Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Studygal015/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


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Accounts initially dedicated to add negative coverage to certain Kuwait BLP and organization articles. Now adding news mostly to the same media outlets (e.g. arab.news), same edit summaries, mostly on alternating days. For the sake of completeness, these are probably previous accounts, but they are stale:

-- MarioGom (talk) 19:06, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Since it may help in the analysis: Studygal015 added an inline link to Abdullah Ghazi Almudhaf's LinkedIn, and an inline link to a YouTube video . After they were removed by another editor, they split them into separate edits and restored them; they were removed again. MirellaX restored that content nearly verbatim, seven months later. On the other hand Markgiul82's edits were obviously promotional and likely UPE, as are Tomy1562 and Carlrema64, but other than being created all around the same time I'm not seeing much to link them to the confirmed accounts. Note that arab.news is a link shortener for https://www.arabnews.com, which appears to be a legit news source and advertises those shortlinks in its posts' bylines: that's probably not evidence of anything in itself. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:23, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * I'm convinced by the filing that this is either the same person or closely connected meat (convenience links: overlap, lots of arab.news refs ...). - these two should be blocked based on behaviour regardless of the outcome, but there's a decent chance we're looking at UPE or some sort of information operation – given that there were other accounts in the past, a sleeper check seems warranted. Thanks. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 08:42, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * All . Leaving open for behavioural analysis on the older accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:45, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * All . Leaving open for behavioural analysis on the older accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:45, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * All . Leaving open for behavioural analysis on the older accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:45, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * All . Leaving open for behavioural analysis on the older accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:45, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * All . Leaving open for behavioural analysis on the older accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:45, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

All accounts blocked and tagged. Missvain (talk) 18:49, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm convinced by behaviour for the others. There's ample overlap, shared interest in Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah, same brand of organised POV pushing, the obvious username pattern, signup dates, the strong connection here etc. I've moved to the oldest stale account. : I know they're very stale, but please indef , , and  regardless – both for recordkeeping (and to point more people here) and because some UPE farms resurrect old sleepers on occasion. This reminds me of Radovicdarko in some ways (though it is obviously not the same group). Thanks. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 12:43, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Just as an FYI, I've retagged the socks (we usually tag as suspected to the listed master in the case, plus some other housekeeping). --Blablubbs&#124;talk 18:54, 24 May 2021 (UTC)