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OPP/New Baba sock, now quacking in Spanish!. Also the irony of username 'Fiverr92' is not lost...perhaps this is the source after all. Chrissymad ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 16:05, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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Quack quack, FILA Film Invasion Los Angeles. Yeryry ( talk) 20:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
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Quack quack Chrissymad ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 13:24, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
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A bunch of single purpose accounts writing promotion around
Tres Watson.
Brilbluterin created a fully formed advert for Watson
[1] over a redirect they'd created 2 days earlier.
Karuenmelan created a fully formed advert for
The Gadget Guys
[2] over a redirect they'd created a day earlier. The Gadget Guys was founded by Watson.
After the article was on Watson was redirected, reverted by Watson, then proded a new SPA Rogercosts appeared to remove the prod and make changes.
Could be related to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/OfficialPankajPatidar given a new SPA sock from there made many edits to Canvass for a Cause, another org founded by Watson. duffbeerforme ( talk) 02:34, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please note that the edits of these accounts should also be checked. Risker ( talk) 05:50, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Another new SPA has appeared to "clean up" Tres Watson and to pretend there is no COI. duffbeerforme ( talk) 02:13, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
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Boxer4215:
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Okay, this is getting very complicated. It looks like the feedback from some commenters here is on the money, because these accounts sure look like crossovers from
OfficialPankajPatidar. They are editing Brilbluterin articles but are more technically related to OfficialPankajPatidar. Please note that
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No comment with respect to IP address(es) on the IP address except to say that it is not technically related to either of the sockmasters and is unlikely to be part of the editing ring.
The following are
Likely to be socks of Brilbluterin and are technically related to OfficialPankajPatidar as well.
Risker ( talk) 06:46, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm actually not sure if this is OPP again or not, or a similarly-minded person, because their one article (of an American-specific company, LiquidHub, is far too questionable for a casual visitor) especially considering every single section highly suggests COI. In any case, a precautionary CU is good. SwisterTwister talk 05:44, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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The evidence presented has no connection to the master and is thin in any event. I'm tempted to close with no action, but I'll leave that to a clerk for the moment. CU declined.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:59, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Recreation of OfficialPankajPatidar spam.
Clearly a throw away account for a promotional sock farm. Other than token edits elsewhere has only edited about Roman Molino Dunn [25]. Dunn is known as Electropoint. Electropoint has been deleted three times this year [26] as a speedy G5, always Created by a banned or blocked user ( User:OfficialPankajPatidar) in violation of ban or block.
Given the size and continuing socking a checkuser may be best to find others. duffbeerforme ( talk) 11:55, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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Re-creation of deleted articles ( [27] [28]) that were started by socks, I believe. Sro23 ( talk) 01:19, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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Been a while since I've seen one but recreation of Electropoint. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 20:11, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
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Quack. Recreation of Billy Carson. duffbeerforme ( talk) 22:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
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Recreation of Eshal Fayyaz under different title Eshal (Pakistani actress). Thank you – GSS ( talk| c| em) 18:46, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
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This is new. Attempted impersonation of SwisterTwister ??? Also, it's odd that the IP geolocates to Beijing but here they claim to be in Pakistan. Proxy? _ Bri ( talk) 18:52, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Eshal started he career as a model and was most liked for her face and got many fame on her model" and "
She is popular for portraying role of Abro" and "
The drama got very hit for drama's different story and was most watched serial". This recent iteration also lists the date of birth as October rather than September.The behavior of this new account feels subtly different, but on the other hand, the quality of English of past accounts wasn't that much better. Maybe I'm being too charitable. I'd be interested to see whether CheckUser can shed any light here that would help determine whether this account is related to past socks. Best, Mz7 ( talk) 06:03, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
Newly created account, recreated the salted page Sedat Sönmez under a different title [36] ( Sedat Sönmez (Businessman)). It was then moved to the original title by VQuakr [37]. – Joe ( talk) 12:14, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
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Note overlapping SPI case WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Amirshahat. - Bri ( talk) 21:13, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Contributions logs show he started one of the specifically recent OPP articles, and account history shows strongly similar behavior. SwisterTwister talk 06:25, 21 July 2017 (UTC) SwisterTwister talk 06:25, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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Recreating Electropoint by a very obvious cut and paste , presumably from one of the many versions of those previously deleted. Identical editing pattern to sock master Velella Velella Talk 20:33, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
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They were blocked one minute after this was filed. ☆ Bri ( talk) 21:30, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
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Sumpsus reposted Helen Child at H. Child. Note the creation of a redirect prior to page creation in both cases [38] [39]. This technique is also being used by other users that I will post in a moment. SmartSE ( talk) 22:31, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
