Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sam Markanda/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

The article Jim Dratwa shows significant signs of WP:UPE. Both accounts made a handful of other reasonable-looking edits to other articles, such as adding wikilinks, etc. They then added large amounts of text to the Dratwa article. Initial creation Special:Diff/1046284020 by Markanda at 14000+ characters. The AlexVDD account added a photo that is marked as "own work" Special:Diff/1046292331 with an innocuous edit summary. The AlexVDD account also removed maintenance tags such as Autobiography, while adding large chunks of primary-sourced material here Special:Diff/1047154861. I also have mild concerns about user, a new user with an unusual interest in article assessment, who assessed the Dratwa article quite highly; these concerns are however less concrete. Pinging, who recently brought the Dratwa article to AfD. Requesting checkuser, as the operation looks sophisticated enough that I think it may be more widespread. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 16:08, 13 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Note that the article was reviewed for NPP by User:TheChronium, who has been blocked indefinitely as a sock of User:Sanketio31, and has been mentioned in relation to a possible extortion ring at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#Apparent_AFD_extortion_ring Vexations (talk) 16:14, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * is following a somewhat similar editing pattern. New account, handful of edits at other pages, then a great deal of interest in Dratwa (including a vote at AfD). Russ Woodroofe (talk) 11:30, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
 
 * - credible concerns about socking and UPE. I've added to the sock list because they show a similar gaming pattern to the other accounts and they've just voted 'keep' on the Dratwa AfD . CU should be helpful to confirm the relationships between these accounts and uncover any potential others. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 16:26, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * GeneralNotability (talk) 01:52, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * As much as I hate to use this result, . Close geolocation, including AlexVDD/Uliberty sharing a somewhat busy range, but technical evidence suggests that these are people who know each other rather than one person. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:24, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Whether it is UPE, COI related to an employer, or something else, WP:MEAT applies. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:47, 17 October 2021 (UTC)