Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fahadnisarrana/Archive

15 March 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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The suspected sockmaster was involved in an edit war with another user, and now seems to be disguising his/her edits by not logging in. See diffs, and. The first two are virtually identical, the third one is of the same article, yet doesn't quite contain the same type of edit. Furthermore, to confirm the latter IP, it seems to have edited the sockmaster's user page, in a way that nobody except the user him/herself would:. — JmaJeremy TALK CONTRIBS   03:53, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

I've added a third suspected sockpuppet. As evidence, see the following diffs of the sockmaster's user page which again seem like edits that only the user him/herself would make: (1, 2). In the latter, the IP user even signs the post in the name of the sockmaster. — JmaJeremy TALK CONTRIBS   16:15, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm going to close this: I don't see that any intentional abuse of multiple accounts is going on here. As you mention yourself, two of the three IPs have made it quite explicit that they are related to . Sometimes users forget to log in, especially new users. This doesn't automatically mean it's deliberate or disruptive. Regarding the edit warring, this is all a bit too murky to act on it now. There certainly is a dispute there, some POV editing, and not enough discussion, but like I said above I don't think the user at hand logged out to disguise himself. A general comment: If you notice edit warring, it's not a good idea to revert yourself in an attempt to stop it. That's always going to be WP:The Wrong Version, and you're really only contributing to the edit war. Instead, try to educate the users, try to initiate a talk page discussion and invite the parties to the discussion, or request page protection or sanctions if it can't be helped. Amalthea  16:10, 26 March 2012 (UTC)