Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Editor 2050/Archive

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This is a tamil film area and I suspect may be better aware of this than I am, but there's the repeated re-creation of Ritika Singh and Ritika Mohan Singh as well as Draft:Ritika Singh all very similar to each other. There's obviously more throwaway accounts involved, but I'm not listing as they appear stale. I also expect there's more accounts involved here so requesting CU for that purpose. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  05:52, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * Hi - this is quite bizarre. I can confirm that neither of the two listed users above are me. I created the article for the actress, Ritika Singh during Jan/Feb 2016 - but it was later deleted following notability issues. Owing to the actress's popularity in Tamil cinema (and the lack of Wikipedia article), I presume the two mentioned editors found logs of my initial article on sites like deletionpedia /deletedwiki and similar internet sites when trying to create the article. *shakes head* Editor 2050 (talk) 19:41, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

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per a conversation on my talk page, SpacemanSpiff intends to compare these two accounts to, not to. An admin clerk will need to have a look at the deleted pages to review this one. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 02:11, 22 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I require an administrator to make the call on this CheckUser request. From the evidence available to me I would decline, since I see no motivation for socking from these accounts. The deleted contribs might paint a different picture, but I can't see to make that call. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 23:59, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The three accounts are ❌, but there’s very little data, none of it recent, for Lakshmikandh.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:36, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, closing as there's nothing to be done based on the CU findings. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  10:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The suspected sockpuppet has created six articles so far all related to Tamil film industry where E2050 was active, his article creation style and the habit of not using edit summary and using bare URLs is very similar to the master. If you look at which he created a few days back is same as  e.g. the length, the use of bare URLs and the use of table etc. GSS  (talk |c|em ) 10:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * Similar subjects and bare urls but the English and grammar of the new editor is worse than Editor2050 as, in the example given above, has Staring instead of Starring in the table heading, starting a sentence with And, capitalising inappropriately such as Director and Cinematographer in the middle of a sentence, and using the heading Movie rather than film in the filmography table, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 18:54, 3 June 2018 (UTC)


 * However, they may well be a UPE from the same organisation or similar who are copying Editor2050's style and format but messing it up with poor English. Are the articles created connected to an upcoming or just released film? as that would indicate the same type of UPE editing, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 21:44, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

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❌. However, Sudhakittu is ✅ to. Blocked the two accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:13, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Want us to copy this SPI to a new one for Sudhakittu? Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 18:50, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't have strong feelings about it either way. You decide. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:56, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Copied to Sockpuppet investigations/Sudhakittu and closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 20:12, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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After Editor 2050 left in 2018, Neutral Fan joined in 2019. If you take a look at the quality of the articles by both users, they are very similar. Take these two articles for example Pugazhendhi Thangaraj and G. Marimuthu. While the former is created by Neutral Fan, the latter is created by Editor 2050. The style and format of both articles are the same with heavily expanded career sections and bare URLs. Noticeably, both these users are good at creating pages with large career sections and notably leave bare URLs on pages they created. It seems unlikely that two users would have the same exact editing style. TamilMirchi (talk) 19:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * case moved to oldest account. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Insufficient evidence to prove sockpuppetry - neither "uses bare refs in URLs" nor "large career sections" is particularly unique. There's a chance that UPE is afoot, but I don't see strong enough evidence to block on that right now either. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:43, 5 August 2020 (UTC)