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07 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

User Sliverug is a new account who has made few or no other edits outside the topic Angelique Rockas, and her Internationalist Theatre; see her/his global contributions. In both English-language WP and Greek-language WP user Sliverug follows the same behavioral pattern with user Kyrilo36, a confirmed puppet of Amfithea, revealed after I filed this case of editiwar last July. User Sliverug's contributions to the articles Angelique Rockas, Internationalist Theatre, and Ανζελίκ Ρόκας of Greek-language WP as well, have been focusing constantly on removing Original Research and COI tags from all three articles, thus fueling an edit war exactly the same way like the then new user Kyrilo36 (so far the last confirmed puppet created by user Amfithea) did.

But there is more evidence: IP 82.1.219.198. When Kyrilo36 was vandalising the Greek article on Rockas, she/he once forgot to sign in, and, when she/he made this comment in Greek-language WP, her/his IP (82.1.219.198) was revealed, as hard evidence -judging from the IP's global contributions, and esp. this in German-language WP- that behind Kyrilo36 was Amfithea. A similar mistake that exposed her/himself had been repeated by user Sliverug in Greek-language WP. First, Sliverug removed the tags from the Greek article on Rockas. Then, CubicStar (sysop @ Greek-language WP) had the tags put back in place, summarising that there is no reason to have them removed. After that, Sliverug reacted by emptying the article (commenting: deletion), but by mistake she/he left out the two tags on top; the very next minute appeared IP 82.1.219.198 out of the blue to "do the job" that Sliverug had left unfinished: deleting the tags on top (commenting: deletion, dealing with fools)! Chalk19 ( talk) 18:14, 7 September 2017 (UTC) reply

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It doesn't look like there's anything more to do here. Closing. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 19:52, 7 September 2017 (UTC) reply

22 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


See the edit warring complaint about Chlorissima's editing of the Angelique Rockas article. I have blocked Chlorissima one week for edit warring on the COI tags at Angelique Rockas. The edit summaries and talk comments are very reminiscent of the Amfithea socks blocked previously. User:Chalk19 who filed the AN3 gave a good summary of the background in his complaint there. He has also been following the related dispute on the Greek Wikipedia. User:Ajraddatz, a global sysop, has commented earlier in this SPI due to the cross-wiki abuse. All the socks want uploaded scans of primary paper documents to be admitted to the record to support the notability of Angelique Rockas. If the stream of new socks or meats continues it might justify a period of full or EC protection for Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre, but that step is not needed just yet. If a checkuser were run, it might justify an indef block for Chlorissima. EdJohnston ( talk) 15:05, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply

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Additional evidence.

The way (the typing/writing) User:Chlorissima replied (see User talk:Chlorissima) after I wrote on her/his talk page a "Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion" is very similar to the way User:Angeliquerock writes in her (?) talk page at Commons, esp. the multiple signing; example:

  • "Angelique Rockas {Angeliquerock (Συζήτηση) 15:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {194.83.172.121 15:12, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {Angeliquerock (Συζήτηση) 15:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {194.83.172.121 15:11, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {Angeliquerock (Συζήτηση) 15:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)}"

compare:

  • "22 September 2017 (UTC)EdJohnstonChlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC) ~~EdJohnston~~ From User ~~Chlorissima~~ Chlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)ChlorissomaChlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC) I noticed that the link Invitation to Oxford has been removed, so I went to the source referred to by Scottish Theatre Archive , Angelique Rockas Flickr.com and found this album, Invitations Worth reading: https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelique_rockas/albums/72157684452850041 Thank you for your attention ~~Chorissima~~ Chlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)ChlorissimaChlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)"

Another stirking similarity is the pattern of using seperation lines between paragraphes/sections by typing consecutive hyphensis, in common with sockmaster's User Amfithea master puppet User Johanprof, and minor puppet Kyrilo36 (see also: Talk:Angelique Rockas and el:Συζήτηση:Ανζελίκ Ρόκας) (the Greek-language article on rockas talk page). Finally, please note my PS to the aforementioned edit warring complaint. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 15:50, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply

