Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AMRozil/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

These were all created within the last few months, and are all editing in the same topic areas with very similar editing patterns and summaries, most notably rapidly cycling through lede images with the edit summary ``Added a better image of...``, ,likely in an attempt to get confirmed and extended-confirmed statuses so they can edit protected articles related to Indian economy. I've blocked them all except User:Soumyadeep176 per WP:DUCK, but I suspect there may be more. Soumyadeep176 was created in July and was partially blocked on a number of economy-related articles for disruptive editing; edit summary patterns are different, but there's enough overlap for suspicion. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:07, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   13:42, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Checkuser evidence:
 * - Not enough evidence to run CheckUser:
 * All of the accounts I ran geolocate to roughly the same area of the same country. They're all on different ranges, ISPs, and different variations of the same user agent (same platform, but different devices and models).
 * - Not enough evidence to run CheckUser:
 * All of the accounts I ran geolocate to roughly the same area of the same country. They're all on different ranges, ISPs, and different variations of the same user agent (same platform, but different devices and models).
 * - Not enough evidence to run CheckUser:
 * All of the accounts I ran geolocate to roughly the same area of the same country. They're all on different ranges, ISPs, and different variations of the same user agent (same platform, but different devices and models).
 * All of the accounts I ran geolocate to roughly the same area of the same country. They're all on different ranges, ISPs, and different variations of the same user agent (same platform, but different devices and models).
 * All of the accounts I ran geolocate to roughly the same area of the same country. They're all on different ranges, ISPs, and different variations of the same user agent (same platform, but different devices and models).
 * All of the accounts I ran geolocate to roughly the same area of the same country. They're all on different ranges, ISPs, and different variations of the same user agent (same platform, but different devices and models).


 * Behavioral evidence:
 * This timeline analysis pretty much does it up for me., , and use the exact same edit summary with their edits to this article. Some edit summaries even have the same spacing between the last word and the punctuation at the end of the sentence. This timeline also shows the exact same edit summary usage between , , , and . For these reasons, and the fact that the time between the edits between these accounts on the same articles is so small, I am blocking , , , and  as sock puppet accounts. I have suspicions with , and some suspicions with  as well, but I'm going to hold off on those two accounts. Blocking and tagging the rest, and closing this SPI report...  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   15:14, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Same patterns as before; edit-warring over sourced GDP figures on India-related articles, including useless "better image" edits, and claiming to add a reference while actually removing one ,. (Note: These probably won't be connected to Soumyadeep176, but rather to each other and/or the blocked accounts from the previous SPI (,, and ).   OhNo itsJamie  Talk 14:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:59, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * So, this is interesting. is ✅ to ;  is ✅ to ; and  is ✅ to . All their IPs all geolocate to the same country, but there are three distinct sets of user agents. I'm taking over their blocks as CU blocks for now, and tagging as confirmed socks. The CU data of the blocked accounts doesn't link back to Soumyadeep176, who I haven't run a check on.   Girth Summit  (blether)  18:14, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, I can't see any other accounts in the ranges I checked. Confirmed accounts are CU blocked and tagged. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:19, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Rapidly changing infobox images in Bangladeshi district articles using the edit summaries "Added a better image of ___ District" or "Uploaded a better image of ___ District". The images are not any better than their predecessors. That, of course, is somewhat a matter of opinion, but the suspect often changes the image multiple times, sometimes even back to the original image, suggesting that they aren't putting any effort into finding the best image before editing. One example: -- Worldbruce (talk) 17:15, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Bogra District
 * Sock
 * BD Mahasthangarh1.JPG → Gokul Medh, Bogra, September 2016 10.jpg
 * Gokul Medh, Bogra, September 2016 10.jpg → Bogura railway station.jpg
 * Bogura railway station.jpg → Delta Tower Bogra 02.jpg
 * Delta Tower Bogra 02.jpg → Mahasthangarh, Bogra.jpg
 * Mahasthangarh, Bogra.jpg → Bogra Cantonment Public School and College inside Bogra Cantonment Majhira.jpg
 * Bogra Cantonment Public School and College inside Bogra Cantonment Majhira.jpg → Mahasthangar Gokul Medh Bogra Bangladesh (3).JPG
 * Sock
 * Mahasthangar Gokul Medh Bogra Bangladesh (3).JPG → A road of Bogra City 2.JPG
 * A road of Bogra City 2.JPG → TMSS Lake, Bogra.jpg
 * TMSS Lake, Bogra.jpg → Mahasthangar Gokul Medh Bogra Bangladesh (3).JPG
 * Suspect
 * Mahasthangar Gokul Medh Bogra Bangladesh (3).JPG → TMSS Lake, Bogra.jpg
 * TMSS Lake, Bogra.jpg → Mahasthangar Gokul Medh Bogra Bangladesh (3).JPG

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * -- RoySmith (talk) 18:14, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * - There's a few things odd about the history here that I'd like to clean up before this gets archived.   pointed out to me that the master is only partially blocked.  I also see that all of the blocked socks in the archive are actually traced back to, but not to .  So I'm thinking what should happen here is the case should be renamed to AMRozil, but wanted to run that by the admins who have been involved in this case previously before doing anything. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:01, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Renaming to AMRozil makes sense. Soumyadeep176 has some behavioral similarities, but could be unrelated. OhNo itsJamie  Talk 16:53, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Renaming in progress.... -- RoySmith (talk) 14:24, 25 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Reclosing. To the clerk who archives this, please do a sanity check to make sure I didn't so anything stupid in the rename process. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC)