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Editing focused on Waterlogic, which is a pretty obvious UPE work. It was tagged for G5 by DGG, but I removed that tag in favour of a PROD and rolled back the changes to before the version Richardaldinho edited with promotional content. This morning Vierouchka appeared after a year long hiatus to remove the PROD.

Vierouchka also restored the same content that Richardaldinho had added to the article: ,

Clarissa.amaral88 later showed up to add similar promotional content and add direct external links to the company in the article body:.

Similarly, the IP removed a PROD I had placed on an article created by Richardaldinho, and its only edits have been to that article. Geolocation claims it is owned by Microsoft Azure, which offers a proxy and VPN service.

Richardaldinho has been claiming on his talk page that his IP won't match any other user:. The use of a likely proxy IP here to contest a PROD also shows why he might be confident in this.

I'm asking for CU to try to confirm if we can, though I think we have ample enough circumstantial evidence that there is UPE going on here and likely socking, but also to check if there are other accounts out there that can either be confirmed. Given The use of a possible VPN, I know it might be difficult in this case, but also worth checking I think. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:27, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * letting both of you know since there is potential overlap here with Sockpuppet investigations/Wikieditions, even if it only behaviorally. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:37, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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Note coordinated editing on the same article on de.wiki. The de.wiki content was removed by a GF editor with the comment "Werbeschmarrn" (had to look that up, colloquial Deutsch for "advertising nonsense [crap]"), then reinstated by Richardaldinho. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:06, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Added Madame Vonkook who said they spent a lot of time working on an article that was only edited by Richardaldinho. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:38, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately this account is stale but they also look to have been adding promo content in various places (typ edit summary "important company news and reference") including Waterlogic stuff. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:18, 12 November 2017 (UTC)



Links added...still looking. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:55, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Vantage FX was created by the first account. Than recreated without much change by the second account. Articles are promotional. Requesting a CU to look for further accounts from the same company / group. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 08:37, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Vantage FX was created by the first account. Than recreated without much change by the second account. Articles are promotional. Requesting a CU to look for further accounts from the same company / group. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 08:37, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Vantage FX was created by the first account. Than recreated without much change by the second account. Articles are promotional. Requesting a CU to look for further accounts from the same company / group. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 08:37, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:26, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Madame Vonkook is technically unrelated. Clarissa.amaral88 and Richardaldinho match precisely on UA but IPs geolocate to different areas. Richardaldinho and Vierouchka share one of two IP locations and have very close UAs but there is enough of a technical difference where I think these are different machines. Meat may be possible.
 * That's enough of a technical similarity and behavioral focus on Waterlogic for me to block Vierouchka as meat/TOU violation. Seems to fit with either a firm or freelancers (or both). DGG has already indef'd Richardinho for TOU violations. Both of these accounts are . I'll wait for the thoughts of others on the other accounts. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:38, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:39, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is stale here but active on de.wiki and involved in this as they spammed those links and appear to be a UPE there, see their recent advertising warning.
 * Reviewing this again, it seems likely that with the Waterlogic links and the UA this could also be meat on Clarissa.amaral88, given the waterlogic links, I've blocked for linkspamming and suspicion of meatpuppetry here. will a clerk please tag Clarissa.amaral8 as a suspected sock here so that we can keep track of it if Waterlogic comes around again. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:38, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Clarissa.amaral88 tagged as suspected. Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  22:21, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

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I know CU data will be old but I suspect this is the same UPE ring given the recreation of Draft:Muhammad Saad Arslan Sadiq (was Arslan Sadiq by .) Then there is also Draft:MB Salone which was created by promo-only account, and Draft:John Oakes, which has several variations all related back to this user (Kanja) and a bunch of SPA promo accounts. This appears to be some serious meat puppetry/UPE farm. I'm also including PrinceCharming786 as they originally created the Sadiq article and attempted to create Global Hosting Service and appear to be nothing more than a promo account as well.

I'll also add that given Richard's several attempts to create Adda52 this is very clearly UPE all around. See related coin thread. I think it may be worth a CU to look for additional accounts given the large nature even though the CU data to the originals is probably really stale. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  15:35, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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❌/.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:47, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * User is now blocked. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 21:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)