Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vpha/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Formally opening the SPI for a persistent sockmaster with multiple confirmed socks and logged-out IPs. Previous CU confirmations were done by.

There are relevant discussions at and AN/IncidentArchive1094#Vietnamese nationalist. — MarkH21talk 00:24, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * is the oldest account, so please move this SPI there (do the tags need to be updated too?). Apologies! — MarkH21talk 00:27, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the mistakes here, I only checked for the oldest contribution rather than oldest account creation. Also sorry about the tagging issue – I thought that I could tag the socks as "confirmed" after said that they were CU-confirmed to each other (e.g. in the block logs and at ). I'll just leave things to SPI. — MarkH21talk 18:52, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * - This is a little messy. First, the oldest account is Vpha. Second, although apparently blocked the accounts,  tagged them, which he should not have done. Nor am I sure that they should be tagged as "confirmed"; in any event, they will need retagging after the move. Bbb23 (talk) 17:57, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I can confirm they were confirmed. Mark, I always (well, usually--unless it's an established case and I can just copy and paste) leave the tagging to the SPI folks, and that's probably proper, given the special status of "confirmed". But thank you for starting this and, Bbb, thank you for picking it up. Drmies (talk) 19:54, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved case, retagged socks. OutrageousAnger was blocked a while ago and it's not clear to me from what the technical relationship to the master is, so leaving it as proven. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The usual disruption in the usual articles, and the usual joking around with account names and massive amounts of logged-out editing. Pinging User:MarkH21 as well--thanks. Accounts are blocked, not tagged. Note: CU confirms logged-out editing, but does not directly link accounts to each other. However, the behavioral evidence is strong enough to make this identification. Drmies (talk) 00:28, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks! Don't forget. — MarkH21talk 00:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
 * , ha, I knew my count was off, but I got confused by the names. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 00:36, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:52, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New IPs continuing Vpha's block evasion on the same exact set of articles. See this list of previously CU-blocked Vpha IPs, which has similar ranges and location (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia).'

Various other articles with significant overlap include Culture of Vietnam, Human rights in Vietnam, Economy of Vietnam, Hoa people and Talk:Hoa people, Vietnam national football team, Vietnamese irredentism, Vietnamese nationalism, Vietnamese name, various surname articles (like Le (surname)), and various X-Vietnam relation articles (like China–Vietnam relations).

This doesn't even include a comparison with dozens of other IPs on the CU-blocked list, nor an analysis of the other behavioral similarities (e.g. their particular stance on Vietnamese relations with China, Cambodia, Japan). But here's a smoking gun at Talk:Bamboo network:,. — MarkH21talk 19:55, 14 November 2023 (UTC); updated 20:27, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The old sock CU data is now stale, but I would also suggest a CU check & range checks on the new IPs for other undetected socks because Vpha has regularly created new accounts in the past. Courtesy pinging, who performed the most recent CU checks about 1 year ago. — MarkH21talk 20:24, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked 61.69.212.180, the only IP who's edited recently, for one week. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:05, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Interweaving edits between user and IPs across multiple related subjects (Vietnam/East Asian politics), often minutes or hours apart from each other. Special:Contributions/61.69.212.180 confirmed sock of Vpha. All the IP addresses are located in New South Wales in Australia. See editors interaction. Particularly Sinosphere, Phạm Quang Huy, Vietnamese nationalism, Christianity in Vietnam, Anti-Vietnamese sentiment, Vietnam national football team. Assisting in reverts:. Backing up sock with citations:. Qiushufang (talk) 14:35, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * +1. The editor interactions tool shows that 324 out of 11a22b33c44d55e's 432 edits overlap with the listed IPs alone. — MarkH21talk 10:09, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Dear all parties. I am sorry for my ignorance and naive approach to using Wikipedia. My intention was not to sockpuppet but to help with adding information. I understand that my original account got banned for "sockpuppetry", so I made new ones because I am passionate about contributing to Wikipedia. The times I used an ip address were because not all my devices are logged onto Wikipedia. My phone service will use a different ip address for instance and at times I would become too lazy to log in. I realise the extent of this and I apologise unreservedly. I only wish to contribute to Wikipedia, and unfortunately, for many of my accounts, such as the Vpha one, I have forgotten to password to it already anyway. Thay may be the reason why I made other accounts. Please understand that I only want to help and NOT contribute to sockpuppetry. I made extensive edits contributing to Sinosphere and the Phạm Quang Huy page. I also wish to delete some of my other account or at least delete their user pages but I've either forgotten their password. If I ever do get unblocked for my accounts, can I ask for assistance in linking my accounts together as well? I only ever wanted to help edit on Wikipedia and share what I see. Please. 61.69.212.180 (talk) 14:12, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged the named account. The unblocked IPs haven't edited recently. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 23:25, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked 61.69.212.180 for two weeks. Bbb23 (talk) 14:17, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ 11a22b33c44d55e to the master account, as part of reviewing unblock requests. As per normal, no comment wrt IP addresses. --Yamla (talk) 15:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Another slew of New South Wales IPs making overlapping consecutive nationalist Vietnamese edits. See interest overlap. WP:DUCK per their previous involvement with this user. Qiushufang (talk) 08:19, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * Blocked 118.211.160.0/19 for one week. The other IPs haven't edited recently. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 20:59, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
More New South Wales IPs editing the same Vietnamese-related topics. Qiushufang (talk) 21:26, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * While the report was valid when opened, both IPs are dynamic and haven't edited in days. Closing.-- Ponyo bons mots 22:34, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New account. Purely POVPUSH edits on Vietnamese military subjects similar to VP. Edits at Cambodian–Vietnamese War where South Australia based IPs like all of the ones Vpha has been using. And an account sock also edited the same page No response or edit summary after being reverted. See similar language in edit summary. Qiushufang (talk) 04:55, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * There are no non- accounts for me to check against. Note that the account has been blocked indefinitely as WP:NOTHERE by, so closing with no further action.-- Ponyo bons mots 22:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)