Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jaideep thakur/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Six brand new editors (Master created 30 March 2022, sock 1 2 April 2022, sock 2 1 April 2022, sock 3 31 March 2022, sock 4 1 April 2022) whose main interests are both the biography of Md Desi Rockstar (speedy deleted, tagged, draftified as Draft:Md Desi Rockstar and other titles, ...), Ahirwal, Rao (title), Rao and Indian Rebellion of 1857, which isn't a natural, logical combination of interests. When Ankit creates Md Desi Rockstar, he is not allowed to remove the speedy tag from it: but other editor Jaideep can do so. Other disruptive editing can be seen e.g. here, with the edits of the different socks getting reverted all the time. Fram (talk) 12:30, 7 April 2022 (UTC)


 * If a bit more evidence is needed for actual socking, File:Ahir_with_Ahirani_in_kathiyawad,_Gujarat.jpg was uploaded (as copyvio, speedy tagged already) by, and added by . Might be worth looking for sleepers? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:22, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Checkuser requested for sleepers, not too interested in seeing this mess reappear, as it has been rather tiresome to deal with. It might also help to clear up the connection between these accounts as well (it seems like Ankit solanki982 didn't hit autoblock when Jaideep thakur was first blocked) and identifying this as either being SOCK or MEAT. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 12:34, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

New likely sock accounts: User:Priyapraakash and User:AvinashSharma02. Checkuser may be useful here. Fram (talk) 13:06, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked indef everyone (ANI permalink, AEL diff). El_C 12:11, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - there's at least one more, give me a minute...  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:19, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, is ✅ to, , , and also to:
 * All the other accounts listed are very to the above group, and given the nature of the editing I'm comfortable tagging them all as confirmed. I didn't see any other sleepers, but the ranges they're on are very busy. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:31, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Noting for the record that I have blocked the newly created account as a sock of  per WP:DUCK, and semi-protected the affected pages. Abecedare (talk) 06:07, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Noting for the record that I have blocked the newly created account as a sock of  per WP:DUCK, and semi-protected the affected pages. Abecedare (talk) 06:07, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Recently, just 3 days back I was wrongly reported to admin by a newly active editor (who was later banned for socking ), but before that the supposed sock master Baidy540 posted something odd on my talk page, he was taking name of one experienced editor Slatersteven here, which was very odd to me. One reason being some days before this incident a banned editor here- had started edit warring on an article named Indian rebellion of 1857, I was also active on the same page and his queries were responded by Slatersteven here    continuously for some hrs. ], I suspect the two accounts of Baidy540 and banned jaideep thakur to be same. Day before yesterday, another newly created account Kaminthdas reported me with same arguments and was declared as sock. Now another newly created account Thakurgul jumped to a different article's talk page and wrote similar words there as well, just see, my best guess says this account is same to Baidy540 and Kaminthdas who in turn are same to Jaideep thakur. This new Thakurgul account has tried to move away from old articles to new ones to dodge successful socking investigation but he gave the hint of him being same to the others. The rest two accounts were all active on Yadav, Ahir, Ahir clans, Yaduvanshi dynasty and many such ahir/yadav related articles. There are some more sleeper accounts like this newly created account Kevenly here-[] and Baidy540 jumped for canvassing. This CountVlars is another newly created account active on similar pages -diff here []  his contribution- []. The main pattern is account creation and then ditching it after 15-20 days to create a new account. Please do look into it because the socks are engaged into targeted harassment for last 3-4 days. RS6784 (talk) 22:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It is surprising that one account from the above set commented within 20 minutes after this SPI case was properly fixed. RS6784 (talk) 23:44, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

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RS6784 please be respectfull and I am not a sockpuppet, CountVlars (talk) 23:03, 30 April 2022 (UTC)CountVlars

