Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mark Mulwanyi/Archive
Mark Mulwanyi
- Mark Mulwanyi (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
20 June 2020
Suspected sockpuppets
- Newtonizaaq (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Please look at Hamis Kiggundu and Draft:Hamis Kiggundu.. There appears to be some sort of a drive to get this gentleman onto Wikipedia and this makes me suspicious Fiddle Faddle 11:06, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
- There's not enough evidence here to convince me that this is sockpuppetry. It's possible that it's meatpuppetry or undisclosed paid editing but that needs to be dealt with separately to SPI. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:20, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
19 July 2020
Suspected sockpuppets
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While this may be the alleged puppeteer forgetting to log in the puppeteer is also a paid editor. I am concerned that the IP address may be being used to appear to circumvent COI. They are both intimately interested in the life and works of one Hamis Kiggundu
I think this means we need checker, because one is an IP and the other paid, so I am requesting it. I have chosen not to notify the participants Fiddle Faddle 15:07, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
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- Without evidence that this was intentionally acting in bad faith, I am leaving a warning for both the account and IP and closing without action. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 20:33, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
29 August 2020
Suspected sockpuppets
- Izaaqnewton (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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See Draft:Haruna Sentongo and Draft:Hamis Kiggundu. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 00:23, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Clerk note: I note that there's also a Newtonizaaq (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) in the archives. I agree with Callanecc's comment from that case - these appear to be two separate UPEs. The two don't appear to have overlapping edits, so I'll consider this an account abandonment rather than socking. I will, however, block both as suspected UPE. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:13, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
20 March 2021
Suspected sockpuppets
- Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
Total commitment to the sockmaster's client Hamis Kiggundu and his companies
Diffs include:
- One showing the addition of a Forbes Article image upload to Commons by the sock master
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- Four Note that Diannaa redacted copyright material so it requires admin goggles
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CU requested though I acknowledge that no information linking any IP with a named account will be released.
The sockmaster is blocked. This quacks as block evasion by being logged out while editing, and is UPE. The sock master is a self identified paid editor Fiddle Faddle 08:35, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
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Check declined by a checkuser - I am unwilling to run a check on a series of IPs, find stuff, and essentially link them to that set of IPs. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 15:06, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Blocking that many IPs seems sub-optimal. In lieu of that, I've semi-protected Hamis Kiggundu. If the problem spreads to other pages, WP:RFPP is your friend, or ping me directly if you prefer. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:30, 20 March 2021 (UTC)