Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Anjaan333/Archive

02 May 2014

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Hey friends, I'm not clear as to whether or not this is sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, but there is strong evidence of a coordinated editing strategy between these two accounts.

Background: Drishyam is a Bollywood thriller film. It was produced in the Mayalayam language and appears to have become a hit, grossing (according to references) upwards of "50 crore" rupees (one "crore" = 10,000,000, so 50 crore = 50 x 10,000,000 rupees, or USD$9.8 million, if that means anything to you.) Short story: the film appears to have become notable for being a Mayalayam language film to reach a certain level of profit, number of viewings, etc.

Presumed sockmaster, Anjaan333, for whatever reason, doesn't like the box office gross data, and has, since at least early April 2014, removed the sourced content in favor of his preferred version, but rarely with any explanation. And when there is an explanation it's meaningless: "if you are a mohanlal fan then saw his films not distroy wiki""SIR ok Sir"or the user refuses to stop edit warring and discuss with the terse response "No". User also changes existing value without changing reference, and so on.

According to the block log, User Anjaan333 was first blocked for 24 hours on April 12. Account was hit with a 48 hour block for disruptive editing on April 24.

Account "Sajay the future of india" was created April 24 almost exactly 2 hours after Anjaan333 was blocked.

Sajay, a presumably brand new SPA user with (as of this post he has 24 edits under his belt, 16 to Drishyam) starts doing the same stuff on April 24. removing the box office gross and text blocks from Drishyam. In this edit Sajay says "provide proper source", which is identical wording to Anjaan333's edit summary "provide proper source" here. Other removals of the 50+ crore content:. And an edit summary very similar to Anjaan333's "SIR ok Sir" here, where the summary reads, ok sir you are really great............ Or in this edit which parrots Anjaan's "mohanlal fan" edit above, "wiki is damaged by the admins and mohanlal fans shame on you all".

I've twice tried to open discussions on the article's talk page and I've laid out fairly clear instructions for Sajay to discuss on the article's talk page.

Here's more duck behavior: Anjaan333 doesn't like that he's been blocked, so he blanks his block notices here and here. Sajay identically blanks his active sanction notices here and here.

Pretty sure that demonstrates duckness. I'm not certain if a sleeper check is warranted. Thanks all! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 06:45, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Update: Apparently Anjaan333 has been accused of sockpuppetry in a case with many more accounts involved: Sockpuppet investigations/Mealwaysrockz007/Archive.

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Has same favorite articles and fascination with changing the gross of Drishyam (can't even be consistent himself?) and other films of similar genre/cast. User:Salih also pondered a connection. DMacks (talk) 07:03, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, thanks--I forgot to include that IP! Noticed them here. It's all very weird editing--I wonder if they're some rival director or film company rep trying to down-play the success of Drishyam? No idea. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:10, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Registered account already blocked indef. I blocked each IP for one week; for reference if the socking continues, the range is 111.92.8.0/21 (up to 2048 users would be blocked) based on these two IPs. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 07:26, 14 May 2014 (UTC)