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COIN notified for cleanup, permlink. ☆ Bri ( talk) 16:20, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Recreated the page Flickstree, which from what I can tell as a non-admin, was created in original form by Yasirali442 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), a CU confirmed sock of this farm. Requesting CU to check for sleepers. TonyBallioni ( talk) 15:05, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
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Electropoint ( Roman Molino Dunn) is back. Electropoint has been deleted may time as a G5 speedy deletion. Recreations by OPP socks. It's now back at Electropoint (music producer), typical of paid sock farms at a new title to bypass salt. duffbeerforme ( talk) 13:57, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
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It's been a while but see Draft:Ave Fenix Pictures CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 20:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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Unrelated.--
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20:41, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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Chinanike101 was registered in August 2016 a day after this case was filled and recreated C. R. Venkatesh under C. R Venkatesh. The article was previously created by user Sibhuja ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Dictayo ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). GSS ( talk| c| em) 14:21, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Another recreaction of Electropoint, this one at Roman Molino Dunn again jus like a previous sock. See also their talk page, "Happy to re-start editors task ...its been year's". [43] duffbeerforme ( talk) 03:49, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
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This might be an admission of prior accounts, they say they are "re-starting" and "it's been years". Bri.public ( talk) 17:31, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Tripped
871 and reported to
WP:EF/FP. The match is over a few passing mentions of the same person (ninth alternative in the filter's regex), which caused me to initially think this was innocent. However, a Google search for that person's name and "orion experience"
returns only five results, none of them meaningful, which means that this is at best overstated participation, and at worst hoaxing. Comparing the writing style in
Special:AbuseLog/31474107 to past edits and filter hits, there's the same excessive boldface, blank lines between bullet points, and use of curly quotes that we see in
Special:AbuseLog/18223083. This would be a lot of effort (+15kB) for just a few passing mentions of someone, but my understanding is that that's not entirely inconsistent with this master's MO, and they've shown in the past that they like writing long list-y sections of music articles. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
04:40, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
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I came across this EFFP. Imagined CU data would be stale; I was going to drop a note to @ Bbb23 and KrakatoaKatie as most recent admins dealing with this SPI in archives, but even that was quite some time ago. Forgot to get around to leaving that note, though. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 15:45, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
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OPP/New Baba sock, now quacking in Spanish!. Also the irony of username 'Fiverr92' is not lost...perhaps this is the source after all. Chrissymad ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 16:05, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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Quack quack, FILA Film Invasion Los Angeles. Yeryry ( talk) 20:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
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Quack quack Chrissymad ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 13:24, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
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A bunch of single purpose accounts writing promotion around
Tres Watson.
Brilbluterin created a fully formed advert for Watson
[1] over a redirect they'd created 2 days earlier.
Karuenmelan created a fully formed advert for
The Gadget Guys
[2] over a redirect they'd created a day earlier. The Gadget Guys was founded by Watson.
After the article was on Watson was redirected, reverted by Watson, then proded a new SPA Rogercosts appeared to remove the prod and make changes.
Could be related to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/OfficialPankajPatidar given a new SPA sock from there made many edits to Canvass for a Cause, another org founded by Watson. duffbeerforme ( talk) 02:34, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please note that the edits of these accounts should also be checked. Risker ( talk) 05:50, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Another new SPA has appeared to "clean up" Tres Watson and to pretend there is no COI. duffbeerforme ( talk) 02:13, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
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05:57, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Boxer4215:
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Okay, this is getting very complicated. It looks like the feedback from some commenters here is on the money, because these accounts sure look like crossovers from
OfficialPankajPatidar. They are editing Brilbluterin articles but are more technically related to OfficialPankajPatidar. Please note that
Helium Hasrur (
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No comment with respect to IP address(es) on the IP address except to say that it is not technically related to either of the sockmasters and is unlikely to be part of the editing ring.
The following are
Likely to be socks of Brilbluterin and are technically related to OfficialPankajPatidar as well.
Risker ( talk) 06:46, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm actually not sure if this is OPP again or not, or a similarly-minded person, because their one article (of an American-specific company, LiquidHub, is far too questionable for a casual visitor) especially considering every single section highly suggests COI. In any case, a precautionary CU is good. SwisterTwister talk 05:44, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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The evidence presented has no connection to the master and is thin in any event. I'm tempted to close with no action, but I'll leave that to a clerk for the moment. CU declined.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:59, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Recreation of OfficialPankajPatidar spam.
Clearly a throw away account for a promotional sock farm. Other than token edits elsewhere has only edited about Roman Molino Dunn [25]. Dunn is known as Electropoint. Electropoint has been deleted three times this year [26] as a speedy G5, always Created by a banned or blocked user ( User:OfficialPankajPatidar) in violation of ban or block.
