Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Veeti Davidsson/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I noticed these accounts when I saw Veeti Davidsson add a photo to Train just a few minutes after Abel111222 added photos to both Passenger train and Sleeping car. Both users have an interest in Finnish topics and adding photos to articles. They use identical edit summaries, such as "updating..." with the ellipsis  "adding one picture" and "adding more content". Both create new articles on Finnish settlements that are substantial in size from the first diff. There's something very fishy about these two accounts. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 19:29, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * It does appear that there is something going on here. I've gone with an "ask first" approach . pending a response.  --Blablubbs (talk) 21:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * In response to me, Abel111222 stated that Veeti Davidsson was a friend. I was not entirely convinced by that, so I had a chat with another CU about the best way to proceed and decided to run a check. The following accounts are ✅, with technical details not supporting the conclusion that this is a group of friends:
 * Abel111222
 * Veeti Davidsson
 * Additionally, is very very  and looks to be a behavioural match. There's also  (created by Kindt), who hasn't edited in over a year. This account stated that they are a relative of Abel111222, see Special:Permalink/1056687917.
 * There is a very significant amount of overlap between these accounts, including two instances where they revert each other in a span of mere seconds . What I can't quite figure out is what the point of all this is: For the most part, they're just editing the same pages with a whole bunch of accounts, but not in ways that are obviously problematic (beyond the inherent issue of splitting contribution histories). There is obviously an intention to deceive though, given that they aren't transparent about the connections – an impression compounded by the fact that they created VilKriPel literally six minutes after they told me that they didn't operate any other accounts.
 * I have the three active socks; I'm not entirely sure about the right course of action regarding the master (and perhaps Cartingcarl), so I will leave that decision up to someone else. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:19, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * On second thought, I've also blocked Cartingcarl – no point in leaving the account unblocked if I block Kindt. I'll note that the latter is technically the oldest account, but also a fairly inactive one by comparison, so I'm not sure this is worth moving. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:38, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on Blabb's CU report (and my evaluation of the editing histories), blocking Veeti Davidsson as the confirmed master. They're my friend?  They're my relative?  Sorry, I'm not buying it. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:38, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on Blabb's CU report (and my evaluation of the editing histories), blocking Veeti Davidsson as the confirmed master. They're my friend?  They're my relative?  Sorry, I'm not buying it. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:38, 25 October 2022 (UTC)