Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gatongakinsella/Archive
Gatongakinsella
Gatongakinsella (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
26 May 2018
[edit]Suspected sockpuppets
[edit]- Vishaluponzero (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Kelesra (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Rohitmalakar (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Apo-opa241 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Cosmin3232 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Trjasoguzka (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Use of multiple accounts to perform undisclosed paid editing.
Evidence is the Upwork profile of a freelancer who landed more than 330 Wikipedia-related jobs (not sure I can display the link publicly but I can send the link privately to SPI clercks). The names of his clients appear on only a handful of jobs but when such is the case, the date of the job is coherent with the creation/editing of those pages:
- 3/26/2018 Nogoom Masrya as Gatongakinsella
- 3/14/2018 Global Entrepreneurship Movement as Kelesra
- 2/12/2018 Mohammad Irwan Serigar bin Abdullah as Rohitmalakar
- 1/15/2018 Abdelaziz Bougja as Cosmin3232 and Apo-opa241
- 12/19/2017 Patrick James McGinnis as Trjasoguzka
- Before 11/28/2017 PTron as Water waters
- 10/10/2017 Fear of missing out as Forlanfactorfive
- 7/24/2017 Uniesse as Locneab then Wiki editor555
- Before 4/7/2017 Anchanto as Vishaluponzero (tried again in May 2018)
This editor always follow the same process: 1) A handful of small edits, sometimes none; 2) A sandbox; 3) Article in main, without displaying the paid editing.
Also suspected through indirect evidence (accounts this Upwork freelancer used on the French Wikipedia, accounts used to follow up on pages he had created):
- 8/3/2017 Palred Technologies as Wbnilly86
- 7/5/2017 LatestOne as Kkchaulagain
- 6/5/2017 Farah Khan (Malaysian businesswoman) as Nina912
- 8/8/2016 Allan J. Stitt as Acumenmeister Un historien (talk) 01:28, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
[edit]Cosmin3232 and Trjasoguzka are 
Stale. The remaining accounts are 
Unrelated. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:25, 27 May 2018 (UTC)