Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ws95684/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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For the record. Michael Belkin (Professor) was a very similar recreation of Draft:Michael Belkin (professor), and Arish43 was explicitly created to evade ACPERM. See also Sockpuppet investigations/Anatha Gulati. MER-C 19:42, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Arish43 is ✅ to CathyUK, along with:


 * This group is ✅ to each other and to CathyUK based on IP and a slight variation on UA:


 * All accounts blocked pending tags. Ws95684 is the oldest account, though we all know how bad I am about figuring that out. :-) Katietalk 20:03, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. FYI, there are handy scripts that will tell you the account creation date inline for checkuser templates, as well as whether accounts are stale. If you're interested, see the five lines starting with "//SPI" on my common.js. Thanks, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 20:14, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I have the scripts, and that's not the issue. The issue is me being able to tell if 2016 comes before 2018. ;-) Katietalk 20:23, 4 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Blocked:
 * for and because Special:Undelete/Draft:Niko Porikos was a verbatim recreation of Special:Undelete/Niko Porikos. MER-C 07:04, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * for and because Special:Undelete/Draft:Niko Porikos was a verbatim recreation of Special:Undelete/Niko Porikos. MER-C 07:04, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Likely case of socking by the Ws95684/CathyUK sockfarm. To begin, it was recently brought to my attention that Rina343, an ostensibly new editor, may have a conflict of interest. Their editing pattern is suspicious; they joined the project on 6 September (2 days after the last round of blocks for this SPI went out), and made no edits that exceeded 300 bytes until they created Draft:Dennis Levi with a single, massive 14k byte edit. For the record, Draft:Dennis M. Levi (concerning the same subject) was created by the now-blocked CathyUK. Looking further into Rina343's contributions, their only other large edit has been to Draft:Michael Belkin (ophthalmologist), a former article turned draft that was created by User:Arish43, another sock blocked per this SPI. Requesting checkuser.--SamHolt6 (talk) 13:37, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * It's all being routed through several of what I'd think are proxies. That said, is them. --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 20:24, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Adding in which is ✅ to this master, see Sockpuppet investigations/Bmunir.pak. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:19, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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quack Praxidicae (talk) 15:22, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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Ilyalyapin86rus is not using any proxies and does not locate to any areas that have been associated with this sockfarm before. No socking seen in their range and I wasn't able to connect them to anyone. From a technical perspective, this account looks clean and will have to be decided based on behavior. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:18, 11 February 2019 (UTC)


 * The suspected sockpuppet only has edits to a draft, and I wouldn't consider the way they're editing the draft to be abusive, so given there's also no evidence of sockpuppetry, I'm closing this without action. --Deskana (talk) 14:24, 17 February 2019 (UTC)