Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ABTHEBOSS/Archive

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 * As of this post, Sid505 has edited three articles in live space, all of them intersecting with ABTHEBOSS.
 * The areas of intersection are rather niche, including award pages for an Indian TV series and an actor.
 * I believe Sid505 is intended as an impostor account created to resemble upstanding editor.
 * In this edit, Sid505 restored the Star Parivaar awards. (Per consensus estblished at WT:ICTF, we do not include these in-house awards, as they are inherently promotional.) ABTHEBOSS previously added these to the same article here and here and here and I believe they also added them while logged out here and here, so it wouldn't surprise me that they're continuing this agenda using socks.

This is fairly ducky to me, but since ABTHEBOSS has been a pain to deal with and is likely engaging in undisclosed paid editing, I'd like to establish a baseline for whether or not there is a ring here or if he's one of our regular socks. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:53, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

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The two accounts are ✅ to each other and technically to. Remember our discussion about ABTHEBOSS last month at User talk:Bbb23/Archive 50? I don't feel comfortable making the call about whether these two socks are operated by Shankar 1382. I'm punting it to you. For the moment, I've blocked the two accounts without tags while I wait for your input.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:34, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I somehow totally forgot about that, but I remember going through both users' edits and I was not confident that I could draw a behavioral similarity between them. They edited different pages and themes. I can try to take another look, though. I'm also taking another approach of asking AB if they've had any other accounts, but I doubt that'll bear fruit. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:05, 11 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Closing. The two editors in this case have been blocked, and nobody has established a definite connection to . It's largely irrelevant too since everyone is indeffed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 06:06, 26 October 2019 (UTC)