Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zurlica/Archive

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Viksa999 is a SPA that has exclusivley edited three pages on wikipedia: Barış Arduç, Gupse Özay and Elçin Sangu, to try to push through edits suggesting that Barış has been married to Elçin rather than Gupse since 2017, despite this being directly contradicted by the sources present in the article, long with various other vandalism such as changing dates of birth.

Zurlica is also a single purpose account that has exclusively edited the exact same set of 3 articles to push the exact same theory about a seemingly non-existent marriage. The two accounts were created one day apart from each other and have focused exclusively on making almost identical edits.

For example diffs compare this edit by Viksa999 to this edit by Zurlica + the previous IP edit, or compare this edit by Viksa999 to this edit by Zurlica 192.76.8.82 (talk) 00:59, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * So having done a bit more research these edits appear to be related to the Turkish romantic drama TV series Kiralık Aşk, which aired in eastern europe between 2015 and 2017. The finale of the series (which aired in Jan 2017) involved Barış Arduç getting "married" to Elçin Sangu. There seems to be some kind of coordinated trolling effort to replace the date Barış actually got married with the date he got "married" on the TV series.
 * Having looked through the revision history more carefully it appears that is another SPA that has edited the article to change the marriage info  and also created the Viksa999 account Special:Log/Pepetto20. There also appear to be a few IP editors involved in changing the marriage info  . Given that all these edits have occurred within the last 7 weeks and all the named accounts were created within a day of each other I think we're probably looking at meat puppetry or off-wiki coordination, But I can't provide any off-wiki evidence to back that up. 192.76.8.82 (talk) 12:21, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ❌.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:21, 8 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Having seen this sort of thing before, this is probably some kind of fan thing. I've blocked both for persistent addition of unsourced content (but not as socks). Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:19, 8 November 2020 (UTC)