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21 May 2022[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

All these spammers are the same. It's highly likely that there are more of these and there is a superior sockmaster - who? MER-C 17:25, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users[edit]

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

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

CU can't really help much. There's likely P2P proxy use, and each account is in a different country (suspiciously so). One of the countries does jump out a bit, as being known as a hub for UPE operations, but I don't have much to add to that. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:33, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Spammers blocked and spam quarantined. Thanks. MER-C 12:36, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

16 September 2022[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

This group is trying to influence AfDs from sometime, so this was long due. Following are some behavior similarities:

Comments by other users[edit]

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

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

Article and AFD overlap
Article Created Edited Keep
Igor Litvak (AFD) JillViktor37 MontDuo12, Marc TW
Michael Frederick Marcotte (AFD) Anaya Levine Anaya Levine, Samantha Mont, JK.Kite, Marc TW
Peter Mallouk (AFD) JoshPeterP JK.Kite
Unicorn DAO (AFD) Pathofkarma JK.Kite Pathofkarma, JK.Kite, Elena Marcus D
Eli Joseph (AFD) LeviTune JK.Kite JK.Kite
Dan Legg (AFD) Anja Martin JK.Kite
Talking Rain LeviTune, JK.Kite, Jonna G12
Veem JK.Kite, LauraKinney
Nadya Tolokonnikova (talk) Pathofkarma, JK.Kite
Compass Coffee KatieR44, Cara T Williams, MontDuo12
  • User pages have various tells, here's a summary of all of them, including accounts in the archive:
Summary of user pages
User Comment Text
Pathofkarma creating user page History and social activist enthusiast.
JK.Kite [[WP:AES|←]]Created page with 'Anything you do, good or bad, Karma is there for you' Anything you do, good or bad, Karma is there for you
Marc TW correction This is my page, I thought main page. Thanks
Jonna G12 hi Hello, I am new. How to create pages please thanks
Anja Martin [[WP:AES|←]]Created page with 'Hello, I am Anja' Hello, I am Anja
Elena Marcus D myself intro Myself, Elena Marcus Donovon History and trial events
Maria Taylor40 declared Thank you for your permission, 331dot <br />{{connected contributor}}For Albert Friedman
Anaya Levine statement Hi, my work is neutral and for the betterment of the community. I am Anaya, Thanks
Samantha Mont my contribution My contribution is connected and guided by an expert. Thanks {{Connected contributor}}
MontDuo12 Thanks Hi, I submitted a page I prepared offline. Its my connected page that I contributed here.
Cara T Williams ty Thank you for the welcome and accepting me as an editor.
LeviTune thanks Thanks, editing suggested articles and some updates and citations
JillViktor37 note Hello, thank you for accepting me here.
DarkMilly thy Thank you for accepting me here. I joined after a long time of random editing for the work I wish to upload here related to historical companies and people.
KatieR44 Kat Hi, its Katie. Thanks
SelenaMark55 description Hi, I am Selena. I was editing Wikipedia for quite some time and now thought to create an account.
AshleyFredo Ash Hi, I have been an editor for some time then I got into an accident and paralyzed, it took 9 years to recover and I lost my family. The best thing in the world is sharing and that gives us true happiness.
LauraKinney world map [[File:Flag-map of the world.svg|thumb]] Hi, I am here to do something and contribute to Wikipedia. I have interest in techs and software and I'm a home sick mother of 2. My lower body was paralyzed when I fell from stairs saving my daughter. Please pray for everyone who is pain. Thank you [[User:LauraKinney|LauraKinney]] ([[User talk:LauraKinney|talk]]) 19:09, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
TiffanyWhitely peace [[File:Deus Peace.png|thumb]] Am red head and I believe in peace And I love this sign
JoshPeterP ty I am editing pages. Thank you
KellySim1 k Hey, I am Kelly. I was editing Wiki for like 2 years but they suggested to create an account and I am planning a page so I am here. Thank you Best, Kelly
YakaMoo user Thank you, happy to help and assist
GenomeBon g Thanks, I know how to edit and I am editing and and submitting an existing draft. Thanks