PS. User Chlorissima in her/his talk page writes of myself: "... a Greek editor who is not au fait with British Theatre, UK Press and workd class archives doing trying to discredit ..." . In el:Συζήτηση:Ανζελίκ Ρόκας master puppet Johanprof had addressed myself and sysop CubicStar by writing: "For your attention: I am no random editor (...) this immediate comment on the vanadlsim you are pertmitting on this entry (...) if you on Greek Wikipedia want to vandalize the Greek entry then your curating should be questioned". No comments needed about the similarity of style. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 16:06, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply
The 36(9) part seems to be a common thread between the account names. I'll notify some of the other projects where these accounts have edited so they are aware, but the abuse is going across ~20 other projects. All accounts locked, and the IPs globally blocked for now. -- Ajraddatz ( talk) 17:41, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply
PS. There is another account with COI, "speeping" at the moment, user:John Mcarther, who in some of his (?) summaries used to write "no conflict"! [1], [2], [3], [4] —— Chalk19 ( talk) 13:00, 23 September 2017 (UTC) reply
That one looks unused now, though is most certainly one of this pattern. It might be worth letting Commons know though that venue; I can attest to the technical evidence if you cover the behavioural. -- Ajraddatz ( talk) 21:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC) reply
User:Chlorissima has been globally locked by Ajraddatz per this link. Except for notifying Commons there doesn't appear to be anything else to do, unless an enwiki CU can think of more. EdJohnston ( talk) 17:20, 29 September 2017 (UTC) reply
@ Ajraddatz and EdJohnston: Commons notified. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 07:29, 26 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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09 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Another user in the "army" of puppets of sockmaster Amfithea, and SPAs who promote Angelique Rockas in several language editions of WP: User:Johanprof, User:Ortocarlo, User:Kyrilo36, User:Sliverug, User:Chlorissima, User:Boris369 (all blocked globally), and the not-to-forget (uninvestigated) case of user Angeliquerock at Commons. For the abovementioned puppets, please take a look at:

  1. User:Kyrilo36 reported by User:Chalk19
  2. User:Chlorissima reported by User:Chalk19
  3. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amfithea/Archive (2 cases filed)

It's not only the global contributions of user Kotlenci that points to the dicection of another puppet. It's the same mistake that user Kotlenci, like user Kyrilo36 and user Sliverug did before, that is writing something as a registered user, and then caming back to continue but forgeting to sing in. It is the well known by now IP 82.1.219.198. When Kyrilo36 was vandalising the Greek article on Rockas, she/he once forgot to sign in, and, when she/he made this comment in Greek-language WP, her/his IP (82.1.219.198) was revealed, as hard evidence -judging from the IP's global contributions- that behind Kyrilo36 was sockmaster Amfithea. A similar mistake had been repeated by user Sliverug in Greek-language WP. First, Sliverug removed the tags from the Greek article on Rockas. Then, a sysop @ Greek-language WP) had the tags put back in place. After that, Sliverug reacted by emptying the article, but by mistake she/he left out the two tags on top; the very next minute appeared IP 82.1.219.198 to "do the job" that Sliverug had left unfinished: deleting the tags on top.

The same mistake has just happened about an hour before. User Kotlenci on 9 November 2017 at 18:49 (UTC) added an "update" to the talk page of the Angelique Rockas article, addressed to user Jmax and myself. Three minutes later, the well known IP 82.1.219.198 changed the signature of user Kotlenci to 82.1.219.198, and the time stamps from 18:49 to 18:52! QED. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 19:51, 9 November 2017 (UTC) reply


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PS. @ Ajraddatz: Case re-filed at Commons, and the account is finally locked. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 08:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC) reply

21 June 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Seems to be continuing contentious editing on Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre. Suspect sock's first edits seem to demonstrate pre-existing experience with WP markup from the get-go [5] [6].

