Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sofia Gibson/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The evidence is all around Articles for deletion/Elizabeth Chevalier (model) with the sudden influx of randoms, something I believe to be 'in support of' the putative puppeteer, who is a paid editor whose 'paidness' declaration does not appear to be wide enough. Of course it may just be the puppeteer who is currently logged out.

I have less certainty about MisterSofteeTruck, who has edits outside this arena, but not very many, which makes their appearance an AFD to be odd

I've chosen not to notify the various users Fiddle   Faddle  19:46, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Hesitant endorse. My thinking:
 * The IPv6 addrs are obviously the same person (they're on the same /64 for goodness' sake). Not sure if they were intentionally voting multiple times with different IPs.
 * The IPv4 addr is bad at English in the same way, so also probably the same person behind that.
 * MisterSofteeTruck looks suspiciously UPE-like to me, they're puffing up a number of modeling-related articles, including this one. Their AfD !vote is also bad at English in a way similar to at least one of the IPs. Interestingly, their article contributions are in much better English than their AfD comment would suggest...so I'd consider them very likely UPE (and will block on those grounds even if CU comes back negative)
 * That leaves Sofia Gibson. She has only one non-article contribution (her userpage), which is fairly well-written, so no match in the English proficiency department. However, we already have a probabale-UPE editor and three IPs popping up at this AfD, and an overlap in puffy articles about models, so I'm a little suspicious that this may be a sockfarm we're dealing with (with Sofia Gibson as a "legit" face for it).
 * Endorsing because of my suspicion that Sofia Gibson and MisterSofteeTruck may be related paid editors and possibly part of a larger sockfarm. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:49, 17 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Sofia Gibson and MisterSofteeTruck are ❌. – bradv  🍁  03:45, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Very well. Blocked SofteeTruck for suspected UPE and what appears to be intentional logged-out sockpuppetry, semi'd the AfD. I note that yet _another_ brand-new SPA has shown up at that discussion with the same style and grammar errors. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:39, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The Sofia Gibson account is the older, but has only 4 undeleted edits, one of which was to declare a COI about a now deleted draft article. MrSamContributor has previously made a few rejected drafts, and today created a highly promotional article at Swifdoo, which I tagged for speedy deletion as advertising. Sofia Gibson appeared shortly thereafter to remove the speedy tag. I suspect paid editing. MrOllie (talk) 18:34, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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Hello MrOllie i hope that your doing great and that you had a great holidays. I want to inform you that you're unfortunetely been mistaken about this case. I'm just a Swifdoo user who wanted to write an article about the product. The article was inspired from validated PDF ventures listed here, nothing promotional. Maybe i was a little too personal in the description, but it has nothing to do with those things you mentionned above. Please tell me what i can do to make up all this.

Kindly MrSamContributor — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrSamContributor (talk • contribs) 18:36, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * These two accounts are ✅. Blocked and tagged. I didn't see any obvious sleepers. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:08, 1 January 2022 (UTC)