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Бмхүн@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Eupakistani (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Бмхүн (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Based on Бмхүн's user page (and logs) on commons, it seems like this user had been abusing socks for some time. Local user @Rastinition: suspects that Eupakistani is Бмхүн's sock based on editing behavior in the local merge request page (zh:維基百科:合併請求) and topics related to Mongolia; a check is requested. Local discussion also included two IPs pending investigation, but since the CU policy does not allow to confirm relationship between IPs and accounts, I have chosen to omit those in this request. Thanks in advance. ∫（☎） 02:09, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/БмхүнThis is an addendum: Due to his use of a VPN and cross-wiki activity on both accounts, I suspect that he is not solely engaging in similar behavior on zh.wikipedia.org. However, the data on en.wikipedia.org might have already expired.--Rastinition (talk) 02:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Likely Likely from a technical point of view. EPIC (talk) 03:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
@EPIC: Based on the CU result and given Бмхүн has been blocked in he.wiki and commons as well, would it be possible to lock all socks that were confirmed (based on xwiki abuse)? ∫（☎） 09:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Done EPIC (talk) 11:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Vaportrap@plwikibooks

Status:    Done
List of users
Vaportrap (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Azoniasty 220 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Vaportrap is probably a sockpuppet of locked Azoniasty 220. User describes himself in edit summaries as “Azonek”, similar editing pattern and edit time with blocked IP 77.255.42.110. AramilFeraxa (Talk) 09:46, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Technically Likely Likely. Although not enough for me to call it confirmed from a technical POV, at least not at plwikibooks, with the combined behavorial POV I think it's safe to say it's them, so locked accordingly. EPIC (talk) 14:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Бмхүн@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Withdrawn
List of users
Eupakistani (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Mongolgal (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Ducked by their contribution on zh:旗长. Mongolgal is registered after the lock of Eupakistani. As such, a sleeper check is requested. Please also reference previous check Steward_requests/Checkuser/2024-09#Бмхүн@zh.wikipedia. Thanks in advance. ∫（☎） 01:37, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
If it's a duck, and there are no regular signs of sleepers, we don't need to invade privacy unnecessarily. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:41, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Fair, Request withdrawn. @AmandaNP: I have left a message on your talk page on a case which is irrelevant to this one; Thank you for taking your time to respond. --∫（☎） 01:50, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

(LWCU) JohnKessel2022, VLodge2, Patricka-1999

Status:    Done
List of users
JohnKessel2022 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
VLodge2 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Patricka-1999 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): LWCU requested (Commons, simple, ...). LD (talk) 11:03, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
 Confirmed on LWCU as well, though nothing else of suspicion found. EPIC (talk) 11:07, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

TheoYalur@en.wikibooks

Status:    Withdrawn
List of users
TheoYalur (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Chubbum (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Users appearing to copy-paste from the site of someone (especially the first two). Want to check if they are sockpuppets and whether they are any sleepers. Leaderboard (talk) 10:11, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
The user has clarified this, and hence the request is no longer needed. Leaderboard (talk) 11:16, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Läägpõrkur@et.wikipedia & meta

Status:    Cannot be undertaken
List of users
Läägpõrkur (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): User admits in a rename request that this is a block evading sock. See also vanishing requests 128118, 128299 & ticket:2024091110011834. Vanishing request should have provided fresh info on meta? Cabayi (talk) 14:28, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
This is the request page for stewards. All data on et.wiki is likely stale, and we can't run checks on meta. -- Amanda (she/her) 00:07, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
As mentioned, the data on etwiki has expired so there is nothing to compare with anyone else there. And while in theory, I could do a check on Meta (as there is recent data here and I am a Meta CU), in practice, unless the socks have been recently active here on Meta (which is unclear as the socking was only on etwiki as far as I read), there would be no data to compare with here either. Thank you, closing as unactionable at the moment. EPIC (talk) 01:22, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Dxy5@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Seymour4311 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Ilyface (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Multiple users sharing same editing traits with sockpuppeteer Dxy5, with significant overlap between the time of accounts' creation and active editing, showing traits of sleepers. Please check for sleeper accounts and block underlying IP addresses according to zh:WP:CUP#1 wherever permissible. LuciferianThomas 05:07, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Both accounts are  Confirmed to each other as well as to Dxy5 based on data from the previous check. Metallikka is also  Confirmed to the group. EPIC (talk) 17:10, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

