Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Çelebicihan

Çelebicihan

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

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15 October 2021

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Suspected sockpuppets

Lesli Strong (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Edits on Draft:Pravo (publishing house) and The Supreme Specialized Court of Ukraine for Civil and Criminal Cases are similar to that on the now-deleted articles National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and Draft:Research Institute for the Study of Crime Problems, which was created by the blocked user User:Inkitrinky (sock of Çelebicihan/4elopuck). All articles are about Ukrainian legal institutions created in March/April 2021; the ones by Inkitrinky in March, and the ones my Lesli Strong in April (immediately following the SPI investigation at the end of March). I'm not sure if this is due to use of VisualEditor, but the structure of article creation is frequently similar: start with an intro and blank section headers (Lesli Strong vs. Inkitrinky), addition of text chunks, and with external links at the end. Other small stylistic similarities include spacing between the "==" and text in section headers, spacing between the * and text in bullet points, addition of {{in use}} tags even when the article did not really undergo subsequent major edits (Lesli Strong vs. Inkitrinky), and addition of external links without bullet points (Leslie Strong vs. Inkitrinky).

More circumstantially, further edits have indicated potential links to other institutions with Ukrainian ties, such as Skyrora example. Of note, the Skyrora article also has potential COI/sockpuppet involvement, with multiple single-purpose account editors to that article, such as User:Vladimir Levykin (only edits are to Skyrora; first edit was to add in an image gallery), User:Jim Hartson (only edits are to Skyrora; first edit was to add in an image gallery), User:Faustinoiv (plurality of this user’s edits are to Skyrora), and User:Spacetouristgirls (single purpose account; last edited 2019). Of note, the Skyrora page lists a "Volodymyr Levykin" as the CEO, and he is British-Ukrainian.

Besides Skyrora, and not directly connected to this SPI case, there are other possible COI connections with other aerospace pages. This may reflect issues with COI and frequent occurrence of single-purpose accounts in the aerospace area of articles, rather than specific editing similarities. However, these Lesli Strong edits include adding Ukrainian-based references, such as in Isar Aerospace and CargoLifter, even when there isn't a clear connection to Ukraine in those articles (both companies are German). Overall editing patterns include the following:

Hypersonix Launch Systems