Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Iptesh Kumar Meher/Archive

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Restoring earlier accounts' edits to the Gandabahali article, such as showing where the town is on a map of the entire planet Earth:. Belbury (talk) 10:56, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * The latest sock is now CU-blocked and tagged. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:11, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar username as past socks (User:Iptesh Kumar Meher + User:Meherpila), editing the same few articles as past socks, sharing the unlikely view that an Indian village needs to be displayed on a map of both #Asia and #Earth in the infobox (/). Belbury (talk) 09:44, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Yep, that's them. Blocked, tagged, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:07, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
See filter log: attempted to edit user pages of other blocked socks. Also similarity in editing interests including Sinapali. Uhai (talk) 06:03, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:36, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
A new user restoring deleted content to the Sinapali article, an article heavily edited by past sock accounts of this user. Belbury (talk) 14:42, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Seems likely based on the page history and username similarity to the master & . - please indef Meherrr as a suspected sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:08, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Connection seems obvious. Bit of a CIR issue here; I feel like if they'd been able to understand our guidance early on, we wouldn't be four reports deep at SPI. Vanamonde (Talk) 15:24, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 15:25, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Directly restoring an earlier sockpuppet's content about nearest airports and a local picnic spot to the Gandabahali article. Belbury (talk) 07:58, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * Now blocked. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 21:00, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Tried and failed to edit the User:Iptesh Kumar Meher and User:Ixtksmh pages, reported this as a false positive and then restored some Ixtksmh content to Nuapada district. Belbury (talk) 17:36, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅, (as is Ixtksmh from the previous filing, for the record), . --Blablubbs (talk) 15:25, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Restoring old sock content to another article, recreating Draft:Ramgarh Hill. Belbury (talk) 15:14, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

User:223.187.94.53 is also directly restoring old sock edits. --Belbury (talk) 18:41, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * DatGuyTalkContribs 20:58, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Reposting the deleted draft Draft:Ramgarh Hill as was written by sock User:His2ry last month. Belbury (talk) 16:58, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

User:106.216.78.58 is also working on the same articles, minutes before and after. --Belbury (talk) 17:26, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * Account blocked indef. IP three months. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  22:36, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Reposting the old rejected Meher drafts Draft:Ramgarh Hill and Draft:Shiv Temple, Gandabahali. Belbury (talk) 16:40, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked one week, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 17:16, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Restoring old sock edits to the article about the village of Gandabahali, such as listing nearest airports and including a full map of Earth in the infobox. Belbury (talk) 15:16, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Courcelles (talk) 15:29, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Going to ECP Gandabahali and log as ARBIPA. I've blocked and tagged this sock.  Case closed. Courcelles (talk) 15:32, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
A new user directly restoring previous socks' edits to articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sinapali&diff=prev&oldid=1172292842, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_Odisha&diff=prev&oldid=1172290142 Belbury (talk) 06:34, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * CU doesn't give me anything I could hang my hat on, but for a new account to find their way to so many articles previously edited by a particular sock is too much to be coincidence - it's either the same person, or MEAT. Blocked, tagged as suspected.  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Kumarmajhi is restoring the same tourism info to Nuapada district (/), unblanking the sockpuppeteer's old draft article at Draft:Ramgarh Hills to continue familiar-looking work on it.

223.176.65.224, active yesterday and only yesterday, has been doing the same on Khariar (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khariar&diff=prev&oldid=1180875886]) and editing other Iptesh articles. Belbury (talk) 08:36, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * I can't say confirmed, but there's some stuff in there that makes me confident that this account is connected to the master. Blocking and tagging. They haven't edited from that IP, and it's only been active for a brief period - revert its edits if they're disruptive, I don't think it's worth blocking yet.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:52, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Restoring an earlier sockpuppet's tourism additions to the Sinapali article (/), also submitting Draft:Ramgarh Hills after Draft:Ramgarh Hill was salted. Belbury (talk) 12:38, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * Indef blocked via WP:DUCK. Dennis Brown 2&cent; 10:08, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:17, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Restoring an edit of the previous sock account (/), an infobox in the wrong place with a map of #Earth for a village. Belbury (talk) 08:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Bahali has since moved several declined sock-written drafts to mainspace, in the same manner as previous sock User:Mahhh10. Belbury (talk) 16:53, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * I added a CU request to this. SilverLocust 💬 17:50, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * Directly ✅ to the master. . Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)