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Johnjupither

Johnjupither (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

12 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Emmanuel6103 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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I suspect meatpuppetry because the Stalker tool shows that they edit three particular articles within 30 minutes of each other: (Biafra Liberation Army, Stanley Nwabali, and Simon Ekpa: all Nigerian topics). When questioned about this seeming cooperation between accounts, Emmanuel6103 simply replied "noted" which is pretty close to confirmation of the accusation. Chris Troutman (talk) 14:34, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And here's the admission of guilt. I guess just block and tag now. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/UniBrill/Archive may be related. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:09, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Blocked and tagged. Leaving the CU request because of the possible relationship to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/UniBrill. Bbb23 (talk) 18:28, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The two accounts named here, and two others that are variations on Johnjupitherr, are all Confirmed. If there are links to a different farm I'm not finding them, but I'll note that UniBrill accounts are stale. Vanamonde93 (talk) 22:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

15 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Johnefx (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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New SPA Johnefx created 12 February. First edits 14 February were an SP edit request at Talk:Stanley Nwabali [1], then (despite my having made no edits to Stanley Nwabali or its talk page) requested help at my user talk [2]. Today he's back at Simon Ekpa, promoting Biafra Republic Government in Exile and Biafra Liberation Army [3][4][5], and making a bizarre page move request [6]. Wikishovel (talk) 06:47, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd also be grateful for clerk or admin comment on User:Gråbergs Gråa Sång's note on WP:Sockpuppet investigations/UniBrill/Archive above: User:Ipob techie was blocked as a sock by User:Vanjagenije as late as 12 Dec 2023. Thanks, Wikishovel (talk) 06:59, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible that there's socking going on from pro and anti people both. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:56, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

15 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

JohnFx4 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Admits sockpuppetry in first edit, 6 minutes after creation [7]. Says nyah-nyah at my talk page in second edit. [8] Might want to look at a rangeblock. Wikishovel (talk) 17:32, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Blocked, but the collateral on a rangeblock would be enormous. Courcelles (talk) 17:36, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not tagging this trolling. Closing case. Courcelles (talk) 17:37, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

15 February 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Johnfx5 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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same again. @Courcelles:. Wikishovel (talk) 17:47, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Note that User:JohnFx6 is queued up. Wikishovel (talk) 18:03, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wikishovel Blocked Courcelles (talk) 18:17, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Already blocked. Deleted the trolling, still not tagging. Going to try... something. Courcelles (talk) 17:59, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

06 May 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Fugabus (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Same contentious edits and talk page behavior, same articles edited as other socks, especially Simon Ekpa. This account became active very soon after the last block (Feb 15 sock blocked, this account Feb 18). This brand new user has shown rather sophisticated editing abilities while repeating old shtick. JFHJr (㊟) 01:12, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Noting that the user has re-created a draft about the Biafra Republic Government in Exile at Draft:Biafra Republic (the infobox is, among other things, very uncited). This subject has a WP-history that involves socking:[9][10][11] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:22, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fwiw, Ekpa-socking is a thing on Commons too:[12]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:49, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noting also the Commons VRT-use at [13][14], which hints at some sort of COI, but since I can't read the tickets, I can't be sure. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:34, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Two things. This user is not "brand new", and see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/UniBrill/Archive#04 October 2023 where RoySmith found the user to be unrelated to UniBrill.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive; previous accounts are old. Behavioural evidence needs evaluation. Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:52, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Behavioral evidence is strong enough to show a link between these two accounts. Blocked and tagged. Closing. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 22:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]