Llully created his account on September 5, Clog on September 6. The first edit by Llully was to create his user page with {{ User page}}. He later did the same thing with his talk page. Clog did the same two edits here and here. Both accounts are here to promote Switzerland. Llully's initial focus was on Swiss hospitals, particularly psychiatric hospitals. He created this article. He created a category for it. The article he created, Hospital of Cery, was tagged for speedy deletion. I reviewed the tag and redirected the article rather than deleting it. Clog's very first edit was to undo the redirect. Both accounts add portal bars to articles: see here and here. Bbb23 ( talk) 08:39, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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The named account was created after the last CU. His initial interests were in Swiss articles, including the University Hospital of Lausanne edited a month earlier by confirmed sock User:Lowe D. C. Clog. Just like previous accounts, he added portal bars to many articles, including here, here, and here. He was assisted by at least two of the three IPs in edit warring at Murder of Meredith Kercher. See also this report at WP:AN3. Based on duck, I have indeffed the named account and blocked the three IPs for a month (I am listing the IPs only for the sake of completeness, not because I expect the CU to go there). I requested the CU to confirm the relationship and because there were so many sleepers last time. Bbb23 ( talk) 02:33, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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It's easy to see how the three confirmed accounts are the same individual because they all share an interest in criminal trial articles. The fact that Mendisar has intersections with previous confirmed socks should be enough in and of itself to indef all three. Still, I have a few other behavioral things to add. This diff shows Statykyl adding a portal, which is typical of this sock. Also, compare this edit by confirmed sock Soapamalkanmaime with the same diff by Statykyl. Both show changing a section header from "Notes" to "Notes and references", even though there is only one kind of footnoting involved. Finally, to the extent that all of the accounts previously blocked are actually the same individual instead of the possibility of more than one master (the accounts, like this one, are connected in groups to each other rather than being connected definitively as a single group), the sock's interests are quite wide, not only with respect to subject matter but with respect to the nationality of the articles. My view is that there is enough to block the two accounts that have yet not been blocked. However, I'll wait to see if Rschen7754 wants to voice an opinion, or take whatever action he deems appropriate.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:22, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
This was not triggered at first by this master. However, when I looked more deeply into it, I believe that some or all of the puppets are related to Soapamalkanmaime. Starting in the middle, I blocked Féd Poppy on February 9 at 18:35 for one week for edit warring. At the same time, other editors thought that he had edited with previous accounts, although not at the same time. Those are, in order of age, Trumpnewtq, Loceaul & wheya, and Paul Itiqu Fedtr. If you look at User talk:Féd Poppy, you'll see that on February 9 another editor asked him about those three accounts, and he did not respond. After I blocked him, I asked him the same question (just below the block notice). He hasn't responded.
I was then told on my talk page that all of the other accounts (starting with FLCJPA) and the two IPs started editing similar pages to Fed Poppy, beginning on February 10. The timing and the intersection of the accounts was enough for me to conclude that they were related to Fed Poppy. However, looking deeper, it appeared that there were also similarities between the accounts and Soapamalkanmaime, which made me think this went deeper. For example, FLCJPA, of the "new" accounts, did not start editing on February 10. He started editing on February 1, and the articles he edited were the same as the accounts Soapamalkanmaime and his puppets edit: University of Lausanne, Lausanne campus, etc. And there is an interesting gap in his history between February 1 when he edited those articles and February 10 when he started editing the articles associated with Fed Poppy. Thus FLJPA provides a link between the two sets of accounts and the two sets of articles (and everything is Swiss-related, of course).
There are other similarities with Soapamalkanmaime. For example, this edit by Paul changes a section header from "Note and citations" to "Notes and references", a common variant of edits done by Soap's puppets. A similar edit was made by Trumpnewtq here. Also, this edit by Paul adds a portal bar to an article. Soap and his puppets often added portal bars of various kinds to many articles.
