Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kerev HaEmet/Archive

16 March 2012

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A series of SPA accounts who have all only edited in support of deletion at Articles for deletion/Samanta Institute of Science and Technology. The similarity of their deletion arguments ("non-notable topic" and "slanderous") and the faintly polemical usernames suggest to me that these are all the same user trying to slant the !vote. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 08:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Or they could be a few people who may happen to think the same way and were recently notified that an organization they were affiliated with was being slandered on Wikipedia. It doesn't look like anybody's notified the kids in the school yet, nor the Indian parliament officials from Orissa, though. Maybe someone should do that. Dejavue2008? Kerev HaEmet (talk) 20:41, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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I've been keeping an eye on this situation for a bit, and—while I know CU is not for fishing—I think these should also be checked out:



The 1st, 3rd, and 4th are already blocked for vandalism/socking. and I strongly suspect they overlap with User:Hidden World News. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 02:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I did my own little investigation into this as this is a significant attempt to slant consensus and given the behaviour so far, sockpuppetry appeared to be a more likely explanation than meatpuppetry. The following are ✅ socks of, which appears to be the master:

The following are ✅ as each other and to be related to the above 5:

The following are ✅ as each other and it is vaguely that they could be related to the above accounts: Block the lot, I say. WilliamH (talk) 00:44, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. T. Canens (talk) 03:11, 18 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The second batch look like pure ducks to me. They're all ✅ matches to the master. Proxying going on too. Found as a sleeper. Whack the lot. :) WilliamH (talk) 21:41, 18 March 2012 (UTC)


 * not sure which group WilliamH is pointing to, but i'm requesting the link between the comments by DoriSmith and these. Mass deletions to insert other things on the same page sounds good enough reason to check. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  22:46, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I was responding to the 4 Dori put forward. :) WilliamH (talk) 23:09, 18 March 2012 (UTC)


 * 10-4, thanks. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)