Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dverma/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

The master is a WP:SPA whose main purpose to date is to create Dinesh Verma, an Indian scientist, extending to editing other Indian scientist articles. They just started editing in the last week. The recently created sock added an unsourced bibliography to the Verma article that they first created in User:Utpal.mangla/sandbox. They too have edited Indian scientist articles, although not the same ones. The smoking gun is this version of the master's sandbox where they started creating the same bibliography formatted in an identical fashion. I think there's enough behavior to block without a check and that I could have done it without even opening this case, but I consider myself WP:INVOLVED, having early on moved the Verma article to draft space because I didn't think it was ready for article space. For that reason, I'd rather someone else make the finding, and a check would be helpful to confirm. Bbb23 (talk) 18:27, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ in addition to . Blocked, tagged and closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:43, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Is there any reason why we shouldn't move this case to Dverma, the oldest account?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:16, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Done. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I've taken the liberty of retagging - hope that's okay. Bbb23 (talk) 12:52, 23 March 2023 (UTC)