Then there are the IPs, both from Switzerland. In particular, 128.178.197.61 ( talk · contribs) comes from a similar series of previous IPs used by Soap. It is static and it comes from an organization called Ecublens Camp Net from the Swiss Education and Research Network, the same as 128.178.197.62 ( talk · contribs) and 128.178.197.63 ( talk · contribs), both previously blocked as Soap socks. 144.85.164.231 ( talk · contribs), previously blocked as a Soap sock, uses VTX Services SA as the ISP and is static. The recent IP, 83.228.189.70 ( talk · contribs), uses the same ISP, although they are marked as dynamic.
I've blocked all of the named accounts indefinitely except the first three as they are stale. I've blocked the two IPs for a month. I've delayed tagging the named accounts until the outcome of this investigation. I've also delayed changing the duration of Fed Poppy's block. Bbb23 ( talk) 02:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
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The same user now appears to be editing from 130.223.2.2 ( talk · contribs) (and briefly did last September/November). Note the addition of portal bars (e.g. here). Number 5 7 16:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Clerk note: In the first list, I've tagged everyone and blocked everyone who wasn't already blocked. I've also indeffed and tagged Gènédic and Palana Canal based on
portal addition,
notes and references addition, and
this history for Palana Canal, which is literally an explosion of socks, not to mention the Swiss articles generally. Finally, as to Salhj Scaliq, I've changed the tag. Europefan is a much newer editor, and I wonder based on some of the comments in their archives, if they aren't in fact a sock of Soap.--
Bbb23 (
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00:28, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Same reverts: Science and technology in Switzerland. Has some new interests, Shania Twain and Glenn Gould. But the pattern of a brand new account adding portal templates to many articles is the same. It's unlikely someone who has never edited Wikipedia before would suddenly be adding technical templates like {{ Use dmy dates}} or {{ Use British English}}. This new account was probably created to re-post Otto Feick, only to discover the page is create protected. Dennis Bratland ( talk) 15:49, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I understand you good intentions but there is a mistake here. I assure you that I am not Europefan. Lisunina Torgloc ( talk) 17:55, 16 February 2014 (UTC).
newish account, jokey name, starts with general edits before moving full time into naming debates. Edits have already been brought up at AN/I. Latest burst of activity after other sock puppets blocked.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 21:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC) JohnBlackburne words deeds 21:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
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Result from CU investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Europefan by DoRD:
These are
Technically indistinguishable from the above and other Soapamalkanmaime socks, but
Behavioural evidence needs evaluation
Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 10:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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Same article edits as Europefan's Switzerland-related socks. Same sophisticated use of portal and language templates; obviously an advanced Wikipedia editor. Same pattern of creating a new login account in order to create new pages. Re-created Lemanic region and Lemanic region redirects previously deleted as work of Europefan sock. Might want to checkuser to find more sleepers, since he generally creates socks in batches. Dennis Bratland ( talk) 19:16, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
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The first user was already blocked as an "Obvious sock of User:Soapamalkanmaime" they did both a similar edit [1] and [2]-- Shrike ( talk)/ WP:RX 13:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC) Shrike ( talk)/ WP:RX 13:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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Clerk note: This is too obvious to require a CU. In addition to the similarities already mentioned, Soap likes user names that are French-like and often with accents (many of the socks had an abnormal interest in Swiss topics). Also, the
sentence initially on their user page is almost identical to
this one.--
Bbb23 (
talk)
23:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Same subject matter: Swiss universities, technology and health care. New account is new pages and redirects by an obviously experienced Wikipedian, editing portals, using templates and citations in a sophisticated way. Dennis Bratland ( talk) 18:54, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
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First few edits have all been to pages created/heavily edited by other Soapamalkanmaime socks (e.g. this article created by the Féd Poppy sock), with same arguments about article naming. As soon as I mentioned that I thought they were a sock, the edits started coming from the IP (which I have blocked as that has exactly the same edit pattern). After the IP was blocked, they started editing from the (sleeper) Ms Mitch Kwan account. Number 5 7 16:58, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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Possible sockmaster was previously very interested, to the point of pretty much being a single purpose account, in linking