(LWCU) Doma101

Status:    Cannot be undertaken
List of users
Toniij (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Ahmedragabb (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Saraali1 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Doma101 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Sammaar (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Samy bo7 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Youssefgamal70 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): @EPIC: Although some of them were locked for LTA/lock evasion, a new LWCU check could globally confirm Samy bo7 + Youssefgamal70 and potentially identify additional accounts (in my opinion, some accounts in the IP ranges are supputative, according to WPFR data).
Unfortunately both Samy bo7 and Youssefgamal70 are stale on loginwiki so there is no data to check. Anyways, if they are confirmed on frwiki then that should be enough, locked both accounts. EPIC (talk) 05:40, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

WhitePhosphorrous@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Redundant
List of users
WhitePhosphorrous (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Jimmy Not Abot (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Oceanarch (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
大日本帝国万岁！天皇万岁！ (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Long term abuse. Please check sleepers and block using IP address / ranges if possible. Thanks. SCP-2000 05:06, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
Accounts were checked at the time of locking, no sleepers except Oceanarch who is locked. Nothing else of suspicion found other than that. EPIC (talk) 05:48, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Ou1sdkle@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Ou1sdkle (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Dsfsfd2fsd (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Retesdd2 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Dafasaas (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Single-purpose accounts. Only added same content in the same article "付国豪". Please check sleepers and block using IP address if possible. SCP-2000 05:59, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
  •  Confirmed 海水大丁, 将分萨克拉, Dsfsfd2fsd, Myriamoro

--Sotiale (talk) 06:10, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Travis Headache@hi.wikipedia

Status:    Cannot be undertaken
List of users
Travis Headache (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Whois360 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Balram4136 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Sabkhabarlive (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Ayoudhayamahto (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Whois360 and Travis Headache accounts participate in the same pages, see here or here. Since the 21st, accounts, indicated above, disrupt pages and are reverted by User:Travis Headache, see here. The evidence is thin, but the first two accounts do not announce themselves as belonging to the same person. Furthermore, the case en:Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Menu maharaj exists: Whois360 is confirmed as belonging to the same account and Travis Headache is suspected.  It looks like a duck to me. Cordially. —Eihel (talk) 04:11, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
The data for Whois360 and Sabkhabarlive have both expired so there is nothing to compare with the others from them.
As for Balram4136 and Ayoudhayamahto I find the evidence of connection to Travis Headache too weak at the moment. The only thing I see is that Travis Headache reverted spam by them, and unless there is any evidence of them being self-reverts or so, the current evidence is not sufficient at the moment.
On the other hand I do agree that Travis Headache and Whois360 seem to be related, given the overlap between them as well as the fact that one was confirmed as a sock at enwiki, and the other is a suspected sock of the same user. But as mentioned, the data has expired for Whois360 so there is nothing to compare on that end. EPIC (talk) 07:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

馮克勁@yue.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
陳立品 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
鄧碧雲 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
余綺霞 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
羅石青 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
周樂為 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)

Reason(s): The accounts listed here show behaviour consistent with the LTA description: mainly vandalism of Hong Kong celebrity and actor articles. Account naming also seems consistent. First account was created after I placed a 6 year block on one of their most frequently used IP addresses. The next 3 accounts were each created after the previous one was blocked. The last user has been editing since 2015, but has shown

  1. similarly exclusive interest in Hong Kong personalities
  2. sporadic vandalism behaviour identical to LTA 51's description e.g. zh:Special:Diff/79043249
  3. identical account naming pattern
  4. no willingness to communicate, whether via edit summaries or talk pages, again consistent with LTA 51

If possible, please also check for any sleepers.

Discussions are currently underway to determine whether :zh:SPI:右孔丘 / zh:LTA:右孔丘 is related as well. (throwing this in just in case) h78c67c (talk) 01:36, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
周樂為 is technically Unlikely Unlikely. The other four accounts are  Confirmed to each other. EPIC (talk) 07:34, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

