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24 June 2022

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Pro forma. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:53, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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02 July 2022

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Not entirely sure about these, so listing here for a second opinion. Some telltale signs present but not all plus some differences.

Articles:

СтереПашка made substantial edits to uk:Playrix which is a known Wikibusines client. See m:Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam#Wikibusines_round_3/m:Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Wikibusiness. I also blocked a swathe of accounts last month that have been locked but not checked:

Probably stale

[end] MER-C 12:50, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • @RoySmith: Hello, could you please explain what Confirmed means and why you put me next to user RedyyLed? As for me, I don't use proxies, but mobile traffic mainly of Ukrainian telecom operators like Kyivstar. Maybe it will help, I don't know. I used to edit on Jan and Feb this year, and then paused due to well know circumstances. Please carefully check all my edits and what laptops and internet providers I use since my first edits and till now. I can send my ID if needed. --(W)rid(t)ing High (talk) 07:42, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Clerk endorsed - СтереПашка and Валентин Карпенко are probably stale and Geniemarket is not attached on enwiki. Of the other accounts, I see enough similarities to previous Bodiadub socks in editing patterns and cross-wiki behaviour to warrant a check (can explain why to CUs privately if it's not clear). Please CU to confirm and check for others. Note that three of these accounts have also been reported at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Kuba Ali; I'll wait for CU results to determine whether or not these cases should be merged. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:06, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  In progress - -- RoySmith (talk) 01:55, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm afraid CU isn't going to help a lot here. I can say that RedyyLed is  Confirmed to (W)rid(t)ing High, but nothing else matches (spanning the two cases). My hunch is that most of the traffic is via proxies, so that's not going to help much. My suggestion is to (except for the two confirmed) ignore the CU data and look at the behavior. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:02, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked СтереПашка, (W)rid(t)ing High and RedyyLed. The rest I am not sure of. MER-C 17:23, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK, coming back to this. I'm confident Kuba Ali, Flytermit and Leksunski are related to each other and this case based on the obvious collaboration to keep a spam article as detailed by Rosguill below; the topic area (Ukranian companies); messy/spoofed CU data (consistent with previous results, e.g. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Bodiadub/Archive/1#07_February_2022); and the crosswiki editing pattern. Geniemarket is a cross-wiki SPA who created a Wikidata item for Hum3D and uploaded related images to Commons - this account is not attached here so there's nothing we can do about it, but it furthers the impression that this is cross-wiki spam. Tadeusz Wróblewscy made 2 somewhat promotional edits to the Hum3D article on enwiki (now deleted), but his crosswiki contributions are more interesting: see [1]. He created a page for Praca.pl on pl.wiki, which was created only two days later on ukwiki, by Валентин Карпенко... who also created uk:Hum3D! I am confident that all of these are Bodiadub socks.
  • Pink clock Awaiting administrative action - please indef Kuba Ali, Leksunski, Flytermit, Tadeusz Wróblewscy, and Валентин Карпенко. The last one has no edits on enwiki but the cross-wiki evidence is obvious and a block will make it easier to request a lock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:02, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Blocked and tagged. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 23:11, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks. Redirect arrow Global lock(s) requested. Spicy (talk) 23:17, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

06 July 2022

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Similar patterns of speech at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hum3D, Flytermit's activity has been almost entirely limited to edits to the related article, Hum3D, created by Kuba Ali. Meanwhile, Leksunski appears to bee engaged in clear meatpuppetry with respect to the other two, as they disclose on their user page that they are a former employee of Hum3D and all of their efforts have been focused towards keeping that article. signed, Rosguill talk 17:32, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Given that the CU ended up inconclusive, I think that there is sufficient behavioral evidence for a block, but as I'm nominally involved due to participation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hum3D I'll leave it to someone else to make the call. signed, Rosguill talk 16:31, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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20 July 2022