Militant atheism to
New Atheism (a POV push that went against consensus on the talk page). Within the last 24 hours, three new accounts with similarly idiosyncratic user names have all been making edits to make that same link, with two of them seeming to tag team to change the redirect page. (I'm a little less sure of the behavioral link for the third account.) Also, they seem suspiciously familiar with procedures such as RM for them to be new users. --
Tryptofish (
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21:37, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I fully agree with both JamesBWatson and My very best wishes about CU, especially with respect to who the sockmaster really might be. Thanks. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:21, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
@ Ponyo: Thanks. Is it likely, then, that the sockmaster is neither Lagoy nor Altenmann? -- Tryptofish ( talk) 00:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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Administrator note A number of accounts all appear within a very short time, all start editing on the same subject, there are striking similarities among their edits, several of them show a degree of knowledge of Wikipedia that is most unusual for new editors, several of them try to get a reversal of a decision previously reached by consensus in a discussion, several of them create very similar user pages ... This looks rather like a duck. However, it is not entirely clear to me whether every one of the accounts is a sockpuppet, so I am requesting a CheckUser. The account suggested as the master (Lagoy) is long-since stale, but a CU should be able to help us decide whether all of the accounts are linked, and also whether there are other sleepers, which is by no means unlikely in view of the creation history of the listed accounts. The editor who uses the pseudonym "
JamesBWatson" (
talk)
16:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Clerk note:
User:Héh Dmée was not blocked as a result of the SPI nor is it a CU block. Thus, at best it is suspected. @
Ponyo: would you have connected Héh Dmée to any of the accounts here? It is not close to being stale. Assuming that neither Lagoy nor Altenmann is the master, the grouped accounts above are essentially by narrow date ranges, although all of the accounts were created this month. If I were to change the master (this is mostly a note to myself) to one of the confirmed accounts, it would be Haulwreakh. Meanwhile, I'll wait for Ponyo to respond to my ping.--
Bbb23 (
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18:41, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Clerk note: Although nothing is perfect, Number 57's analysis has tipped the scale for me. The IP is also pivotal as the last time it was blocked it was a CU block. I've tagged all of the confirmed accounts. I've also blocked the IP for three months. Tryptofish, no need to add anything, thanks. Closing.--
Bbb23 (
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01:24, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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started ref Talk:Public Eye (Erklärung von Bern) on September 23, and Wikipedia talk:Sock puppetry September 26, 2016 where I tried to explain what 'kind' of imho potentially sock puppetry occurred – affected wikis at English Wikipedia: Public Eye (Erklärung von Bern), Alternative Bank Schweiz, VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz, potentially Limmat Valley (mid-2016), among others. Roland zh ( talk) 18:08, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, again nearly ecactly the same procedure as reported, respectively continued by user:Tamara Tloftibê {BTW Lausanne agglomeriation} around 1 October, as per Talk:VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz. Please see VCS version history Oct 3-6 and prior September 26, 2016 – affected wikis at English Wikipedia: VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz, and prior cases at Public Eye (Erklärung von Bern), Alternative Bank Schweiz. Kindly regards, Roland zh ( talk) 08:54, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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Sockmaster showed up making very POV edits on a slew of tobacco-related articles, mostly related to Philip Morris International and their Heat-not-burn tobacco product products. The two sock accounts were created with two days of each other and became active on these topics at about the same as the two IPs. All of them have been putting a great deal of emphasis on recent JAMA editorials.
Same kind of thing is going on at Heat-not-burn tobacco product:
And at the talk page of that article, here is Augustina arguing for edits made by the '253 IP diff and Weidong diff.
Each of the three named accounts oddly took time to put the "userpage" tag on their userpage, the only diff to their userpages (the person must have read that having a redlinked userpage is suspicious or something): Tamara, Weidong, Augustina.
Also the oddly parallel elaborate usernames.
