Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Merin kurien/Archive

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Duck like behaviour. The IP and the master's recent edits have been disruptive edits per WP:INDICSCRIPT. 45.249.126.92 was blocked yesterday, and seconds later Merin kurien continues the same behaviour (by IP - after the block Merin continued with this and a similar edit on another page). I warned her of her duck like behaviour and she stopped then. She continues with similar edits every few hours using a new IP.  Jupitus Smart  19:21, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * I definitely agree that there are connections here. The 45.249.126.92 IP makes three edits to Marthandam (1, 2, 3) which were all reverted, then the accused account makes this edit to the article not but three minutes later and with the same text. Then, the 61.3.172.116 IP and the 45.249.126.92 IP both add the same text back to Nagercoil only a day apart (1, 2, 3, 4). The same goes for edits made to Kanyakumari district, which all three IPs added the same text to the same part of the article over the span of one day (1, 2, 3), as well as similar edits here and here. I think this is solid enough evidence to assert a direct link between the account and all three IP addresses listed here.


 * However... these connections all occurred on June 11 and June 12, which isn't recent enough for me to block unless more disruption has occurred, and done so recently.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   13:24, 18 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Well she finally got her way in subsequent IP edits, which has not been reverted yet. Kanyakumari district was changed to her liking with this. Marthandam was also changed, with though that was reverted. That IP was on a mass regional pride spree doing multiple edits like this, this which made the Malayalicised the region's name among many more such edits (She did similar edits on other places in Tamil Nadu as can be seen from the contributions of the IP which Malayalicised each region's name by removing the 'i' at the end of the places, to make it appear similar to how a Malayali would call the place. POV.).  Jupitus Smart  17:02, 18 June 2017 (UTC)


 * this appears to have stopped; closing the case. I don't read the language and don't know if these edits should be reverted, please do as you see fit.  if I had come across this earlier I would have suggested trying semiprotection, I don't think there's much else we could have done. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:06, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * - This was the problematic part, which I have reverted again. Consider adding the page to your watchlist and block her / protect the page if she adds that again.  Jupitus Smart  19:24, 11 July 2017 (UTC)