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While working on the CCI for KatBet, I came across this addition that was copied from Rivalry (film), and originally added by OrlaBan in March 2022 (OrlaBan was later blocked as a Bodiadub sock). I'm not familiar with this case overall, but looking into it some more I saw some similarities between KatBet and OrlaBan, including rapid additions of plot sections to film articles, copyright concerns, and the tendency to add a bunch of text across multiple edits, and then append a citation as a separate, final edit. DanCherek (talk) 17:00, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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14 September 2022

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Seemingly a sockring of UPEs. Master creates Dominic McGregor, Pesding uploads image to commons. Pesding also edits Thomas Schaller (artist) which was edited and moved to mainspace by Ajaxauden. Requesting CU to see if it can uncover any more editors. SmartSE (talk) 14:32, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FYI @Praxidicae: SmartSE (talk) 14:47, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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01 November 2022

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See below. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:20, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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13 February 2023

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M.M.Kargan has been making edits to IATA (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), seeking to downplay sourced content about the its history. The IATA page was previously edited by Freoanlsji (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), a confirmed sock of Bennet43.

M.M.Kargan has also edited other low traffic articles targeted by this sockmaster. See interaction timeline.

Finally, like other socks of Bennet43, M.M.Kargan has been active on low traffic pages of the simple English wiki in areas that are vulnerable to UPE. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 23:07, 13 February 2023 (UTC) — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 23:07, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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30 March 2023

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Same promotional cruft added to Softeq as previous sock Fairou (talk · contribs). [3] vs [4]. DatGuyTalkContribs 21:08, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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03 July 2023

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F1 Anton (re)created Tomas Fiala, a founder of Ukrainian Dragon Capital (company), article about the company was created by Bodiadub sockpuppet Wellring. Wellring also edited article about Fiala in Ukrainian Wikipedia. F1 Anton also created Tokar.ua that is affiliated with the ukrwiki admin whom Wikibusnes tries to discredit regularly (case) and it seems to be part of some tricky game. Anntinomy (talk) 18:59, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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04 November 2023

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Noonbecks created 18 September. First edit was precocious creation of a draft in sandbox 20 Oct, then moved quickly to main space. No further edits till 4 November: precocious recreation of Jason Dady at Jason Dady (chef), last created by blocked sock User:Coolscohan. Not sure if this merits a CU. Wikishovel (talk) 11:30, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: COIN entry mentioned by Anntinomy below archived to Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_190#Jeanie_Roland_and_her_restaurants. Wikishovel (talk) 20:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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17 December 2023

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Checked Puloylang for recreating Eric Sim at Eric Sim (lecturer). Spicy (talk) 00:51, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Puloylang is between  Confirmed and  Highly likely to the following accounts:

As a whole, this group is  Highly likely to Elizabethhope89 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) from the previous filing. All accounts  Blocked and tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Noting the following sockpuppets on Commons (uploading images used in deleted spam articles):

Special:Undelete/Draft:Tobias Zwingmann references the existing Wikibusines client Rapyd. There is no doubt this Elizabethhope89 group is Wikibusines. MER-C 02:24, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

03 January 2024

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  • One account has written a promotional page about an app [5], and the other wrote about the founder [6], despite having no previous overlap.
  • Both pages were created in unreasonably short amounts of time after the creator's last edit: BetterMe was written in three minutes, and Victoria Repa was written 18 minutes after the user's last edit.
  • Both accounts were dormant (>3mo with no edits) until resurfacing within 8 days of each other [7] [8].
  • Both accounts appear to have been engaging in some kind of rapid-fire gnoming [9] [10], including editing multiple articles in the same minute.