The behavior is plenty obvious as noted by User:QuackGuru in this diff; I don't think a CU is needed but perhaps a clerk will. Jytdog ( talk) 02:25, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
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A new account showed up today called Julia Kollowrange. The IP 144.85.236.239 is from Switzerland. QuackGuru ( talk) 20:33, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
In progress. I plan to post something no later than tomorrow. I'm waiting for answers to certain questions I have about the behavior here.--
Bbb23 (
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01:45, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Right back to it. Same everything. Jytdog ( talk) 20:38, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
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There appears to be a feud between Philip Morris International and the Swiss researchers. One of the socks is editing on another language. QuackGuru ( talk) 21:12, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Confirmed +
Theresa Sillketrucker (
talk
+ ·
tag ·
contribs ·
deleted contribs ·
logs ·
filter log ·
block user ·
spi block ·
block log ·
CA ·
CheckUser(
log) ·
investigate ·
cuwiki).
Blocked and tagged. Closing.--
Bbb23 (
talk)
20:54, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Soapamalkanmaime had an interest in Swiss referendums, editing them under numerous accounts including Paul Itiqu Fedtr ( talk · contribs), Intréac Retropack ( talk · contribs) and Féd Poppy ( talk · contribs) amongst others. They had several habits that were clearly identifiable, including adding the Switzerland portal to articles and using slightly odd phrases like "votation" (both in one go here, votation here and both here (when creating an article)); the portal adding went beyond this subject area (see repeated references to adding portals in the archive). They also have a long history of using accounts with first name/surname, often with diacritics ( a load listed here).
Adèle Fisher is a reasonably new account (February 2018) that has also started editing Swiss referendum articles, and this edit (adding the portal bar and using the term "votations") was a dead giveaway. They have also gone on a spree of adding portals to other articles. [26] [27]
In addition, their userpage text (Hello and welcome. Let's talk!) is somewhat reminiscent of Intréac Retropack (Welcome and thanks for you interest. Let's discuss !) Number 5 7 13:08, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
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An IP suddenly emerging at Swiss referendums (one of Soapamalkanmaime's pet subjects) and already knowing how to do stuff like file multiple RMs suggests this isn't a new user. Number 5 7 10:59, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
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Bolarno began editing a few days after Adèle Fisher, Soapamalkanmaime's most recent confirmed sock (and the day after the IP edit above, although that was not confirmed). They have a lot of other overlap:
-- Aquillion ( talk) 10:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
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I have no connection with Adèle Fisher or Soapamalkanmaime. I have requested CheckUser. My contribution to the Fractional Reserve Banking and related pages is based on science, not politics. This is a topic that is widely discussed around the world, and new knowledge has been generated. My contributions are citing central banks, well-known professors, and other reliable sources. I have previously edited various subjects without login, but decided that I need a proper login. Bolarno ( talk) 14:48, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
First a series of rather innocuous edits over unrelated biographies [31], then cropping images [32], which very much reminded me of what a previously blocked sock Weidong Sanquian did around this time last year. Then the account directly jumped into one of Soapamalkanmaime's pet topic from last year - tobacco (specifically PMI products). It's a bit surprising to see an account that has barely two hours to it go straight for wiktext editing and adding complete reference templates [33]. Requesting CU as a Swiss-based IP address would definitely be a giveaway.
