Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arjun Muraleedharan Madathiparambil/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I am not sure if this is a violation but the same user is editing the same set of articles with two accounts. Vikram 17:47, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * My confusion arises because it is clearly not a Doppelgänger account, though they share the same names, since they are editing the same pages, nor is it exactly violating "Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts" since the username is similar. Vikram Vincent 07:03, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I have templated both accounts in case they would prefer to respond. Vikram Vincent 07:21, 4 March 2021 (UTC)


 * While the two accounts have interacted on 13 pages, I have taken only four as a sample. The edits on Communist Party of India show that both accounts were active on 3 March 2021 with a time difference of around 9hrs. In the fourth example, we find the master account has two of its revisions redacted(prior to the diff I have provided) and then several days later the sock does work related to images etc. Hope this is sufficient. Thanks. Vikram Vincent 04:18, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I had a look at the sock account and found most of the diffs to have only added categories or images except for this diff where content is being modified. The page they created for "Adv K Rajan" is related to the political party mentioned below. The master account has a whole set of warnings related to non-communication, adding unsourced material, copyvio, lack of edit summaries, DE, etc.. Further both accounts appear to be SPA that they edit/create pages related to only people or affiliated organisations of Communist Party of India. Vikram Vincent 04:45, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hope this report has not become stale? Vikram Vincent 10:06, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' WHile I have no experience in this, the names are suspiciously similar (And both are complex and seemingly someone's real name) which leads me to believe it is a sock. Now, if the edits are helpful and not disruptive then there's a chance this user is simply just using a different account because they are unable to access their main account from a different device. BUt if they are disruptive then the user may be attempting to use an alt so they have a backup if the main gets blocked. As I said I have no experience in this but just wanted to give my opinion. If they aren't associated I would like to recommend that both users change their names to something different, shorter (And less complex), and something that couldn't easily be linked to who they actually are. Blaze The Wolf &#124; Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 19:30, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * There is a large backlog of cases at SPI, so it may take a while before this is dealt with. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:54, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
 * . Same very wide range, different geolocations and user agents.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:56, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Given the similarity in user names, I'm assuming there's no attempt at deception here, per the first point of WP:SOCK. I've left uw-agf-sock on both their user pages and linked to this discussion.  Hopefully they will see this and add some notifications to their user pages to completely clear up any lingering suspicion.  But if not, I can't see taking any action unless there's specific indication of abuse.  My hunch from looking at the edit tags is they use one account on mobile and the other on a desktop. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:22, 19 April 2021 (UTC)