Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yaplipa/Archive

• {{checkuser|1=Yaplipa}}
• {{checkuser|1=Fernandodlr}}
• {{checkuser|1=ChrisPKelsey}}

• [http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/uc?uc=Yaplipa User compare report] Auto-generated every hour.
• [http://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py Editor interaction utility]

All are tied to the Cazza article, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cazza&diff=prev&oldid=794329990 significantly expanded by Yaplipa] with hallmarks of paid editing. A tactic commonly used by paid editors to get photos uploaded is to make an account with the name of the subject and use that to upload and insert the photos to bypass copyright. This can be seen here with [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fernando_photo.jpg Fernandodlr] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christopher_P_Kelsey.jpg ChrisPKelsey] doing so on commons (and note the filename itself: "Fernando photo" implying that they've been provided it). The use of edit summaries is similar, but really this is just classic paid editing. I'm interested to see if we can identify who the master behind Yaplipa is so we can G5 the creations, but multiple sock farms use this tactic. jcc (tea and biscuits) 16:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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• {{Endorse}} - to compare all of the above accounts and {{checkuser|1=Rævhuld}} who created an article that they worked on as seen [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cazza&action=history here].
   — Berean Hunter (talk) 17:59, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
• {{Inprogress}} - Katie^talk 19:50, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
• These accounts are {{confirmed}} to each other:

:* {{checkuser|1= Ecomals}}

:* {{checkuser|1= Nolasas}}

:* {{checkuser|1= Rismoder}}

:* {{checkuser|1= Sifonter}}

:* {{checkuser|1= Sonuep}}

:* {{checkuser|1= Tahtsan}}

:* {{checkuser|1= Topsetew}}

:* {{checkuser|1= Yaplipa}}

• Fernandodlr and ChrisPKelsey are {{confirmed}} to each other and are {{tallyho}} from the larger group.
• Rævhuld is {{unrelated}}.
• If there is an older master, I can't see it right away. All accounts blocked and tagged; closing. Katie^talk 20:26, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
• I can see some behavioural similarities to another farm. It might take me a while to work out which one it is though! SmartSE (talk) 10:20, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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