@ Bbb23: You have some experience with the case: thoughts? Popo le Chien throw a bone 17:20, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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Confirmed, blocked, tagged, closing.--
Bbb23 (
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18:22, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
See below. Bbb23 ( talk) 01:28, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
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@ Bbb23: You missed one of the blocks - Adeline Canderalis -- DannyS712 ( talk) 07:01, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
I could copy/paste my request from 2018 and simply update the links as the behaviour is so predictable:
First a series of rather innocuous edits over unrelated biographies and cropping images [34] [35], which very much reminded me of what a previously blocked sock Weidong Sanquian (early 2018) or Tilda Dermott Molyneux (Dec. 2018) did. Then the account directly jumps into one of Soapamalkanmaime's pet topics - tobacco or Swiss politics. Requesting CU as a Swiss-based IP address would definitely be a giveaway. Note: I've opened a similar request on frwp (accounts usually are active on both wikis), and secondary socks might be difficult to identify if like this one they were created more than 3 months ago. Popo le Chien throw a bone 13:44, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
Pro forma. -- Blablubbs ( talk) 22:17, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
The IP is Swiss-based, just like our friend, and the user follows the usual pattern name/first name, both with dubious edits related to tobacco. Previous batch (November & December) should be fresh enough to run a comparison. Popo le Chien throw a bone 07:43, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Llully created his account on September 5, Clog on September 6. The first edit by Llully was to create his user page with {{ User page}}. He later did the same thing with his talk page. Clog did the same two edits here and here. Both accounts are here to promote Switzerland. Llully's initial focus was on Swiss hospitals, particularly psychiatric hospitals. He created this article. He created a category for it. The article he created, Hospital of Cery, was tagged for speedy deletion. I reviewed the tag and redirected the article rather than deleting it. Clog's very first edit was to undo the redirect. Both accounts add portal bars to articles: see here and here. Bbb23 ( talk) 08:39, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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The named account was created after the last CU. His initial interests were in Swiss articles, including the University Hospital of Lausanne edited a month earlier by confirmed sock User:Lowe D. C. Clog. Just like previous accounts, he added portal bars to many articles, including here, here, and here. He was assisted by at least two of the three IPs in edit warring at Murder of Meredith Kercher. See also this report at WP:AN3. Based on duck, I have indeffed the named account and blocked the three IPs for a month (I am listing the IPs only for the sake of completeness, not because I expect the CU to go there). I requested the CU to confirm the relationship and because there were so many sleepers last time. Bbb23 ( talk) 02:33, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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It's easy to see how the three confirmed accounts are the same individual because they all share an interest in criminal trial articles. The fact that Mendisar has intersections with previous confirmed socks should be enough in and of itself to indef all three. Still, I have a few other behavioral things to add. This diff shows Statykyl adding a portal, which is typical of this sock. Also, compare this edit by confirmed sock Soapamalkanmaime with the same diff by Statykyl. Both show changing a section header from "Notes" to "Notes and references", even though there is only one kind of footnoting involved. Finally, to the extent that all of the accounts previously blocked are actually the same individual instead of the possibility of more than one master (the accounts, like this one, are connected in groups to each other rather than being connected definitively as a single group), the sock's interests are quite wide, not only with respect to subject matter but with respect to the nationality of the articles. My view is that there is enough to block the two accounts that have yet not been blocked. However, I'll wait to see if Rschen7754 wants to voice an opinion, or take whatever action he deems appropriate.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:22, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
This was not triggered at first by this master. However, when I looked more deeply into it, I believe that some or all of the puppets are related to Soapamalkanmaime. Starting in the middle, I blocked Féd Poppy on February 9 at 18:35 for one week for edit warring. At the same time, other editors thought that he had edited with previous accounts, although not at the same time. Those are, in order of age, Trumpnewtq, Loceaul & wheya, and Paul Itiqu Fedtr. If you look at User talk:Féd Poppy, you'll see that on February 9 another editor asked him about those three accounts, and he did not respond. After I blocked him, I asked him the same question (just below the block notice). He hasn't responded.
I was then told on my talk page that all of the other accounts (starting with FLCJPA) and the two IPs started editing similar pages to Fed Poppy, beginning on February 10. The timing and the intersection of the accounts was enough for me to conclude that they were related to Fed Poppy. However, looking deeper, it appeared that there were also similarities between the accounts and Soapamalkanmaime, which made me think this went deeper. For example, FLCJPA, of the "new" accounts, did not start editing on February 10. He started editing on February 1, and the articles he edited were the same as the accounts Soapamalkanmaime and his puppets edit: University of Lausanne, Lausanne campus, etc. And there is an interesting gap in his history between February 1 when he edited those articles and February 10 when he started editing the articles associated with Fed Poppy. Thus FLJPA provides a link between the two sets of accounts and the two sets of articles (and everything is Swiss-related, of course).
There are other similarities with Soapamalkanmaime. For example, this edit by Paul changes a section header from "Note and citations" to "Notes and references", a common variant of edits done by Soap's puppets. A similar edit was made by Trumpnewtq here. Also, this edit by Paul adds a portal bar to an article. Soap and his puppets often added portal bars of various kinds to many articles.
