Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AnanthSV/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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These accounts have made similar edits, which add information to immigration-related articles based partly on official sources but also adding spam references to Y-axis.com, which is a visa consultancy. Note also similarities in format of usernames and similarity between the edit summaries here and here. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:40, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked a mini-farm. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 07:54, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Compare this and this. WP:DUCK, but logging here and requesting CU in case there are any other socks lurking. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * - The almost identical edits cited, plus the username similarities (Srivaran7 vs DivyaSelvam7d) justify a check. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:10, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to AnanthSV:
 * Based on the technical and behavioural evidence I've blocked the accounts. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:31, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on the technical and behavioural evidence I've blocked the accounts. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:31, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on the technical and behavioural evidence I've blocked the accounts. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:31, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on the technical and behavioural evidence I've blocked the accounts. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:31, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Suspiciously similar edits to previous socks. See how the use of double brackets around external links matches this. Cordless Larry (talk) 13:06, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * , and the behavior is in my view quite WP:DUCKy., closing. Mz7 (talk) 18:24, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You tagged AnanthSV as a puppet of themselves. I'm not 100% sure what you intended; could you take a look at it? -- RoySmith (talk) 18:31, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I flipped it to . The SPI script makes it easy to accidentally switch master/sock tags. Mz7 (talk) 18:37, 23 June 2020 (UTC)