Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Swiss3312/Archive

05 November 2013

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These accounts were created within two minutes of each other on September 28. They are collaborating on spammy articles, as seen here. . Likely to be part of block evasion--I doubt these are new users. Would not be surprised if other accounts are being used as well. Logical Cowboy (talk) 04:46, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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More overlapping edits, similar age account and similar name. ] Logical Cowboy (talk) 04:50, 5 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I thought the interactions were informative. .  For example, all three accounts show a similar pattern of edits on spammy article  Insolvency Service of Ireland, sometimes within hours or minutes of each other.  Note that this is a page of diffs.


 * Also, two of the accounts were created within two minutes of each other--unlikely to be two separate people, who also happen to be writing the same articles. See  and  for creation date.  Indeed, the third log also shows similar behavior, e.g., a level of marking and tagging that would be unusual for "new" accounts.


 * So, basically, three articles with similar names, two created almost exactly the same time, editing the same articles in the same way. I hope that helps.  Logical Cowboy (talk) 12:47, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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The IP address range 139.140.0.0/16 is registered to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. I misread. &mdash; rybec   08:02, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I think you want to check 139.190, which goes to Pakistan (!) --Rschen7754 08:02, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Experience with the provider indicates to me it is exceedingly unlikely it is being used for educational purposes. NativeForeigner Talk 08:11, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi for God's sake, these accounts and edits were made by a high school students in school lab as part of a wiki learning module. If that is a crime i accept it. I am the course coordinator. Students have been taught wiki ethics for 7 hours before they ere allowed to edit real pages. Furthermore, normally the pages already there or recommended for creation were used. Kindly keep this wiki free - " its not for some ppl who happen to have an account 3 years back to control wikipedia" its online collaboration. You ppl already have a lot of tools to check any problems. I have warned my class .... 139.190.18.180 (talk) 02:59, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * They are making articles about Playboy Playmates for a school project? How interesting!  Logical Cowboy (talk) 03:06, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I am sorry for that. Can u tell who did that. Each student was asked to make at least 50 constructive edits, along with 2 wiki pages that are there in "articles for creation" .... the deadline is till 25 Nov. The idea was that in case of a poor page, it will automatically be reverted .... ". Anyways, i admit my fault in planning the exercise. 139.190.18.180 (talk) 05:41, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * To facilitate investigation, could you show a few specific diffs from the accounts in question? - Mailer Diablo 06:53, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:19, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for providing the needed diffs. Since starting checking, I have noticed a fairly large number of accounts that may also be related, so this is currently . Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:06, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I have checked, and the following accounts are ✅ as each other:


 * Also ✅ is, who has been previously blocked for this sort of sock puppetry.
 * related to them, and ✅ to each other, are:


 * This is related to, who is indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet of banned user . I think that's all for now. Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:37, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * There are edits on Commons that need to be handled by notifying local admins. Rschen7754 01:42, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Having checked the behavioural evidence along with the checkuser findings, I've blocked and tagged all of the accounts. Given the extent of the problem, I've also indef blocked User:Chaklalajob as the oldest account and apparent master. I guess we'll need to archive this under the previous Chaklalajob SPI. - Bilby (talk) 14:11, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I have filed a request for CU at Commons - commons:Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Chaklalajob. --Rschen7754 06:43, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm almost certain this is the "morning" promotional editing group. NativeForeigner Talk 02:25, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * There are certainly some commonalities, but in this case I think we're looking at an independent sockpuppet farm. - Bilby (talk) 22:27, 9 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Closing, I don't think there's anything else we need to do for now. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:10, 14 November 2013 (UTC)