Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bainsla/Archive

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Difficult to piece together without access to deleted revisions, but probable attempt to avoid scrutiny / meatpuppetry, with a healthy dose of COI/UPE. From what I can see, Bainsla is an SPA with a singular focus on people with the same name, with edits going back to 2012. Bainsla has been trying to make a page on Vijay Singh Bainsla since at least September 2020, moving it twice into the mainspace. Both times, it was draftified; it has been declined at AfC and deleted under G13.

On 19 October, VB12345 (note the similarity to the subject's initials) on the subject in their userspace. Five minutes later, Bainsla. I'd be willing to assume good faith (even if it were really stretching it) if the page had been created in draftspace and Bainsla had it on their watchlist. But a page in a new account's userspace? I don't buy it. Requesting CheckUser to distinguish between meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry and to check for sleepers. Sdrqaz (talk) 22:31, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * - There's absolutely no doubt these two accounts are related, but given the small scale of the problem, I'd recommend that somebody just hand out a couple of uw-agf-sock warnings and let is go at that. If I were to run a check and find that they were the same person, I'm not sure I'd do anything more than that anyway, so running the check seems pointless.  If the problem persists after they've been made aware of our socking policy, we can take another look. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:26, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Both accounts have been warned, neither have edited in a few weeks. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:57, 7 November 2021 (UTC)