Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheCaseOfGoliath

Suspected sockpuppets
Sending email to paid-en-wp per WP:BEANS but in the interim see Draft:Troy Littleton. S0091 (talk) 17:08, 5 June 2024 (UTC) S0091 (talk) 17:08, 5 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Email sent. S0091 (talk) 18:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Added HazelJune and Tikinalo. Hazel's editing pattern matches and they moved Marc Thorpe (architect)/Draft:Marc Thorpe (architect) to mainspace which was created in draft by Tikinalo along with recreating Richard Brusca, originally created by sock  as Richard C. Brusca (see WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Daniel Martin77 which is connected).  Both were needlessly disambiguated.  Marc Thorpe was likely to cover up it had previously AfD deleted.  S0091 (talk) 15:22, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Added LaiLaiLom, matches pattern. S0091 (talk) 16:19, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Added BronxintheRumble, similar editing pattern and crossover with other socks at Petromin Corporation ( and ). S0091 (talk) 16:20, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to past accounts and Group 2 in the Daniel Martin77 SPI:


 * Jackson Jules and LaiLaiLom are
 * Tikinalo is due to proxy use (keep in mind all of these are on proxies).
 * BronxintheRumble is . Spicy (talk) 10:33, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Pro forma, originally blocked at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/EuphonyRandolph but seems more likely to belong to this group. All are ✅. Spicy (talk) 14:01, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 14:02, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created on 17:34, 26 July 2023, same day and around same time as (log) and  (log). Also edited Nicholas Perricone as did blocked socks and  along with other general behavioural matches with this group. S0091 (talk) 17:46, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Added three more duck blocks from yesterday that I'm 100% sure on. They were re-creating slightly different versions of G5ed articles previously created by TheCaseOfGoliath socks, usually at sightly different titles (adding a middle initial or an unnecessary disambiguation). The accounts were one-off and two were created right after the prior CheckUser blocks. Sam Kuru (talk) 19:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ to each other and to past confirmed socks:


 * Separately ✅ to each other:


 * The relationship of these groups to each other and to other accounts listed in the filing is due to proxy use (which is not unexpected). Spicy (talk) 01:52, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm closing this as is, I don't the additional time required to do behavioural checking is worth it since they're blocked anyway. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:51, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Recreated Chetan Nayak originally created by blocked sock (log). S0091 (talk) 14:46, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

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 * Proxy use, but looks more or less consistent with this sockfarm. The articles are basically identical. . Spicy (talk) 14:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New account created Thomas Douglas Bradley, an academic, which is in the topic area of this UPE farm. Other behaviour matches the general pattern and naming scheme matches pattern of recently blocked (blocked by Kuru). S0091 (talk) 15:03, 2 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @Kuru have any others to add? S0091 (talk) 16:40, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I think Usrp12 was the only blatant one recently - or at least another paid editor using the same garbage sources on the same target. I'm sure Spicy will post a whole list of purple links that will make me feel like I'm AGFing way too much. :) Sam Kuru (talk) 14:52, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Note that just recreated an article that has previously been chewed on by both TheCaseOfGoliath and EuphonyRandolph socks. Note sure if it's this fame or just an unrelated paid editor revisiting the same job. Sam Kuru (talk) 13:17, 5 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Dylan also created Chetan Nayak is their sandbox, the article created by the two socks above (RMnERD). All four of these accounts (this one, RMnERD above and two below) created articles in their sandbox then request U1 deletion. S0091 (talk) 17:24, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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Another WP:DUCK sock: recreated Donald Larry Crumbley as Donald L. Crumbley which was originally created by  (a confirmed sock of this UPE farm). Requesting checkuser assistance just in case if they can find more. Thank you. 86.96.72.147 (talk) 14:12, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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Bad faith user recreated Christiane Auray-Blais (originally created by ) as Christiane Auray, after doing some sandbox edits to game autoconfirmed. 2A00:F29:248:ED96:8C03:E528:8D12:3873 (talk) 14:25, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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