Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BhaktaDASS/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The 2 new socks ( 1=Roland9893 |2=Roland9894) have just been blocked by @Bishonen. Today, I have received Wall of text emails (identical to their talk page posts) about Theology from BhaktDass and Devanggangele. The central theme of all these accounts is theology. I Can forward the email, although I believe it wont be necessary. --Venkat TL (talk) 16:12, 30 March 2022 (UTC)


 * @Bishonen No, I have not replied. I got 5 from D and 2 from B. Will email you shortly Venkat TL (talk) 16:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * @Bishonen, as requested sent 2 from D and 1 from B. Hopefully they will not trip the spam filters, though it is likely, if you cant find them in inbox. Venkat TL (talk) 16:31, 30 March 2022 (UTC)


 * BhaktaDASS although blocked is still able to email. Their email access should be revoked too, for spamming. Venkat TL (talk) 16:35, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , since there are several months gap between oldest and newest, may be a CU to look for other socks may be useful. Venkat TL (talk) 16:54, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Girth Summit what do you mean by "UA common enough"? Thanks everyone for the quick mop up. Venkat TL (talk) 19:09, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * UA = User agent. Girth Summit  (blether)  19:22, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , I have so far only blocked Roland9894 as an obvious sock of Roland9893, and have asked Roland9893 if they have an earlier account (since they seemed too technically competent for a newbie), but they have not replied. Perhaps you had indeed better forward those e-mails to me. (BTW I hope you haven't replied to them.) Bishonen &#124; tålk 16:17, 30 March 2022 (UTC).
 * [frightened] F-five? Please only pass on one or two of the juiciest from Devanggangele! Bishonen &#124; tålk 16:24, 30 March 2022 (UTC).
 * I've received your messages, thanks, . They're very clarifying. I've blocked and tagged Roland9893 and Devanggangele, and also blocked the IP range 2402:8100:2398:5CB0::/64 (two weeks), which has posted on User talk:Devanggangele, and clearly also represents the same person. Bishonen &#124; tålk 16:37, 30 March 2022 (UTC).
 * And removed e-mail access from all the accounts. This can probably be closed now. I frankly don't see the need for CheckUser, so I've removed the CU request and marked it "closed". Bishonen &#124; tålk 16:44, 30 March 2022 (UTC).
 * On advice from, I've put back the CU request, to look for sleepers. Bishonen &#124; tålk 17:06, 30 March 2022 (UTC).


 * . I'm not getting my hopes up because they are more likely than not to be in India, a country with notoriously awful IP assignment patterns. There is grounds for a check however, and based on the evidence I can evaluate myself, I think it makes sense to at least have a look at the two Roland accounts (which are definitely connected) to see if anything else pops up. --Blablubbs (talk) 17:15, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:26, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * These accounts are all ✅ to one another. I also see, which is obviously also them; while that's the oldest account by a few months, it's only got a couple of edits so I don't see much point in renaming the case. They're operating out of a couple of different ranges, and I do see a number of accounts which might be them, but the ranges are wide enough and the UA common enough for me to be reluctant to block without behavioural indicators. Please come back, and feel free to ping me, if any new accounts start behaving similarly. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:41, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Continuation of same Theological ranting on my user talkpage. Asked CU for more socks. Venkat TL (talk) 07:21, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅. I don't see any other accounts on their range. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
vandalizing pages to undo my edits. Making false reports on WP:AIV and emailing me, just like the last sock. Venkat TL (talk) 09:01, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Ping Girth Summit. Venkat TL (talk) 11:49, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Email disabled, page protected. --Venkat TL (talk) 13:03, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * They've hopped onto a different IP range, but it's obviously them., you might want to disable e-mail for a bit until they get bored and go away? I'd be happy to protect your talk page too if you want.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:59, 1 April 2022 (UTC)