Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sentineloflight05/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


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Note:Opened under this account, as it seems to be the most used, feel free to move if it should go elsewhere. (But not to Sentineloflight05, see below why)

For quite a while now, a group of SPAs have been engaging in sockpuppetry, or effectively so, on the Apollo Quiboloy article, editing it to conform to the Kingdom's (Quiboloy's church's) view of him. They will edit war to remove anything negative, no matter how well sourced, whilst making, as JBW described, "quasi-legal threats" to anyone who reverts them. Since Quiboloy was accused of some rather concerning issues involving (among other things) human trafficking, the ante seems to have been upped somewhat. Some parts of the editing pattern suggest that this might be more meatpuppetry than sockpuppetry, but I would suggest that we assign these accounts the same category as a paid editing company's sockfarm, since at the very least there is a lot of off-wiki coordination going on. They also seem to understand how rollback works, as they seem to break up a string of edits by one sock with edits by another, (see history of Apollo Quiboloy for examples, particularly around 25 Jan), so that RC patrollers (myself included) can miss earlier edits (this happened the first time I reverted Kingdomscribe101, and I'm still kicking myself for it).

Some of their favourite changes include:


 * Changing capitalisation in a manner contrary to the MOS, and capitalising abstract nouns: ,


 * Changing some variation on "He claims he is the Appointed Son of God" to "He is the Appointed Son of God": ,


 * Generally removing anything negative from the article, even if correctly sourced:, ,

In terms of the exact connection between accounts, Sentineloflight05 is definitely not the same person as Ceasarbongyao, (they had a little edit war with them over the spelling of "Amerika" "America") but the way that they woke up after 11 years to correct a couple of typos and make an article on a related topic, seems very odd indeed and too unlikely to be a coincidence. I don't think that Sentineloflight05 should be considered the master even if they are the oldest account. Mako001 (C) (T)  13:41, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:55, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to and  and . I can't account for the edit warring with each other, but if they're not the same person, they're using the same device to edit.
 * geolocates to the same country, but there's no overlap on IP range.
 * seems consistently to be editing out of IP addresses that geolocate to a different country.
 * I'll block the accounts that confirm to KingfomScribe101 for block evasion; since I can't rule out MEAT or indeed spoofing, I'll leave this open for behavioural evaluation of the other accounts. Girth Summit  (blether)  14:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I've blocked, but haven't tagged - please would a clerk consider which account ought to be considered the master in this case?  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I moved the case to Sentineloflight05, which is the oldest CU-confirmed account, and tagged the blocked accounts accordingly. I'm not convinced the other accounts are operated by the same person - if I had to guess, they're other followers of the church. Closing. Spicy (talk) 18:39, 30 January 2022 (UTC)