Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Smethport/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


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HelpingWorld places CSD tags on 3 articles. All 3 are declined by Liz, and ~10 hours later Sjaf registers and adds an A7 tag to each of the three articles. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 09:32, 22 January 2022 (UTC)


 * The first two appear to be on drafts because I draftified the articles after filing this report. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 09:44, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * There is socking going on here, but is not involved. Give me a minute, I'm going to move this case to another name and start deploying the block button.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:55, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to (for those who can't see the deleted versions, that was the author of the articles), and also to . HelpingWorld is completely ❌. Blocking, tagging, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:05, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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The sockpuppeteer claimed to actually be a sock of the first. The second, in his/her first edit, tried to attract attention in WP:AN. 2.55.146.157 (talk) 23:37, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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Smethport says the account is a sock and I've ✅ it along with the already blocked User:Aalaa325, User:Hladimir, and User:Jnayh. Jnayh is shown as suspected but of course now confirmed. User:Crwd1 who reported this to WP:AN seems to be the lated confirmed sock. Doug Weller talk 13:58, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved case to Smethport, which is the oldest account. Retagged everyone. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 18:03, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Started looking into Gaetr based on, which seems atypical for a user with 64 edits. A check of their contribs showed other precocious behavior such as (chronologically) installing Twinkle and filing an AfD, PRODding an article,jumping into RCP work, getting renamed, filing an RfD (in addition to the later one for WP:OVERSIGHT), submitting an RFPP request, filing another AfD, requesting a move, and most recently edit-warring on a sensitive topic.

The interest in a page as niche as ACET (AIDS charity), where Smethport sock Aalaa324 removed a large amount of promotional content (sidenote, is clearly a sock of, but long stale). EIA against Smethport's known sox shows one other overlap, generic vandalism-based reports to RfPP (compare ). The lack of other overlap may seem to tend against sockpuppetry here, but note that the existing Smethport sox have only overlapped once. By way of other evidence, we have the five-letter unpronounceable username (compare Crwd1, Dyiof, Jnayh, Sjaf3), the early username change (compare ), precocious RM (compare this and this), precocious RfD (compare this) early usage of Twinkle (compare to ), but with the shared curious tendency to use manual vandalism warnings despite having Twinkle enabled (compare edits to IP talk pages at  vs. ). That last bit, combined with the ACET overlap, are the things that most elevate my suspicions to the level of wanting a check run. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 18:02, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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I'm about 50% sure this is Smethport, and about 48% sure it's another sockmaster. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 18:02, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 22:17, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. There's another zero-edit account which seems likely, but I just left it alone; we'll see what it does when it wakes up. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:26, 22 March 2022 (UTC)