Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gaura79/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Gaura79 is blocked by for edit warring against me, and Psychologist Guy.

Now this new account Nihalojha comes and calls me and Psychologist Guy "fake editors" on talk page.

Liked Guara79, he is also working to remove entire "Views" section. Editorkamran (talk) 20:39, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked and tagged, leaving the CU request. Bbb23 (talk) 21:14, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Users are blocked and no reason given for CU request, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:35, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Gaura79 is a Hare Krishna and paid ISKCON employee. Gaura79 is open about his identity and has used his real name on his other blocked Wikipedia account  (the account is active on the Russian Wikipedia). The Ilya Mauter account is already blocked on the English Wikipedia so I am not requesting CU. I was more concerned about the IP addresses he is now using which is obvious block evasion.

Gaura79 makes videos for a Hare Krishna website under the same username "Gaura79" (I will not link to any external links but they can easily be found and they have been put onto YouTube). The IPS trace to Croatia where this user makes his videos about Hare Krishna activity in Croatia and Yugoslavia. There is no doubt for me that these IP/s are him because he uses exactly the same terminology and writing style and simply continued discussion from his blocked account on the talk-page, for example, on his account Gaura79 he was repeatedly dismissing a source on the A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada talk-page as just a non-scholarly journalist opinion and has claimed many times he was not white-washing. The IP says exactly the same thing "Firstly, that article is declaredly just a journalist's opinion. Secondly, no it's not whitewashing". . Psychologist Guy (talk) 12:16, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Each of the IPs has made only one edit to the article Talk page, one a few days ago, and the other today. The two IPs are obviously the same person, and although the main evidence to support that they are the named user is not disclosed, it wouldn't surprise me if they are indeed block evasion. However, at this point I see nothing gained by blocks. Closing without prejudice to being reopened if these IPs or others become more active. Bbb23 (talk) 13:16, 1 May 2023 (UTC)