Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Baseerwar/Archive

21 August 2015

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The article Pudumadam SDPI was created at 21:53, 20 August 2015‎ by Baseerwar. Azar032's second edit ever was at 22:04, 20 August 2015 to the same article. Both accounts edited the article and both removed speedy deletion tags from the article. Azar032' first edit ever was to the article Pudumadam, an article that within the same day had also been edited by Baseerwar approximately 11 times. Further, both accounts have been tagged as editing from a mobile device. A feature frequently common among the other accounts -- too numerous to list. 86.97.72.94 has a single edit to Pudumadam which is sandwiched by edits from Azar032 and Baseerwar. The same hallmark mobile editing tag appears.

Issath33 is another SPA that has edited Pudumadam and Ramanathapuram whose edits are also tagged as editing from a mobile device. The edits on this account are old, but exhibit the same SPA tendencies and mobile device tags. Sathbabu likewise is another SPA with a similar editing pattern. The three accounts all edit Ramanathapuram. Vickyyugy has edits in common with Gopivishwanath at Tamil Nadu again with the same mobile editing tag and SPA behaviour in the same time interval. Lankesh Sekar and 183.83.51.20 have edits to that article also in the same time interval and pattern.

Ziyapdm is a particularly interesting account. The account has edits sandwiched by Baseerwar at Pudumadam. Some of these accounts have activity that range back years, and this account shows that it's been activated and used with years between edits yet has only about two dozen live edits. This account seems to be the exception to the pattern of having only a few edits before being abandoned.

I am recommending that a CU be done to also look for other sleepers as well. Considering the number of articles this spans and how prolific the number of accounts that have been created in such a short period of time, I think the situation warrants it; sock farm. I suspect that this is a long term abuse individual, it's likely there's another archived SPI for a previously identified master, that seemingly has the ease and ability to use a rotating IP via a mobile device and therefore will be difficult to stop. Mkdw talk 00:20, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * Baseerwar and Azar032 are ✅, and are in country A.
 * Issath33 and Gopivishwanath are stale.
 * Lankesh Sekar and Vickyyugy are in the same general geographical area (country B), but otherwise don't line up technically.
 * Ziyapdm is in country C, no overlap at all.


 * So, pretty much a ball of useless. Courcelles (talk) 08:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks . Always tricky in these situations. All accounts blocked and tagged.  Mkdw talk 10:37, 21 August 2015 (UTC)