Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dny123/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Dny123 has edited pages on IMPS Polytechnic College Jalpaiguri (see contribs & logs). Dny123 also has a history of creating pages and promptly requesting their deletion, sometimes even creating pages with nothing but a speedy deletion request (see creation log). Dny123 has also repeatedly moved pages across namespaces for reasons I cannot determine (see user logs). After Dny123 was warned and asked to stop creating pages and promptly requesting their deletion, recently created account Md851300 creates Template:IMPS Polytechnic College with nothing but the text "delete". Dny123 then moves this new page to Draft:IMPS Polytechnic College with the summary "Misspelled". Tol (talk &#124; contribs) @ 10:05, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Sock indeffed, one week for the master.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:42, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same focus on IMPS Polytechnic College, same confusing moves between different namespaces & creation in wrong namespaces. Even blanked the userpage of previous sock Md851300. Tol (talk &#124; contribs) @ 17:51, 4 August 2023 (UTC)


 * @Courcelles, given that the sockpuppetry has now been repeated, I think it may be appropriate to extend the block on the original account (Dny123), as it would otherwise expire in about a day. Tol  (talk &#124; contribs) @ 21:39, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Courcelles (talk) 20:30, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Courcelles (talk) 20:33, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed, @Tol Courcelles (talk) 21:40, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Their userpage is extremely similar to User:Dny123's userpage. They recreated the IMPS Polytechnic College Jalpaiguri page, which was previously created by master User:Dny123 and their sock, User:Manojroy2001. See 1, 2, 3  𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛  𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜  11:06, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * WP:DUCK, blocked, deleted the article as G5. Closing. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 21:22, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * If I can be forgiven for editing an archived page, for the record Mcstan1 has admitted to being Mck09 in in this edit. JBW (talk) 17:18, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Recreation of IMPS Polytechnic College, similar username and User page, account was created soon after the last sockpuppet was blocked. Liz Read! Talk! 16:23, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Courcelles (talk) 16:56, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Courcelles (talk) 16:58, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
First edit, minutes after account creation, was this paste of IMPS Polytechnic College Jalpaiguri to their sandbox. Next, they pasted this to IMPS Polytechnic College, Jal, then recreated Maynaguri High School (H.S) with promotional copyright pasted from same link as last time. Wikishovel (talk) 20:25, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 07:24, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 07:25, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
User:Bela Bose 2441139 account creation 26 August, made a dozen edits for autoconfirm, recreated salted IMPS Polytechnic College at IMPS Polytechnic College, Jalpaiguri and IMPS Polytechnic College, Jal, then removed the AFD template from Maynaguri High School (H.S):, which was created by blocked sock User:অচিনপাখি02. User:অচিনপাখি02 also moved IMPS Polytechnic College, Jal to draft before their block:. Wikishovel (talk) 07:48, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

All but one of User:অচিনপাখি01's edits have been to IMPS Polytechnic College, Jalpaiguri. Oddly, User:অচিনপাখি01 was created after User:অচিনপাখি02. Wikishovel (talk) 08:14, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

User:Mani Paul12 was created today, and has made one edit to Maynaguri High School (H.S), and one edit linking it from another article. Wikishovel (talk) 10:29, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
 * User:Mani Paul12, additional edits today to IMPS Polytechnic College, Jalpaiguri,, . Wikishovel (talk) 09:19, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Adding User:Deben_Ghosh_47, created 2 September. Immediately started making edits about education in West Bengal. Recreated Ulladabri, last created by sock User:Mck09, at Ulladabri, West Bengal. Recreated IMPS Polytechnic College at IMPS Polytechnic College Jalpaiguri. Wikishovel (talk) 10:40, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Adding User:WbBoss, created 19 September. Only edit so far is to IMPS Polytechnic College Jalpaiguri. Wikishovel (talk) 04:15, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * All ✅. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:55, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
created 7 Sept. 8 Oct. they made a dozen or so edits about Jalpaiguri. Today they recreated IMPS Polytechnic College at Imps Polytechnic college, and de-orphaned it. Wikishovel (talk) 14:30, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Article moved to Imps Polytechnic College. Wikishovel (talk) 06:11, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅. I don't see any others, but they are jumping around some wide, busy ranges - come back if you see anyone else similar.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:30, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
created 14 Oct. Made the usual edits related to Jalpaiguri, and has now recreated IMPS Polytechnic College/IMPS Polytechnic College, Jalpaiguri at Draft:Jalpaiguri Institute of Technology: name IMPS Polytechnic College, Jalpaiguri"''. Wikishovel (talk) 15:59, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Adding created 14 Oct (90 minutes before ), closely shadowing edits by, and both have strong overlap with each other and master. Requesting CU. Wikishovel (talk) 15:51, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * They're ✅ to one another, and very likely to the master; given the duckiness of the editing, I'm just tagging both as confirmed. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:27, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
created 27 October, three days after SPI of last two socks. Two edits, then went to sleep till yesterday. Same single-focus on tertiary education in West Bengal, with unlinking of G5'd Kranti, Jalpaiguri at Kranti (community development block), unlinking of G5'd Manoranjan Saha Memorial B.ed College at Maynaguri (community development block) , then recreated IMPS Polytechnic College at Jalpaiguri Institute of Technology (moved to draft today by another editor). Wikishovel (talk) 13:26, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 00:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 00:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
created 3 February. A dozen or so precocious edits with the usual overlap, then recreated Dhupguri subdivision and Jalpaiguri Institute of Technology. Wikishovel (talk) 14:13, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding, a minute after account creation today starts tweaking Jalpaiguri Institute of Technology. Wikishovel (talk) 16:06, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * And as usual, links Jalpaiguri Institute of Technology to Higher education in West Bengal: . Wikishovel (talk) 18:18, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding, created 19 January, immediately began editing Dhupguri. A day after creation of Dhupguri subdivision on 22 Feb by, wakes up and edits there. 

Adding, created 22 February, half an hour after finishes edits at Dhupguri subdivision, takes over editing there. Requesting checkuser. Wikishovel (talk) 16:16, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding, two minutes after account creation, first and only edit was to Jalpaiguri Institute of Technology. Wikishovel (talk) 11:11, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding, edits to Jalpaiguri Institute of Technology, and linking to that and other college articles frequently edited by socks of this master, from Jalpaiguri Sadar subdivision. Wikishovel (talk) 12:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * These are ✅:


 * is to the above
 * As a whole, this group is to.
 * Brock29 is leaning  to the above, similar geolocation but nothing else matches..
 * Blocking and tagging the confirmed and likely accounts. . Spicy (talk) 19:45, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Behavioral evidence for Brock29 is insufficient to justify a block, and IP is stale. Nothing more to be done here, closing. The Wordsmith Talk to me 21:39, 8 April 2024 (UTC)