Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Akhila3151996/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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

24.35.65.234 has been supporting Akhila3151996 on talk:Millennials and presenting itself as different user. There is evidence to suggest 24.35.65.234 and Akhila3151996 are the same person. They edit the same relatively obscure topics such as generation and Indian and Pakistani language articles, but the red flag is that they edit each other’s talk page comments, seemingly due to forgetting which account they are currently logged in as. Here is 24.35.65.234 tweaking Akhila’s talk page comment. Here’s Akhila editing a talk page comment made by 24.35.65.234. Notice Akhila keeps text originally written by 24.35.65.234 under the Akhila3151996 signature

I’ve warned Akhila regarding not editing as both as an IP and registered user in the same setting here  Akhila denied that they were the IP and Akhila also said that they were previously blocked from editing while logged out   24.35.65.234 has made these additional edits to talk:Millennials since the talk page warning ,,

In an interesting twist, Akhila also has posted on IP 24.35.65.234’s talk page instructing the user to stop harassing others, This seems strange to the point that I”m not  going to presume to know the reason,  but I will note that there does seem to be a sort of “good cop bad cop” thing going on here, where Akhila says things like let’s avoid personal attacks and be reasonable adults  while IP gets rude  but otherwise they tend to say the exact same things and 24.35.65.234 supports Akhila, presenting itself as a separate user  DynaGirl (talk) 04:07, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Wikipedia:Sock puppetry -According to this article, While there are some valid reasons for maintaining multiple accounts, improper uses of multiple accounts (called sock puppetry, or socking) include attempts to deceive or mislead other editors, disrupt discussions, distort consensus, avoid sanctions, evade blocks, or otherwise violate community standards and policies. I don't believe according to what is read here that any users are attempting to hijack a conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Millennials#Editing_Lead_on_%22Millennials.%22. I am in Seattle, and there is a large Immigrant/Asian population here, and these are not exactly "obscure" article topics. The articles are actually quite big. Adding to the fact that I work for a large company where shared IP addresses are common. -24.35.65.234 (talk) 04:38, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: the IP appears to have deleted the editor interaction utility from my above report, deleted themselves as a suspected sock-puppet as well as added a checkuser request and then removed it. Not opposed to a checkuser, but I did not initially request it, and I think it seems disruptive to delete the editor interaction utility etc from this SPI report . I've attempted to restore the portions of the above report which were deleted by the IP here can an admin or clerk check this to make sure I have done so correctly. DynaGirl (talk) 05:02, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I've blocked the master for one week for obvious and abusive editing while logged out. Despite what they say, this user has never before been blocked for logged-out editing. I've blocked the IP for three months as a proxy. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:56, 25 July 2018 (UTC)