Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CAJaganaddamRJY/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Master, created 1 March 2022, is a SPA writing exclusively about Draft:Prudhvi Moses and his Smiley Children Society, at those two articles and at linked geographical articles Mandapeta and Pothavaram. Master created Smiley Children Society on 8 November, and that article was nominated for AFD on 9 November.

Five hours after the AFD nomination (around 8am in India the following day) SPA is created, and immedately starts adding references, including a fake one, to Smiley Children Society. They also try to add an AFD "keep" notice to its talk page.

Ten minutes after, SPA is created This account posts a sort of semi-"keep" to the AFD , tries to close the AFD a few hours later , then an hour ago clarifies their "keep" !vote , and adds another reference each to Mandapeta and Pothavaram about the Smiley Children Society. Wikishovel (talk) 19:15, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Two SPA anon socks so far have also tried ballot-stuffing at the AFD  and. Wikishovel (talk) 19:20, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

has just replied at their user talk, denying use of multiple accounts:. Wikishovel (talk) 12:09, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Then, when sockpuppetry and canvassing was mentioned at the AFD, they gave this strange response, ...Additionally, intentional efforts by individuals to comment positively while secretly acting as puppets in a deletion debate should be taken into account. Their choice of editors to canvass is also peculiar. Two of the three accounts they canvassed, (c. 24 October) and  (c. 18 July), are recently created SPAs with articles at AFD, and they post to AFD and user talk in a style very similar to . Neither account has any edits in common with CAJaganaddamRJY, apart from CAJaganaddamRJY adding a paid placement reference to Angelswithwings' article, three minutes after canvassing them:.
 * I'm tempted to request a checkuser, but will dig a bit first. Wikishovel (talk) 15:22, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
 * Clearly a WP:MEATSOCK. First edit by Badugun is to comment at the Afd of CAJaganaddamRJY's article. Same pattern of not signing their comments and leaving spaces before and after a comma. --Minorax &laquo;&brvbar;talk&brvbar;&raquo; 13:49, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * for the accounts. MarioGom (talk) 21:51, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:


 * geolocates to the same country which is difficult to CU. They are to the confirmed accounts. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:28, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I see enough here to accounts, left IPs alone (stale). Closing.  The SandDoctor  Talk 06:52, 2 December 2023 (UTC)