Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ssmcmitford/Archive

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I first stumbled upon this while doing RCP. Ssmdoc (most recent active suspected sock) made an. After posting a notice template on their userpage, I noticed a previous bot-posted notice about Sir Salimullah Medical College, which struck me due to their username, which seemed linked. Going back through I discovered user Ssmcmitford, which  had been indeffed for promotion by  on October 14. Following this, Fahadkabir, a user created on October 26, began editing on November 2 in much the same style using the same method of editing as Ssmcmitford, the android app. On November 27, between Fahadkabir's edits by a couple of hours, ওমর মিথুন (Bengali tl:Omar Gemini) edited the page, same manner, same method. On December 6, the IP, which is from Bangladesh, edited in the same manner, most likely Fahadkabir editing while logged out. Fahadkabir continued to edit the page until December 8, when the user was warned by for unexplained content removal. The same day, Ssmdoc was created, beginning to edit the page on the following day. in again the same manner, same method. Almost all the edits appeared promotional and weren't cited (most of them) or cited primary sources, Don't worry, I cleaned it up. ~Gwennie &#128008; &#xFF5F;💬 📋&#xFF60; 12:55, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note I have also reported the user on the Commons, as the pictures they upload there are non-free or scraped from facebook pages and have severe copyright issues thusly. ~Gwennie &#128008;  &#xFF5F;💬 📋&#xFF60; 01:16, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * My impressions:
 * All of these accounts are using the Android mobile app and really like using "fixed typo" as an edit summary, though I have yet to see any of their edits actually fix a typo.
 * Ssmdoc and Fahadkabir are either sock or meat based on their overlap at Armed Forces Medical College (Bangladesh)
 * Based on their edits at Sir Salimullah Medical College, particularly Special:Diff/990392760 and Special:Diff/983433798, I think Ssmcmitford and Fahadkabir are also related in some way.
 * I don't believe ওমর মিথুন is part of this group - their edit summaries are styled differently and they added some people to "notable alumni" that other members of this group later removed.
 * No opinion on the IP; it hasn't edited in several weeks so there's no point in taking action.
 * I've all as suspected, don't think CU is needed here; my guess is that this is meatpuppetry (several people puffing up these colleges' articles, possibly students or faculty), with one or more of the socks probably the previously-blocked Ssmcmitford. I've semi'd SSMC for a couple months as well. Well done, User:Gwennie-nyan. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:55, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

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Same behavior as previous socks. Sneaky advertising. ~Gwennie &#128008; &#xFF5F;💬 📋&#xFF60; 13:30, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * - Considering the overlap and that the account was created about 90 minutes after ওমর মিথুন was blocked, likely to be a sock, but unlike all the previous accounts, Rayhantanvirbd doesn't use the android app, so CU confirmation would be helpful. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:53, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Um, not clear WTF I was looking at. Yes, they do use the android app.  Blocking, tagging, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:58, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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Aphahahavi recently Android mobile edits in target pages similar to the sock pattern. Aphahahavi was a sockcreated by Ktp1001 on Oct 22 2020. (Ktpl1001, the oldest account (even predating Ssmcmitford) it may be a sleeper or original sockmaster.) Ktpl had a history of promotional editing but it seems to have moved that to their sock. Also considering the overlap, It looks like a duck to me. ~Gwennie &#128008; &#xFF5F;💬 📋&#xFF60; 16:06, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * - Aphahahavi is clearly Ktpl001, but taking those two in isolation, there's no temporal overlap, so no violation of WP:ILLEGIT. It gets more complicated when you mix in the rest of the accounts.  The rest all seem likely; a bunch of new accounts, all editing medical schools (mostly, but not all, in South Asia), almost all using the Android app.  But there's enough disparities that make me wonder if this is really one person.  For example, Priyopriyonto concentrated on adding (mostly low-quality) sources.  I don't see the others doing that.  Asking for CU to verify. , , ,  from the archives are all not stale and should be compared against  from this report and  from 11 February 2021.  And if there's this many, there's probably sleepers.  -- RoySmith (talk) 19:27, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I can only compare to previous socks, as the other account and the master are .  is ✅ to  (see SPI below) and possible to . They're all in the same country and geolocation, but  and  are on different ranges and  user agents.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   01:59, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The three that are clearly the same person (Priyopriyonto CU-confirmed to Aphahahavi, and Ktpl001 by the newuser log entry) all have non-overlapping histories. So, no WP:ILLEGIT issue there.  The little bits of behavioral clues and the "possible" from CU are not enough to tie them to the rest.  Closing with no action taken. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:17, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

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Same type of edits. Same Android method. ~Gwennie &#128008; &#xFF5F;💬 📋&#xFF60; 19:30, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * - See my comments on 29 January 2021. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:28, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to (see SPI above) and possible to . They're all in the same country and geolocation, but  and  are on different ranges and  user agents.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   01:59, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * See 29 January 2021 -- RoySmith (talk) 02:17, 24 February 2021 (UTC)