Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/VeryGoodBoy/Archive

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There has been edit wars for some time now @The Chosun Ilbo which is a newspaper based in South Korea. The master and socks Relevent and Leftzombieout were created on the same day (March 19). Now I can't connect the edits of the master to the socks, but the master was created ten minutes before their first sock Relevent. And both accounts were editing not even a minute from their creation and harmonusly edited without conflicting with each other (See articles edit history: ). Now sock Relevent made their first edit by changing the name the newspaper editor in the info box from "Kim Chang-Kyoon" to "Park Doo-sik" (See edit: ). That change was reverted. An hour later, sock Leftzombieout made their first edit by restoring "Park Doo-sik" (See edit: ) It was reverted. On March 25th, sock Awrondio1 was created. The sock restored "Park Doo-sik" (See edit: ) the same day of its creation. The sock returned to edit war again on April 7th to restore their edits and edit war with legit Wiki editors, and on the same day, sock Res Iudicata was created and started edit warring as well by restoring Awrondio1's edits (Compare edits: Awrondio1's edit: & Res Iudicata's edit: ). Jerm (talk) 01:14, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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& If you need Res Iudicata connected to the master, I can easily provide better evidence. Jerm (talk) 14:11, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * - --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 02:42, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Leftzombieout & Ksjy0423 are ✅, Awrondio1, Relevent & Res Iudicata
 * To confirm what I see when running Res Iudicata. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 03:16, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Emailed you; not sure if I helped. I'll leave the status alone in case anyone else wants to have a look. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:29, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Not sure specifically what had you second-guessing it, but I'd say the following group is ✅ (to each other):
 * Plus, is ✅, but there isn't enough behavioral info
 * They're at least to Awrondio1/Leftzombieout/Ksjy0423, based on a combination of behavior and location, I'd block them. ST47 (talk) 02:13, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That's what I was looking for, thanks. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 03:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Plus, is ✅, but there isn't enough behavioral info
 * They're at least to Awrondio1/Leftzombieout/Ksjy0423, based on a combination of behavior and location, I'd block them. ST47 (talk) 02:13, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That's what I was looking for, thanks. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 03:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)


 * All blocked and tagged except for Relevent. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:22, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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New user created specifically to edit the page Hanbok.

Some time earlier, User:VeryGoodBoy used a IP address to reinsert content deleted in a previous discussion back to the article Hanbok. The IP can be confidently linked to this case via this message. The person behind Rpdfpd was pushing the same fringe theory of Korean-nomadic connection as VeryGoodBoy/Koraskadi did a number of times before; they also have to be constantly watching the article Hanbok, so presumably they are from the same user. Esiymbro (talk) 07:03, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * - The previous accounts of this sockmaster are, and the privacy policy prevents checkusers from publicly connecting accounts to their IP addresses. Mz7 (talk) 02:22, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:12, 1 August 2020 (UTC)


 * No response. Closing w/o prejudice. -- Amanda - mobile  (aka DQ) 07:25, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * 1) These two are the latest in a long series of hopping IPs on Hanbok, Gojoseon , and other articles that for months kept re-inserting VeryGoodBoy/Koraskadi's content. All are from the same area that VeryGoodBoy comes from. It is pretty certain that while they point to a range of different locations, all the IPs come from the same person. For example, check the addresses of this pair and this pair
 * 2) They seem to be determined to push a specific theory that connects the origin of Koreans to Central Asia (VGB – also a long discussion here, IPs at Hanbok, Gojoseon – most of the IP activity were essentially for the same purpose), and on the other hand, take offense at any mention of cultural links between Korea and ancient China.
 * 3) From these IPs the earliest edits I found are here, and that was immediately after an edit war involving Koraskadi. The behavior was already similar to the newest ones.
 * 4) The recent edits indicate that they are very familiar with the history of these articles. Note that while this latest edit added gibberish to the Gojoseon article, older changes on the same page, as well as those at Hanbok , suggest that the person knows the English language well enough. Esiymbro (talk) 14:50, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * Technical note: Although they aren't showing up in blacklists or being flagged as proxies (not even by spur, though that API does indicate that there's similar behaviour originating from those IPs) have some technical weirdness about them; 222.112.76.167 is running a SOCKS5 proxy with a login requirement, and 112.217.201.242 serves a landing page. I'd call it possilikely that we're looking at proxies, but I doubt confirmation is going to be possible here. Blablubbs | talk 16:33, 17 March 2021 (UTC)


 * The IPs are definitely connected to each other; they might be VGB, but I'm not certain. Either way, both IPs haven't edited in a couple weeks, so there isn't any point in blocking them now. Recommend page protection if they come back - feel free to request at WP:RFPP or ask on my talk page. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:22, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same "declining unblock" nonsense as from  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 19:10, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * I'm not sure why people think these are socks of VeryGoodBoy. This is probably Kingshowman, but I don't think it's worth moving the case. Anyway, the account is blocked now. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 02:08, 9 October 2022 (UTC)