Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Drsharan/Archive

12 October 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Consistent editing of same narrow set of articles centered on Devendra Prasad Gupta, often within minutes of each other, and reintroducing same deleted content.

Example#1, (re)adding same content:
 * As Drsharan:
 * As Thetelegraph:

Example #2, edit warring with two accounts:
 * Link added by Thetelegraph:
 * Link removed by brianhe:
 * Link added by Drsharan:

Example #3, image added by sock, identical image uploaded by sockmaster and page reformatted to use the new image:
 * Image added by Hindustantimes:
 * Image reformatted by Drsharan:

Sock accounts using names of periodicals presumably to impart weight of authority. Brianhe (talk) 05:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Further behavioral note, all socks and sockmaster consistently fail to use edit summaries.Brianhe (talk) 07:05, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm willing to hit the master with a bit of a block and a warning, but would prefer I have evidence on the two other socks that you did not compare, which I don't have time to go digging for right now. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  21:23, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Added examples #2 and #3 above, the link to the other two accounts is not as clear; Ranchiexpress in particular was blocked before it could really do much. Brianhe (talk) 22:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)


 * All three socks were tagged wth softerblock, so their blocks are based on username violations. Having said that, it seems the master may have been hopping around, so I've warned them. Relist as necessary. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:14, 17 October 2011 (UTC)