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Remitbuber

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15 April 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Brand new account appears on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrián Macías (an article created by Remitbuber) to !vote "No delete", and then removed the COI template that was originally placed there because of Remitbuber's involvement. There has already been IP disruption here (e.g. this change to a PROD nomination). — MarkH21talk 14:43, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed, blocked, and tagged by Drmies. This can be closed. — MarkH21talk 15:16, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • This case is being reviewed by Blablubbs as part of the clerk training process. Please allow him to process the entire case without interference, and pose any questions or concerns either on his talk page or on this page if more appropriate.
    Looks like Drmies got to them.  Tagged, closing. Blablubbs|talk 16:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

03 May 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Clear

WP:DUCK, same focus on promoting Nicolás Atanes and Draft:Virus Matemático (previously deleted at Virus Matemático), adding images of Spanish math organizations (cf. Cantorparadise linking an image by Mixedjust, who also uploaded a copyvio photo of Atanes after Remitbuber's), and creating individual ICM pages (see Draft:ICM 2018 by Mixedjust and the now-deleted ICM 2018 which was created by Remitbuber if I remember correctly). They also share the same overlinking patterns (e.g. links to dates: Cantorparadise and Remitbuber
).

This also extends to other wiki projects (e.g. Commons, es.wiki, ca.wiki) including a few other accounts that have not edited on en.wiki (e.g. Lasmariposasvuelan (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) and nicolas-atanes (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)). Should this be requested at meta for a global CU? — MarkH21talk 20:52, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cantorparadise and Lasmariposasvuelan have been confirmed as socks at Commons: Commons:Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Remitbuber. — MarkH21talk 17:30, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Blablubbs: Thanks for the explanation! Global lock + local CU makes sense.
One doesn't actually need to see the now-deleted ICM 2018 to see that Remitbuber was interested in it (e.g. linking to it). The connection between Mixedjust and Remitbuber is evident from the combination of Draft:ICM 2018/ICM 2018, Mixedjust and Remitbuber both uploading photos of Nicolás Atanes on Commons, and Mixedjust being CU-marked as possible to Remitbuber on Commons (evidence that a CU here could see). — MarkH21talk 16:38, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely):
Mixedjust (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Confirmed account is already globally locked, but I'll block so that there's context in the block summary. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 04:25, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Blocked and tagged Mixedjust as suspected given similarities of content. Closing. TheSandDoctor Talk 00:41, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

18 May 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

New account's first edit has been to continue the block evasion at Nicolás Atanes, adding the birthplace and image uploaded by Awikiband, and their second edit was to recreate Draft:Virus Matemático. Global locks needed on both accounts, maybe page protection at Nicolás Atanes too since this is the third or fourth occurrence at that article alone.— MarkH21talk 17:14, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Awikiband, a new account whose few edits include adding images to European Mathematical Society (previously edited by Remitbuber) and uploading an image of Nicolás Atanes to Commons that was then added to the Nicolás Atanes article by Mikethesporty. Also see their promotion of Atanes at other projects (e.g. at Simple Wikipedia). — MarkH21talk 18:09, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@LuK3 and Oshwah: By the way, these two still haven't been globally locked. — MarkH21talk 18:53, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
MarkH21, unfortunately there is not much I can do after reporting it to meta:Steward requests/Global. We will just have to wait until a steward gets to it. -- LuK3 (Talk) 22:07, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • I have blocked Mikethesporty as sock of Remitbuber based on the above behavioral evidence. I have also deleted Draft:Virus Matemático and requested a global lock. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:00, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Both accounts are  Confirmed. Bagging and tagging; closing SPI... ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 23:47, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

23 May 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Obvious sock recreating Draft:Virus Matemático for the 4th time. Needs a global lock as well. — MarkH21talk 18:52, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Confirmed to previous socks. Bagging and tagging sock account. This SPI can be closed... ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 19:43, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

