Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abhijit038/Archive

19 February 2014

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At the Thriller (Michael Jackson album) article, a few editors have tried to change the number of album sales to figures greater than 100 million. Last year during January 2013, wrote that the album had "confirmed sales figures of by EMI records 120 million copies worldwide." This was reverted. The next day, wrote that the album sold "between 65 and 110 million copies worldwide." This was also reverted. Fast forward to February 17, 2013: Abhijit038 changes the sales figure to 110 million, and is reverted. The user tried again and was reverted. The next day, the user tried a third time, then was warned against edit warring, and was reverted. On February 19, the account Lordenigma was created; its first edit was to continue the edit war, with an edit summary that acknowledged the ongoing dispute and the state of multiple reversions: "Unless you have an evidence to the contrary, stop changing the sales figure." This is clearly the work of a sockpuppet. Binksternet (talk) 20:14, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * - Endorsing request per behavioral evidence above. Mark Arsten (talk) 06:13, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Though we're dealing with a couple of highly dynamic and very large ranges, it's that  is a sock of .--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:49, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The behavioural evidence combined with the likely result is enough for me. Both blocked indef and tagged. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:03, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

21 February 2014

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Four hours after Abhijit038 and his sock Lordenigma were blocked following the previous SPI, the account Edmundblack was registered. Edmundblack's sole focus is the same issue of 110 million units of sales for the Michael Jackson album Thriller, as seen in his [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thriller_%28Michael_Jackson_album%29&diff=prev&oldid=596455974 first edit]. Edmundblack warred this figure back in to the article[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thriller_(Michael_Jackson_album)&diff=prev&oldid=596477668][//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thriller_(Michael_Jackson_album)&diff=prev&oldid=596477944] and he argued for 110 million on the talk page.[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Thriller_%28Michael_Jackson_album%29&diff=prev&oldid=596478191] The appearance of Edmundblack so quickly after Abhijit038 was blocked, and the resumption of edit warring over the same exact issue, make me conclude that Edmundblack is a sockpuppet. I am requesting checkuser to make certain of the connection. Binksternet (talk) 16:54, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Semi-protecting the target(s) article(s) is the best option here, otherwise it will be a continued game of whack-a-mole due to the size of the ranges used.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:20, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the account and semi-protected the target article. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:52, 21 February 2014 (UTC)