Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Indianath/Archive

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I initially posted my concern regarding the unfair voting practice by the two accounts involved at WP:AN - link - so most of the evidence was presented there. For documentation purpose, the evidence is as follows: The account was created at 06:16 and its second edit at 06:29 was a vote to the AfD: Articles for deletion/Arpan Srivastava. The other account, was created at 06:31 and its first edit at 06:38 was a vote to the same AfD. There is a noticeable similarity in the pattern of voting, primarily the emboldened part (ie, "" and "" followed closely by text without leaving a space). Jiten talkcontribs 11:37, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' WP:DUCK; this is hardly the sneaky kind of sockpuppetry that causes problems. But I'd say that we should leave this open and run a CU to see who the master is (it may not be Indianath) and to catch any sleepers. Nyttend (talk) 13:05, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * Indianath and Gurubram are ✅. Dhinchchuza is . The account is editing from the same geographical area but using a mobile device, whereas the other two accounts are using a PC. Blocked and tagged the first two accounts. When the technical evidence is coupled with behavior, I recommend a block of Dhinchchuza as well with a suspected tag, but I'll leave it to others to decide. No other accounts seen.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:53, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * as some kind of meatpuppet. Closing. GABgab 01:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)