28 June 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Appeared solely to contest the deletion of Nicolás Atanes, which was created by Remitbuber and has been one of the main focuses of these socks. Please request for a global lock at meta if confirmed, since Remitbuber is globally locked. — MarkH21talk 15:57, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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12 July 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Obvious, recreation of Draft:Nicolás Atanes and Draft:Virus Matemático Pahunkat (talk) 13:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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23 July 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

New account edited random articles until becoming autoconfirmed, then reviving the salted Virus Matemático (a main focus of Remitbuber socks) and creating ICM/IMU-related articles like 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians. Note that Remitbuber is globally locked so this account should be too. — MarkH21talk 19:05, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For reference if this SPI closes as confirmed:
— MarkH21talk 19:27, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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27 July 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Username is a reference to Nicolás Atanes, which is an old favourite of Remitbuber (might even be the identity of Remitbuber). Same old interest in creating articles on Spanish maths. For example, Spanish Mathematical Olympiad, ESTALMAT and Mathematics and nursing.

Did the same 'filler' edits that the previous socks did to build up edit count so they could create articles in main space diff, diff Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 11:25, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Note that the Nicolasatasan account is blocked (4 July) on es.wiki as a Natanessan1 sock there. The account did "survive" on en-wiki past TNT's CU on 24 July (despite editing on 26 June), but the es.wiki sock puppetry block is a significant sign here.--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 12:13, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the talk page of Natanessan1 on es.wiki, he created a lot of the same articles that Remitbuber did. Pretty sure they are the same person so a global lock is likely warranted here. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 12:31, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • They have now created
    Fram (talk) 15:27, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply
    ]

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31 July 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Duck, recreating Draft:Nicolás Atanes as Draft:Nicolás Atanes Santos. Same filler edits. The account who uploaded the photo on commons is also a probable sock, but has no local account on enwiki. Pahunkat (talk) 13:12, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Added Clirackli (talk · contribs), the account who added the photo on commons - they've just created a local account on enwiki to submit the draft (created by an IP this time which may also need blocking). Pahunkat (talk) 10:21, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • CheckUser requested and endorsed by clerk - The deleted Draft:Nicolás Atanes and the new Draft:Nicolás Atanes Santos are completely different text, which makes me suspect this is more meat that sock, asking for CU to differentiate between them. There's no doubt there's blocking and G5 in the wings; the CU is mostly to figure out how to tag this and whether requesting a global lock is appropriate. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:52, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  In progress - - TheresNoTime 😺 15:27, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Clirackli is  Technically indistinguishable to Nicolasatasan. Culturainvasi is  Possible related to this case - TheresNoTime 😺 15:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Culturainvasi blocked + lock requested (their draft is near-identical to a past version by Nicolasatasan). Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 12:38, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Locked. — regards, Revi 16:03, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

04 August 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Newly created, after achieving AC status (a bit gamey, registering on enwiki in advance to age four days) goes on to create articles on math competitions and Spanish mathematicians which is the topic area that interests the master. The clincher, however, is an edit on ast.wiki, in which this user reverts on Nicolás Atanes who interests the sockmaster (see previous report which involved drafts of this individual on enwiki).--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 12:41, 4 August 2021 (UTC) Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 12:41, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Adding that now we have recreation of ESTALMAT on enwiki which was created by previous sock in this case.--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 13:50, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Added Garilai (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) who is CU-blocked on commons and es-wiki, but is not stale (edited August) and unblocked on enwiki. Uploaded a file used by Carlsporty55 in ESTALMAT.--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 13:59, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Note: if Garilai has been confirmed to Remitbuber on another wiki then that account just needs a global lock. Also, the repeated recreation of 2021 International Mathematical Olympiad and 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians by these socks may merit salting. — MarkH21talk 01:55, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Garilai could be handled with a global lock (though the account is probably abandoned anyway), however Carlsporty55 is only active on enwiki (22 edits) and astwiki (1 edit) and can't be handled elsewhere I think.--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 05:20, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also note this IP unblock message about being bored of being blocked all time and I'll create a confirmed account (with verified email) and start doing everything with normality, after a CU rangeblock from Materialscientist. — MarkH21talk 19:55, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Everyone is already  Blocked and tagged. Redirect arrow Global lock(s) requested, closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:22, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

