Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Middayexpress

Middayexpress

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Middayexpress/Archive.

New suspected account

19 April 2018

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

• Troyoleg (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Reporting a new suspected account per note on Middayexpress' Wikipedia:Editing restrictions entry.

• The Troyoleg account was created on 3 April Special:Log/Troyoleg, just an hour or so after Middayexpress sock Soupforone's last edit on their talk page.
• Troyoleg seems to be interested in the same projects as Soupforone, both on Wikipedia as well as Commons (where they uploaded a portrait of politician Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed the current president of Somalia [1], something Middayexpress would do as they've previously uploaded multiple portraits of the same politician [2], [3], [4], [5]).
• Troyoleg has a similar time card as Soupforone (who generally posted twice a day, around 4:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC [6]). Troyoleg has so far been posting around 16:00 UTC [7]. They have been recently involved in an edit war across large swath of articles which is why there is a large bubble at 18:00 UTC on their time card, most of these edits were revs, a look through their contribution history will confirm that prior to the edit war they generally edited around 16:00 UTC, very similar to Soupforone's preferred time.
• Soupforone has always pushed for names in Somali articles to also be displayed in Arabic [8] (plenty of other examples available). And Troyoleg seems to be pushing for that same point [9] (again, plenty of other examples available).
• As a secondary point to the preference of Arabic in Somali articles. It seems that the edit war Troyoleg is currently involved in is a continuation of a previous edit war that Soupforone had with the IP over the use of Arabic in WP articles: [10], [11], [12], [13] (plenty more). On the same pages, Troyoleg is pushing for the exact same changes as Soupforone against the IP, their positions are identical: [14], [15], [16], [17] (etc etc).
• Troyolag exhibits the same idiosyncratic editing style of making a major edit quickly followed by a minor edit [18], [19], this habit is seen in the edits of both Middayexpress and Soupforone [20], [21] (both links copied from previous SPI).
• The userboxes displayed on their talk page appears to have clear hints/taunts that they are a "scary ghost" implying they are a returning member. As well as "thinking in four dimension" which appears to reference their previous (and perhaps current) evasion of blocks. They have added these userboxes the same day they registered the account, which is an odd thing for a new member to know of and do link. Kzl55 (talk) 11:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

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