I suspect there is UPE going on here, so a check may be useful (but I'll leave that for the clerks to decide). Giraffer (talk·contribs) 12:49, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  In progress... As a start, these are technically  Inconclusive to each other: Unclear accident is probably using proxies, and AlexAmberst isn't. I thought this looked like Bodiadub behaviourally, based on the subject matter and the editing pattern (compare accounts like BoldBlueBike and OrlaBan). There are technical indications that this may very well be the case: AlexAmberst is using a range previously used by Bodiadub, although the range is large and busy. Keeping in mind the nature of the range, I have this group  Confirmed to each other and  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely) to Alex, with behaviour that looks at least plausible:
  • Macgrav sometimes uses proxies. Via RRingy, we have this  Technically indistinguishable group:

12 January 2024

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I noticed that all 3 accounts were created only in 2023 and they don't have much consistent activity. They all have a few days of activities and then there's nothing. I also noticed they engage in disruptive behavior by constantly nominating articles for WP:PROD without proper justification. The most obvious being nominating article for having no references when there clearly is. For example two of the accounts nominated Georgy Darakhvelidze for PROD stating the same reason it had no source despite this being untrue.1&2

I also noticed they do not respond when people try to engage them in the talk page.

I am pretty sure there are other accounts as well but I haven't encountered them yet.

More examples:

34 5 6 7 8 9


Imcdc Contact 15:53, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • CU is welcome to be as conclusive or inconclusive as it likes, as even without it these are obviously the same person, in view of various pieces of evidence, most of it not mentioned here. I might have blocked the first account for a limited time and the others indefinitely, had sockpuppetry been the only problem, but there is also a history of disruptive editing, so I shall block all three indefinitely. JBW (talk) 22:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

25 January 2024

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I'm filing this after a brief discussion at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#impossible.sg (permalink). These accounts, all listed in order of creation, were created, edited for a day or so, disappeared for a spell, then returned for 1 more day to make more edits. On this final day, somewhere in their edits, they sneaked in a spam link to impossible.sg, a digital marketing agency.

User Created on First edits Returning edits Spam diff Has edited since that day?
Barking snake May 16, 2023 May 16 December 21 [12] No
Sornabelli July 13, 2023 July 13-17 December 15 [13] No
Nibi et Loy July 25, 2023 July 25-26 December 13 [14] No
Aeida_Rosticolli July 25, 2023 July 25 & 28 December 13 [15] No
永恆的榮耀 July 26, 2023 July 26-August 7 January 8 [16] No
GeorlalLoudF3302 August 10, 2023 August 11 & August 18 January 12 [17] No
EditEagles January 10, 2024 January 10 January 24 [18] No
Checkkyu_Pag January 13, 2024 January 13 January 18 [19] No

Given the patterns, both behavior and the timings of creation and the returns (2 on December 13, 1 on December 15, 1 on December 21, 1 on January 8, 1 on January 12, 1 on January 18, and final 1 on January 24), I believe these to be the actions of 1 or more people representing this digital marketing company. The link has been blacklisted and these accounts are unlikely to ever edit again, but would request checkuser in the likely case that there are sleepers and to see if any other links have been spammed by this company. Thanks! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:11, 25 January 2024 (UTC) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:11, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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26 January 2024

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Following a thread of spamming the link oneidentity.com, these accounts turned up, largely with the same MO.

The accounts already blocked as socks who were spamming the link are:

Table of suspected socks:

