Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arnav Darnal/Archive

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Arnav Darnal created Ramsharan Darnal, an obvious COI creation for which I dropped them a note. They denied any relationship. After I showed that they were not being truthful, they refactored their original reply and blanked their userpage. Their last edit to the article was at 02:14, my message showing their COI was at 02:37, the refactoring happened at 04:41 (on 26 July). CapricornxPisces (CxP hereafter) was created at 04:48 on the same day. Their first edit was to Ramsharan Darnal at 05:05. Their creation of Samata Foundation suggests that they are not simply an editor with a COI with one person, and they ought to be more sternly warned about COI/PAID editing (they have received general notes all of which they immediately blank). The immediate cause for the SPI though is the appearance of IP/s starting 27.34.xxx.xxx in the history of articles they have edited (to take controversial actions)—tries to move the article to an alternative spelling, removes COI template, removes CSD template from an article CxP created (the last one is from memory as the page has been deleted). Usedtobecool ☎️ 09:27, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Capricorn didn't start editing until after Arnav's last edit (other than to their own user space), so technically not socking. If there's COI or other disruptive editing issues, those can be dealt with outside of SPI.  I dropped uw-agf-sock on both of their user pages; closing with no further action. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:35, 29 August 2020 (UTC)