All accounts at Commons should now be blocked and content deleted. Will monitor this page to handle newly discovered socks. -- Denniss ( talk) 14:21, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
As a reminder to check the edits on other wikis, I've created an SUL check template and added it to all of these socks. It's easy to forget to check this, and I now intend to go through all of the checked socks to make sure that the damage is cleaned up everywhere. It's rare to find edits on other languages, but I've seen one at dewiki and one at eswiki so far.
I have my doubts about my new icon, though: it looks more like a "done" icon than a "to-do" icon. Comments and criticism welcome. -- Slashme ( talk) 08:30, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
These contributions quack rather like some of the others. Can someone double check? I suspect a methodology of one sock adding a bare url, then a different sock expanding it so that neither in isolation looks like obvious spam. LeadSongDog come howl! 16:21, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- Is there a typo in that username? --
Slashme (
talk) 19:43, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
- sorry, wrong case. contributions LeadSongDog come howl! 01:16, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
- Another to check: contributions quacks in similar tones. LeadSongDog come howl! 17:53, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Where do we list obvius OrangeMoody accounts that we blocked before being aware of this? For example User:Clintric. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:22, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
- @
Kudpung There is a section at the bottom of the page titled "Blocked after August 31 announcement", and since you blocked
User:Clintric on September 1, that account can be listed there. I suppose all the accounts blocked by anyone other than EgressBot should also go there, even if it wasn't after August 31, to make them easier to find. Thanks for your efforts to expose the other sockpuppet accounts.
Altamel (
talk) 15:53, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
- I think I have just noticed a case that was reported to an impersonated editor back in March. See User_talk:Catsmeat#Someone_is_impersonating_you. Brianhe ( talk) and WP:COIN#Attempt to impersonate Wikipedian which has some possible new sock accounts. Brianhe ( talk) 06:34, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Has anybody really looked at these account names as part of the forensics? It might be interesting to do with an eye to linguistics or other clues as to who created them; also to try to divine if one or more actors created the account names. Some of the latter ones have interesting patterns. Feel free to email me about this. — Brianhe ( talk) 01:10, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
I went over the new listings and found some where all or substantially all edits were by an Orangemoody sock.
- Mark Kilby
- Constance Alex George
- Barenaturals
- Scott Rees & Co
- TechnoPilot
- Priori Legal
- Credit Sudhaar
- LitFire Publishing
- Gerardo Bloomerfield
What should I do now? Is there a special deletion tag to be used? — Brianhe ( talk) 00:32, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
- Also, if the remedy is speedy deletion, should the socks be ticked off right after proposing deletion, or after it's actually finished? — Brianhe ( talk) 01:02, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
See uk:Epom Ad Server (created by uk:Користувач:Effortlessbrian on 06:21, 17 July 2015 with an edit summary of 'Створено шляхом перекладу сторінки « Epom Ad Server»') and Epom Ad Server (created by User:YeonJKim on 08:23, 24 September 2015 with an edit summary of 'Created by translating the page " Epom Ad Server"').
I tagged the new English version with db-g6|reason=Previously deleted per Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody/Articles, re-created from translation of uk: which in turn was a translation of previously-deleted :en. If re-creation matches deleted :en (vs. an innocent re-translation) please open a WP:SPI.
Someone familiar with how this case is being handled on non-English Wikipedias needs to decide if the uk: version should be deleted and if either editor may be part of the Orangemoody sock farm. On a side note, the deletion of the English article destroyed the attribution history for the :uk article. If the :uk article is kept, a copy of the edit history log of the :en article up through 06:21, 17 July 2015 should be pasted onto the talk page of the :uk article.
@ Timotheus Canens: you declined a request by User:YeonJKim about a month ago to undelete the English article, so I'm "pinging" you to bring you into this conversation. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 04:51, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, I explained why I opted to use the translation functionality here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Orangemoody. I hope this helps clarify the situation. Once again, I was just being lazy, and I'm sorry for adding confusion to the already complex OrangeMoody investigation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by YeonJKim ( talk • contribs) 08:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)