Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KondottySultan/Archive

29 June 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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The Nair article concerns a caste originating in India. Like many caste articles, it is subject to significant amounts of content dispute which often fails to follow the basics of WP:V, WP:RS etc and discussion on the talk page spirals into insults.

There have been numerous blocks issued, the article is currently (not for the first time) semi-protected, and it has also been necessary to semi-protect the talk page.

There have also been numerous instances of SPAs operating, both as IPs and registered users. Several editors have expressed concerns about possible socking, most recently at User_talk:SpacemanSpiff. Without wanting to go on a fishing expedition, much of the irascibility stems from the repeated raising of dubious speculation on sensitive matters, most recently in this contribution (which I removed, not because of censorship but because it follows a long pattern of dubious, niggling comments with an admitted lack of sources).

I would appreciate a check on the above accounts, none of whom have responded when I have mentioned to them that they might be socking. Both of these accounts showed a remarkable familiarity with WP markup etc more or less from their first edit. There may also be sleeper accounts. Note that "The Tiger's Tail Caught By The Dog" is probably a somewhat snide reference to a long-standing (forgive the pun) bone of contention regarding the etymology of the name Nair, which issue has been raised at ANI in the recent past.

I shall be compiling a similar SPI request for the "other side" of this discussion, as per the comment at which I have linked to above. Sitush (talk) 13:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - User:KondottySultan and User:Chekon are ✅ as the same user. User:The Tiger's Tail Caught By The Dog is possible...cannot be ruled out...but by no means definite. No link found between any account on this page and those on Sockpuppet investigations/Chothy poorimol. Frank  &#124;  talk  05:52, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Checkon indefinitely as a sock account and KondottySultan temporarily. Currently leaving the other account open, but if there are any more duck edits, I'll block that. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  07:25, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

25 July 2011

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Appears to be pushing pro-Chekavar agenda at Ezhava by edit-warring - see this dif and summary "Chekavars are ezhavars, the same cast and the truth has to be revealed". Sounds remarkably similar to this old version of User:Chekon's original user page, and the general style seems similar. And Chekon turned out to be a sock of User:KondottySultan. There could be sleepers too - this whole Indian caste thing has more socks than Marks & Spencer and more sleepers than British Rail. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:48, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking, folks - clearly just a coincidence of styles -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:30, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

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 * - Hmm... it's possible. It could also be so let's find out. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:12, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * It's the two are the same. I don't see any connections to other accounts either.  TN X Man  13:18, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Given the unlikelihood of the accounts based on technical information, I'll mark this case as closed. That doesn't at all excuse any edit-warring or POV-pushing, so further disruption could of course result in blocks based on that behavior alone. --  At am a  頭 00:38, 27 July 2011 (UTC)