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07 August 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

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

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Compare Special:Contributions/Blondehippo and Special:Contributions/Capeman7. Blondehippo created the article IguanaFix, and Capeman7 created an article about the company's CEO, Matias Recchia. Both articles use the same referencing style, there are multiple similarities in style and formatting. Please watch out for additional single-purpose socks following the same editing pattern. Rentier ( talk) 20:00, 7 August 2017 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Clerk endorsed - Please, compare the two. Vanjagenije (talk) 09:30, 10 August 2017 (UTC) reply
•  Clerk note: @ Callanecc, Drmies, DGG, Doug Weller, and Materialscientist: Can you, please, check this as soon as possible? Capeman7's edits will became stale today. Vanjagenije (talk) 09:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC) reply
• This looks technically  Unrelated. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 09:37, 10 August 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Beat me to it. I agree. Doug Weller talk 10:26, 10 August 2017 (UTC) reply
• Case closed. Vanjagenije (talk) 10:55, 10 August 2017 (UTC) reply

12 August 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

• Camisa_blanca ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Jacques81 ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Malabar1992 ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• OiseauNoir ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Blondehippo ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Very similar contribution histories: creating a single article over 12-15 edits in the sandbox, moving to main, blanking the sandbox, general lack of edit summaries. The articles themselves are similarly structured and formatted, compare 48FILM Project and 12 Inches of Sin or Jenice Heo and Rick Monroe. -- Rentier ( talk) 22:01, 12 August 2017 (UTC) reply

Additional information

All six accounts share the following characteristics:

• single-purpose accounts used to create an article about a living person or an organisation
• they created the article in the sandbox over 12-15 edits
• they didn't use edit summaries while creating the article
• they blanked their sandbox after moving the article to main
• they demonstrate impressive knowledge of wiki-markup, writing and referencing style, suggesting they are not new users

List of articles:

• Capeman7 - Matias Recchia
• Blondehippo - IguanaFix‎
• Camisa_blanca - 48FILM Project
• Jacques81 - 12 Inches of Sin
• Malabar1992 - Jenice Heo
• OiseauNoir - Rick Monroe

Pairwise similarities between users:

• Jacques81 and Capeman7: the same edit summary while moving the article (compare [1] and [2])
• Capeman7 and Blondehippo: strong behavioural connection, but no technical connection (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Capeman7/Archive#07_August_2017)

Similarities between the articles:

• Matias Recchia is the CEO of IguanaFix
• 12 Inches of Sin and 48FILM Project
  • Compare the first and the last lines of the lead: similar wording
  • References unnamed or named with a single, lowercase word
  • Similarly low internal link density
• Jenice Heo and Rick Monroe
  • Similarly descriptive edit summaries diff1 diff2
  • Reference names single-word lowercase or unnamed
  • Similar (albeit common) section names "Life and art" and "Life and career". In both articles, the first paragraph of the section starts with the same words.

-- Rentier ( talk) 15:37, 17 August 2017 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Additional information needed - -- Amanda (aka DQ) 00:12, 14 August 2017 (UTC) reply
•  In progress - Katie ^talk 23:31, 24 August 2017 (UTC) reply
• The master and Jacques81 are  Stale.
• The remaining accounts are  Possible. They're all using the same webhost and the behavior is very compelling. Katie ^talk 23:50, 24 August 2017 (UTC) reply
• All  Blocked and tagged based on behaviour, closing. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 09:03, 26 August 2017 (UTC) reply