Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zepotha3/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
A bunch of brand new accounts at Draft:Zepotha obvious socking is obvious Lavalizard101 (talk) 19:21, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Add a bunch more that have appeared I'm begininng to think this may be part of a group project/course/class or something. Lavalizard101 (talk) 20:00, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Add more from the drafts linked below. Lavalizard101 (talk) 20:11, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


 * I was wondering why Draft:Zepotha, Draft:Zepotha 2, Draft:Zepotha (1984), Draft:Zepotha (1987) and Draft:Zepotha (1987 Lost Film) were all created today. Liz Read! Talk! 20:05, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * There's a music artist on TikTok who, with their sound that is apart of their album, started some trend yesterday regarding a fictional 80's horror film. Due to the popularity of it, I'm not fully sure if it's sockpuppetry in the sense that all the contributors are the same person, but it's all regarding the same fictional film. B3251 (talk) 21:27, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with that general assessment, especially earlier when the disruption was spread out over several hours from many users, although for what it's worth, I think there still may be some actual socking going on here. For example, after a several hour pause in the hoax edits, and  were created within about a minute of each other and proceeded to create/edit Draft:Zepotha within a few minutes of each other. I will add them to the case in case this goes anywhere, although it seems like it is mostly distributed disruption. —&#8288;PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 03:33, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Seems obvious to me that this is a bunch of different people engaging in some tiktok meme. I'm not going to endorse a check on a dozen likely unrelated accounts on the off chance that two or three of them might be socks. If these users are being disruptive and continuing to create hoaxes after warnings, they can be blocked for DE/NOTHERE/etc., as some already have been. Closing. Spicy (talk) 17:25, 17 August 2023 (UTC)