Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ceylonpedia/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both of these accounts have made similar edits to the Anuradhapura Kingdom article:
 * Ceylonpedia 20:25, 1 February 2021 v V3arrior 06:18, 12 February 2021.

Both of these accounts have removed Tamil script from articles:
 * Ceylonpedia on Anuradhapura Kingdom 20:33, 1 February 2021 v V3arrior on Kingdom of Sitawaka 05:01, 14 February 2021.

Both accounts have removed content they claim in the edit summary to be "false information":
 * Ceylonpedia on Anuradhapura Kingdom 13:58, 12 February 2021: "Stop adding false information" v V3arrior on Sri Vikrama Rajasinha of Kandy 08:16, 13 February 2021: "Removing false information".

Both of these accounts have started discussions with the title Tamil was not a common language... on two separate articles on the same day:
 * Ceylonpedia on Talk:Anuradhapura Kingdom 08:20, 13 February 2021 v V3arrior on Talk:Kingdom of Kandy 13:32, 13 February 2021.

V3arrior has displayed behaviour that a real new account wouldn't exhibit:
 * Within three days of being created this account made a report at WP:AN3, unusual behaviour for a new user. Ceylonpedia has made a report to WP:AN3, back in May 2017, the only time this account made use of any admin board.
 * Within three days of being created this account was quoting Wikipedia policies in the edit summary (1 and 2), unusual behaviour for a new user. Obi2canibe (talk) 16:43, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Same country and geolocation. Different ranges and user agents.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:55, 24 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Looks like run-of-the-mill caste-warring to me, they don't appear to be the same person and I don't see any obvious evidence that they're actively coordinating. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:50, 25 February 2021 (UTC)