oneidentity.com, dates are MDY
User Created on First edits Returning edits Spam diff Has edited since that day? Fits pattern?
Kuvullauri 09/09/2022 09/09/2022 08/10/2023 [21] 3 edits on 11/17/2023 Except for returning for 3 edits
TaniaJol 09/04/2023 09/04/2023 09/04/2023, same day, no return [22] No No break, all edits on same day
AsterAski 06/07/2023 06/07/2023 12/11/2023 [23] No Yes
Cultured Connoisseur 02/13/2023 02/13/2023 09/19/2023, then 09/21/2023 [24] 15 edits on 10/07/2023 Except for 2 edits 2 days before spam and came back for a few edits 15 edits on 10/07/2023
ShipaBenz 11/08/2023 11/08/2023 11/08/2023, same day, no return [25] No Except for no break, all edits on same day
Lost in Social Media 08/29/2023 08/29/2023 09/13/2023 [26] No Yes
3-2-4 start 08/30/2023 08/30/2023 09/16/2023 [27] No Yes
Creatordrit 10/26/2022 10/26/2022 08/09/2023 [28] No Yes
Gree0eerG 02/09/23 02/10/2023 & 02/15/2023 08/17/2023, then 09/18/2023 [29] No Except for returning early for 6 edits on 08/17
AssiduousArchivist 02/04/2023 02/04/2023 09/19/2023 [30] No Yes
DUstone Pack 02/05/2023 02/05/2023 09/20/2023 [31] No Yes
Inquisitive inspector 02/04/2023 02/04/2023-02/10/2023 08/17/2023, then 10/10/2023 [32] No Except for returning early for 12 edits on 08/17/2023
DedicatedDataDiver 02/06/2023 02/06/2023 & 02/09/2023 10/11/2023 [33] No Yes
OperWordst 04/06/2023 04/06/2023 & 05/21/2023 10/12/2023 [34] No Yes
Priteless 08/13/2021 08/13/2021 & 08/27/2021 (7 edits), then 08/28/2023 12/11/2023 [35] No Except for waiting 2 years to finish their first round of edits
LoverOfHiking 09/22/2023 09/22/2023 12/11/2023 [36] No Yes
Yiovy 05/17/2023 05/17/2023-5/20/2023 12/12/2023 [37] No Yes
Naiwaar 05/30/2023 05/30/2023-05/31/2023 12/13/2023 [38] No Yes
Création mythique 06/13/2023 06/13/2023-06/14/2023 12/14/2023 [39] No Yes
Alioneidentity 07/03/2023 07/03/2023 07/03/2023, , same day, no return [40][41] No No, only 2 edits, both spamming the link

Thanks! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:01, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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onelogin.com is a clearly related domain that has also been spammed:

PakisOne has their own SPI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PakisOne (spam here: [42]).

Noting for the record that I have blocked recently:

See m:Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam#Wikibusines (2024). All are stale except for LotosL.

More spammers:

There are other signs that suggest Bodiadub is a plausible explanation for this spamming. MER-C 10:51, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • This technical fingerprint does not match what I have previously seen from Bodiadub, but there's certainly a possibility that it could be the same operator. MEAT is another possibility.
  •  Inconclusive due to proxy use, data more in keeping with Bodiadub, but generic:
  • Same profile as above but  Confirmed to each other via shared proxy:
  •  Confirmed to each other, not on proxy, technically Red X Unrelated to Bodiadub, but does not rule out MEAT:
  •  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely) to SarahYeasyLife group and internally  Confirmed, note editing pattern:
  • I d like watch etc: this lot are behaviorally similar to the confirmed socks on 25 January 2024.
  • SarahYeasyLife: ditto.
  • UnTixic group: ditto.
  • I think I've seen enough. I will block all as suspected that are not already blocked. Closing. MER-C 16:39, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

09 February 2024

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The first report performed a check but proxy usage prevented any further checking. All three accounts were banned based upon looking up the habits. I brought this information to ANI at the link here. There was some additional info I would like to bring up.

This tickled a memory of a few accounts I saw in 2022, like <this one>. They would mass edit for stretches of time, all visual edits, and just add content to multiple pages - we eventually figured it was machine translated edits (or just sources) taken from other language versions of pages.
These* edits* by UnTixic: <diffs>* are translating content from the German version of that page, some lines are exact matches to Google Translate output.
These edits by PakisOne: <diffs> are translating content from the Swedish version of the page, the citation is also taken from there.
This edit by Wyndhan Han: <diff> is a translated edit from the Swedish version of the page, translation is an 100% match to Google Translate output. The citations however are not from the Swedish version.
I'm not claiming it's the same person, and I haven't looked deeply into most edits, a lot of the behaviour mentioned so far was not something I noticed in those 2022 accounts, but it just reminded me, so I'm mentioning it.
2804:F14:8085:6F01:B8CB:B95D:1E39:A7B1 (talk) 01:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC) (*edited 01:21, 20 January 2024 (UTC))

Now lets look at what13Joker13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has in common with previous ones:

I'm sure I can find more. But basically this seems to be another one of these accounts except now for Georgia. Wonder what checkuser will show this time.

