Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jishnu 2023/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Concerted efforts to add copyright violating material to Fracture toughness and Fracture mechanics. (A review of the page histories of those pages will provide the required evidence.) WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:28, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Many of these accounts are also listed at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Sahilnagula0504, but Jishnu 203 appears to be the oldest account involved in the problem. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 17:21, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - This all started on April 13 at the article. It's not clear whether these are socks, meat puppets, students, who the hell knows in these things, but the disruption to the article from copyright violations alone is unacceptable. I'm requesting a CU to possibly sort this out. At the moment, the article is protected. Bbb23 (talk) 17:33, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll endorse the CU per request, acknowledging technical limitations if it's a school or similar; however unless something is up with the first few I don't think digging too deeply will be helpful as this is almost certainly some form of misguided school project / assignment. Regrettably not one of the accounts has found a talkpage so we can't ask and point their tutor in the direction of WikiEd. I think we're going to need to rely on page protection to stem the disruption (which appears to have paused (for now), and consider handing out blocks if they just move on to a different subject... Also note this user creation; are related. --Jack Frost (talk) 20:45, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * It is highly unlikely that this is a Wikipedia-sanctioned assignment. Also, WikiEd applies only to North American schools, and we have no way of knowing where the school, if there is indeed one, is located. Also, the main reason I asked for a check was to make sure we didn't miss any. These accounts are blockable on behavior alone.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:58, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Group 1 - All using same IP with similar devices and some later socks in this using different browsers:


 * - Group 2 using different IP, but also linked to Group 1 through and


 * - Group 3, using different IP again but linked to Group 1 through and


 * CheckUser evidence strongly suggests this is a school in a part of the world where IP assignments are limited. As such these accounts are likely different people. Some indication that a number of these accounts were created in a bunch on the same PC, which could indicate a school assignment. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 09:59, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * With the exception of and, who seem like someone sharing the same institutional network as opposed to members of this group per se, none of these accounts have edited since April 26th. I suspect that whatever misguided educational project was going on has now ended, and that we are unlikely to hear from these accounts again. I suggest closing the case without further action. However, I'll leave it open for now in case anyone disagrees. Spicy (talk) 22:40, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * With regard to I would point out the similarity of user name to Sockpuppet investigations/Drpremrajpushpakaran/Archive, a long-time sock puppet abuser.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:37, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Profpremrajpushpakaran1 and PamukPradhommé as socks of Drpremrajpushpakaran. As several days have passed since my last comment without objections from others or new activity from any of the accounts, I'm closing this case without further action. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:18, 20 May 2023 (UTC)