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29 November 2015

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Initially I was just going to ask if this was socking/meating or a case of people that just happened to edit the same article, but a little research shows that this is very likely socking/meating (my vote is for meatpuppetry) and that there were more than the initial two accounts I'd suspected. I'd initially started filing this under Ramyakr's name but it looks like Chaitanyasri is the oldest account. Some of the evidence here is deleted and part of it's just shared edit histories so this isn't a case of specific edits but rather that this group shares far too many of the same edits for them to be completely unrelated.

Recently Ramyakr came to [|REFUND] to request that Catalyzer Startup Accelerator be restored. He was referring to a draft and I think that the request was likely for Draft:Catalyzer. However I noticed that he had recently tried to re-create the article in the mainspace on 08:18, 28 November 2015. A short while after that another account, Matrusri came and edited the same article. A look at their edit history shows that they've edited the same articles, among them Walden's Path and Artful Learning. I also note that Walden's Path mentions Artful Learning

Now initially I thought that this was just going to be the two of them until I found more accounts, all of which look to be stale. Here's a rundown of the accounts, including when they signed up:


 * Ramyakr: Created Artful Learning, Adhya Educational Society, and Dr. Madhulika S. Has edited Walden's Path, along with several of the other accounts. Tried to re-create Catalyzer Startup Accelerator. Signed up on 15:10, 29 December 2014. Currently active as of yesterday.
 * Matrusri: Has edited Walden's Path, Catalyzer Startup Accelerator, Dr. Madhulika S, Artful Learning. Signed up on 01:09, 29 December 2014. Currently active as of yesterday.
 * Decegama: Created Walden's Path and posted on the talk page for Catalyzer Startup Accelerator. They'd created Adhya Educational Society originally, which had been re-created by Ramyakr. They also edited Science center, which was edited by another suspected sockpuppet, Chaitanyasri. Signed up on 08:31, 12 October 2014. Last edit was in February 2015.
 * Chaitanyasri: Edited Adhya Educational Society and Dr. Madhulika S, which was created by Ramyakr. They posted this on Ramyakr's talk page. They also edited Catalyzer Startup Accelerator and tried to create a draft version in their userspace at User:Chaitanyasri/sandbox. Signed up on 13:50, 11 April 2014. Last edit was on 04:35, 15 February 2015 here where they removed Walden Path from the AfD feed.

There may be more, since another user, tried to re-create the article, but there's no evidence other than that to link them to this group.

I also need to note that even while I type this to find specific diffs, I'm finding more evidence that suggests that this is a case of socking or meating. For example this AfD for Walden Path (created by Decegama) shows that Ramyakr argued for its inclusion. It also appears that Decegama is likely Dr. Angel DeCegama per this statement from the AfD submitted EricEnfermero: "DeCegama is listed as on the core team of Catalyzer Startup Accelerator, which is promoting the school."

This just seems like it's a case of a group of people, possibly paid or with some other form of COI, that have come on to Wikipedia to promote a specific area. I don't see where any of them have mentioned a COI. Two of them, Ramyakr and Matrusri, signed up at the same point in time and seem to edit in the same time span, evidenced by this edit by Matrusri to Dr. Madhulika S, which was followed up by an edit by Ramyakr hours later that same day. I also need to note that just before Matrusri edited the article, Chaitanyasri had edited it only an hour or two before that.

This all seems a little too coincidental for comfort. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:47, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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Just pointing out that there is also a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dr._Angel_DeCegama User:Dr. Angel DeCegama], though there are no recent contributions from this one. EricEnfermero (Talk) 09:11, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Please, compare Ramyakr and Matrusri with each other.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:50, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Those two are ✅. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:37, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Confirmed accounts blocked. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:21, 21 January 2016 (UTC)