Then there are the IPs, both from Switzerland. In particular, 128.178.197.61 ( talk · contribs) comes from a similar series of previous IPs used by Soap. It is static and it comes from an organization called Ecublens Camp Net from the Swiss Education and Research Network, the same as 128.178.197.62 ( talk · contribs) and 128.178.197.63 ( talk · contribs), both previously blocked as Soap socks. 144.85.164.231 ( talk · contribs), previously blocked as a Soap sock, uses VTX Services SA as the ISP and is static. The recent IP, 83.228.189.70 ( talk · contribs), uses the same ISP, although they are marked as dynamic.
I've blocked all of the named accounts indefinitely except the first three as they are stale. I've blocked the two IPs for a month. I've delayed tagging the named accounts until the outcome of this investigation. I've also delayed changing the duration of Fed Poppy's block. Bbb23 ( talk) 02:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
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The same user now appears to be editing from 130.223.2.2 ( talk · contribs) (and briefly did last September/November). Note the addition of portal bars (e.g. here). Number 5 7 16:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Clerk note: In the first list, I've tagged everyone and blocked everyone who wasn't already blocked. I've also indeffed and tagged Gènédic and Palana Canal based on
portal addition,
notes and references addition, and
this history for Palana Canal, which is literally an explosion of socks, not to mention the Swiss articles generally. Finally, as to Salhj Scaliq, I've changed the tag. Europefan is a much newer editor, and I wonder based on some of the comments in their archives, if they aren't in fact a sock of Soap.--
Bbb23 (
talk)
00:28, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Same reverts: Science and technology in Switzerland. Has some new interests, Shania Twain and Glenn Gould. But the pattern of a brand new account adding portal templates to many articles is the same. It's unlikely someone who has never edited Wikipedia before would suddenly be adding technical templates like {{ Use dmy dates}} or {{ Use British English}}. This new account was probably created to re-post Otto Feick, only to discover the page is create protected. Dennis Bratland ( talk) 15:49, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I understand you good intentions but there is a mistake here. I assure you that I am not Europefan. Lisunina Torgloc ( talk) 17:55, 16 February 2014 (UTC).
newish account, jokey name, starts with general edits before moving full time into naming debates. Edits have already been brought up at AN/I. Latest burst of activity after other sock puppets blocked.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 21:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC) JohnBlackburne words deeds 21:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
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Result from CU investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Europefan by DoRD:
These are
Technically indistinguishable from the above and other Soapamalkanmaime socks, but
Behavioural evidence needs evaluation
Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 10:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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Same article edits as Europefan's Switzerland-related socks. Same sophisticated use of portal and language templates; obviously an advanced Wikipedia editor. Same pattern of creating a new login account in order to create new pages. Re-created Lemanic region and Lemanic region redirects previously deleted as work of Europefan sock. Might want to checkuser to find more sleepers, since he generally creates socks in batches. Dennis Bratland ( talk) 19:16, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
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The first user was already blocked as an "Obvious sock of User:Soapamalkanmaime" they did both a similar edit [1] and [2]-- Shrike ( talk)/ WP:RX 13:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC) Shrike ( talk)/ WP:RX 13:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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Clerk note: This is too obvious to require a CU. In addition to the similarities already mentioned, Soap likes user names that are French-like and often with accents (many of the socks had an abnormal interest in Swiss topics). Also, the
sentence initially on their user page is almost identical to
this one.--
Bbb23 (
talk)
23:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Same subject matter: Swiss universities, technology and health care. New account is new pages and redirects by an obviously experienced Wikipedian, editing portals, using templates and citations in a sophisticated way. Dennis Bratland ( talk) 18:54, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
