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28 October 2021

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All 3 accounts were registered on October 8th within an hour of each other, [1][2][3] and started editing on the 27th or 28th [4][5][6]. As is obvious from looking at their contribs pages, these three accounts seem to be going through a list of biographies alphabetically (currently on the "B"s) and making repetitive pointless edits such as creating useless infoboxes [7][8][9] or tweaking talk page banners [10][11][12]. Interestingly, Tylerpanes and Stacypoled seem to have stopped at exactly 100 edits. I'm confident these accounts are related to each other, and this looks very much like an attempt at ECP gaming or account farming, so I'm requesting CU to check for others. Thanks to Russ Woodroofe for the tip. Spicy (talk) 23:27, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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31 October 2021

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Pro forma. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:28, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • @GeneralNotability: I have trouble reading the above results. First when you list a bunch of accounts in paragraph form rather than bullet form, my eyes glaze over. Is each paragraph of multiple users a "group"? Second, I'm lost as to the bottom line. How many masters do we have? At first, I assumed one master or maybe two (Uptoniter and Sanketio). Now I don't know if you made any technical determination on that or if there are other masters. Perhaps technically it's impossible to say, but if that's true, it would be helpful for you to say that. Sorry.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:59, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Bbb23, one bullet is one group of accounts that are confirmed to each other, but I am inclined to call them all Uptoniter. I'm pretty sure there is intentional evasion going on here that will make it impossible to mark most of these accounts "confirmed" and I think it would be excessive to tag them in small groups of confirmed accounts. As for Sanketio...I really can't say for sure one way or the other. There is some technical evidence linking the two, but there are enough differences that I'm not able to make a solid call. Perhaps Mz7 might have more to say? GeneralNotability (talk) 14:04, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @GeneralNotability: Thanks, that helps.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:39, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

08 November 2021

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The usual: [16][17][18][19]... --Blablubbs (talk) 17:02, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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14 November 2021

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Pro-forma filing, accounts are already blocked but I think another round of CU would be useful as it picked up some sleeper accounts last time. Usual infobox gaming behaviour. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:35, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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22 November 2021

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Looks like this is what happens when they're done gaming; see early contribs – exact same two rare and nontrivial gaming techniques. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:03, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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26 December 2023

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All listed accounts were created on 3 January 2022, but all made their first and last edits on 24 or 25 December 2023, many on the same two articles (Atmospheric convection (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Audience measurement (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)). Behaviors look identical, with all listed accounts making rapid incremental changes (<2 minutes between edits, all generally related to grammar, e.g. removing an extra word, changing a single word, adding a missing word, removing extra space). All of the accounts use the edit summary "Copy Edit" on exactly two of their contributions (e.g. [22], [23], [24]). Appears to be some sort of sock farm; each account made a burst of ~15 edits in rapid succession, followed by a different account making a burst of ~15 edits, in exactly the order the accounts were registered. TheAustinMan(Talk ⬩ Edits) 21:49, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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@Spicy: looks like I mispelled Wistsoaks (talk · contribs). Behavioral match, overlap with Rhymehedge (talk · contribs) on Jung Bahadur Rana. —TheAustinMan(Talk ⬩ Edits) 16:28, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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- maybe incidental, maybe not. The added accounts look behaviourally and technically consistent. Spicy (talk) 11:09, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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