Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/K.Kapil77/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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K.Kapil77 applied for approval to run a bot mainly focused on fixing spelling errors a couple of months ago, which was declined because the bot was making a large number of poor quality incorrect and cosmetic edits, the bot approval request is here. The bot account was blocked on the 11th of June because it it was being used to make non-bot edits.

It appears that K.Kapil77 made a sockuppet account in early June and was using it on the 20th-21st June to run their unapproved bot. The master and sock have identical user pages, and K.Kapil77 edited the sock's userpage to update the edit count.

BestEditorIsBack has been making many of the same style of edits as K.Kapil77's unapproved bot, mainly poorly fixing piped links. The first edit summary for this account was "Pywikibot 6.2.0.dev0" confirming it is an unapproved bot. The first edits coming out of BestEditorIsBack have the same edit summaries as K.Kapil77's bot, those being "minor correction" and the much more unusual "minor name correction" (note that the first batch of trial edits for their bot were run under their named account) ,

Requesting checkuser to see if this bot's been run on any other accounts without approval, I imagine you should be able to spot them fairly easily from the user agent. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 03:58, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Hello, This account User:K.Kapil77 belongs to me. No edits are being made by automated bots. Even our 'BOT Request For Approval' clearly mentioned that 'ALL edits will only be made after being manually verified'. To which an admin suggested using OAuth Tool. Check edits being made from this account are actually constructive : [] and [] and [] and [] and []. I have even received 'Thanks' for my edits multiple times. I am open to more discussion to making it more effective. Also I belong to a research group in IIT Guwahati where some other users are using the same resources and datasets and machines for similar works. I believe someone from the same research group might be affiliated with the other account being talked about. I request you to please provide me some time to look into it too.K.Kapil77 (talk) 16:45, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

@BlablubbsAs I mentioned, I am a research student and most of the time reading and and writing research papers. Hence the language ‘We’ and ‘Our’ reflected in writing. Also I had no account previous to User:K.Kapil77. Also no edit was made from this account for a long time after it was created. I was exploring and collecting data. There might be just one account after that which I lost access to. Please let this account exist as is. I reassure you no Unsupervised or Automated edits will be made. K.Kapil77 (talk) 17:44, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Further I would like to add that my account User:K.Kapil77 Bot doesn’t come under ‘sockpuppets’ since it was created for Bot Request For Approval and is general part of process. It wasn’t used for unauthorised edits since it was approved for trial run when edits were made. Also it was blocked not because of any spurious updates or vandalism. It also follows the straight naming convention ‘K.Kapil77 Bot’ for user ‘K.Kapil77’ which again suggests it shouldn’t fall under ‘sockpuppets’ So request you to remove this particular account from investigation too! K.Kapil77 (talk) 03:00, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - 192.76.8.91's reasoning is compelling, especially considering that BestEditorIsBack was created before K.Kapil77 Bot was blocked, and there are indications that K.Kapil77 wasn't the first account in play either. Please look for others. Blablubbs (talk) 07:49, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * @K.Kapil77, what do you mean by "our"? Blablubbs (talk) 17:06, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * - TheresNoTime 😺 17:55, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to (as is the bot account, but that's to be expected). Also found the following as ✅ to :


 * All . Noting that there's a lot of (unapproved?)  usage on all accounts listed. - TheresNoTime 😺 18:09, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 17:03, 6 August 2021 (UTC)