Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vanderpumpstan/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Heavy focus on Lisa Vanderpump, nearly word for word changes as past socks. See diff of Bbb23 restoring pre sock edits and compare to my similar edit so you can see all the edits aggregated which are almost word for word the same changes. ie. She is best known for appearing on the American reality-television shows and She is known for her appearances on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Vanderpump Rules, and Vanderpump Dogs. PRAXIDICAE💕 20:57, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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0xDEADBEEF (T C) 10:30, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * and the behavioral brought me to the level to CU block. Lock requested due to spill over to Commons -- Guerillero  Parlez Moi 14:45, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
yet again with the Lisa Vanderpump spam PRAXIDICAE🌈 01:50, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Seems WP:DUCKY given the minor flags, the tags on edits and the area of primary interest. 0x Deadbeef 02:07, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Confirmed plus and  (insert disapproving GeneralNotability face). Got a couple more possibles, but without edits I'm not willing to block them.,  because of the lock on Babswindsoruk. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:43, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
day after rpsuk was blocked, another Vanderpump spammer showed up, see edits to Lisa Vanderpump and related articles. PRAXIDICAE🌈 20:33, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, global lock requested, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 21:43, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
joined just after the last sock (Softcottonvanilla), only editing in areas related to Lisa Vanderpump, see overlap with the latest sock PRAXIDICAE🌈 16:32, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:03, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ to and also to . They appear to be operating multiple accounts, and making sleepers now too - the following are also confirmed:
 * That's all I can see. Will block and request locks. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:26, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I can see. Will block and request locks. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:26, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I can see. Will block and request locks. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:26, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I can see. Will block and request locks. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:26, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I can see. Will block and request locks. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:26, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
as usual, the same focus on spamming Lisa Vanderpump and Ken Todd, where 1wagwang has now shown up immediately after Lollmaodumbo was blocked PRAXIDICAE🌈 19:09, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * - last time we found a bunch of sleepers, so probably worth a look. The SandDoctor  Talk 03:45, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - these accounts are both globally locked already, checking for sleepers.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:51, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * There are some other accounts, but they're all blocked and locked already - I'll tag these two and leave it at that.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:59, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Special:Diff/1103209393

Special:Diff/1104343619

very obvious FMSky (talk) 16:55, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * - obvs them. I'll poke around a bit and see if there are any others, and consider a rangeblock.  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:28, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I've moved it to the correct master and retagged. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:40, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, I don't see any definite sleepers at this time; there are some unused accounts which might be them, but I'm not quite ready to block. If they're going to make it this obvious, we'll know soon enough. I've done some tidying up, the latest account is now globally locked (thanks, that was fast!). Closing.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  17:50, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Recreation of Ken Todd (businessman) in a very similar format to the previous creation by. Usual obsession with the Vanderpump franchise (see contribs and sockmaster's username). Spicy (talk) 01:44, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * - Please indef Sorryimashhhson as a suspected sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:45, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * , closing. Mz7 (talk) 03:51, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
obvious from the edit history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Vanderpump&action=history and other edits as well as general Lisa Vanderpump obsession FMSky (talk) 14:33, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 14:36, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Relatively to . ., , closing.  --Blablubbs (talk) 14:44, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
obvious from edit history FMSky (talk) 10:59, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * While it might be obvious for those familiar with the sockmaster, I would appreciate some tangible evidence, such as links to diffs, or articles with particularly interesting overlap. This would help expediting action. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 16:10, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * - Anyway, timing of the sign up and last block, edit tags, and interaction at Vanderpump Rules and Lisa Vanderpump are quite convincing. MarioGom (talk) 16:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * to previous socks. That + behavour =  firefly  ( t · c ) 16:44, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 20:10, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
obvious, only edits lisa vanderpump related articles FMSky (talk) 03:53, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * Yep, that's them. Blocked, lock requested.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  15:20, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
obvious from edit history FMSky (talk) 12:36, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * - there's a few accounts, give me a minute.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  16:21, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, along with:
 * There are some other accounts on the same narrow range that might be them, but they don't exhibit the same behaviour - come back if you suspect any other accounts and we can take another look. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  16:29, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
 * There are some other accounts on the same narrow range that might be them, but they don't exhibit the same behaviour - come back if you suspect any other accounts and we can take another look. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  16:29, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
 * There are some other accounts on the same narrow range that might be them, but they don't exhibit the same behaviour - come back if you suspect any other accounts and we can take another look. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  16:29, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
obvious from edit history, Vanderpump obsession FMSky (talk) 14:34, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * - per Girth Summit in the 19 Dec 2022 archive. &mdash; Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 00:15, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Ha, that's funny--I happen to be looking at that right now. Drmies (talk) 00:55, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * So they're a match with User:Usernamereexepsx, who is listed as "suspected"--but it's all pretty obvious. Drmies (talk) 01:07, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Requesting a global lock and closing. Bbb23 (talk) 01:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
obvious from the editing history and Vanderpump obsession. see for example the edit history from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Vanderpump&action=history&offset=&limit=500

also mobile edits only and never using edit summaries like previous sock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Notyolandafister --FMSky (talk) 22:04, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * Rabbipainter also created the Ken Todd (businessman) article, which was previously created by Vanderpumpstan sock User:Lollmaodumbo at that title earlier this year, and at Ken Todd (restaurateur) by Vanderpumpstan sock User:Babswindsoruk in 2022. User:Babswindsoruk also shares Rabbipainter's interest in the actress Barbara Windsor. --Belbury (talk) 07:10, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  13:19, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅, also:
 * There may be others, but it's a very busy range they're on. Blocking these, come back if any more jump out at you. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  13:28, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * There may be others, but it's a very busy range they're on. Blocking these, come back if any more jump out at you. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  13:28, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * There may be others, but it's a very busy range they're on. Blocking these, come back if any more jump out at you. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  13:28, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar account name to prior sock 118hellomate, edits are around Vanderpump related articles so far. On Simple EN, created and article on ‎Scott Mitchell which was G5'd here as created by a prior sock  Ravensfire  (talk) 01:31, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, global lock requested, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:08, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * per below. Ponyo bons mots 16:53, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked as proven based on technical evidence and behavioural overlap that is evident through checkuser.-- Ponyo bons mots 16:53, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 18:42, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Their first three edits, , were massive edits to existing articles and basically copied the text from the Simple English version of the articles here. Compare EN wiki vs Simple EN wiki - the versions are basically identical and the Simple EN wiki version is all from previous Vanderpumpstan accounts. The style is also pure Vanderpumpstan - use of marriage / death records as sources, excessive details and more sources than needed. is the same situation - English wiki vs Simple English wiki as last ended by Vanderpumpstan socks. Same issues here as well. Will probably need global lock if comfirned as they are active here and on Simple. The CU check is requested for sleeper / alternate accounts as they have had multiple active at the same time previously.  Ravensfire  (talk) 17:27, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, along with the sleepers and ; tagging as proven based on behavioural overlap and the fact that they're editing from a range previously associated with this sockmaster. As noted by Ravensfire, global locks will be needed.--  Ponyo bons mots 17:42, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * closing. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:40, 2 July 2024 (UTC)