13 August 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Recreating Nicolás Atanes after gaming AC, CU for sleepers. Pahunkat (talk) 16:35, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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13 August 2021

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Duck, making a last-ditch attempt to get the article Nicolás Atanes by asking other editors. Pahunkat (talk) 20:43, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Not that it'll do any good, but blocked for a week. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

14 August 2021

Suspected sockpuppets


Same old story; creation of Draft: Nicolás Atanes (student). --- Possibly ☎ 18:12, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly they agreed to stop making Atane pages... but in doing so tacitly admitted they are the sock. Not that it's a surprise. They are also working on other pages. --- Possibly ☎ 19:01, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. I do not have to be with that user. Thank you!--Pirekisch (talk) 18:17, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Clerk endorsed - haven't done a sleeper check for a while. Sock is globally locked, blocked + tagged locally for good measure. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:49, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  No sleepers
    immediately visible. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:44, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply
    ]

29 August 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Pretty obvious duck based on user name (was Nasitacan in one of the previous ones). Recreating drafts that previous sock created (and G5ed), such as: Draft:2022 International Congress of Mathematicians, Draft:2006 International Congress of Mathematicians, Draft:2021 International Mathematical Olympiad.

They are mostly editing on enwiki with this account, so no locks or blocks yet on other projects. Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 13:39, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:Materialscientist bagged the account and G5ed the content an hour after this report, so this can be closed for now...--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 16:56, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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16 September 2021

Suspected sockpuppets


Recreating Draft:2018 International Congress of Mathematicians which was previously created by blocked sock Nasitasa and Draft:2022 International Congress of Mathematicians previous created by blocked socks Nasitasa and Nasitacan. Similar (or identical?) images uploaded to Commons. CU to confirm and see if other socks are about. Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 15:36, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • In the interim, I've blocked Grimarias without tags and requested a global lock. Bbb23 (talk) 16:51, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Global locks and/or blocks have been done. Here's the list:

-- zzuuzz (talk) 18:46, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

03 October 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

Yet another recreation of Draft:2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. Created by translating the Spanish page created two days prior by Historiadordelasmatemáticas (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) who is blocked as a Remitbuber sock on es.wiki.Eostrix (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 12:58, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This case is being reviewed by Spicy as part of the clerk training process. Please allow him to process the entire case without interference, and pose any questions or concerns either on his talk page or on this page if more appropriate.

17 October 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

I'm guessing that this is pretty much a

WP:DUCK given that this account was created just a few hours after the last set of global locks on this farm. Mathematical Olympiad in Asturias and Mathematical Olympiad in Navarra are all within the same scope as the other Spanish Mathematical Olympiad articles created before. It baffles me why they put so much effort into these articles when they know that they will just get speedy deleted. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 09:32, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply
]

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26 October 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

New account created soon after User:Kanaessu was blocked. Today they created Unai Elizondo with near-identical content to the previously deleted version by the previous sock. They haven't gone down the usual Spanish maths route yet but there's enough overlap for me to think that this is a sock. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 11:39, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I request that you unblock this accounts so they can continue learning how to edit and improve Wikipedia. --Supro23 (talk) 13:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Supro23, please see my comment below to Theklan - unfortunately, due to the nature of the disruption that the person behind the abusive accounts engaged in before, these accounts were escalated from English Wikipedia, and have been globally locked out of all Wikimedia projects. We don't have the technical ability to undo that here - a request will need to be raised on meta. I'm hoping that Theklan will be familiar with that process. I am also a teacher, and I'm sorry this has disrupted your project - please pass on my apologies and best wishes to your students, I hope this is resolved soon. Best Girth Summit (blether) 15:09, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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@Bbb23, Girth Summit, and Dreamy Jazz: Hello! Most of this (I can't confirm for Williams717 but it should also be) are students in the same classroom doing this Wikipedia assingment: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/I%C3%B1aki_Ochoa_de_Olza_DBHI/Wikiemakume_Dominadunak. They obviously share the same IP because they are in the same place with the same WiFi doing things together in the same classroom. Would it be possible to unblock them? Thanks. -Theklan (talk) 14:53, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sheesh. Because the account who also uses these IPs and devices has engaged in cross-wiki disruption, all of these accounts are globally locked now - unblocking at this end won't help, you'll need to make a request on meta and explain the situation to the Stewards. I'd suggest being very careful to ensure that you only request this on the accounts that you're sure about, we don't want to give whoever is behind the abusive accounts a free pass. Apologies for the disruption to your project. Girth Summit (blether) 15:06, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note for the record that some of these accounts have now been unlocked on meta, and I have correspondingly unblocked here. Girth Summit (blether) 19:46, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