Tranbilanie {{User Chelsea F.C.}}
AlyxMaxtron sign <nowiki>Hi, thanks for the editing help but I know how to edits these type of forums. Thanks much ~~~~</nowiki>
  • Most accounts have a very similar edit summary style, illustrated in the following table (numbers represent how many accounts in this report used each edit summary):
Edit summary overlap
User Comments
Pathofkarma intro (4)
JK.Kite ref (13), career (12), reference (8), links (8), bio (7), history (6), correction (5), source (4), overview (4), life (4), comment (4), cleaned tone (4), book (4), ty (3), tone fixed (3), section (3), edu (3), edits (3), death (3), tone (2), temp (2), location (2), img (2), format (2), delete (2), copy (2), comments (2), bullet list (2), bot (2), additional citation (2)
Marc TW ref (13), correction (5), book (4), updated (2), sourced (2), k (2), 2 (2)
Jonna G12
Anja Martin ref (13), link (7), history (6), life (4), intro (4), section (3), country links (2)
Elena Marcus D bio (7), history (6), overview (4), comment (4), thanks (3), sourced (2), internal links (2), delete (2), citation (2)
Maria Taylor40 ref (13), career (12), reference (8), links (8), link (7), history (6), correction (5), cleaned tone (4), references (3), death (3), h1 (2), bullet list (2), bot (2), Thanks (2)
Anaya Levine career (12), links (8), link (7), bio (7), source (4), info (4), temp (2)
Samantha Mont ref (13), info (4), comment (4), comments (2), cleaned (2)
MontDuo12 ref (13), reference (8), links (8), link (7), source (4), intro (4), book (4), location (2), heading (2), format (2), error (2), cleaned (2), Thanks (2), 2 (2)
Cara T Williams ref (13), career (12), overview (4), ty (3), thanks (3), sign (2)
LeviTune career (12), links (8), bio (7), thanks (3), references (3), page link (3), edits (3), awards (3), updated (2), error (2)
JillViktor37 ref (13), reference (8), history (6), info (4), comment (4), award (3), copy edits (2), copy (2)
DarkMilly cleaned tone (4)
KatieR44 ref (13), links (8), edu (3), award (3)
SelenaMark55 ref (13), career (12), link (7), bio (7), life (4), intro (4), page link (3), h1 (2)
AshleyFredo ref (13), career (12), links (8), death (3), awards (3), country links (2)
LauraKinney link (7), life (4), box (3), awards (3), copy edits (2), citations (2)
TiffanyWhitely career (12), reference (8), link (7), source (4), info (4), tone fixed (3), box (3), minor edits (2), heading (2)
JoshPeterP ref (13), career (12), reference (8), overview (4), cleaned tone (4), book (4), ty (3), page link (3), edits (3), award (3)
KellySim1 career (12), bio (7), box (3), k (2), citations (2)
YakaMoo career (12), reference (8), bio (7), correction (5), section (3), tone (2), minor edits (2), internal links (2)
GenomeBon reference (8), links (8), tone fixed (3), references (3), citation (2)
Tranbilanie
AlyxMaxtron ref (13), career (12), history (6), correction (5), edu (3), sign (2), img (2), additional citation (2)
  • Here's an individualized assessment with some additional evidence:
    • Pathofkarma: Creation of Unicorn DAO, later keep-brigaded at AFD (see table above). Related to Unicorn DAO, JK.Kite also supported Pathofkarma's move request at Talk:Nadya Tolokonnikova. Note karma as a shared theme with JK.Kite [3].
    • JK.Kite: Extensive AFD brigading, very similar edit summary style (see tables above). Used cleaned tone (see DarkMilly notes).
    • Marc TW: Tried recreating Draft:Swift Navigation soon after a previous creation by a COI account. Usage of as per my analysis in AFD, along MontDuo12, which is not unique, but very infrequent ([4][5][6]). Thanks on their user page [7], common to many accounts in this report (see table above). AFD brigading, similar edit summary style.
    • Jonna G12: Overlap on Talking Rain. User page thanks [8]. The account was blocked early for spam at Polygon Group, so there was no time for larger evidence build up.
    • Anja Martin: Creation of Dan Legg, later defended at AFD by JK.Kite against consensus. Spammy creation at Eddie Mullon. Similar edit summary style.
    • Elena Marcus D: AFD overlap at Unicorn DAO. Supported by JK.Kite on an AFD nomination at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John DeBlasio. Likely spam creation at RoseHosting. Similar edit summary style.
    • Maria Taylor40: Extensive edit summary overlap. Refers to headings as h1 (not unique, but uncommon, see edit summary table). Used cleaned tone (see DarkMilly notes).
