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Appear to be a case of vote-fraud. The suspected sock was registered the same day as and  at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruby Jagrut (2nd nomination). GSS (talk |c|em ) 05:34, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:05, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

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the honeypot worked Praxidicae (talk) 16:54, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * Sock has been globally locked. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 19:59, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

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Possible return of the global-locked User:AuthorWiki99 sockfarm. The possible sock (User:Jennyissac) joined the project recently, making a series of ~ 20 edits (enough to reach autoconfirmed status), and originally falsely describing themselves as a Pending Changes Reviewer on their userpage. They then went inactive for a month before creating Geoff Lewis (venture capitalist) in the mainspace. This raises a red flag, as a previously banned sock User:NavyaDesai98 was the editor who the image Jennyissac used on their article, and both editors have also made edits to the same WikiData page; this is all very advanced, unusual behavior for a new editor. In addition, both Jennyissac and NavyaDesai98 use similar language while editing (compare NavyaDesai90's responses here to Jenny's responses here—both use the same cadence and "Kindly advise" with some regularity), and both editors claimed to be student editors when asked about potential conflicts of interest. Checkuser requested. SamHolt6 (talk) 04:44, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Jennyisaac is ✅ to glocked socks and . We also have on the same range:
 * and a handful of zero-edit accounts. . ST47 (talk) 21:20, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * and a handful of zero-edit accounts. . ST47 (talk) 21:20, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * and a handful of zero-edit accounts. . ST47 (talk) 21:20, 27 November 2019 (UTC)


 * On a recheck, I'm going to call JasonB27 ✅,, closing. ST47 (talk) 03:27, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Locks requested on the not-yet-locked accounts. Cabayi (talk) 14:22, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

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SPA that came out of the woodwork after 2 years of no edits to recreate the ultra spammy Hacker Noon Praxidicae (talk) 13:44, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:03, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Lock request filed on meta. Archiving. The SandDoctor  Talk 05:44, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

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Suddenly a new ID has been created to significantly edit Dasman Diabetes Institute. The edits are of similar type of that major contributor who has been banned in the recent past because of "Sockpuppetry". For the evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dasman_Diabetes_Institute&action=history Hatchens (talk) 04:29, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * - This case is . Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:15, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * - while I see that this account has edited the same page as blocked sock, we could use more detail. Can you please provide paired diffs to edits made by both this account and a blocked account in order to show the overlap? creffett (talk) 14:57, 1 June 2020 (UTC) creffett (talk) 14:57, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Dear creffett, Here are my findings. I may be correct or may be wrong. There is a pattern in the edits made by and . In this case, I focused on one keyword that's "PALI".


 * The first edit was made in the draft mode by and PALI was added. Here is the diff - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dasman_Diabetes_Institute&diff=933156738&oldid=931550564


 * The second edit was something like restructuring the whole article by and PALI was again the primary focus in the edit. Here is the diff - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dasman_Diabetes_Institute&diff=956838315&oldid=954288802. This particular research mention was degraded by the new user.


 * Then I reverted the above edits made by . Here is the diff - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dasman_Diabetes_Institute&diff=958237067&oldid=957711113


 * Soon, whatever edits I made - it got reverted by . Here is the diff - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dasman_Diabetes_Institute&diff=959194171&oldid=958237067


 * Such article restructuring at this wiki page had been seen only 6 months ago and at that time was not blocked. My assumption is, if you are not thorough enough with your own work, then you can't perform such edits.


 * Thanks for the information. I see the cause of your concern, but I don't think the behavioral evidence is convincing enough to call this sockpuppetry. creffett (talk) 20:53, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * That I too realized. I apologize for the inconvenience. - Hatchens (talk) 03:45, 3 June 2020 (UTC)