Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Anuraagg/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
All four users have made a single edit on New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist to remove an infobox parameter. The status of this article was fairly stable, and then in the span of 8 hours, all four accounts have attempted the same edit for the same reason. If it's not socking, then it would appear to be meatpuppetry. All four refuse to leave the dispute status quo ante bellum, in addition to not taking it to discussion, and appear to be using multiple accounts to avoid accusations of edit warring or give the illusion of consensus (i.e. WP:STRAWSOCKing). It just seems odd that no one touches this for weeks, and then in a few hours, a bunch of new accounts all want the same thing.

Diffs in chronological order by user:
 * 2a02:a310:833d:d680:dc14:719b:e462:6ab4:
 * 2600:100d:b158:822a:816:b2ff:fec7:2e16:
 * Anuraagg:
 * Jweeks1995:

Butler Blog  (talk) 17:23, 17 August 2022 (UTC)   Butler Blog   (talk) 17:23, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm looking at the IPs - they geolocate to different continents and do not appear to be proxies. There was a noticeable spike in pageviews on the day that this happened: . This pattern would be consistent with some sort of off-wiki canvassing (e.g. someone complaining about the state of the article on social media). I don't think that a CU investigation would be useful in this situation and since there hasn't been any further activity on the article since the 17th, I don't see a need for administrative action at this point. If disruptive activity resumes on this article, you can consider re-reporting or asking for semi-protection. Closing for now. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:48, 22 August 2022 (UTC)