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29 December 2023[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Trinitydevine had been disrupting several articles mainly linked to fictional characters on Wikipedia. These mainly concern subjects linked to the soap opera EastEnders. They were given a series of warning but never acknowledge or attempt to stop their behaviour. On 19 December I reported them via ANI [1], as you can see the report was lost in the mix and was not addressed by an admin. Trinitydevine's edits did come to an end and Rosette01x became active soon after on 21 December making identical edits to Trinitydevine and the disruption has continued. All engage mainly in mobile editing, triggering the edit summary warning. Rarely give edit summaries, but the times they have they look similar.

A common theme is removing characters contained in character lists and creating new separate articles using the information. The IP given was making similar edits to Trinitydevine prior to their first edit - some examples below..

  • Trinitydevine adding unsourced episode numbers to Hollyoaks related articles: [23][24][25][26]
  • Rosette01x adding unsourced episode numbers to Hollyoaks related articles: [27][28][29][30]

I am requesting check user. If this editor is willing to create an account and edit the same articles without any qualms then they have probably been doing it for a while and have sleeper accounts waiting. Rain the 1 13:19, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users[edit]

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It appears as if 2a02:c7c:8686:c100:1d9e:e5ea:f9f4:6390 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is another IP-sock hop, given their recent edits at Joel Dexter, John Paul McQueen and Mercedes McQueen, amongst others. livelikemusic (TALK!) 18:04, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 21:31, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overlap in editing in both timestamp and page rules out both forgotten password + privacy alt. Based on the warnings on the master accounts talk page, it seems that they switched accounts to avoid scrutiny. Therefore blocking both accounts indef. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 21:39, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The IPv6 address is now blocked and the IPv4 hasn't edited in years. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 04:31, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

30 December 2023[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

The day after the block for sockpuppetery this IP springs up making the same changes to Hollyoaks articles. Adding in unsourced episode dates [31][32][33][34][35][36]

Just like Trinitydevine: [37][38][39][40] and confirmed sock account Rosette01x [41][42][43][44]

Is there anything that can be done since the editor will more than likely IP hop on this range and continue with their disruption. Given the amount of of edits to articles in one hour, they are quite disruptive.

A new sock account has appeared editing links are the style, same group of articles etc (Ravi Gulati (EastEnders), Freddie Slater, Freddie Slater (EastEnders), List of EastEnders characters (2004)):

Rain the 1 20:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

  • Blocked the account and IP range based on behaviour (I didn't run any checks). Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:52, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

09 January 2024[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

QueenStaceySlater - account created on 2 January when previous sock was blocked. Usual edits of splitting characters from yearly lists [54] but the usual information removal was finished by the other account, Honeysweetlike. I do not understand why a new editor would automatically know how to split a list, and for this other new editor to finish off and continue to maintain it. The just seems like a continuation of the previous editing behaviour from all previous confirmed socks whereby a new account spring up, splits information from a soap opera list and sprinkles edits in-between.

Honeysweetlike - account created on 4 January - returned to edit this article which was created by blocked sock Trinitydivine, which was also edited by Rosette01x and suspect IPs - they're returning to update the article. Triggers the usual "Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit" warning when they edit. Editing the EastEnders lists: [55][56][57][58]

Comments by other users[edit]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

  • Group 1,  Confirmed to each other and to Trinitydevine:
  • Group 2,  Confirmed to each other and  Possible to Trinitydevine:
  • These are all evading a block of some kind, so I'll block them, but  Behavioural evidence needs evaluation to figure out whether these belong to the same case. A technical 2O wouldn't hurt either. A lot of things about this case are odd. Spicy (talk) 23:52, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • After some contemplation I've decided that Group 2 is probably a different individual and have split that case to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Thecheeseistalking99. Moved this case from Trinitydevine to Kyle.sivvenxo and tagged those accounts. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 04:38, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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