Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Unserefahne/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Betabum was blocked yesterday after ANI reports. This IP is back today making the same edits to the same set of articles previously edited by Betabum. MB 20:36, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * Tamzin and Jack Frost, Betabum is also mentioned at Sockpuppet investigations/Unserefahne and is tagged as a sockpuppet of Unserefahne. Should these cases be merged? Liz Read! Talk! 02:50, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * Moved from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/2405:4803:FBCE:200:38D8:581C:7A2F:577C to named account. --Jack Frost (talk) 22:50, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * ANI thread for reference. This certainly looks like them evading their indefinite block. - Please block 2405:4803:FBCE:200:38D8:581C:7A2F:577C for a week.  FYI, as the blocking admin. --Jack Frost (talk) 22:56, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked the /64. Note previous edits by 2405:4803:fbce:200:e98f:6efa:f384:6d1c. Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 22:59, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New account making reversions (Special:Diff/1104194344, Special:Diff/1104195009) to restore edits made by Levanven60 (Special:Diff/1101561534, Special:Diff/1101561421), who was recently globally locked as a likely sock of Musée Annam/Unserefahne. I'm not familiar with the details of the LTA case, so it would be good if others could weigh in on the behavioural aspects. Quite unexpectedly, I couldn't find a current SPI case page here on Enwiki, so please move the case to the correct page if this isn't it. Paul_012 (talk) 20:17, 21 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Update: User has been indef blocked for personal attacks and other stuff (see Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents). Would still be good to establish if this is an ongoing sockpuppetry issue, though.

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Yes, their User page identifies them as a sockpuppet but it doesn't seem like that result has been reached here. Liz Read! Talk! 01:46, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * Betabum is from a technical standpoint to Levanven60, and in combination with the behavioral evidence, I'd say they both pass the WP:DUCK test as sockpuppets of each other. . . I'm not too familiar either with Unserefahne/Musée Annam, but since AmandaNP locked Levanven60 as a "likely" sockpuppet of Musée Annam (who is in turn tagged as a sockpuppet of Unserefahne), I'm inclined to go with that and call both Betabum and Levanven60 sockpuppets of Unserefahne.  Could we merge the parallel case Sockpuppet investigations/Betabum here? Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 04:12, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Mz7. . Since this case had no archive, and that case had nothing active, I just moved its archive here. Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 04:22, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
I’m aware that Qwerck is already blocked by - I’m including that account in this report as they’ve not been listed on the SPI case yet, and the similarities I’ve noticed have been to them, while reverting their edits. (I was planning to write this as a message on Bbb23’s talk page, but I ended up thinking it’d probably be more appropriate here.)

Since Bbb23’s block of Qwerck as a sockpuppet (ANI section link), I’ve been working my way through BANREVERTing and G5ing their contribs. While doing so, I noticed some similarities/overlap to another fairly new editor, Hunzic:


 * Both Qwerck and Hunzic have their signatures (within brackets), e.g.:
 * Qwerck: diff1, diff2, diff3
 * Hunzic: diff1, diff2


 * While reverting Qwerck’s edits, I’ve noticed that Hunzic (at least in a number of cases) seems to be editing around the same sorts of articles as them. (I haven’t provided diffs here as my memory tells me there may be a tool that can be used to compare this sort of thing, and it would save me potentially a fair bit of time if there is! Let me know if diffs would be helpful though, and I can go looking.)


 * Both editors seem to make a lot of edits that consist only of changing spacing between paragraphs, e.g.:
 * Qwerck: diff1, diff2, diff3, diff4
 * Hunzic: diff1, diff2, diff3, diff4


 * Neither editor seems to use edit summaries very frequently (if at all). In addition, when they perform a page move, both users have only the word ‘true’ as the reason (I’m unsure if this is a default or if it originates from somewhere); e.g.:
 * Qwerck: diff1, diff2, diff3
 * Hunzic: diff1


 * Both Qwerck and Hunzic have created similar categories: e.g. Qwerck originally created the (now deleted) . On 15 Sept, Hunzic created (diff), and then linked it to an article - currently G5-tagged - created by Qwerck (diff) (adding that article to the "Thricetenth" category, replacing Qwerck’s "Thirteenth" category, in this diff).

I’m requesting CheckUser in order to check for any sleeper accounts. (This may all be coincidental, obviously, but I thought it was at least worth getting some extra - more experienced - sets of eyes on.)

Apologies if I’m missing anything, or haven’t presented this correctly, or if I’ve done anything like that.

Many thanks. All the best, user: A smart kitten meow 17:36, 16 September 2023 (UTC)


 * In case it’s helpful, here are a couple of places that I’ve found that they’ve both been active on the same article:
 * Special:History/Courland
 * Special:History/Truyện_tranh
 * user: A smart kitten meow 18:52, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:58, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other:


 * Same country as previous socks. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:03, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * , closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:31, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Two IPs from the same /64 reinstating the sockpuppet-edited versions of Arabela (TV series) and Battle of Tonlé Sap without comment. user: A smart kitten meow  10:28, 26 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Pinging who recently rangeblocked who I think is the same person from my talk page. (Apologies if this ping is inappropriate.) Best, user:  A smart kitten meow  17:03, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the /64, semi'ed the pages for a while. Case closed. Courcelles (talk) 17:11, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Reinstating sockpuppet-edited version of Kenkoku University without comment (see this diff comparing the version before the banrevert, and the current version after the revert). Best, <sup style="letter-spacing:-.1em;color:#737373;font-family:monospace">user: A smart kitten <sub style="color:#b842b8;font-family:monospace">meow  05:28, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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The IP is pblocked for two years. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:10, 27 September 2023 (UTC)