Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nic.cartagena12

Nic.cartagena12

Populated account categories: confirmed · suspected

– A checkuser has completed a check on relevant users in this case, and it is now awaiting administration and close.

The common area of editing is Filipino actors and Pinoy Big Brother.
The username has "Wiki", the same as WikiPure300 and WikiStar99, and "Nic", the same as this case.
The account was blocked for abusing multiple accounts for a week by Girth Summit in 2022 (and one other sockpuppet indefinitely) but appears to be independent of this case as I think Girth possibly wasn't aware of it.
Some common edited pages shown through the editor interaction tool are Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10, Niel Murillo and 2014 PBA draft.
Created redirects to unusual targets [1][2][3].
Made moves related to Nicolás Cartagena [4][5], which is the name associated with this case.
Created article talk pages without edit summary with the WPBiography template and parameters filled. [6][7].
Many or most edits have the "mobile edit" tag, and some of them made with visual editor [8] [9]
Not much edit summary use when making consecutive edits to a page [10][11]
The userpage redirects to another user's sandbox. Frost 09:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- WikiExplorerNZ1 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
RoySmith (talk) 14:18, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In progress - RoySmith (talk) 14:01, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what to make of this. The behavior certainly makes it obvious. And while we only have a very small amount of historical data, what we do have hints at WikiNicExplorer using an IP range that previous socks have used. I ran checks on WikiNicExplorer and WikiExplorerNZ1; they are ostensibly Unrelated, but it's possible that proxies are obscuring the truth. But, my real dilemma is the previous block imposed by Girth Summit. If we've just unearthed the same issues that led Girth to issue that short block, then there's no reason to block again. If there's new socking activity, that's a different story. I don't think we should take any action until Girth weighs in here. RoySmith (talk) 14:33, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have no personal recollection of this case, I've reviewed my contribs from the minutes before and after I imposed that block, and the CU logs from around that time (Roy, you can see the note I entered when running a check on Diskarte), and it looks like Diskarte and WikiNicExplorer came up while I was running checks on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jairus Cambiado. Based on those notes and the actions I took at the time, I guess that I thought it just involved those two accounts, and that there wasn't an already-blocked master behind them - had I connected them to this case, I would have blocked indef. Girth Summit _(blether) 15:55, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]