05 November 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

I see that the school project unlocks complicate things now, but this account just recreated 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (with the same date-month-year overlinking as the various iterations of Nicolás Atanes and Virus Matemático) for the third time after two attempts by two confirmed Remitbuber socks. This account only did so after a few dummy edits to articles about activism (in line with previous sock interests, e.g. Greta Thunberg) and related es.wiki edits.

Perhaps this account is related to Remitbuber but separate from the school project accounts that were just unlocked? — MarkH21talk 19:58, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  In progress - -- RoySmith (talk) 21:16, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • From a technical point of view, they're a near-perfect match to WikiNic-Creator. They are also a match for Supro23; see 26 October 2021 in the archive for why that's important. So, I guess we're left with the odd situation of  Confirmed  Behavioural evidence needs evaluation. I leave it up to the folks who are more familiar with this case to verify that this is really Remitbuber based on behavior, rather than just another student caught in our snare by accident. If you figure out that it's really Remitbuber, please ping me and I'll be happy to apply a checkuser block. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:33, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is a near perfect match behaviorally. I've blocked and tagged the user and requested a glock. RoySmith, you are welcome to do a CU block, but I don't think it's necessary. However, just in case, I'm not closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:34, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bbb23 thanks. Blocked and tagged, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:37, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Roy, you retagged but you didn't reblock.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:41, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sigh. I thought I clicked all the right checkboxes, but maybe not. Let's try this again. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:46, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

30 November 2021

Suspected sockpuppets


Creation of multiple stubs related to Spain, more specifically, Navarre. He's already blocked here and is currently asking for his unblocking with an apology. Such an apology, as many, many he's given (up to this very day), gave him the unblock on eswiki, where he keeps making stubs and just today has submitted his first math-related article, which is nothing but a plain list [4]. I've also submitted an SPI on eswiki but it has either been dismissed or is taking too long. Suspects 2 and 3 have only created one article each but suspect 1 has acted in favor of such articles for no good apparent reason. MexTDT (talk) 00:47, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This might be purely circumstantial, I found a person that might connect a confirmed SP with the prime suspect from my list: Greta Thunberg. Both seem to be interested in her work. [5], [6], [7] --MexTDT (talk) 01:15, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • All three of these accounts look to be Red X Unrelated either to each other or to any account I can find in the archive. Beyond that, one account is already blocked and the other two have no edits on enwiki, so closing with no action taken. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:53, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

24 December 2021

Suspected sockpuppets


Pro forma report (filing purely for the record). See below. Mz7 (talk) 01:31, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Confirmed. Already  Blocked and tagged. Redirect arrow Global lock(s) requested, closing. Mz7 (talk) 01:31, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

26 December 2021

Suspected sockpuppets

The name itself is quite

WP:DUCKy to me. While they haven't edited on here, the edits they made on the eswiki does appear to constitute vandalism to a degree. I don't know about you, but this  Looks like a duck to me. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 22:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply
]

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Thanks for checking them out Dreamy Jazz. I wasn't expecting a sleeper check though, but thanks again. --DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 22:50, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@DarkMatterMan4500 the accounts popped up in the results when checking that account, so just found during a normal check. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 00:10, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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02 January 2022

