Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AriRichBoyz/Archive

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The same pattern of changing nationalities from Pakistani to Indian, changing South Asian people's places and years of birth and death, changing Tamil to Hindi, and so forth. This follows a torrent of such activity as an IP user. Their interest is in the same articles, replicating each other's edits to Fazlur Rahman Khan, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Life of Pi (film) in quick succession.

Also, note Arnold George and Arnold Ganguly.

These editors, except for ArnoldGanguly567, are already blocked, but I created this investigation page in regard to that account and because the creation of four sockpuppet accounts within 24 hours suggests this will continue.

Requesting CheckUser in case more accounts are at the ready. Largoplazo (talk) 09:46, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * Also found and ✅:
 * All accounts will be bagged and tagged as socks. . This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   06:06, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * All accounts will be bagged and tagged as socks. . This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   06:06, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * All accounts will be bagged and tagged as socks. . This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   06:06, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * All accounts will be bagged and tagged as socks. . This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   06:06, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

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AriRichBoyz started right in making the same kind of changes (changing characters' nationalities, the languages spoken, etc.) in two of the same articles as previous socks: The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi (film). Largoplazo (talk) 02:44, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * /. Same country, different geolocations and ranges, different common user agents.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:03, 24 April 2021 (UTC)


 * The only two edits aren't much to go on, but the timing, the articles edited, and the nature of the edits makes it hard for me to believe that this isn't either a sock or a case of meat contributing to the same disruption. Blocking, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:46, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

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Made the same edits as AnF150. All, or nearly all, previous edits under this IP address were in the same vein as those made by all the other socks here, and to the same articles, and this address has previously been blocked for said edits. Largoplazo (talk) 16:24, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * Now blocked, closing. GABgab 03:43, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

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Making the same edits to the same articles with the same (erroneous) plea in the Life of Pi edit summary as the master and other puppets. Largoplazo (talk) 14:05, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * blocked the /64 for a year. Closing.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:24, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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Already blocked, but adding for documentation. The same sorts of edits (changing places and languages) and to at least one of the same articles (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar). Also, similar naming to previous socks ChicagoEditor99, RhombusEditor2021, Wiki Editor99 Man, and ProEDITOR9909. Largoplazo (talk) 20:14, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:22, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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All edits from the IP block Special:Contributions/‎2601:2c2:781:2660::0/64 are from the last few days. All of them made before I came upon this user's activities had already been reverted, largely for vandalism. In addition this user is making the same sort of edits as the master and other socks, specifically changing dates of birth, nationalities, places of birth, places of education, and languages used in films, and in particular for the films Life of Pi (film) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film), and for Fazlur Rahman Khan and Jagadish Chandra Bose. Largoplazo (talk) 00:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * I'm going to extend and harden 's block on the /64. Closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:27, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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For the record, see below. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:30, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * behaviorally. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:30, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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Same types of edits--primarily swapping South Asian names, places, languages in movie-related articles. Same type of edits putting Kal Penn into the movie Funny Boy as by blocked sock 2601:2C2:781:2660:569:517:F6A3:E4FC. Largoplazo (talk) 21:46, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * Editing overlap plus identical geolocation to 2601:2c2:781:2660::/64. 1 year block, same as the /64. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:33, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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Quack. New account created just minutes after now-blocked sock user:98.196.66.117 was warned by user:Largoplazo. First edit was to copy old warning and block notice (complete with signatures) to Largoplazo's talk page. Post was then modified to mention the movie Funny Boy (2020 film) and Kal Penn, an edit of :98.196.66.117's that Largoplazo had recently undone. Meters (talk) 00:38, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The messages copied to Largoplazo's talk page were the final two messages posted to User talk:IndianEditor9925, an earlier sock. Meters (talk) 00:45, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * -- RoySmith (talk) 01:07, 20 July 2021 (UTC)