Edit: Although not related to my investigation, I see PakisOne (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has also been connected to Spilled gunpowder (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Omonaki Baula (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) via Bodiadub (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

- Imcdc Contact 13:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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20 February 2024

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Another one of these users. Wonder how many are there? Basically has the same profile and posting habits as the one from last time (refer to that to get what can of posting style these accounts have) . Another 2023 low posting account that has disruptive edits. Here are some similar disruptive edits: 1,2 and 3 .Also have the check the validity of articles created too. I see one of the swedish articles is a direct google translate copy from Swedish wikipedia. Similar to the above banned user.

Guess he didn't like me getting his other accounts banned so he's trying to target my articles. Will the checkuser produce another proxy result? Imcdc Contact 12:08, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: User has been banned for vandalism now per ANI. - Imcdc Contact 02:06, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding sock Hndi Uui. Four minutes after account creation today, recreated Victoria Repa at Draft:Repa Victoria. Victoria Repa was last created by blocked sock User:AlexAmberst in January. Requesting checkuser, based on the weight of activity above. Wikishovel (talk) 09:55, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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29 February 2024

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Looking here, it looks obvious. Shabukoy and Comasjeans777 were blocked as a sock of this farm. Tehonk (talk) 18:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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26 February 2024

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New account Lobster555 created 17 February. Three days after account creation, precocious creation of spammy Draft:Daniel Illescas, then moved to main space. No further edits, then five days later creates Mark Shaw (author), a nearly identical copy of Mark E. Shaw, created by the briefly busy new account Mushroom1498 (created 7 January), and deleted 23 February following AFD. Writing and editing styles of the two accounts are very similar. Both accounts are almost certainly part of a much larger sockfarm. Wikishovel (talk) 10:02, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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07 March 2024

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Checked Another day in the trench due to similar behaviour to the 26 January 2024 group and attempts to spam oneidentity.com [43][44]. Technical data is as expected. Correcting dwarf is  Technically indistinguishable with similar behaviour. Spicy (talk) 11:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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07 March 2024

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Created promotional page Jean-Michel Cazabat, Correcting dwarf is the only other major contributor. Similar edit pattern, likely spam here: [45].

Webedebe and Daphnerudler created fr:Jean-Michel Cazabat.

I also blocked Marble cliffs two days ago for recreating BetterMe, a known Wikibusines article. There is a clear Ukraine connection. MER-C 17:20, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Marble cliffs shares a range with the Elizabethhope89 group from past filings.
  • The following are technically distinct from Bodiadub but very unambiguously  Confirmed to each other:

23 March 2024

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Author of the suspected UPE article Rentberry Inc.. They were one of the two of the substantial contributors to Biosphere Corporation, the other one is the Bodiadub sock Wellring (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). (I am not providing specific diffs, the histories of the mentioned article provide a better view than individual diffs.) Janhrach (talk) 18:53, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Add

as authors of interwiki versions. I have also blocked the following accounts for historical spam:

There is one recent account:

blocked for recreating Englishdom (platform) (see m:Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Wikibusiness#E). MER-C 10:14, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add Telegramjbwwiki (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) for recreating Wowcube cross-wiki. MER-C 20:14, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

15 April 2024

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Very first action was to request undeletion of Eren-Verdi Asrin. Which has been edited by numerous Bodiadub-linked socks.

JohnGomezDeSantos created Eren-Verdi Asrin. JohnGomezDeSantos very first action was to edit Shota Nakajima who is a chef in Top Chef. Wikiwarrior222's edits also deal with Top Chef /celebrity chefs.

Possible that JohnGomezDeSantos and Wikiwarrior222 are part of Bodiadub's sock network, or are related to each other.

