Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abilrajz/Archive

04 July 2011

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accounts persistently recreating the pages Sridhar Reddy and P Sridhar Reddy Hairhorn (talk) 15:35, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

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They appear to have stopped editing. Please let me know, though, if more activity occurs. TN X Man 18:18, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Added both to my watchlist and left a note in my logs per Tnxman above. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  00:44, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

11 September 2011

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Another sockpuppet re-creating P Sridhar Reddy and Prashant Jain. Note the classy new user name. No relation. Gurt Posh (talk) 18:05, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Added 14.96.3.4 and 14.96.36.208: will RPP this against IP vandalism. Gurt Posh (talk) 19:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Added Bhavanakarthik: tried to G7 Prasant J in this edit, which was created by KarthikRockz. When speedy was declined ("...no evidence that author wants this deleted"), redirected it to Prashant Jain in this edit. Gurt Posh (talk) 20:01, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Bhavanakarthik also created P. S. Reddy, identical to P Sridhar Reddy. Gurt Posh (talk) 20:03, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Talk:P. S. Reddy is also a page of ELs identical to speedied Talk:P Sridhar Reddy, latter created by KarthikRockz. Gurt Posh (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * KarthikRockz adds orphan tags to random articles repeatedly, either in an attempt to up his edit count on other articles, or to make some sort of WP:Point about the orphan tags on his. Bhavanakarthik does the same. Gurt Posh (talk) 20:28, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * Added KarthikRockz. Hairhorn (talk) 19:22, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note user KarthikRockz also created Prasant J, copy of Prashant Jain. Gurt Posh (talk) 19:55, 11 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Added Wikimaniaz. Hairhorn (talk) 19:28, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * As I've commented to Gurt Posh, I was thinking of having a look at this lot. I would like to point out (in case anyone hasn't noticed) that the two articles created by the various accounts are very similar - even to using the same wording in many places. At least one of the references is about someone else altogether, and the other one on the same item (an alleged award) simply goes to the company site. I think we should start protecting these titles too. Peridon (talk) 22:36, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what part User:RoboAdreno plays in this business, having had a subpage User:RoboAdreno/Sridhar reddy created on June 20th 2011 and also Sridhar reddy created the same date. Peridon (talk) 22:45, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * Ugh, what a mess. I'm adding a CU to sort all this out, and to find sleepers. There won't be a comment on the IPs. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:58, 12 September 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ as separately linked. Behaviourally and technically, these are also to be the same as the above:


 * These are probably meatpuppets based in the same office, with occasional home editing. In any case, in my view they should be treated as disruptive sock-puppets. Although the user who runs the CU does not usually do so, I went ahead and blocked and tagged the accounts because this is rather a big operation and I felt it best we stop it ASAP. AGK  [&bull; ] 09:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  16:38, 12 September 2011 (UTC)