Editing style and behaviour seems close to User:Chlorissima (previously raised here at SPI, blocked before Datintl01's first edits):

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Missed that this was already open. Merging.
Long history of this topic area ( Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre) being worked on by this family of socks. A few new accounts have recently begun working on this area to remove COI tags. 4 times here by User:Datintl01 [14]. Nescu23 is another SPI. A decent overview is here by User:Chalk19. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 06:20, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
  • There is an army of socks (more than 10 of them already globally locked) with cross-wiki abusive action who promote Rockas. Usually the socks are very agressive towards users who are exposing them. As I have shown @ Commons, behind this operatrion "most likely is Angelique Rockas, the real person" ( [15], [16]); steward Ajraddatz knows this case, and has locked all (or most of) the previous sockpuppets globally. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 07:32, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
PS. You may also take a look to the Greek-language talk page of Angelique Rockas article; some dialogues (with the socks) are in English. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 10:38, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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21 June 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


After Nescu23 made a couple of legal threats, I looked at their article activity and socking was clear.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 11:03, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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  • All accounts are  Technically indistinguishable. I've blocked all but I see that I missed filing this under the oldest account which is Datintl01. Would a clerk kindly move this case to the that account name and then tag? Thank you.
     —  Berean Hunter (talk) 11:08, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
...or it may need merged with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amfithea (didn't know that existed before filing this).
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 11:21, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
Likely best to merge User:Berean Hunter. I imagine they are all from the same paid editing company. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 15:44, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
 Done, tags updated where necessary though most were already taken care of. Closing. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 13:43, 4 July 2018 (UTC) reply

03 July 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 13:58, 3 July 2018 (UTC) reply

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Merge completed, case closed. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 13:44, 4 July 2018 (UTC) reply

22 July 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

This is the "new recruit" in Rockas Army of Sockes (for its history see: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amfithea/Archive). Since the main targets of the Army of Sockes, articles Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre, have been locked for users until August 3rd by Berean Hunter because of "Persistent sockpuppetry" [19] [20], the new sockpuppet has focused on two other articles of "Rockas interest": Griselda Gambaro, and The Camp (1967 play). With these contributions [21] user Xanu36 restored a highly promotional section in the Gambaro article about Rockas. About its reason in this article, as a duplicate of the same section in The Camp article (instead of a shorter piece on Rockas' production) [22], there was a discussion between myself and another user in the article's talk page. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 00:46, 22 July 2018 (UTC) reply

PS. Also the same pattern with the rest of the Army of Socks while writing to talk pages with lines of dashes, chaotic structure, and peculiar ways of signing [23]. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 01:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC) reply

PS2. (update to the above PS) Also here; for a comparison, not only of the pattern but of for the content as well, see this. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 11:04, 25 July 2018 (UTC) reply

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07 August 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Same targets, Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre. Adding same promotional crap and similar edit summaries (ie. great detail to each edit) CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 18:11, 7 August 2018 (UTC) reply

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04 September 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 20:58, 4 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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 Technically indistinguishable to each other and to Xanu36 from the archive:

 Blocked and tagged.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 20:59, 4 September 2018 (UTC) reply

I've unblocked Cath Writer which is using the same IP at the same time as other accounts but is using a different browser and that is the only difference. The edits are different enough that I'm giving the benefit of doubt.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 21:14, 4 September 2018 (UTC) reply

17 October 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

See [24]: spamming (many) user talk ages to canvas support for the Internationalist Theatre (up for AfD currently). Suggest that edit summaries from the master (e.g. " if the User bothered to open the British Library link they would see that Internationalist Theatre productions for which Ms Rockas is known are covered - and there is a separate Wikipedia entry fir this important company") and the the probable sock (" There is a main space article on Angelique Rockas this draft page of more than 2 yrs ago is redundant and should be deleted.") are rather similar in style. —— SerialNumber 54129 15:23, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

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FabriceCanel has echoed the sock's but is Red X Unrelated. Behavior is suggesting meatpuppetry.