    • Anaya Levine: Created Michael Frederick Marcotte, later brigaded at AFD by a few other accounts in this report. Thanks user page [9]. Extensive edit summary overlap.
    • Samantha Mont: AFD brigading at Michael Frederick Marcotte. Thanks user page and dodgy COI disclosure [10]. See also MontDuo12.
    • MontDuo12: AFD brigading at Igor Litvak. See also Samantha Mont. Extensive edit summary overlap.
    • Cara T Williams: See user page and compare to JillViktor37 and DarkMilly.
    • LeviTune: Created Eli Joseph, later JK.Kite voted keep at AFD. Overlap at Talking Rain, including uploading marketing materials to Commons, see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by LeviTune, including Flickrwashing [11], which is a common technique by UPEs uploading copyrighted works to Commons. Thanks user page [12].
    • JillViktor37: Created Igor Litvak, later keep-brigaded at AFD by MontDuo12 and Marc TW. User page with thank you for accepting me here [13], like DarkMilly [14]. Edit summary overlap.
    • DarkMilly: Low edit count, but removing UPE tags from a random article, and created Nicole Sahin which was probably spam. See JillViktor37 notes. Used cleaned tone as edit summary, which only JK.Kite, JoshPeterP, and Maria Taylor40 have used since 1 January 2020 to present.
    • KatieR44: Compare user name to SelenaMark55. See TiffanyWhitely's notes. Edit summary overlap.
    • SelenaMark55: Edit summary overlap. Refers to headings as h1 (not unique, but uncommon, see edit summary table).
    • LauraKinney: Compare user page [15] with AshleyFredo's [16]. See overlap on Veem.
    • TiffanyWhitely: Extensive edit summary overlap. Refers to headings as h1 [17] (not unique, but uncommon, see edit summary table). Compare edit summary when creating user page [18] to KatieR44 [19] and AshleyFredo [20].
    • JoshPeterP: Created Peter Mallouk, later keep-voted by JK.Kite. Thanks user page [21]. Used cleaned tone (see DarkMilly notes).
    • AlyxMaxtron: Thanks user page [22].
  • Pink clock Awaiting administrative action Based on the above analysis, this is obviously a UPE op, and sockpuppetry for spam and AFD manipulation. Please, indef all accounts listed in the original report, as well as the ones I have added here. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 19:42, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • All blocked and tagged. G5 date for this batch is 2019-09-07 (Jonna G12). MER-C 09:00, 15 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Case moved from AshleyFredo to Pathofkarma. Tagged socks in the archives. MarioGom (talk) 09:52, 15 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

15 October 2022[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Found two new accounts and some old blocked accounts:

both used "thanks" on their userpages ([23], [24]). More evidence like User:MeetDobra created an article on QuickMD [25] and then
added tags to the talkpage [26]. Use of word "bio" in edit summaries by User:Automatetox (like noted before in a table), and use of visual editor matches them to this case.

Comments by other users[edit]

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

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

  •  Clerk endorsed - Also see their user pages [27][28]. Note that a few accounts from the previous report were not checked, I added a second batch after the initial check. Please, run a check and keep in mind possible residential proxy usage. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 08:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  In progress. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:49, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Much the same as the last two rounds: It does seem plausible that both of these are operated by the same person as the accounts from the last batch, but proxy use is very likely, so nothing conclusive from CU. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:00, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Pink clock Awaiting administrative action - Please, indef Automatetox and MeetDebra. I think the relation to past SPI cases is very likely, but I don't think it's worth it to go through these past case pages, which might be mixing multiple sockmasters. MarioGom (talk) 17:45, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked and tagged; closing. MER-C 18:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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