Either way there is possible UPE. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 00:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The following are  Highly likely to the Elizabethhope89 group in the archives:

23 April 2024

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Both accounts created Dragon Capital (company). Equine-man (talk) 07:05, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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19 May 2024

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SPA Zuri K23 created 10 May, only edits so far are spammy recreation of Stewart Kyasimire at Stewart Kyasimire (filmmaker) via draft. Last created by blocked sock User:CosmicJourneyer. Wikishovel (talk) 07:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Confirmed to each other and  Highly likely to this case:
Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 21:15, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

19 June 2024

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One of these is claiming the other is the sock, but the accused sock is the one desiring to have an article of another sock of the master deleted. I request a CU to sort out who is who. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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*It's strange that my account has aroused suspicion. I have nothing to do with Joker Ukr or Bodiadub. And here's the User:Waterproof fish account, as well as the User:Unknown Liberturtle account. Suspicious activity around the Peter Kolomiets pages. Waterproof fish nominated the page for deletion in the English Wikipedia [46], and Unknown Liberturtle nominated it in the Ukrainian Wikipedia [47]. At the same time, they have the most similar layout of their personal pages, just a few words [48] [49]. Also, both accounts have multiple edits [50] [51]. Very similar to Wikibusiness, User:MER-C so I ask for verification . Король мавп (talk) 17:07, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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01 July 2024

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Ludovith created 21 June. Gamed autoconfirm, then recreated Mykyta Nagatkin/Draft:Nick Nagatkin at Nick Nagatkin (entrepreneur) -> Nick Nagatkin, both last created by blocked sock User:Jordaniya. Checkuser already requested above. Wikishovel (talk) 03:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ludovith has now also recreated Digis at Digis (company) -> Draft:Digis. Wikishovel (talk) 11:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ludovith has now also recreated Digis at Do IT Global Innovative Solutions -> Draft:Do IT Global Innovative Solutions. Wikishovel (talk) 17:51, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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20 August 2024

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Recreated Silvi Rouskin (as Silvia Rouskin, log) which was originally created by sock I ll Come Too. Requesting CU to check for sleepers. S0091 (talk) 15:06, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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24 August 2024

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New SPA Razerformula created 16 August, and immediately been recreating restaurant articles related to Adam Handling, all previously created by an editor blocked on 18 November by User:MER-C, and quarantined for covert advertising. Ugly Butterfly, Eve Bar, Frog (restaurant) and The Loch and The Tyne were recreated as Ugly Butterfly (restaurant), Eve (bar), Frog (restaurant) and The Loch & The Tyne.

New SPA Peashina created 8 August, only edits so far were to Eve (bar) on 22 August.

New SPA DSWDcaraga created 30 July. Gamed autoconfirm creating Handling restaurant article The Tartan Fox in draft, moved it to main space, then wrote about it at Adam Handling.

Requesting CU for further sleepers, as last SPI was on 20 August. Wikishovel (talk) 03:08, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 09:26, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Peashina (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) appears  Possible. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 09:28, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

26 August 2024

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Recreated Peter Kolomiets under the title Peter Kolomiets (entreprenеur) (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Kolomiets). Made eight edits to their userpage in quick succession, ending in a revert, to get to 10 edits (WP:GAMING autoconfirmed). jlwoodwa (talk) 14:59, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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28 August 2024

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Do IT Programming Solutions created on a different title, DIGIS (company), and Nick Nagatkіn. Similar to user:Ludovith. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 10:43, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I came across the article Daniel Popper (sculptor) in the new pages queue, created by Timbiraupolu. I noticed that multiple accounts that have been blocked as socks of Bodiadub (Comasjeans777, Yengski, and Shabukoy) attempted to create a similar article by expanding the redirect Daniel Popper. The two pages are not identical—there are differences in wording and sourcing—but I became suspicious since Timbiraupolu is an SPA that so far only has contributions related to Daniel Popper. This is my first time contributing to an SPI report, so I'm not sure if checkuser is needed. Thanks, Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 23:35, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Timbiraupolu has been blocked per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Daves598. Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 15:32, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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If someone is going to do a checkuser to compare Stevo Pendarovski with the various blocked socks they might as well do it for Timbiraupolu at the same time.-- Toddy1 (talk) 02:56, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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