Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TwitterBo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

There is a pattern of SPAs whose only edits are to add citations to papers by Rita Yi Man Li to the leads of articles, often with copyright (or Creative Commons attribution) issues. Their usernames are modeled after the article to which the account has been created to edit (e.g., "KHcoder1234" for the article KH Coder, or "Softcomputing12345" for Soft computing). I'm pretty sure this has been going on for years; I just listed a few that I found right now based on some of her recent publications. These seem like single-use accounts so I know blocking isn't going to change much, but I feel it's useful to establish a paper trail, and it would be also be helpful to get a fuller list of detected accounts for COI-tracking purposes. I had no idea what name to file this under, so feel free to move (possibly depending on results of investigation). Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 02:23, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:44, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, to the following are ✅ to one another, in groups:
 * Group 1:
 * Group 2:      (and noting that  is fairly  to this group.)
 * Group 3:  (and noting that  and  are fairly  to this group.)
 * I'm blocking all of these, but that will have little effect because they obviously just create new accounts each time they want to edit an article. Their IP address seems to have short-term stability, so they will have one address that they use for a few days or weeks, before jumping to a different IP in a very wide range. We'll probably just keep an eye out for similar edits and play whack-a-mole with their new accounts. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:58, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I've renamed the case for the oldest known account, TwitterBo. All blocked and tagged, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:03, 8 May 2023 (UTC)