Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kirtap92/Archive

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and, both edit in tandem on Lady Gaga and music related articles. Wherever Sricsi has disagreement with any user, Kirtap comes and reverts and vice-versa. Lets see the below examples: There is definitely something fishy going here be it sockpuppets or meat-ones but a check-user is needed. Editing with good interest? May be. But tag-teaming is more likely. — I B  [ Poke  ] 07:40, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Kirtap removed an image from Lady Gaga citing a fan website. Once reverted by me, Sricsi comes and reverts the same image citing same summary.
 * Joanne world tour by Sricsi, and once reverted, again re-reverted by Kirtap with the same summary.
 * ArtRave article, Sricsi added, reverted, re-reverted by Kirtap.
 * Tag-teaming on ‘’Born This Way’’, copyvio by Sricsi, reverted by me, rereverted by Kirtap.

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Since we know each other and both of us edit Gaga’s articles sometimes, obviously we help out each other when somebody tries to disrupt the articles with picture choices that are more than questionable. (e.g. the most recent picture dispute on the Lady Gaga article where Indianbio changed the picture with a year-old one, with his only reason being “hey guys I found a closeup of her nice face”) Actually I mostly edit the Hungarian Wikipedia and I don't have major edits in the English one, just helping out. Kirtap92 (talk) 12:12, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * All will be clarified through Checkuser. "obviously we help out each other" is not a valid reason for trying to edit war and read WP:TAGTEAM. — I B  [ Poke  ] 12:22, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - This is a tough one but the tag-teaming allegations are certainly true (also confirmed as they said "helping each other out"). Even though they might not be sockpuppets, I believe administrative sanctions are in order to prevent situations like these. Requesting CU due to the overwhelming overlap with everything, including cross-wiki activity.  QEDK ( 愛  ☃️  海 ) 09:30, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * They sometimes have similar geolocation, but they're to be the exact same person.  Maybe I'm being too soft, but I'd consider letting it go with a warning.  I'm open to other ideas, though. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:05, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Both editors warned. Closing.  QEDK ( 愛  ☃️  海 ) 07:29, 24 November 2017 (UTC)