. I've blocked the unblocked account and tagged both. Batuel is ❌. There is evidence to indicate that Batuel may be part of a multi-student project. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:54, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Anything's possible, but I don't think it's likely. In any event, Batuel is clearly unrelated to the master and therefore not blockable as a sock. If an administrator wishes to block the user for UPE, that's their prerogative.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:52, 17 January 2020 (UTC)