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First few edits have all been to pages created/heavily edited by other Soapamalkanmaime socks (e.g. this article created by the Féd Poppy sock), with same arguments about article naming. As soon as I mentioned that I thought they were a sock, the edits started coming from the IP (which I have blocked as that has exactly the same edit pattern). After the IP was blocked, they started editing from the (sleeper) Ms Mitch Kwan account. Number 5 7 16:58, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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Possible sockmaster was previously very interested, to the point of pretty much being a single purpose account, in linking
Militant atheism to
New Atheism (a POV push that went against consensus on the talk page). Within the last 24 hours, three new accounts with similarly idiosyncratic user names have all been making edits to make that same link, with two of them seeming to tag team to change the redirect page. (I'm a little less sure of the behavioral link for the third account.) Also, they seem suspiciously familiar with procedures such as RM for them to be new users. --
Tryptofish (
talk)
21:37, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I fully agree with both JamesBWatson and My very best wishes about CU, especially with respect to who the sockmaster really might be. Thanks. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:21, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
@ Ponyo: Thanks. Is it likely, then, that the sockmaster is neither Lagoy nor Altenmann? -- Tryptofish ( talk) 00:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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Administrator note A number of accounts all appear within a very short time, all start editing on the same subject, there are striking similarities among their edits, several of them show a degree of knowledge of Wikipedia that is most unusual for new editors, several of them try to get a reversal of a decision previously reached by consensus in a discussion, several of them create very similar user pages ... This looks rather like a duck. However, it is not entirely clear to me whether every one of the accounts is a sockpuppet, so I am requesting a CheckUser. The account suggested as the master (Lagoy) is long-since stale, but a CU should be able to help us decide whether all of the accounts are linked, and also whether there are other sleepers, which is by no means unlikely in view of the creation history of the listed accounts. The editor who uses the pseudonym "
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Clerk note:
User:Héh Dmée was not blocked as a result of the SPI nor is it a CU block. Thus, at best it is suspected. @
Ponyo: would you have connected Héh Dmée to any of the accounts here? It is not close to being stale. Assuming that neither Lagoy nor Altenmann is the master, the grouped accounts above are essentially by narrow date ranges, although all of the accounts were created this month. If I were to change the master (this is mostly a note to myself) to one of the confirmed accounts, it would be Haulwreakh. Meanwhile, I'll wait for Ponyo to respond to my ping.--
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Clerk note: Although nothing is perfect, Number 57's analysis has tipped the scale for me. The IP is also pivotal as the last time it was blocked it was a CU block. I've tagged all of the confirmed accounts. I've also blocked the IP for three months. Tryptofish, no need to add anything, thanks. Closing.--
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started ref Talk:Public Eye (Erklärung von Bern) on September 23, and Wikipedia talk:Sock puppetry September 26, 2016 where I tried to explain what 'kind' of imho potentially sock puppetry occurred – affected wikis at English Wikipedia: Public Eye (Erklärung von Bern), Alternative Bank Schweiz, VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz, potentially Limmat Valley (mid-2016), among others. Roland zh ( talk) 18:08, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, again nearly ecactly the same procedure as reported, respectively continued by user:Tamara Tloftibê {BTW Lausanne agglomeriation} around 1 October, as per Talk:VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz. Please see VCS version history Oct 3-6 and prior September 26, 2016 – affected wikis at English Wikipedia: VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz, and prior cases at Public Eye (Erklärung von Bern), Alternative Bank Schweiz. Kindly regards, Roland zh ( talk) 08:54, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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Sockmaster showed up making very POV edits on a slew of tobacco-related articles, mostly related to Philip Morris International and their Heat-not-burn tobacco product products. The two sock accounts were created with two days of each other and became active on these topics at about the same as the two IPs. All of them have been putting a great deal of emphasis on recent JAMA editorials.
Same kind of thing is going on at Heat-not-burn tobacco product:
And at the talk page of that article, here is Augustina arguing for edits made by the '253 IP diff and Weidong diff.
Each of the three named accounts oddly took time to put the "userpage" tag on their userpage, the only diff to their userpages (the person must have read that having a redlinked userpage is suspicious or something): Tamara, Weidong, Augustina.
Also the oddly parallel elaborate usernames.
