Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Koushik Avula/Archive

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Both accounts vandalize nearly the same articles. The first account was created on 21 August, while the second one was created recently. Both accounts have contributed (and added nonsense) to Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016), Samsung Galaxy C9 and Moto G5 (Editor interaction utility). Please check both their contributions lists. And they both upload tons of copyrighted images to Commons, refer to that as well, as I have tagged 10 copyrighted images for CSD today. Another important point is that Vasu smilee's user page was created by Koushik Avula, and their pic was also uploaded by Koushik. This is clearly a case of sockpuppetry. Darius robin (talk) 04:17, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

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I happened to see this case get reported at WP:AIV. User:Koushik Avula and User:Vasu smilee might not be the same person. Note the photos on their respective user pages. They must know each other. There is a big amount of copyright violation at Commons by Koushik, which began in September, and I don't see Koushik Avula as taking any steps to fix the behavior. So a block of some kind is justified. An unblock appeal should be considered if the user or users will address the problem, and agree to fix it. EdJohnston (talk) 05:24, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I did see the different images as well Ed,however what I also saw was that the two pages were created by the one account which is why I suspect it may be one person. Behaviour wise they are also the same. 5 albert square (talk) 05:51, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * As I know a bit about these articles, I'm checking this 5 albert square (talk) 05:06, 25 November 2017 (UTC)


 * blocked, will tag shortly once I've cleared up all the mess 5 albert square (talk) 05:18, 25 November 2017 (UTC)