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Suspected sockpuppets



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CheckUser ✅ socking. See edits to Murugappan family asylum claims. Mogru43 hasn't edited that page but does edit Sri Lankan articles. All accounts demonstrate a pro-Sri Lankan (Government) POV. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:34, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * Master blocked for 1 week and the socks are tagged and blocked indef. Only a week for the master as there are positive contributions between the accounts and the abuse of multiple accounts isn't severe, the main issue is the continuation of the edit war at Murugappan family asylum claims. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:36, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The Ilenart626 account has picked up where the previously banned sockpuppets of this account did at Murugappan family asylum claims, arguing from the exact same rather unusual points of view (see Talk:Murugappan family asylum claims). He has signed his posts at times without a space before the signature, same as the banned sockpuppets. The banned sockpuppets also had an unusual stilted grammar, possibly reflecting English not being their first language, and Ilenart626's language is extremely similar in this way (compare banned Bran488's posts with Ilenart626's in the same section). The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 01:33, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * They indeed seem to have similar POVs, but I don't see any evidence that they are the same person, nor that one is a meatpuppet of the other. Note that Ilenart was created in 2016 and Bgtips in 2019; for this to be sockpuppetry, they would have had to keep this going across 5,000 edits from the former and 1,000 from the latter, without overlapping on a single other topic. Occam's razor says two people with the same POV, and the evidence presented, containing only one diff, does not convinve me otherwise.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 17:32, 30 June 2022 (UTC)