Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/B-Factor/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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 * I have been tagging and draftifying suspicious articles for AfC review when I bumped into Samaira Sandhu which has been repeatedly re-created in the past by socks


 * This time the article has been created by . With barely 39 edits counts, B-Factor has shown signs of an experienced editor. The editor has no other edits outside this topic area.


 * recently showed up making experienced editing on articles which I tagged earlier in order to make it look like my sock and stop me from tagging spams created by . It seems a WP:GAMING to me.


 * It could be whose articles have been tagged for WP:UPE by me and today this IP tried to remove the COI templates from these articles.


 * Interestingly, both and  shares s similar edit history and edit summaries such as  by  and  by


 * removing COI template with same edit summary used by this block IP while removing COI templates. KartikeyaS (talk ) 14:57, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * I have sent comments regarding this case to Yunshui. MER-C 19:09, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * There's a vague geolocational similiarity to B-Factor but IPs from this region being as hard to pin down as they are, it's nothing conclusive.
 * KuwarOnline is
 * but it's blocked anyway.
 * I'll get back to you on the other thoughts in your email, need to do a bit of checking of my own first. I haven't taken any admin actions here, just CU, so this still needs administration and closure. Yunshui 雲 水  08:01, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Jrst870 is now blocked so the case is administratively complete. . MER-C 11:50, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll get back to you on the other thoughts in your email, need to do a bit of checking of my own first. I haven't taken any admin actions here, just CU, so this still needs administration and closure. Yunshui 雲 水  08:01, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Jrst870 is now blocked so the case is administratively complete. . MER-C 11:50, 27 March 2020 (UTC)