Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FDMD04/Archive

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 * 21 May 2021 – FDMD04 was blocked for 48 hours for edit-warring at Raghav Juyal : 3RR
 * 24 May 2021 – After 48 hour block expired, FDMD04 again reverted MOS updates at Raghav Juyal and again  and dropped these messages on a user TP:  . Result: FDMD04 was blocked for 1 month for personal attacks: ANI
 * 26 May 2021 – 27.97.175.194 reverted same edits at Raghav Juyal: . Block evasion report was filed : ANI
 * 30 May 2021 FDMD04 indeffed for checkuserblock-account
 * 31 May 2021 New account BADBEAST19 is created and does a partial manual revert at Raghav Juyal:.
 * Master, sock, and IPs have an identical interest in Indian dance-related articles (E.g., dancers and television shows) (see, for example, )
 * There are other telltales between the master (FDMD04) and sock (BADBEAST19) accounts that aren't too hard to see/discover.

– 108.56.139.120 (talk) 11:27, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Badbeast19 ✅, . ST47 (talk) 18:37, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocked most recently used IP for 31 hours. The IPs seem very dynamic, so longer blocks are likely to be ineffective and not affect this user after a day or two unless a wide range block is used. I've protected the two pages for 2 weeks as a countermeasure, though unfortunately this does mean the reporting IP address will need to make edit requests if they wish to edit either of those two pages in the next 2 weeks. Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:29, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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Sockmaster (FDMD04) was particularly focused on Indian dance-related articles (including dance shows like Dance Deewane, Dance Plus, Dance Plus (season 5), etc), and especially on one particular dancer, Raghav Juyal, where they exhibited WP:OWN behavior (e.g., unsourced additions, edit warring, personal attacks). Lum!xx is also focused on Indian dance-related articles including Dance Deewane, Dance Plus, Dance Plus (season 5) and Raghav Juyal (among others). Lum!xx's only edit to Raghav Juyal is nearly identical to one of the edits that FDMD04 was edit-warring over. Lum!xx began editing after FDMD04 and BADBEAST19 were blocked for sockpuppetry. 108.56.139.120 (talk) 20:01, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * - TheresNoTime 😺 20:45, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to, - TheresNoTime 😺 20:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Close as it seems we are done here. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:42, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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Same as other socks -- DaxServer (talk) 09:33, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * Also found and ✅:
 * All accounts will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * All accounts will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * All accounts will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

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Note Mr.Pink.HillTop is allready CU confirmed and Trippie.Reddd is blocked but not checkusered, but I'm listing them here for completeness.

There is continuing disruption at the article Dance Plus (season 6). The master was blocked for personal attacks and threatening to hack another user following a content dispute at this article, following this they have created a number of obvious sock puppets to continue to edit war at the article.

Checkuser confirmed sock Mr.Pink.HillTop was editing the article to change the results table. Following this account's block Trippie.Reddd was created and showed up to continue editing the results table  and were promptly blocked as an obvious sock. After this the article was protected due to the sockpuppety. Brand new account SparksMania is now running around asking various users and help desks how they can unprotect the article because they need to edit the results chart.

Compare also these talk page messages left to the same user by different accounts,  same threatening tone, same unusual phrasing "you will be blocked forever in Wikipedia edits". 192.76.8.78 (talk) 12:25, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I've just realised that this is almost certainly a return of Sockpuppet investigations/FDMD04, look at the username of the first sock blocked under that master. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 17:15, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, while were here, a couple more obvious socks and a couple of IP's being used to harass editors this person has has a dispute with:


 * They're already blocked, I'm not sure whether its worth tagging these, just recording them for record keeping purposes. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 17:32, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * They're already blocked, I'm not sure whether its worth tagging these, just recording them for record keeping purposes. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 17:32, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * They're already blocked, I'm not sure whether its worth tagging these, just recording them for record keeping purposes. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 17:32, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * They're already blocked, I'm not sure whether its worth tagging these, just recording them for record keeping purposes. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 17:32, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * They're already blocked, I'm not sure whether its worth tagging these, just recording them for record keeping purposes. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 17:32, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Ducky enough for me. . GeneralNotability (talk) 16:39, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * - see the IP editor's comment above; for whether this is FDMD04 (and if it is, we'll need to merge the cases). Same topic area, but I haven't looked closer than that. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:22, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty confident that this is the same case as FDMD04. There's the username similarity with, the focus on Dance Plus, and the personal attacks against users who disagree with their edits: . Also, all of these accounts' edits are tagged as "mobile web edit", and the IPs listed above geolocate to Kerala, as do the IPs in the FDMD04 archive. I'll leave the clerk request open because this will need an admin clerk to do a histmerge. Spicy (talk) 17:43, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Merged as requested, back to for retagging and closure. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:47, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. (Re)tagged everyone, closing. Spicy (talk) 01:06, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

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User confessed on talk page and i have a reason to believe because the IP looks quite similar to the IPs in this case page archive. Kalu Dada from Thathri Kutty (talk) 13:35, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * Everyone is blocked, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:58, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

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One is still not blocked, and still posting inappropriate messages on the talk pages along with random disruptive editing. I want to request a range block. Kalu Dada from Thathri Kutty (talk) 11:37, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I want to further request the check for sleepers as user acknowledged the use of multiple accounts in talk page discussions. Kalu Dada from Thathri Kutty (talk) 12:17, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * We don't run sleeper checks on IP addresses - let us know if more suspicious accounts start registering. This latest address is blocked; if disruption continues let us know. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:50, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * 1) Harald.Sigurdsson's user page is very to similar to the previous sock' Harald.Hardradã.1015, not to mention the common first name.
 * 2) All edits are marked Mobile edit, Mobile web edit Sigurdsson vs Hardradã.1015
 * 3) Exclusively edits articles related to Indian Cinema
 * 4) "this is not a place for (fan) kids" Sigurdsson vs Hardradã.1015 -- Ab207 (talk) 13:00, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * - The behavioural evidence is convincing. Please indef the sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:55, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:03, 24 April 2022 (UTC)