Suspected sockpuppets


Image uploading as own work [8], creation of stub articles on eswiki on left wing Spanish politicians right after account creation on enwiki [9]. Has changed his focus from Navarre t Seville, but keeps his interest on math and homophobia. MexTDT (talk) 18:03, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • All of the stuff noted above happened on other projects, so not strictly an enwiki SPI issue, but I've blocked them for their obnoxious user page, which I've deleted. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:05, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

12 January 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Trying to get Nicolás Atanes – the main focus of this sock farm – undeleted here [10][11][12] and on es-wiki [13]. Refers to Atanes by his first name; obviously familiar with the AfD process ("Actually the article was deleted more than 6 months ago, in an AfD discussion"); starts sentences with an uncapitalized "hi" (cf. [14] by this IP and [15] by a previously blocked sock). Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:12, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Agree this looks exactly like them. IP blocked for one week, come back if they persist with this. Girth Summit (blether) 15:40, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

13 January 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Duck, see Draft:Nicolás Atanes Santos. Yet another recreation of Nicolas Atanes. Pahunkat (talk) 17:39, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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10 February 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Created Virus Matemático which is an old favourite of the original master as well as confirmed sock User:Gibra191. A sleeper check hasn't been run since 26 Dec 2021 so worth another one in my view. A quick browse of this new account shows that they are mainly interested in Spanish mathematics so the overlap is clear with all previous socks. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 18:58, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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27 February 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Appears to be back at work on International Congress of Mathematicians [16] and restoring deleted pages [17] which claims to be translated from FR, when it is clearly not ("Referencias" being Spanish). VernoWhitney (talk) 15:54, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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11 April 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Has edited the page New Math in a similar way Remitbuber has done in the past [18]. On eswiki, he's been busy creating and recreating articles about Spanish socialist youth politicians and others related to the movement. The IP created a stub on an old favorite of this user, Nicolás Atanes (who is related to yet another favorite of his Greta Thunberg) on the Aragonese Wiki. MexTDT (talk) 07:53, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • No comment on the IP, which hasn't edited enwiki, but the account is an exact match from the notes on CUwiki. Blocked, requesting lock. Girth Summit (blether) 12:11, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

02 May 2022

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14 May 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Gimaronav created Draft:Carla Caro; the same article was recently created on eswiki by Criguetman, a locked sock of Remitbuber. Editing in the sockmaster's usual topic area of Spanish mathematicians. Spicy (talk) 04:23, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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24 May 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Is creating Spanish mathematical articles at quick pace. These articles are translations of ast.wiki or canned copies. In addition, the articles translated were created or expanded to form on ast.wiki by Remitbuber socks. Examples:

Castilian Manchego Society of Mathematics Teachers was created by Fragarkla using an image uploaded by sock and that was created on ast.wiki by Gibra191 who is confirmed sock here.

Andalusian Society of Mathematics Education was created by Fragarkla also uses image uploaded by confirmed sock and was expanded on ast.wiki by a different Remitbuber sock.

Aragonese Society of Mathematics Teachers was created by Fragarkla, uses an image uploaded by a sock and was created on ast.wiki by the same sock. Pikavoom Talk 15:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you User:Bbb23 for the blocking and tagging, I wasn't sure my evidence was strong enough without CU confirmation. I still suggest running a CU because the 14 May 2022 uncovered more than 10 accounts, as it appears these socks come in a wolf pack of sorts across articles, Wikipedias, and Commons. Pikavoom Talk 05:22, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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22 August 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Recreation of Nicolás Atanes, general interest in mathematics. CU for sleepers since the last known socks were in May. Pahunkat (talk) 09:52, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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2 September 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Alteration of a redirection of

Guardianes por la Vida. Also recreated Francisco Vera on eswiki.--MexTDT (talk) 22:36, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply
]

