Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Salman.atmc/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I have already run the check on this, but am opening an SPI to record the connections and so that I can use the script to block and tag. I first noticed something fishy at Animal Behaviour: Biting, where two brand new accounts began simultaneously wikilinking words that did not need to be wikilinked, sometimes using the incorrect formatting. I had noticed oddly similar behavior (while Huggling) in this edit by another account, but did not run the check because of the difference in topic area. I only ran the check once the two accounts began editing the animal behavior article, at which point I connected many more accounts.

I am not sure what the reason is for this large sockfarm—typically with this many accounts I suspect a school project gone awry, but the lack of consistency in topic area and the very gnomish types of edits don't make much sense. That said, the existence of the years 1992–94 in some of the usernames does suggest these could all be people around the same age, possibly in a graduate course? But the edits are disruptive and there is no indication of any collaboration with WikiEd or similar. GorillaWarfare (talk) 03:27, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * - GorillaWarfare (talk) 03:28, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * All these accounts are technically ✅. Some have made no edits, but those who have edited have been behaviorally consistent. GorillaWarfare (talk) 03:40, 21 November 2018 (UTC)