Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gaurav Prateek/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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The sockmaster creates a highly peacocky Draft article Gaurav Prateek on 31 October 2023 having name checked Prateek in a number of edits to Bollywood film articles. The Draft is accepted on 19 December following much downsizing by some experienced editors. There had been a discussion in September 2023 about citation overkill in promoting Gaurav Prateek in a film role here. By 15 January 2024 his talk page has accumulated a number of warnings about their editing behaviour and on 18 January 2024 the puppet appears here and then makes 3 edits including removing the COI template before the master returns. Both accounts show an almost undivided focus on the one actor and both use identical edit summaries such as "Add supporting links" here for the master and 5 days later here for the puppet. On 15 February both the master and the puppet both make edits with identical edit summaries, here for the puppet and here for the master. This appears to be a clear case of one editor editing under two names, perhaps as paid editing or part of a sock farm. To give yourself the name of the person you are writing about seems either intensely naive or perhaps a paid editor keeping track of which persona they are editing from. The history also includes an IP edit which maybe the same individual editing while logged out  Velella  Velella Talk 10:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * - Blocked and tagged with Gaurav as the master. Please move and close. Bbb23 (talk) 14:48, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Moved to sockmaster, closing :) 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 10:29, 17 February 2024 (UTC)