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Suspected sockpuppets



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All users seem to be making the same unsourced edits, with persistent reverts devoid of edit summaries. Diffs where user makes the same kinds of unsourced edits:   

Diffs where sock adds 'company' after conglomerate even though its implied:         

Adds the same comma after the company name:    

I've seen these types of edits over the course of the past few weeks, every time I warn one IP for unsourced edits, adding irrelevant commas or adding too many wikilinks or edit warring they quickly move on to another IP. I have tried my best to collate diffs but given the number of suspected socks I may not have been able to include everything.  Pro lix 💬 13:30, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * All Jio 4G addresses, all stale. Too much collateral damage to block. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 16:07, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , so essentially nothing can be done apart from continuing to revert any problematic edits of this sort?  Pro lix 💬 18:23, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , the problem is spread out over too many articles & hitting them too infrequently for page protection to be a net positive; too inconsistently for an edit filter; from too widely used a range of IP addresses to target them effectively with a rangeblock; on a 4G IPv6 mobile network so they'll get a new IP each time they pick up their phone/tablet/whatever ~ I don't see any trait that's consistent enough to target without disproportionate collateral damage. If you can think of anything, I'd love to know of it. Cabayi (talk) 19:15, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks for explaining the situation in such a nuanced manner, I'm still relatively inexperienced when it comes to dealing with Sockpuppetry, it does indeed seem like little can be done in this situation. Dynamic IP's really are a pain. Thanks again and have a nice day!  Pro lix 💬 08:26, 16 December 2020 (UTC)