Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ylogm/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Ylogm was blocked at 22:25, 3 March 2023 for disruptive editing of Chinese era articles. Dmhw has picked up the action with similar edits starting a week later at 09:37, 10 March 2023. Both editors' engagement with talk pages has been pretty much limited to moving them to different titles. wbm1058 (talk) 00:31, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

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Note, sockpuppet has since been blocked, and this is superseded by today's report. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 01:13, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Account now blocked. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 20:50, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
See User talk:The Blade of the Northern Lights, some rangeblocks are definitely needed ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 01:12, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

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The ranges are too big, with too much collateral, to block. Drmies (talk) 01:36, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Accounts have been CU blocked. Tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:51, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same kind of edits in the same articles. Also, they started editing just some days after their other possible sockpuppet account, User:LieutenantShen, was blocked. Xexerss (talk) 02:34, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

I was coming here to report the same user. Edits like removing sourced content to push a POV, reverting reverts of the previous sock. All their edits are probably should be rolled back. Folly Mox (talk) 12:08, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:45, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Restored Shunzhi, like several previous socks. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:07, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * Looks like they've been on that IP for a good long time. Blocked for 3 years. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:46, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
First time submitting an SPI; please forgive errors.

User:SBD091 has been draftifying articles older than 90 days against WP:ATD-I using a script (see User:SBD091/Draftify log), many of which have had material previously removed by Ylogm socks LieutentShen and Feng30. See for example a, b, c.

BLAR at House of Zhu here, a favoured disruption site of Ylogm, whose content removals were most recently fixed last month. BLAR at Wanli Era with the specious summary "all substantive edits are socks and the blocked master" (probably copied from someone else), a repeat of the same BLAR performed by Ylogm.

Swapping around maps on the same pages Ylogm socks have previously disrupted in the same fashion. Jin dynasty (266–420): Feng30, SBD091; Dzungar Khanate LieutenantShen, SBD091, where the user copies prose from an edit summary I left months earlier at a different article.

And here they are at Jian'an (Eastern Han), blanking and redirecting a page Ylogm had previously edited, with the summary "Rv sock", referring to User:Llewellynll, a content creator of extremely long standing.

This sockmaster seems to be learning which sorts of edits stick and which don't, and adapting to new methods of disruption to suppress content they find objectionable. Copy exact prose from other people's edit summaries seems like a giveaway for a bad faith user, and an inspection of their contribution history will show a lot of reverted edits and a lot of edits that evince bad faith prima facie, which appears to be substantiated when compared to the histories of Ylogm and attendant socks.

Faithfully, Folly Mox (talk) 00:39, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

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Behaviour is ducky, and CU data is consistent with what I can glean from the logs. Also ✅ to: Blocking both. I don't see any other accounts. Closing. Girth Summit  (blether) 10:58, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Another new account messing around with Chinese eras, restoring Hongxi, which was a previous sock target. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:31, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * - Same narrow focus, signed up on 18 August, the day after the last block (and I guess they were tired of thinking about new names), similar wiki attachments and timecards... Please, block the account as suspected. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 16:52, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged as requested. Just wanted to let know that unless I'm missing something, there was no reason why you couldn't have blocked and tagged the new account. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 17:15, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Created shortly after last sock's block, similar edits to Chinese eras, restored Xuande. Ugh that this master flew under the radar for so long before being caught. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:27, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * Behavioral evidence looks pretty obvious. The Wordsmith Talk to me 03:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Created account at the same time that the previous (suspected) SP User:Min968 was blocked, began working in the same space.

Just now, asked me on my talk page about potentially helping nominate three articles written by said previous accounts for GA.

I'm just getting acquainted with this situation, it really is unfortunate that the only editor working at this volume in this important area is otherwise incompatible with the site like this. Remsense 诉  17:04, 14 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @Remsense @Bbb23 @Pppery @Folly Mox I don't think it's necessary to spend time checking, I need to take a break from Wikipedia, I have spent too much time here. Sometimes Wikipedia's policies are too strict, I really want to develop articles related to the Ming dynasty, but my efforts are not recognized due to my previous mistakes. I also hope that there will be other members who will continue the unfinished work that I have started. It is truly regrettable that I had hoped to continue contributing to Wikipedia for a long time. Thank you all. --Why Am I Me and Not Someone Else? (talk) 18:33, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to Min968:


 * Spicy (talk) 12:35, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 12:35, 23 March 2024 (UTC)


 * , closing. Spicy (talk) 12:37, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
May require a range block. Remsense 诉  17:18, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * Too much collateral to form an effective range block. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:09, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Restores edits made by suspected socks under the guise of reverting edits made by suspected socks. Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:35, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to e.g. and . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Also . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)