Carambazust ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) is  Technically indistinguishable to Alizafar567 who is  Likely to the master. Indeffing these two.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply


17 October 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Their edit to Talk:Angelique Rockas is making the same request as the assumed sock / meat above: Example text--07:01, 16 October 2018. Compare Alizafar567's edit at the helpdesk, Why has Internationalist Theatre a main space Wikipedia article since 2 yrs ago been put on NOINDEX_ Category ?--14:03, 17 October 2018‎. —— SerialNumber 54129 15:48, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Berean Hunter:, sorry I was still filing when youwrote that! —— SerialNumber 54129 15:49, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

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No worries. See above report.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 16:17, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

09 December 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


Like all the other socks, this account's nigh-exclusive purpose is to add the Internationalist Theatre and Angelique Rockas to articles (and to tweak previous contributions of other accounts of this person). – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 21:26, 9 December 2018 (UTC) reply

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20 February 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 22:36, 20 February 2019 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

 Blocked and tagged.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 22:36, 20 February 2019 (UTC) reply

17 September 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 10:39, 17 September 2019 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed,  Blocked and tagged.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 10:39, 17 September 2019 (UTC) reply

05 December 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 16:59, 5 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

26 January 2020

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 15:21, 26 January 2020 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

 Blocked and tagged
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 15:21, 26 January 2020 (UTC) reply

27 February 2020

Suspected sockpuppets


They're baaaaack! TBH I haven't been tracking why the edits are in themselves disruptive, but this is obviously the Angelique Rocka sock again, same edits as always. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 21:13, 27 February 2020 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

 Blocked and tagged
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 04:06, 28 February 2020 (UTC) reply

11 November 2020

Suspected sockpuppets

Behavioral. 94 is already blocked, but not listed here. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 00:46, 11 November 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Sir Sputnik: Like the loads of other blocked accounts/IPs of this person, these IPs focus on promoting the Internationalist Theatre and Angelique Rockas, eg. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 22:08, 11 November 2020 (UTC) reply
@ RoySmith: No worries, thanks for reconsidering. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 01:22, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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  •  Additional information needed -  Additional information needed. In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
  1. At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
  2. At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
  3. In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 21:49, 11 November 2020 (UTC) reply
When I closed this, I didn't notice that Roscelese had indeed provided the requested information. Reopening. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:26, 28 November 2020 (UTC) reply

07 May 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

IP 82 previously blocked continues to be active in spamming the Internationalist Theatre to articles. The other two likewise are single-interest accounts devoted to developing Internationalist Theatre and Theatro Technis on Wikipedia, including by adding these theatres' productions to articles on famous plays with screenshots of archival reviews, as the banned user did. The articles' history reveals other IPs that are also this person, but I haven't filed any IP that hasn't been active in the last month. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 13:09, 7 May 2021 (UTC) reply

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  •  Clerk note: Volut is an obvious SPA, blocked and tagged. The IPs are amazing. Looks like these are both long-term static addresses dedicated to this sort of abuse. 82.1.219.198 is apparently part of 82.1.219.0/24 allocated to "WESTMINSTER-CITY-COUNCIL". 195.191.67.225 also appears to be long-term static, and clearly operated by a savvy user, since their earliest edits are notes to various functionaries complaining about arbcom matters. They both geolocate to London (as do all of the other IPs in the archives). Blocked both for a year. My usual rule on static IPs is to block them for as long as they've been a problem, but I can't bring myself to issue a 3-year block on an IP. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC) reply
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Amfithea

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07 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

User Sliverug is a new account who has made few or no other edits outside the topic Angelique Rockas, and her Internationalist Theatre; see her/his global contributions. In both English-language WP and Greek-language WP user Sliverug follows the same behavioral pattern with user Kyrilo36, a confirmed puppet of Amfithea, revealed after I filed this case of editiwar last July. User Sliverug's contributions to the articles Angelique Rockas, Internationalist Theatre, and Ανζελίκ Ρόκας of Greek-language WP as well, have been focusing constantly on removing Original Research and COI tags from all three articles, thus fueling an edit war exactly the same way like the then new user Kyrilo36 (so far the last confirmed puppet created by user Amfithea) did.

But there is more evidence: IP 82.1.219.198. When Kyrilo36 was vandalising the Greek article on Rockas, she/he once forgot to sign in, and, when she/he made this comment in Greek-language WP, her/his IP (82.1.219.198) was revealed, as hard evidence -judging from the IP's global contributions, and esp. this in German-language WP- that behind Kyrilo36 was Amfithea. A similar mistake that exposed her/himself had been repeated by user Sliverug in Greek-language WP. First, Sliverug removed the tags from the Greek article on Rockas. Then, CubicStar (sysop @ Greek-language WP) had the tags put back in place, summarising that there is no reason to have them removed. After that, Sliverug reacted by emptying the article (commenting: deletion), but by mistake she/he left out the two tags on top; the very next minute appeared IP 82.1.219.198 out of the blue to "do the job" that Sliverug had left unfinished: deleting the tags on top (commenting: deletion, dealing with fools)! Chalk19 ( talk) 18:14, 7 September 2017 (UTC) reply

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It doesn't look like there's anything more to do here. Closing. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 19:52, 7 September 2017 (UTC) reply

22 September 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


See the edit warring complaint about Chlorissima's editing of the Angelique Rockas article. I have blocked Chlorissima one week for edit warring on the COI tags at Angelique Rockas. The edit summaries and talk comments are very reminiscent of the Amfithea socks blocked previously. User:Chalk19 who filed the AN3 gave a good summary of the background in his complaint there. He has also been following the related dispute on the Greek Wikipedia. User:Ajraddatz, a global sysop, has commented earlier in this SPI due to the cross-wiki abuse. All the socks want uploaded scans of primary paper documents to be admitted to the record to support the notability of Angelique Rockas. If the stream of new socks or meats continues it might justify a period of full or EC protection for Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre, but that step is not needed just yet. If a checkuser were run, it might justify an indef block for Chlorissima. EdJohnston ( talk) 15:05, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply

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Additional evidence.

The way (the typing/writing) User:Chlorissima replied (see User talk:Chlorissima) after I wrote on her/his talk page a "Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion" is very similar to the way User:Angeliquerock writes in her (?) talk page at Commons, esp. the multiple signing; example:

  • "Angelique Rockas {Angeliquerock (Συζήτηση) 15:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {194.83.172.121 15:12, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {Angeliquerock (Συζήτηση) 15:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {194.83.172.121 15:11, 30 July 2017 (UTC)} {Angeliquerock (Συζήτηση) 15:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)}"

compare:

  • "22 September 2017 (UTC)EdJohnstonChlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC) ~~EdJohnston~~ From User ~~Chlorissima~~ Chlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)ChlorissomaChlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC) I noticed that the link Invitation to Oxford has been removed, so I went to the source referred to by Scottish Theatre Archive , Angelique Rockas Flickr.com and found this album, Invitations Worth reading: https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelique_rockas/albums/72157684452850041 Thank you for your attention ~~Chorissima~~ Chlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)ChlorissimaChlorissima (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)"

Another stirking similarity is the pattern of using seperation lines between paragraphes/sections by typing consecutive hyphensis, in common with sockmaster's User Amfithea master puppet User Johanprof, and minor puppet Kyrilo36 (see also: Talk:Angelique Rockas and el:Συζήτηση:Ανζελίκ Ρόκας) (the Greek-language article on rockas talk page). Finally, please note my PS to the aforementioned edit warring complaint. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 15:50, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply

PS. User Chlorissima in her/his talk page writes of myself: "... a Greek editor who is not au fait with British Theatre, UK Press and workd class archives doing trying to discredit ..." . In el:Συζήτηση:Ανζελίκ Ρόκας master puppet Johanprof had addressed myself and sysop CubicStar by writing: "For your attention: I am no random editor (...) this immediate comment on the vanadlsim you are pertmitting on this entry (...) if you on Greek Wikipedia want to vandalize the Greek entry then your curating should be questioned". No comments needed about the similarity of style. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 16:06, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply
The 36(9) part seems to be a common thread between the account names. I'll notify some of the other projects where these accounts have edited so they are aware, but the abuse is going across ~20 other projects. All accounts locked, and the IPs globally blocked for now. -- Ajraddatz ( talk) 17:41, 22 September 2017 (UTC) reply
PS. There is another account with COI, "speeping" at the moment, user:John Mcarther, who in some of his (?) summaries used to write "no conflict"! [1], [2], [3], [4] —— Chalk19 ( talk) 13:00, 23 September 2017 (UTC) reply
That one looks unused now, though is most certainly one of this pattern. It might be worth letting Commons know though that venue; I can attest to the technical evidence if you cover the behavioural. -- Ajraddatz ( talk) 21:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC) reply
User:Chlorissima has been globally locked by Ajraddatz per this link. Except for notifying Commons there doesn't appear to be anything else to do, unless an enwiki CU can think of more. EdJohnston ( talk) 17:20, 29 September 2017 (UTC) reply
@ Ajraddatz and EdJohnston: Commons notified. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 07:29, 26 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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09 November 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Another user in the "army" of puppets of sockmaster Amfithea, and SPAs who promote Angelique Rockas in several language editions of WP: User:Johanprof, User:Ortocarlo, User:Kyrilo36, User:Sliverug, User:Chlorissima, User:Boris369 (all blocked globally), and the not-to-forget (uninvestigated) case of user Angeliquerock at Commons. For the abovementioned puppets, please take a look at:

  1. User:Kyrilo36 reported by User:Chalk19
  2. User:Chlorissima reported by User:Chalk19
  3. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amfithea/Archive (2 cases filed)

It's not only the global contributions of user Kotlenci that points to the dicection of another puppet. It's the same mistake that user Kotlenci, like user Kyrilo36 and user Sliverug did before, that is writing something as a registered user, and then caming back to continue but forgeting to sing in. It is the well known by now IP 82.1.219.198. When Kyrilo36 was vandalising the Greek article on Rockas, she/he once forgot to sign in, and, when she/he made this comment in Greek-language WP, her/his IP (82.1.219.198) was revealed, as hard evidence -judging from the IP's global contributions- that behind Kyrilo36 was sockmaster Amfithea. A similar mistake had been repeated by user Sliverug in Greek-language WP. First, Sliverug removed the tags from the Greek article on Rockas. Then, a sysop @ Greek-language WP) had the tags put back in place. After that, Sliverug reacted by emptying the article, but by mistake she/he left out the two tags on top; the very next minute appeared IP 82.1.219.198 to "do the job" that Sliverug had left unfinished: deleting the tags on top.

The same mistake has just happened about an hour before. User Kotlenci on 9 November 2017 at 18:49 (UTC) added an "update" to the talk page of the Angelique Rockas article, addressed to user Jmax and myself. Three minutes later, the well known IP 82.1.219.198 changed the signature of user Kotlenci to 82.1.219.198, and the time stamps from 18:49 to 18:52! QED. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 19:51, 9 November 2017 (UTC) reply


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PS. @ Ajraddatz: Case re-filed at Commons, and the account is finally locked. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 08:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC) reply

21 June 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Seems to be continuing contentious editing on Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre. Suspect sock's first edits seem to demonstrate pre-existing experience with WP markup from the get-go [5] [6].

