Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kashish Mittal/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Following the deletion of the sockmaster's (autobiographical) draft, the sockmaster stopped editing and the sock popped up and posted a similar draft, presumably to evade the autobiography accusations. creffett (talk) 12:46, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to one another:
 * . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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First action upon account creation was to head for Draft:Kashish Mittal and cite a couple of things, and then a week later they moved the article out of draftspace. My best guess here is meatpuppetry rather than sockpuppetry - the account's behavior is somewhat different (all of the others were SPAs), and as far as I can tell CU will come back negative for this (I think the account existed when the previous CU check was run for Kashish Mittal sockpuppets), but the fact that this user "just happened" to work on a draft plagued by sockpuppets as their first action and then move it into mainspace (with a surprising knowledge of policy) makes me extremely suspicious that this account is in some way connected to the sockmaster. creffett (talk) 12:29, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

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Here is my reply to this accusation from Crefett from a discussion on another page:
 * Full Disclosure - I recently resumed wiki editing but am not totally new to the scene (had another account a few years ago that I lost access to). I am a fan of the article's subject's work, but am not affiliated with him in any way in creation of this article. Was just excited to contribute to this article because i have researched extensively about him in the past! You can also check my location via IP and it will show you that i'm in Vancouver, Canada (i'm sure unlike the subject and potential sockpuppet). That being said please let me know if the article is not passable to wiki standards as I really thought it satisfies the requirements from an article enlisted in the guidelines (as far as I researched, just because there was sock puppetry on an article doesn't mean it is disqualified from being on the mainspace, not that I support sockpuppetry though). Meanwhile I will continue contributing to other pages! Regards Vancouverwiki001 —Preceding undated comment added 08:28, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Could a CU please take a look at this. I'm not convinced by Vancouverwiki001's explanation above and it brings up another question anyway. But also a request for a sleeper check given the additional accounts found last time. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The user is not lying about their technical data not matching the previous socks. Other sleepers blocked tho. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 11:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Vancouverwiki001 as a meatpuppet, their explanation above does not convince me that there isn't something like meatpuppetry occurring here. There is just too much coincidence to ignore. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:20, 13 April 2020 (UTC)