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10 Octobber 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Recreation of the same stub articles and Navarra related articles in eswiki. He has no edits in enwiki yet but has altered a Wikidata entry. Eswiki is too slow to make an SPI.--MexTDT (talk) 18:51, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Naped281 is globally locked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:36, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

14 October 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

This is a new account that is rapidly creating stub articles on topics related to mathematics education ([19]), which is the same behaviour as previous socks such as Fragarkla and Pilcrama. The sockmaster is known to be Spanish and this account states that they live in Spain on their userpage. They also mention editing the Spanish and Catalan Wikipedias, but they have never edited there - however, previous Remitbuber socks have. Spicy (talk) 17:43, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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03 December 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Overlaps with User:Kanaessu on Navarra Televisión Awards and Navarra Televisión.

On their own talk page, signs posts in a similar way; note the use of '--' prior to signing their name. Kanaessu and Heactuallyknows. Also, the rapid creation of Spanish articles is very similar to plenty of previous socks. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 16:13, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you've got something more than using "--" in their signature, otherwise I'm a sock too :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 16:44, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As per User talk:Fragarkla and User talk:Martarodriguezsarasa it's just one of the many things that all Remitbuber socks have in common, it's not so much the '--' but rather the use of their talk page almost like a Twitter page with the social media-style updates. The biggest giveaway is the rapid Spanish stub creation, though. There is a small chance that I'm completely wrong here but, unfortunately, my gut feeling with Remitbuber usually turns out to be correct. I also completely agree with Robert McClenon below, not something that I spotted myself when reviewing the evidence. Quite damning. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 17:10, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Furthermore, worth noting that French Wikipedia has blocked them indefinitely for apparently being a sock; not great with the details, though, and doesn't seem to mention the person that they are a sock for. See here. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 17:16, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The edit summary of
    duck feathers, but we have a tape recording of the quacking. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:50, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply
    ]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

  •  In progress - -- RoySmith (talk) 17:36, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • CU conflict again Roy - I just blocked them. Editing out of ranges that Remitbuber has been on recently, behavioural similarities, article overlap - that's enough for me. I've requested lock. Girth Summit (blether) 17:38, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, this is a little confusing. Starting with the simple stuff are  Confirmed to each other. They are  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely) to a bunch of socks I see in our notes (Remitbubereselmejor, MnckjdncjkhecbjhewREMITBUBER, Nvekejnefj, Abajowikipdi, Quesiquesoyuntiterederemitbuber, Pilcabro, Grilando) but these are all accounts that have been reported on es.wiki, not on en.wiki. They're also  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely) (in a different way) to the bunch I blocked in 14 October 2022. Sorry I can't provide any more clarity than that. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:56, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I see Girth and I were working this in parallel. His block seems perfectly reasonable to me. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:58, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I saw the ICMhistory account, but we've had false positives in this case in the past since Remitbuber often edits from shared IPs (attached to an educational institution, if I remember correctly) - I was going to AGF on that account since it hasn't edited. Girth Summit (blether) 18:00, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

23 December 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Created Mathematics in the street, which is well within Remitbuber's commonly edited topics. Has a preference for using Spanish sources and leaning towards Spanish-related coverage, just like Remitbuber. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 22:49, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

  • Now locked as a Remitbuber sock.  Clerk endorsed for a local sleeper check as they frequently use multiple accounts. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:28, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is a messy case because (as noted in 03 December 2022 and 26 October 2021), there's an IP that's shared by an educational institution, where we've have a number of legitimate accounts accidentally blocked as Remitbuber socks in the past. Given that this account is already glocked, there doesn't seem to be much urgency here, so I'm just going to close this without doing any more digging. FWIW, on the CU data alone, I'd say Popmath is  Highly likely to be Remitbubuer. I know it's frustrating to keep chasing this guy, but I'd rather err on the side of caution rather than risk accidentally blocking another bunch of innocent students working on a class project. We may need to move to page protection as our primary tool on this one. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:41, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've tagged the account. Spicy (talk) 16:54, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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