Editing style and behaviour seems close to User:Chlorissima (previously raised here at SPI, blocked before Datintl01's first edits):

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Missed that this was already open. Merging.
Long history of this topic area ( Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre) being worked on by this family of socks. A few new accounts have recently begun working on this area to remove COI tags. 4 times here by User:Datintl01 [14]. Nescu23 is another SPI. A decent overview is here by User:Chalk19. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 06:20, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
  • There is an army of socks (more than 10 of them already globally locked) with cross-wiki abusive action who promote Rockas. Usually the socks are very agressive towards users who are exposing them. As I have shown @ Commons, behind this operatrion "most likely is Angelique Rockas, the real person" ( [15], [16]); steward Ajraddatz knows this case, and has locked all (or most of) the previous sockpuppets globally. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 07:32, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
PS. You may also take a look to the Greek-language talk page of Angelique Rockas article; some dialogues (with the socks) are in English. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 10:38, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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21 June 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


After Nescu23 made a couple of legal threats, I looked at their article activity and socking was clear.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 11:03, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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  • All accounts are  Technically indistinguishable. I've blocked all but I see that I missed filing this under the oldest account which is Datintl01. Would a clerk kindly move this case to the that account name and then tag? Thank you.
     —  Berean Hunter (talk) 11:08, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
...or it may need merged with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amfithea (didn't know that existed before filing this).
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 11:21, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
Likely best to merge User:Berean Hunter. I imagine they are all from the same paid editing company. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 15:44, 21 June 2018 (UTC) reply
 Done, tags updated where necessary though most were already taken care of. Closing. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 13:43, 4 July 2018 (UTC) reply

03 July 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 13:58, 3 July 2018 (UTC) reply

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Merge completed, case closed. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 13:44, 4 July 2018 (UTC) reply

22 July 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

This is the "new recruit" in Rockas Army of Sockes (for its history see: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amfithea/Archive). Since the main targets of the Army of Sockes, articles Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre, have been locked for users until August 3rd by Berean Hunter because of "Persistent sockpuppetry" [19] [20], the new sockpuppet has focused on two other articles of "Rockas interest": Griselda Gambaro, and The Camp (1967 play). With these contributions [21] user Xanu36 restored a highly promotional section in the Gambaro article about Rockas. About its reason in this article, as a duplicate of the same section in The Camp article (instead of a shorter piece on Rockas' production) [22], there was a discussion between myself and another user in the article's talk page. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 00:46, 22 July 2018 (UTC) reply

PS. Also the same pattern with the rest of the Army of Socks while writing to talk pages with lines of dashes, chaotic structure, and peculiar ways of signing [23]. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 01:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC) reply

PS2. (update to the above PS) Also here; for a comparison, not only of the pattern but of for the content as well, see this. —— Chalk19 ( talk) 11:04, 25 July 2018 (UTC) reply

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07 August 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Same targets, Angelique Rockas and Internationalist Theatre. Adding same promotional crap and similar edit summaries (ie. great detail to each edit) CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 18:11, 7 August 2018 (UTC) reply

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04 September 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 20:58, 4 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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 Technically indistinguishable to each other and to Xanu36 from the archive:

 Blocked and tagged.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 20:59, 4 September 2018 (UTC) reply

I've unblocked Cath Writer which is using the same IP at the same time as other accounts but is using a different browser and that is the only difference. The edits are different enough that I'm giving the benefit of doubt.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 21:14, 4 September 2018 (UTC) reply

17 October 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

See [24]: spamming (many) user talk ages to canvas support for the Internationalist Theatre (up for AfD currently). Suggest that edit summaries from the master (e.g. " if the User bothered to open the British Library link they would see that Internationalist Theatre productions for which Ms Rockas is known are covered - and there is a separate Wikipedia entry fir this important company") and the the probable sock (" There is a main space article on Angelique Rockas this draft page of more than 2 yrs ago is redundant and should be deleted.") are rather similar in style. —— SerialNumber 54129 15:23, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

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FabriceCanel has echoed the sock's but is Red X Unrelated. Behavior is suggesting meatpuppetry.

