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Edited the same draft article. CredEsTy was checkuser confirmed to another account after an unblock request. 331dot (talk) 13:08, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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Master is. Named sock is ✅ to as a potential sleeper. Use your judgement here. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:07, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * See Sockpuppet investigations/Trane007.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:38, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

 
 * Honesty888 has no edits on enwiki. However, they are active on frwiki where they have edited the articles fr:AFRO (cryptomonnaie) - the same topic that Trane007 is interested in - and fr:David Nataf (the founder of AFRO). Trane007 was also active on frwiki. It's clear that these two accounts are related, so - please indef Honesty888. I'll post on meta to get the frwiki aspect of this dealt with once this is sorted out. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:40, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * . Back to you, . --Blablubbs (talk) 08:59, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - Thanks. I'll hold off on tagging or closing for now pending the outcome of the case below. Spicy (talk) 09:15, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - 18 September 2021 case progressed ~TNT (she/they • talk) 03:14, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing per below. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 12:31, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

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CredEsTy is an editor who was blocked back in May for soak puppetry, which suggests that this behavior that this editor is prone to. CredEsTy created an article Draft:AFRO (cryptocurrency). Trane007 has mostly editing editing that article, and only from their phone, which is what one would do if one was blocked. The nature of their edits suggest that are very familiar with the subject, which to be frank is a fairly obscure one. Both edits have the similar type of edit summaries, using only one word or a very short sentence, which suggest that they are the same person. Compare this edit summary by CredEsTy on 30 April 2021: with "Draft for review - AFRO" with this edit summary by Trane007 on 9 September 2021  "Draft ready". It sounds very much like the same person. CredEsTY has created one soak puppet account that was blocked in June, namely User:Ingenicod. Ingenicod used the same sort of short edit summaries such as "Spelling and sentence correction". This second part here might be a bit weaker. Christian adv is an editor who only edits the article on Pierre Dadak from their phone while Trane007 is an editor who also edits the Dadak article only from their phone. It is suspicious, through the fact that ChristianAdv does not leave edit summaries is an important difference. However, it is interesting that all three editors tend to be active in about the same period of time from about 8:00 to 13:00.

Finally, I do not know if this is the right place or not to report this, but another editor appears to be pretending to be me. Another editor who just appeared today calling themselves A.S. Browne. I do not think that choice of an username is an accident, especially given that editor only edits an article that I created. That editor only edits the Pierre Dadak article, and like Trane007 and Christian adv only deletes material from that article. Compare this edit summary by Trane007 on 9 September 2021 with the edit summary "Neutrality" with this edit summary by A.S. Browne on 18 September 2021 "Neutrality". Sorry, when I filed this report, I did not realize that Trane007 had just been blocked for spam (the same reason that CredEsTY was also blocked for). However, it is interesting that the same day that Trane007 gets blocked is the same day that this new user A.S. Browne shows up, and both edit the same article using precisely the same edit summaries as a reason to delete material from that article. And it is interesting that both delete the same material. Compare this edit by Trane007 deleting the paragraph relating to the South Sudanese Civil War with this edit by A.S. Browne  deleting the same paragraph. And compare this edit by Trane007 deleting a comment by a former employer of M. Dadak with this edit by A.S. Browne deleting the same material. A.S. Browne generally does not leave edit summaries, but the few this user does such as "Not a source on subject of article" sound very much the same sort of short, punchy edit summaries that CredEsTy liked to make such as "Edited logo and history". Finally this might be a little weak, but all of these editors have blank user pages. --A.S. Brown (talk) 21:11, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

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See Sockpuppet investigations/CredEsTy.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)  
 * merged into preexisting case. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * to compare A.S. Browne to and  from the above filing. (The A.S. Browne account was created shortly after CU was run in the previous filing, so it would not have been caught then). It's suspicious that a new account would show up to advance similar edits on a low-traffic article immediately after the previous account was blocked. I also note that  restored A.S. Browne's edits after they were reverted, and the global contributions of this IP show identical interests to Honesty888. Regardless of the CU results, A.S. Browne should be blocked for the obvious impersonation username.The behavioural evidence for Christian adv is weaker, and the account is stale, so I don't think it's necessary to take any action with regard to it at this time. Spicy (talk) 04:26, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 03:09, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * is to . I note  has recently used a proxy, suggesting evasion.
 * (mentioned above) also appears with . No blocks/tags made at this time ~TNT (she/they • talk) 03:13, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - please indef A.S. Browne. The improbable overlap with Trane007 and the IP, as well as these edit summaries, convince me that this account is related to this case, regardless of any attempts at CU evasion. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * . Back to you, . --Blablubbs (talk) 12:07, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I've tagged Honesty888 and A. S. Browne as socks of Trane007. In my opinion, CredEsTy and their confirmed sock Ingenicod are probably a different person (though still UPE meat). Trane007 and Honesty888 were created on frwiki and were more active there than on en, while CredEsTy never edited frwiki. CredEsTy created spammy drafts on topics from all around the world, whereas the contributions of Trane007 and co. show a clear focus on Francophone topics. CredEsTy and Ingenicod also share a very distinctive gaming behaviour which the accounts in the Trane007 group do not do. I would like a second set of eyes on this before moving the case, so please evaluate the behaviour and move to Trane007 if you agree. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 13:58, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * @Spicy: I think your analysis makes sense. Feel free to go ahead and move. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:55, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, case moved. Not going to do anything about the IP for now as it hasn't edited enwiki in about a week. Closing.FWIW, while looking into this I realized that CredEsTy and Ingenicod probably belong to Sockpuppet investigations/WikiEditorAd (same edit summaries and recreation of drafts belonging to that sockfarm). Not going to bother with a filing though because the accounts were already blocked a while ago. Spicy (talk) 12:30, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

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Draft:AFRO (cryptocurrency) was edited by CredEsTy, Trane007 and Mardit1 and soon after deletion, it was recreated by this IP editor. They are part of a range that has a lot of partial page blocks but I just wanted to bring this here in case they can be tied in with this paid editing group. I realize that you can't disclose the results of a check but I wanted to document this. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 23:56, 14 December 2021 (UTC) Liz Read! Talk! 23:56, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * I deleted the draft created by the IP several days ago. Not much else to do here. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 23:14, 15 December 2021 (UTC)