Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sidtever/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both the editors joined 5 years ago with difference of 2 months. Both of them went inactive after a few edits, and then came back for Articles for deletion/White Palace (Dhamdachha). They were only votes from account that said "keep". Both of them have a similar activity regarding edits. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:12, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * Update: sidtever currently has 3 live edits. All from January 26, 2020. First is userpage creation, and rest two are on aforementioned AfD. Bejinativity has 36 live edits, with all the signs of UPE. On June 03, 2018, they created article for Sage Intacct. Before creating the article, on the same day they added redlinks to the article in few others. After the edits of this one day, including uploafing of logos n stuff, they went dormant. In december 2018, they uploaded a photo. On January 27th, they created their own userpage, and posted two comments at the AfD. Just like the master. Also, the deleted article was a promotional attempt given from the previous versions (including one with another title). might have something to add here, as they had scrutinised the article/sources. We either have socks, or global meats. —usernamekiran (talk) 11:49, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , I don't have much to offer I'm afraid. The number of contributions is so low that it's difficult to discern a pattern. We could wait and see who turns up at Sage Intacct, but I suspect they'd ditch the burner account. Sage might be old enough that whoever wrote it got paid and s no longer actively monitoring it. I'm curious about who makes their first edit to the article with the edit summary "Removed "paid" tag as this is an incorrect assertion." I wonder how they knew that, since they didn't create the article. Maybe there's a connection. Vexations (talk) 14:25, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Technically ❌. However, Sidtever shows up in two different countries on opposite sides of the world in the space of 5 minutes, which doesn't seem physically possible. I am not able to find any evidence that the IPs are currently proxies, but it is possible that they used to be and are on dynamic ranges. . ST47 (talk) 02:58, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * This case seems entwined with the efforts of to publicise White Palace Dhamdachha, White Palace (Dhamdachha) (both here and on commons) - the narrative of 2 sleeper AFDSocks only makes sense if they're working for someone. The AFD discussion contains an allegation of sockpuppetry against  which has no evidence and was retracted. On the other hand  has (so far as I've seen) offered no clue what prompted them to recreate a recently deleted advert/article previously created by a blocked spammer.The deleted photos on commons suggest that the first author was their photographer. The sleeper AFDSocks suggest that the work has now been farmed out to UPEs who have sleepers held in reserve.Needs an admin/clerk to compare the deleted versions of thw White Palace articles. Given my prior involvement, that's my lot for this report. Cabayi (talk) 12:08, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the two reported accounts. I've had a look at the deleted versions of the articles Cabayi mentioned and I don't believe that they're similar enough to show a connection. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:48, 16 April 2020 (UTC)