Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Creativegb/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

This may be meatpuppetry in part, but there's plenty of "genuine" sockpuppetry too. All of these accounts are primarily interested in Jugpreet Bajwa and Gulshan Bajwa, with User:Jugpreet Bajwa writing Gulshan Kumar Bajwa and GulshanBajwa writing Draft:Jugpreet Singh Bajwa. Gitakrishna's user page names him the "Author of 'HRD in Creative Organisations' (based on my PhD Thesis)", which gives that editor's identity when one googles the book. The connection between "Jugbaj" and "Jugpreet Bajwa" probably doesn't need further explanation. Jugbaj currently is blocked for legal threats made in Gulshan Kumar Bajwa's name; compare those to the threats made by Creativegb here. For Arjunabharti there's not quite as much of a smoking gun, but the general overlap with the rest of the sock farm, in addition to the user page, is... indicative. Requesting CheckUser partly for confirmation, partly to see whether I missed someone - there were more accounts involved than I expected. Huon (talk) 23:53, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * Creativegb and GulshanBajwa are.
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Arjunabharti
 * Gitakrishna
 * Jugbaj
 * Blocked the two unblocked accounts without tags.
 * Jugpreet Bajwa is ❌ (different continent, so unlikely to be meat).--Bbb23 (talk) 00:53, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Close per comments by Bbb23. Nothing further to do here. The SandDoctor  Talk 08:07, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

These accounts have voted at the AFD page for Gulshan Kumar Bajwa, including the creator. However,
 * Mudassirbaj was created several days ago - when the article is put up for deletion, he put a false AFD keep notice here and removed the template. He commented at the AFD page itself, voting keep.
 * Fltltpatil was created several hours ago - among its first edits is to the article itself, then to its AFD page, also voting keep.

They have similar writing styles - a sign that either:
 * the operator is creating these accounts specifically to vote in an attempt to save the article, or
 * the operator have recruited people he knows to support his side.

Either way, this would violate Sock puppetry, specifically number 1 and 6, or WP:MEAT. theinstantmatrix (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Please check for !vote-fraud. Thanks, GABgab 08:50, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All three are confirmed to Sockpuppet investigations/Creativegb. —DoRD (talk)​ 11:48, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Can a clerk merge this case to Sockpuppet investigations/Creativegb/Archive please? JamesBWatson (talk) 12:06, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Except to my link and not directly to the archive. —DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * OK. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:10, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅, all tagged, closing. GABgab 17:54, 8 May 2019 (UTC)