BestHenry2024@hr.wikipedia

Status:    Cannot be undertaken
List of users
Henry425 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
HienPCWiki (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Henry864 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Henry2023 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): User follows behavior and naming patterns of previously globally locked user accounts. This consists mainly of spamming machine-translated movie articles, especially animated ones. Hijerovit (talk) 13:05, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
The data from all four accounts has expired so there is no data to compare from. With that said, BestHenry2024 is confirmed to previous socks through LWCU, so I locked the account now. EPIC (talk) 14:26, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Fipofi@az.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Fipofi (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Fipovi (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Fipofi1 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): They are probably same user, they upload files intended to use as attack page (and use anonymous accounts to add them to azwiki articles), both are blocked on azwiki and commons. I am requesting to check if there are any new/sleeper accounts. Nemoralis (talk) 19:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
 It looks like a duck to me. EPIC (talk) 10:51, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
@EPIC, no sleepers? Nemoralis (talk) 15:23, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Nope, no other related accounts than these three as far as I can see. EPIC (talk) 15:28, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Lazaro d'Aragón@an.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Lazaro d'Aragón (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
123Románico (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
BCN63 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Soportsforever (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
ManelCiclista (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
MotownJazzSoul (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Rkt2312 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
JoelMLN (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)

Reason(s): After I came to Aragonese Wikipedia and mentioned that some files did not have valid license and that some files violated the wmf: Resolution:Licensing_policy things went a bit sideways. I landed in a conflict where death threats was involved as you may know about from a few other requests at meta but what is relevant for this request is Requests for comment/Category of non-free images in Wikipedia in Aragonese wich clearly contravenes the Wikimedia Licensing Policy and an:Wikipedia:Tabierna/Politicas#Important_question_about_image_policy.

The admin Lazaro d'Aragón was upset because of my work and supposedly left Wikipedia. At the same time a bunch of new users showed up at an.wikipedia. When I made a notice at the local Village pump / Bar one new user pinged a number of other new users and users that were semi new but inactive and many of them commented or “woke up” from inactivity. Some with personal comments about me like the ones Lazaro d'Aragón made.

It may not be a formal vote but if one person use many accounts to influence the outcome it is Creating an illusion of support as mentioned in Sock puppetry.

I did not mention all users above. The first are the ones that commented and the last two are the semi inactive.

Thank you. MGA73 (talk) 10:10, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Doing..., however the check will only focus on some of the accounts as some appear less clear. EPIC (talk) 10:24, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Done (and courtesy ping @MGA73:). Lazaro d'Aragón, BCN63, ManelCiclista, Soportsforever, Máscineporfavor, 123Románico, MotownJazzSoul are all  Confirmed to each other. I also found another account, Manuel Trujillo Berges (with over 140,000 edits, so seems to be an old account of Lazaro d'Aragón), who is also technically  Confirmed to the other seven accounts.
JoelMLN is Possible Possible from a technical POV.
Rkt2312 is Unrelated Unrelated. EPIC (talk) 10:36, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Actually, after rechecking a little, I will raise the suspicion of JoelMLN from possible to  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely), bordering towards likely. I see quite some overlap, though not enough for me to call it likely or confirmed. EPIC (talk) 10:55, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you User:EPIC. Now the many are confirmed I wonder if we/you should check Uno1o1o too. It is also a new user but they did not comment. I did not mention them to begin with because if the thin evidence. Sorry it makes it harder for you. So if you prefer not to check that’s okay too. --MGA73 (talk) 11:56, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
I checked and would call it Possible Possible. ISP is the same as one of the ones that the others were using (though it is a large ISP), and UA is also the same, but range is different. EPIC (talk) 12:27, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Da ch8@mediawikiwiki

Status:    Done
List of users
Da ch8 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Darteev (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
George3005 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Qqhaha (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Makniker (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Irbelthaeva Albina (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
VikaKochneva (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Leyli 02 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Anastasia-spbpu (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Arguysha (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Plus Alingazizova (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser) (limited to 10 users in this template). These accounts are all spamming Russian design docs into the local sandbox and User:Clump has been playing whack-a-mole with them. It's about time that an end be put to this.Jasper Deng (talk) 19:23, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
Had a look, found both proxies and mobile ranges, as well as three other no edit accounts (so not sure whether they are also related).
Posted results on cuwiki, if you would like to view: [1] EPIC (talk) 19:57, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Mishsueeu2@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Mishsueeu2 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Shieuenf0 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Eudbe7djs (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Similar editing behavior in K-pop related articles and engaging in manual self-reverting. There are also IPs listed in the local discussion, suggesting logout editing abuse; a check is requested to determine the relationship between the three accounts while also note if there are accounts engaged in logout editing behavior. Thanks in advance. ∫（☎） 23:02, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
All three accounts  Confirmed to each other, along with Grrvyy and Cintrd56. EPIC (talk) 23:55, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
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