Carambazust ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) is  Technically indistinguishable to Alizafar567 who is  Likely to the master. Indeffing these two.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply


17 October 2018

Suspected sockpuppets

Their edit to Talk:Angelique Rockas is making the same request as the assumed sock / meat above: Example text--07:01, 16 October 2018. Compare Alizafar567's edit at the helpdesk, Why has Internationalist Theatre a main space Wikipedia article since 2 yrs ago been put on NOINDEX_ Category ?--14:03, 17 October 2018‎. —— SerialNumber 54129 15:48, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Berean Hunter:, sorry I was still filing when youwrote that! —— SerialNumber 54129 15:49, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

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No worries. See above report.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 16:17, 17 October 2018 (UTC) reply

09 December 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


Like all the other socks, this account's nigh-exclusive purpose is to add the Internationalist Theatre and Angelique Rockas to articles (and to tweak previous contributions of other accounts of this person). – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 21:26, 9 December 2018 (UTC) reply

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20 February 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 22:36, 20 February 2019 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

 Blocked and tagged.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 22:36, 20 February 2019 (UTC) reply

17 September 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 10:39, 17 September 2019 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed,  Blocked and tagged.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 10:39, 17 September 2019 (UTC) reply

05 December 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 16:59, 5 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

26 January 2020

Suspected sockpuppets


See below.
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 15:21, 26 January 2020 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

 Blocked and tagged
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 15:21, 26 January 2020 (UTC) reply

27 February 2020

Suspected sockpuppets


They're baaaaack! TBH I haven't been tracking why the edits are in themselves disruptive, but this is obviously the Angelique Rocka sock again, same edits as always. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 21:13, 27 February 2020 (UTC) reply

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 Confirmed

 Blocked and tagged
 —  Berean Hunter (talk) 04:06, 28 February 2020 (UTC) reply

11 November 2020

Suspected sockpuppets

Behavioral. 94 is already blocked, but not listed here. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 00:46, 11 November 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Sir Sputnik: Like the loads of other blocked accounts/IPs of this person, these IPs focus on promoting the Internationalist Theatre and Angelique Rockas, eg. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 22:08, 11 November 2020 (UTC) reply
@ RoySmith: No worries, thanks for reconsidering. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 01:22, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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  •  Additional information needed -  Additional information needed. In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
  1. At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
  2. At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
  3. In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 21:49, 11 November 2020 (UTC) reply
When I closed this, I didn't notice that Roscelese had indeed provided the requested information. Reopening. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:26, 28 November 2020 (UTC) reply

07 May 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

IP 82 previously blocked continues to be active in spamming the Internationalist Theatre to articles. The other two likewise are single-interest accounts devoted to developing Internationalist Theatre and Theatro Technis on Wikipedia, including by adding these theatres' productions to articles on famous plays with screenshots of archival reviews, as the banned user did. The articles' history reveals other IPs that are also this person, but I haven't filed any IP that hasn't been active in the last month. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 13:09, 7 May 2021 (UTC) reply

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  •  Clerk note: Volut is an obvious SPA, blocked and tagged. The IPs are amazing. Looks like these are both long-term static addresses dedicated to this sort of abuse. 82.1.219.198 is apparently part of 82.1.219.0/24 allocated to "WESTMINSTER-CITY-COUNCIL". 195.191.67.225 also appears to be long-term static, and clearly operated by a savvy user, since their earliest edits are notes to various functionaries complaining about arbcom matters. They both geolocate to London (as do all of the other IPs in the archives). Blocked both for a year. My usual rule on static IPs is to block them for as long as they've been a problem, but I can't bring myself to issue a 3-year block on an IP. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC) reply
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