Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Taifansari/Archive

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The original IP account first edits 12 January, created Draft:Music Facts and edit warred at Inventions and Sinfonias (Bach), with Unknown User Double also editing. The latter may have been the same person after having registered an account. Two of the other suspected socks later edited Music Facts. Risery Voiple Yelty appears on 20 Jan, claims on own User page to have created Music Facts, also Draft:Universe and Draft: Math: Roots. Yerin Gu appears 15 January with some editing on drafts. Sarah Lahi appears 15-16 January, more overlapping editing. Lalah Sandalina appears 22 Jan with another minimal draft: Draft:Johann Pischna. Some comments by these editors on each others' Talk pages. NOTE: On 21 January, 220.120.78.242 and Unknown and Risery were warned on their User Talk pages that they were suspected of being one person, and to continue with only one account.

At User talk:Risery Voiple Yelty, Risery replied with "(There is also Yerin Gu, Sarah Lahi, and Lalah Sandalina.)" At User talk:220.120.78.242 Lalah Sandalina claims these plus GriseUser2012 and JangLae are family and friends.

In addition to the four drafts mentioned above - none of which in any way whatsoever approach Wikipedia standards, and none submitted to AfC - the named editors, especially Unknown User Double, have been doing some editing on existing articles (all reverted as vandalism or not useful; example Square root), and Risery asked a couple of questions at Teahouse. All in all, sockpupperty and NOTHERE. David notMD (talk) 09:26, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

More bad drafts: Draft:Kinds of Drafts, Draft:Some Popular Drafts and Draft:Coding (oldest, created by Taifansari). None of these submitted to AfC. David notMD (talk) 03:08, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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All of these accounts seem to be editing in the same way. None of them are violating any policies or guidelines thoug, but they're using Wikipedia as a large sandbox. I'm not sure if we need to have any action against the sockmaster. I am still concerned that the editor may be planning something larger in the future though. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:00, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I did not notice the repeated links from main space to draft space such as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Inventions_and_Sinfonias_(Bach)&diff=prev&oldid=1002003455 > Still, with the number of accounts created (at least two per week) I do not know that a block would achieve anything. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:12, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

At the least this is some sort of coordinated editing, per this edit summary. Whether it is ultimately for some disruptive purpose is unclear, but essentially all of the edits from this editor/group of editors seems like a waste of time. -- Kinu t/c 03:30, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * If not the same person, they admitted on multiple pages/edit summaries that they belong together. E.g. also in sandbox of now blocked Unknown User Double: diff. NJD-DE (talk) 10:35, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

UPDATE: 25 January User talk:Lalah Sandalina confessed to being all accounts, and Jpgordon indefinitely blocked accounts. Unknown User Double also Talk page blocked for multiple failed unblock requests. David notMD (talk) 03:11, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Moved case to Taifansari (the oldest account) and blocked. Tagged everybody as proven. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:07, 23 February 2021 (UTC)