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Baidy540 is ✅ to Jaideep thakur. I'm going to merge this into that case. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:29, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 01:50, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Kevenly is ✅ to Jaideep thakur -- RoySmith (talk) 01:59, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * CountVlars and Thakurgul appear to be ❌. Closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Pro-forma: confirmed by at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Hatharchoudhary. Spicy (talk) 15:16, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * - please indef Ravibhooria per the CU results. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:17, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Bagged, tagged, closed! :) firefly  ( t · c ) 15:28, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same style of editing at Talk:Ahirwal, same focus on Rao. Had a large number of socks before, so a check for sleepers may be helpful. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:07, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * - They had half-a-dozen accounts when first spotted, so a brief sleeper check seems reasonable. --Jack Frost (talk) 22:48, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:02, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Confirmed to the following:
 * That's all I see at the moment; as previously, they're jumping around some wide ranges, so I could have missed some. In terms of a link to the master, while I'm not getting a smoking gun match, they're ✅ from Jaideep thakur - I will tag as proven. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:09, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I see at the moment; as previously, they're jumping around some wide ranges, so I could have missed some. In terms of a link to the master, while I'm not getting a smoking gun match, they're ✅ from Jaideep thakur - I will tag as proven. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:09, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I see at the moment; as previously, they're jumping around some wide ranges, so I could have missed some. In terms of a link to the master, while I'm not getting a smoking gun match, they're ✅ from Jaideep thakur - I will tag as proven. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:09, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I see at the moment; as previously, they're jumping around some wide ranges, so I could have missed some. In terms of a link to the master, while I'm not getting a smoking gun match, they're ✅ from Jaideep thakur - I will tag as proven. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:09, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's all I see at the moment; as previously, they're jumping around some wide ranges, so I could have missed some. In terms of a link to the master, while I'm not getting a smoking gun match, they're ✅ from Jaideep thakur - I will tag as proven. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:09, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The last sock of Ahir/Yadav sock master was blocked on 30 May – see here. Both Tainy7865 & Harman_Paul (HP) registered right after those accounts become stale, i.e. on 30 August and 31 August. Note that Harman_Paul is not only familiar with policies but also knows about the experienced editors of Caste-related articles from day one, e.g. they made this edit when their account was less than two days old.

Tainy7865 blanked the source as well as details in Jat ruler Suraj Mal's article – the blanked region is a part of Ahirwal. Now HP is doing the same thing in that article – the details removed by them are also of a region of Ahirwal.

One of the confirmed socks of Jaideep_thakur was requesting to remove a particular POV from Ahir article. And now HP has added the same POV to the Jat Regiment and Rajput Regiment (see the latter half of the added content).

Both suspects are adding (or requesting to add) poorly sourced puffery about Ahir/Yadav rulers, just like the previous socks: compare the edits of them (e.g., , , , , etc.) with those of the previous socks (e.g. , , , , etc.).

PS: While crosschecking Harman_Paul's draft (Draft:Rao Bal Kishan), I noticed that its first version is word-for-word copy-pasted from the Simple WP's article, which was created by User:RS7864. Note that multiple previous socks had disputes with a similar-named en-WP user RS6784, e.g. see here and here. So it seems that Simple WP's account was created by the sock master by imitating that editor's user name. NitinMlk (talk) 17:50, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * Comment had emailed me about  and from what I have seen, the suspicion is merited. HP is almost certainly not a new account and a quick check shows clear POV and stylistic overlaps between them and  (not spelling them out per WP:BEANS). Jaideep thakur is the likely sockmaster given both the area/POV of interest and editing practices. For example, compare this edit-request by the known JT sock  and the very first edit by HP. I haven't yet evaluated the evidence in enough detail to know if behavioral evidence alone is sufficient to block these accounts, but believe that a CU would be helpful in either case since the master has a proclivity to run multiple socks simultaneously. Pinging  who have previously CUed Jaideep thakur to see if they can take another look. Abecedare (talk) 18:23, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:40, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Both of these accounts are technically very to Jaideep thakur and to other blocked socks. Given the behavioural overlaps, I'm blocking as proven. I don't see any other accounts jumping out at me, but these are busy ranges - come back if you see any others. Closing.   Girth Summit  (blether)  17:50, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks . Abecedare (talk) 18:29, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Both and  registered today at a gap of 5 minutes, i.e. at 8:15 and 8:20 respectively. And both are doing what the latest blocked socks were doing.

With this edit, the latest sock added some random POVs about Martial race in the Rajput Regiment article. Those edits were reverted, as they aren't directly relevant to that article. And AkshayTomarjaat's very first edit on this project was to restore those POVs.

Similarly, the same sock (Harman Paul) had also posted an edit request at Talk:Jats for adding 'non-elite peasants' POV. And the very second edit of AkshayTomarjaat was to repeat those claims on that talk page. AjitKurmi followed 3 minutes later and added an edit request for the same POV:. In their second edit as well, AjitKurmi repeated the same POV:.

So they are WP:DUCK, as these two suspects have made a total of 4 edits and all of them are just a repeat of what the latest sock (Harman Paul) was doing. But a CU is required to check for sleeper accounts. NitinMlk (talk) 20:10, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * Both of these are . I'll tag them as proven.   -- RoySmith (talk) 00:24, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Edits consist solely of reverting 's reverts of sock. See below some diffs and edit summaries.
 * Azerbaijani cuisine – (first edit) The rv made unsoourced and disruptive content available again content
 * Baklava – Although It was made by a sockpuppet, a administrator edited this version, so your rv is disruptive
 * Mirza Shafi Vazeh – Although he was a sockpuppet he just linked things, so reverting this makes no sense  Wracking  talk! 18:26, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * IP range already blocked. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:40, 25 January 2024 (UTC)