Given the size and continuing socking a checkuser may be best to find others. duffbeerforme ( talk) 11:55, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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Re-creation of deleted articles ( [27] [28]) that were started by socks, I believe. Sro23 ( talk) 01:19, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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Been a while since I've seen one but recreation of Electropoint. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 20:11, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
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Quack. Recreation of Billy Carson. duffbeerforme ( talk) 22:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
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Recreation of Eshal Fayyaz under different title Eshal (Pakistani actress). Thank you – GSS ( talk| c| em) 18:46, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
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This is new. Attempted impersonation of SwisterTwister ??? Also, it's odd that the IP geolocates to Beijing but here they claim to be in Pakistan. Proxy? _ Bri ( talk) 18:52, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Eshal started he career as a model and was most liked for her face and got many fame on her model" and "
She is popular for portraying role of Abro" and "
The drama got very hit for drama's different story and was most watched serial". This recent iteration also lists the date of birth as October rather than September.The behavior of this new account feels subtly different, but on the other hand, the quality of English of past accounts wasn't that much better. Maybe I'm being too charitable. I'd be interested to see whether CheckUser can shed any light here that would help determine whether this account is related to past socks. Best, Mz7 ( talk) 06:03, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
Newly created account, recreated the salted page Sedat Sönmez under a different title [36] ( Sedat Sönmez (Businessman)). It was then moved to the original title by VQuakr [37]. – Joe ( talk) 12:14, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
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Note overlapping SPI case WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Amirshahat. - Bri ( talk) 21:13, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Contributions logs show he started one of the specifically recent OPP articles, and account history shows strongly similar behavior. SwisterTwister talk 06:25, 21 July 2017 (UTC) SwisterTwister talk 06:25, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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Recreating Electropoint by a very obvious cut and paste , presumably from one of the many versions of those previously deleted. Identical editing pattern to sock master Velella Velella Talk 20:33, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
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They were blocked one minute after this was filed. ☆ Bri ( talk) 21:30, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
This case is being reviewed by Sro23 as part of the clerk training process. Please allow them to process the entire case without interference, and pose any questions or concerns either on their Talk page or on this page if more appropriate.
Sumpsus reposted Helen Child at H. Child. Note the creation of a redirect prior to page creation in both cases [38] [39]. This technique is also being used by other users that I will post in a moment. SmartSE ( talk) 22:31, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
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COIN notified for cleanup, permlink. ☆ Bri ( talk) 16:20, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Recreated the page Flickstree, which from what I can tell as a non-admin, was created in original form by Yasirali442 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), a CU confirmed sock of this farm. Requesting CU to check for sleepers. TonyBallioni ( talk) 15:05, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
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Electropoint ( Roman Molino Dunn) is back. Electropoint has been deleted may time as a G5 speedy deletion. Recreations by OPP socks. It's now back at Electropoint (music producer), typical of paid sock farms at a new title to bypass salt. duffbeerforme ( talk) 13:57, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
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It's been a while but see Draft:Ave Fenix Pictures CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 20:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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Unrelated.--
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20:41, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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Chinanike101 was registered in August 2016 a day after this case was filled and recreated C. R. Venkatesh under C. R Venkatesh. The article was previously created by user Sibhuja ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Dictayo ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). GSS ( talk| c| em) 14:21, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Another recreaction of Electropoint, this one at Roman Molino Dunn again jus like a previous sock. See also their talk page, "Happy to re-start editors task ...its been year's". [43] duffbeerforme ( talk) 03:49, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
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This might be an admission of prior accounts, they say they are "re-starting" and "it's been years". Bri.public ( talk) 17:31, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Tripped
871 and reported to
WP:EF/FP. The match is over a few passing mentions of the same person (ninth alternative in the filter's regex), which caused me to initially think this was innocent. However, a Google search for that person's name and "orion experience"
returns only five results, none of them meaningful, which means that this is at best overstated participation, and at worst hoaxing. Comparing the writing style in
Special:AbuseLog/31474107 to past edits and filter hits, there's the same excessive boldface, blank lines between bullet points, and use of curly quotes that we see in
Special:AbuseLog/18223083. This would be a lot of effort (+15kB) for just a few passing mentions of someone, but my understanding is that that's not entirely inconsistent with this master's MO, and they've shown in the past that they like writing long list-y sections of music articles. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
04:40, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
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I came across this EFFP. Imagined CU data would be stale; I was going to drop a note to @ Bbb23 and KrakatoaKatie as most recent admins dealing with this SPI in archives, but even that was quite some time ago. Forgot to get around to leaving that note, though. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 15:45, 10 December 2021 (UTC)