Colombiabeauty

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Colombiabeauty/Archive.
Please note that a case was originally opened under AnnLivinova (talk · contribs) but has been moved to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Colombiabeauty. Future cases should be placed under Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Colombiabeauty.


20 April 2016

– An administrator or SPI clerk has placed this case on hold pending further information or developments.

Suspected sockpuppets

Many SPAs are continuing edits consistent with Colombiabeauty, to wit, all-at-once beauty pageant contestant article creation including ((Infobox pageant titleholder)) and ((Beauty Pageant)). Subjects are often southeast Asians/Indonesians/Philipinas. More discussion of this beauty pageant sockfarm (or farms) is found at WP:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 94#Indian fashion models and contests with input from reliable editors SpacemanSpiff and The Banner as well as the editor filing this report, Brianhe. It is suspected based on that conversation that this is the work of a Indonesian PR firm who extensively use throwaway accounts and rotating IPs in the 93.110.x.x range. Note that scattered IPs from this range are extensively editing beauty pageant articles this year , up to and including this edit a few days ago. This is an Iranian ISP whose edits are almost exclusively devoted to Miss Earth USA, Miss World, etc.

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Please note that the following CU-confirmed socks of Colombiabeauty had exactly the same behavior:

Submitted for consideration – Brianhe (talk) 02:50, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Added Henry Rojas Pacheco another pageant SPA whose edits appear to be just as described above e.g. [8], plus seems to coordinate with Vidatafazoli who was just added to the case through a separate line of reasoning. There is also editing on articles frequented by another sockmaster Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yuliaalipova like this. Brianhe (talk) 11:10, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users

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I like to add user:Vidatafazoli to the list of suspected sockpuppets. Reason for this is that he repeatedly re-added information that first was added by the blocked sockpuppet user:User:Amgood1993. Info that was removed by others. For example on Template:Miss Paraguay where Amgood1993 added] a red link to the 2016 version. This was reverted Ponyo but re-added by Vidatafazoli, still as a red link. According to the intersection tool Amgood1996 and Vidatafazoli shared an effort on 62 articles. He also fits in the pattern of disruptive editing and total lack of communication. (See: User talk:Vidatafazoli). The Banner talk 09:22, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Additional: Vidatafazoli added multiple fake links to Template:Miss Universe 2016 delegates. Here does the suspected Henry Rojas Pacheco the same. The Banner talk 07:54, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

information Administrator note I think there's enough here to request CU to check for sleepers and possibly block the underlying IPs. Some of these have thousands of edits and the patterns are too close to ignore. Katietalk 02:27, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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