Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tactical Fiend/Archive

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A group of accounts with an extremely unusual bimodal interest in spammy company/CEO pages and esoteric literature, horror movies, experimental music and similar, which is easily identifiable by looking at their contribution histories. Since there are indicators of UPE, I won't list everything I found, but I can provide a substantial amount of additional evidence in private. Eau Rouge Flat Out and Past Bedtime are inactive and being filed for the record. Combined with the shared unusual interest combination, the below should be enough to justify a check on the non-stale accounts.


 * Same US office hours timecards:
 * Consistent use of "--" as divider:
 * Tactical Fiend:
 * Central Midfielder:
 * Way of the Fewture:
 * Consistent use of 'lede':
 * Tactical Fiend:
 * Central Midfielder:
 * Way of the Fewture:
 * Consistent interest in italicising names of works:
 * Tactical Fiend:
 * Central Midfielder:
 * The Way of the Fewture:
 * EIA of non-stale accounts:
 * EIA of all accounts:

Note that edit summaries are almost always lowercase. Except for a handful of early edits by Eau Rouge Flat Out, the accounts exclusively use the source editor. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:41, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

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per above for comparison and a sleeper check, though I suspect we will encounter proxy use. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:41, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * and are stale. PhilKnight (talk) 17:44, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Tactical Fiend, Central Midfielder & The Way of the Fewture are all to each other. The following accounts are ✅ and the behaviour looks like UPE but Symbol rename vote.svg Behavioural evidence needs evaluation (interactions):
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. The accounts do differ from each other behaviourally to varying extents; however, they also have many interesting commonalities (sometimes shared pairwise, sometimes shared between more than two accounts) and, most crucially, they all exhibit telltale signs of UPE (BEANS). Much of this is fairly reminiscent of sophisticated UPE farms like the ones surrounding, and . I also note some very interesting deleted contributions, including . Between the behavioural overlap, the CU result, and the fact that they almost exclusively edit from 9 to 5, I'm convinced: the indistinguishable group as confirmed socks of Central Midfielder and suspected socks of Tactical Fiend, and the accounts in the initial filing as suspected (including the stale ones: Some of them have previously slept for extended periods of time, so blocking can't hurt). I'm leaving the case under its present title; Tactical Fiend isn't actually the oldest, but one of the most active accounts, and I don't really see a point in moving this. If someone comes across this in the course of an appeal: Please contact me and I will provide additional behavioural evidence. Closing.  --Blablubbs (talk) 11:51, 21 September 2021 (UTC)