The behavior is plenty obvious as noted by User:QuackGuru in this diff; I don't think a CU is needed but perhaps a clerk will. Jytdog ( talk) 02:25, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
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A new account showed up today called Julia Kollowrange. The IP 144.85.236.239 is from Switzerland. QuackGuru ( talk) 20:33, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
In progress. I plan to post something no later than tomorrow. I'm waiting for answers to certain questions I have about the behavior here.--
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Right back to it. Same everything. Jytdog ( talk) 20:38, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
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There appears to be a feud between Philip Morris International and the Swiss researchers. One of the socks is editing on another language. QuackGuru ( talk) 21:12, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
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Blocked and tagged. Closing.--
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Soapamalkanmaime had an interest in Swiss referendums, editing them under numerous accounts including Paul Itiqu Fedtr ( talk · contribs), Intréac Retropack ( talk · contribs) and Féd Poppy ( talk · contribs) amongst others. They had several habits that were clearly identifiable, including adding the Switzerland portal to articles and using slightly odd phrases like "votation" (both in one go here, votation here and both here (when creating an article)); the portal adding went beyond this subject area (see repeated references to adding portals in the archive). They also have a long history of using accounts with first name/surname, often with diacritics ( a load listed here).
Adèle Fisher is a reasonably new account (February 2018) that has also started editing Swiss referendum articles, and this edit (adding the portal bar and using the term "votations") was a dead giveaway. They have also gone on a spree of adding portals to other articles. [26] [27]
In addition, their userpage text (Hello and welcome. Let's talk!) is somewhat reminiscent of Intréac Retropack (Welcome and thanks for you interest. Let's discuss !) Number 5 7 13:08, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
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An IP suddenly emerging at Swiss referendums (one of Soapamalkanmaime's pet subjects) and already knowing how to do stuff like file multiple RMs suggests this isn't a new user. Number 5 7 10:59, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
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Bolarno began editing a few days after Adèle Fisher, Soapamalkanmaime's most recent confirmed sock (and the day after the IP edit above, although that was not confirmed). They have a lot of other overlap:
-- Aquillion ( talk) 10:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
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I have no connection with Adèle Fisher or Soapamalkanmaime. I have requested CheckUser. My contribution to the Fractional Reserve Banking and related pages is based on science, not politics. This is a topic that is widely discussed around the world, and new knowledge has been generated. My contributions are citing central banks, well-known professors, and other reliable sources. I have previously edited various subjects without login, but decided that I need a proper login. Bolarno ( talk) 14:48, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
First a series of rather innocuous edits over unrelated biographies [31], then cropping images [32], which very much reminded me of what a previously blocked sock Weidong Sanquian did around this time last year. Then the account directly jumped into one of Soapamalkanmaime's pet topic from last year - tobacco (specifically PMI products). It's a bit surprising to see an account that has barely two hours to it go straight for wiktext editing and adding complete reference templates [33]. Requesting CU as a Swiss-based IP address would definitely be a giveaway.
@ Bbb23: You have some experience with the case: thoughts? Popo le Chien throw a bone 17:20, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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Confirmed, blocked, tagged, closing.--
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18:22, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
See below. Bbb23 ( talk) 01:28, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
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@ Bbb23: You missed one of the blocks - Adeline Canderalis -- DannyS712 ( talk) 07:01, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
I could copy/paste my request from 2018 and simply update the links as the behaviour is so predictable:
First a series of rather innocuous edits over unrelated biographies and cropping images [34] [35], which very much reminded me of what a previously blocked sock Weidong Sanquian (early 2018) or Tilda Dermott Molyneux (Dec. 2018) did. Then the account directly jumps into one of Soapamalkanmaime's pet topics - tobacco or Swiss politics. Requesting CU as a Swiss-based IP address would definitely be a giveaway. Note: I've opened a similar request on frwp (accounts usually are active on both wikis), and secondary socks might be difficult to identify if like this one they were created more than 3 months ago. Popo le Chien throw a bone 13:44, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
Pro forma. -- Blablubbs ( talk) 22:17, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
The IP is Swiss-based, just like our friend, and the user follows the usual pattern name/first name, both with dubious edits related to tobacco. Previous batch (November & December) should be fresh enough to run a comparison. Popo le Chien throw a bone 07:43, 23 January 2023 (UTC)