Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagjeet kaur sandhu/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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These users all vandalize either Category talk:All articles with too few wikilinks or Category:Articles with too few wikilinks by adding irrelevant links, mostly on the topic of Asian countries, sometimes also blank edit requests, or other nonsense. These users are mostly single-purpose vandalism accounts confined only to this relevant behavior. Several of the accounts were created within days or hours of each other. In lieu of providing diffs, I refer to the histories of the two affected pages, which are relatively short and should be sufficient to identify these edits. Bsherr (talk) 17:49, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * may be interested as he reverted or commented with regard to some of these edits. --Bsherr (talk) 17:53, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Indian names? Most of them have EPRs on same category. Endorsing.  QEDK ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 10:03, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I remember running a check on a couple of the accounts who were editing the category. The results were all over the place, so I gave up.  According to the CU log,  is one of the accounts I checked.  This time, there's an obvious connection between quite a few of them.  The following are ✅ to each other, but I don't know who the master is:
 * The following users are on the same IP address as the ones above, and they are confirmed to each other. However, they're slightly off from the others:
 * Chudiertyson is on a different IP range – a network where there'd be a lot of people using public computers. That could be the case for the others, too, but I can't tell.  I tried to make contact with a few of the editors who were showing up on these pages, but they've ignored me .  Notice that Jagjeet said ", which is the most I've ever gotten out of any of them.  I think someone may have told a group of people to go edit a category page on Wikipedia.  It's bizarre, and I don't understand why anyone would suggest that.  I guess I'm curious to hear what other people think about this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this is probably a case of meatpuppetry combined with sockpuppetry - on one hand, we have a group of confirmed editors and on the other hand, some lying around SPAs with no purpose. Given that there was no reason to have sleepers in the first place (not exactly malicious), it does seem like a different group. This almost seems like a kind of robotic exercise, sockpuppets have more of a Wikipedia-oriented malicious goal, this looks like some kind of a prerequisite test to me. I agree with your assessment. That is my take on the matter, the administration is up to you.  QEDK  ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 19:17, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm going to close this with no action – for now, at least. The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that these are poorly-trained but good-faith editors on public computers who have no idea what they're doing.  If it gets too disruptive, I may be able to do something about it, but I don't think this is malicious. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:27, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The following users are on the same IP address as the ones above, and they are confirmed to each other. However, they're slightly off from the others:
 * Chudiertyson is on a different IP range – a network where there'd be a lot of people using public computers. That could be the case for the others, too, but I can't tell.  I tried to make contact with a few of the editors who were showing up on these pages, but they've ignored me .  Notice that Jagjeet said ", which is the most I've ever gotten out of any of them.  I think someone may have told a group of people to go edit a category page on Wikipedia.  It's bizarre, and I don't understand why anyone would suggest that.  I guess I'm curious to hear what other people think about this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this is probably a case of meatpuppetry combined with sockpuppetry - on one hand, we have a group of confirmed editors and on the other hand, some lying around SPAs with no purpose. Given that there was no reason to have sleepers in the first place (not exactly malicious), it does seem like a different group. This almost seems like a kind of robotic exercise, sockpuppets have more of a Wikipedia-oriented malicious goal, this looks like some kind of a prerequisite test to me. I agree with your assessment. That is my take on the matter, the administration is up to you.  QEDK  ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 19:17, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm going to close this with no action – for now, at least. The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that these are poorly-trained but good-faith editors on public computers who have no idea what they're doing.  If it gets too disruptive, I may be able to do something about it, but I don't think this is malicious. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:27, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The following users are on the same IP address as the ones above, and they are confirmed to each other. However, they're slightly off from the others:
 * Chudiertyson is on a different IP range – a network where there'd be a lot of people using public computers. That could be the case for the others, too, but I can't tell.  I tried to make contact with a few of the editors who were showing up on these pages, but they've ignored me .  Notice that Jagjeet said ", which is the most I've ever gotten out of any of them.  I think someone may have told a group of people to go edit a category page on Wikipedia.  It's bizarre, and I don't understand why anyone would suggest that.  I guess I'm curious to hear what other people think about this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this is probably a case of meatpuppetry combined with sockpuppetry - on one hand, we have a group of confirmed editors and on the other hand, some lying around SPAs with no purpose. Given that there was no reason to have sleepers in the first place (not exactly malicious), it does seem like a different group. This almost seems like a kind of robotic exercise, sockpuppets have more of a Wikipedia-oriented malicious goal, this looks like some kind of a prerequisite test to me. I agree with your assessment. That is my take on the matter, the administration is up to you.  QEDK  ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 19:17, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm going to close this with no action – for now, at least. The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that these are poorly-trained but good-faith editors on public computers who have no idea what they're doing.  If it gets too disruptive, I may be able to do something about it, but I don't think this is malicious. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:27, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Chudiertyson is on a different IP range – a network where there'd be a lot of people using public computers. That could be the case for the others, too, but I can't tell.  I tried to make contact with a few of the editors who were showing up on these pages, but they've ignored me .  Notice that Jagjeet said ", which is the most I've ever gotten out of any of them.  I think someone may have told a group of people to go edit a category page on Wikipedia.  It's bizarre, and I don't understand why anyone would suggest that.  I guess I'm curious to hear what other people think about this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this is probably a case of meatpuppetry combined with sockpuppetry - on one hand, we have a group of confirmed editors and on the other hand, some lying around SPAs with no purpose. Given that there was no reason to have sleepers in the first place (not exactly malicious), it does seem like a different group. This almost seems like a kind of robotic exercise, sockpuppets have more of a Wikipedia-oriented malicious goal, this looks like some kind of a prerequisite test to me. I agree with your assessment. That is my take on the matter, the administration is up to you.  QEDK  ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 19:17, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm going to close this with no action – for now, at least. The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that these are poorly-trained but good-faith editors on public computers who have no idea what they're doing.  If it gets too disruptive, I may be able to do something about it, but I don't think this is malicious. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:27, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm going to close this with no action – for now, at least. The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that these are poorly-trained but good-faith editors on public computers who have no idea what they're doing.  If it gets too disruptive, I may be able to do something about it, but I don't think this is malicious. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:27, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Vandalism of Category talk:All articles with too few wikilinks with Asian geography nonsense, similar to edits of other sockpuppets. Bsherr (talk) 04:18, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * See above. I semi-protected the talk page, which should stop this for a while.  We don't usually do that, but this is an obscure administrative page.  If it discourages people from making test edits, maybe they'll eventually discover their sandbox. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:33, 23 March 2019 (UTC)