Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Demosite2021/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Single purpose accounts dedicated to adding promotional content about the Kanorias, Hemant Kanoria and Sunil Kanoria. Since Demosite2021 has an indef block, if these are connected that would be block evasion. MrOllie (talk) 13:30, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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

 * - I've blocked Binaple45. I've not tagged anyone. Based on the number of accounts, I've requested a CU to see if there are others. Bbb23 (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 02:41, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, CU isn't very helpful here. The best I can do is call all four of these accounts  to each other.  Lots of different IPs and wide ranges but they do mostly geolocate to the same city.  The UA's line up, but it's a very common UA.  The nature of the data made looking for sleepers impractical. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:59, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Coming back to look at this again, everybody is already blocked for one thing or another, so I'm just going to tag everybody as suspected and move on. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:59, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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More promotional editing of Hemant Kanoria and Sunil Kanoria MrOllie (talk) 13:20, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
, after those early attempts, articles on these brothers has existed since 2014 or so; with some properly declared COI edits/requests in 2017 even. This specific sockmaster, I believe is a fairly recent one, springing from the subject's own turn of fortune since Oct 2021 and the "brand management" concern arising out of it. hemantha (brief) 15:12, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked both as suspected socks. Semi-protected Sunil Kanoria and Hemant Kanoria; they both had previous short-term protection which had expired, so gave it a longer run. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:33, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Just noting for the archives that this guy is persistent; The deletion/protection history of Sunin Kanoria goes back 10 years. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:38, 26 January 2022 (UTC)