Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Metaverse Yadav/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These two are obvious socks of one another, following each other around and exclusively only editing the same articles however both have attempted to restore the hijacked article at Manoj Kumar Yadav repeatedly PRAXIDICAE💕  16:00, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Same guy. All the sleepers already blocked. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:25, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Aside from the obvious username, more Manoj Kumar Yadav spam PRAXIDICAE💕  11:46, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * --Blablubbs (talk) 12:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * 1) Per their efforts to turn dab page Abhinav into someone's bio. Creating Abhinav (disambiguation) in an effort to prod the base page Abhinav.
 * 2) Their obsession with adding Hindi names to article. Special:Diff/1090438711, Special:Diff/1095398147
 * 3) Username &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 15:38, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * - looks pretty obvious per this among other things. Please indef the sock. Thanks Spicy (talk) 19:58, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 20:10, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
same stupid page move nonsense with Abhinav/Abhinav (disambiguation) PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:59, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Note concurrent report at Sockpuppet investigations/Comrade Sourav with Logic RST, who is obviously a sock in one of these cases. I think both cases should be merged as telling these two apart, if they are two, as behaviourally they are very close and CU says they are on the same ISP. Pika voom  Talk 06:28, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to one another, to and to various other Metaverse Yadav socks:
 * Regarding the note about about the Comrade Soudav case, given the appearance of the two distinct batches of socks without any technical overlap, I am more convinced that there are two masters here (who may of course be coordinating their editing). I'll block these accounts from within this case. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:31, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Regarding the note about about the Comrade Soudav case, given the appearance of the two distinct batches of socks without any technical overlap, I am more convinced that there are two masters here (who may of course be coordinating their editing). I'll block these accounts from within this case. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:31, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Regarding the note about about the Comrade Soudav case, given the appearance of the two distinct batches of socks without any technical overlap, I am more convinced that there are two masters here (who may of course be coordinating their editing). I'll block these accounts from within this case. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:31, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Regarding the note about about the Comrade Soudav case, given the appearance of the two distinct batches of socks without any technical overlap, I am more convinced that there are two masters here (who may of course be coordinating their editing). I'll block these accounts from within this case. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:31, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Regarding the note about about the Comrade Soudav case, given the appearance of the two distinct batches of socks without any technical overlap, I am more convinced that there are two masters here (who may of course be coordinating their editing). I'll block these accounts from within this case. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:31, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

Two main pieces of evidence:
 * 1) Restoring sockpuppet edit using identical, but generic, edit summary.
 * 2) The keen interest in the CPIML party shared with master and accounts here, which includes creating Template:Bihar-CPI(ML)L-politician-stub and Draft:Liberation (Indian magazine)

This CPIML party is pretty obscure, it holds no national power, and has a few seats in the Bihar region. Pika voom Talk 13:20, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * I noticed that on some page creations of these editors, they were marked as socks of Metaverse Yadav. Liz Read! Talk! 21:24, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Because they were confirmed below to Metaverse Yadav, not Comrade Sourav. From behaviour of recent socks it is my opinion that Metaverse Yadav and Comrade Sourav are the same, and I filed here originally because there was a behavioural link to Comrade Sourav., are the CU results possible for these two groups being the same person? Like using a different ISP in the same region? Pika voom  Talk 07:05, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I want to stress the behavioural link isn't just reinstating Comrade Sourav's edit, but editing and creating pages on CPI(ML)L topics. Comrade Sourav was focused on this small party, and some of his socks had CPI(ML)L in their name. It is a very small party to be interested in, no national power and relatively small power in Bihar only. There are other point of similarity to the recent comrade sock, Sudip Karmakar23, in that Sir Ankur and Sudip Karmakar23 both used the same editor version the "Advanced mobile edit" tag. They also both use edit summaries, but very similar generic one to two word edit summaries like "Updated", or "added X". They are also both inconsistent in edit summary capitalization, some of their edit summaries begin with caps, some not, even when it is the same edit summary.   Obviously these are common edit summaries overall, but the similar usage here is a point of similarity.  Pika voom  Talk 10:01, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Another point, the 40 edits of Metaverse Yadav do not look like a new user, using formatting properly from the beginning. In addition Metaverse was interested in the CPI(ML)L from the beginning, creating Draft:Manoj Kumar Yadav (ML) on their first day of editing, this is a local functionary of the party, similar to articles created by Comrade Sourav. It is possible it is a different individual with very similar promotional aims as part of the party's team, as Comrade Sourav stated they were editing as a team, signing as "CPIML LIBERATION North 24 Pgs district comittee. Sonar Bangla, Desha Priya Nagar Kolkata - 58 ".  Pika voom  Talk 10:11, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yet another point, beyond similar bios of functionaries, Sudip Karmakar23 (confirmed here) created Liberation Magazine on 12 February. Sir Ankur created Liberation (Magazine) on 4 July. Exact same magazine of this party. Pika voom  Talk 10:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Another intersection between these accounts, Sir Ankur's sole edit to Commons is to fix capitalization on a Dipankar Bhattacharya photograph less than a day after it was uploaded by Sukanta Bhattacharya67. Sir Ankur or any of the Metaverse socks haven't edited Dipankar Bhattacharya, but it was edited by Comrade Sourav and Sudip Karmakar23 from this case. Pika voom  Talk 11:15, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Going against my own thesis here, on the behavioural level, the one point I see of a possible difference is that many of Comrade Sourav confirmed socks, as well as the two new 12 July suspects below, made a handful of bn.wikipedia.org edits. In the the Metaverse Yadav case some of the accounts have a handful hi.wikipedia.org edits, and all of them at least logged in to hi.wikipedia.org. However Comrade Sourav did log into hi.wikipedia.org, and Zero ML in MY logged into bn.wikipedia.org. The association with hi or bn Wikipedias is very weak, and is often connected to what they do in the English Wikipedia and Commons, like and English name or image uploads and in some accounts just logging into the wiki with no edits. Other than that, I don't see a different between the two sets on behaviour and they both promote CPIML related topics, organisations, and people. Pika voom  Talk 15:00, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The page histories of Aurai & Abhinav (disambiguation) shows some behavioural overlap among the two different SPIs. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 22:38, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:39, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * These are definitely socks, but I'm not sure the master is correct - or maybe two cases need to be merged. I compared against the only non-stale sock in the archive here,, and I'd say they're unrelated. That sock was only suspected however, but the CU logs for are consistent with what I see for Sudip Karmakar23. The following accounts - two of which are already blocked as a sock in a different case - are all ✅ to one another:
 * I'm going to block without tags for now. Girth Summit  (blether)  15:49, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * - please review the behaviour, and determine whether these cases should be merged, or if we should simply move this case over to the Metaverse Yadav case.   Girth Summit  (blether)  15:51, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * , from a CU perspective, these are all definitely socks of Metaverse Yadav. What I don't know is whether Comrade Sourav and Metaverse Yadav are the same person. CU doesn't allow me to say that two accounts could not possibly be related - just that there isn't a direct connection that I can detect, other than saying that they're in the same large country, and use the same ISP, which is very popular in that large country. Your original evidence included an instance of Sir Ankur reinstating the edit of a Comrade Sourav sock, which is suspicious but not conclusive. A behavioural analysis would be needed to ascertain whether they are likely to be the same person, in which case the two cases should be merged into one. If the evidence isn't there, this report needs to be moved over to the Metaverse Yadav case, and the socks tagged accordingly. I hope that makes sense.  Girth Summit  (blether)  08:02, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * given the outcomes of the reports below from the 12th and the 14th, I'm fairly convinced that these are two separate people, who may be coordinating. I suggest that these cases be kept separate, but that this particular report be moved over into the Metaverse Yadav case. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:35, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved case from Sockpuppet investigations/Comrade Sourav per above. Spicy (talk) 14:32, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged socks, closing. Spicy (talk) 14:33, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm going to block without tags for now. Girth Summit  (blether)  15:49, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * - please review the behaviour, and determine whether these cases should be merged, or if we should simply move this case over to the Metaverse Yadav case.   Girth Summit  (blether)  15:51, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * , from a CU perspective, these are all definitely socks of Metaverse Yadav. What I don't know is whether Comrade Sourav and Metaverse Yadav are the same person. CU doesn't allow me to say that two accounts could not possibly be related - just that there isn't a direct connection that I can detect, other than saying that they're in the same large country, and use the same ISP, which is very popular in that large country. Your original evidence included an instance of Sir Ankur reinstating the edit of a Comrade Sourav sock, which is suspicious but not conclusive. A behavioural analysis would be needed to ascertain whether they are likely to be the same person, in which case the two cases should be merged into one. If the evidence isn't there, this report needs to be moved over to the Metaverse Yadav case, and the socks tagged accordingly. I hope that makes sense.  Girth Summit  (blether)  08:02, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * given the outcomes of the reports below from the 12th and the 14th, I'm fairly convinced that these are two separate people, who may be coordinating. I suggest that these cases be kept separate, but that this particular report be moved over into the Metaverse Yadav case. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:35, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved case from Sockpuppet investigations/Comrade Sourav per above. Spicy (talk) 14:32, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged socks, closing. Spicy (talk) 14:33, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged socks, closing. Spicy (talk) 14:33, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same attempt to recreate Manoj Yadav (see history where it's been hijacked) via hijacking Manoj Yadav (politician), which was originally in it's place, which Media FC moved out of the way in order for the hijack to take place. <span style="color: white; font-weight: bold; background: linear-gradient(red, orange, green, blue, indigo, violet)">PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:22, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * See also this edit which matches a past socks,, , , etc... <span style="color: white; font-weight: bold; background: linear-gradient(red, orange, green, blue, indigo, violet)">PRAXIDICAE🌈  14:27, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * - these two are ✅ and blocked, checking for others.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:28, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * All of the following are also ✅:
 * I think that's it for now. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:32, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, @Girth Summit. I'm going to request a glock for the rest because there appears to be some significant xwiki disruption. <span style="color: white; font-weight: bold; background: linear-gradient(red, orange, green, blue, indigo, violet)">PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:35, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Be my guest. Need me to do anything with the articles (G5 deletions, moving, move protecting etc?) Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that's it for now. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:32, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, @Girth Summit. I'm going to request a glock for the rest because there appears to be some significant xwiki disruption. <span style="color: white; font-weight: bold; background: linear-gradient(red, orange, green, blue, indigo, violet)">PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:35, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Be my guest. Need me to do anything with the articles (G5 deletions, moving, move protecting etc?) Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Be my guest. Need me to do anything with the articles (G5 deletions, moving, move protecting etc?) Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  14:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Liliana UwU (talk / contribs) 02:09, 4 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Elaborating on this (sorry @Spicy my bad): Yadav spam from that user (such as ), which is known behavior from that sockmaster. Oddly enough, though, it's not Manoj Kumar Yadav spam this time, but Vivek Kumar Yadav spam. Liliana UwU  (talk / contribs) 02:19, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * -, you are required to provide evidence. Spicy (talk) 02:14, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * "Kumar Yadav" is a very common Indian name and Vivek Kumar Yadav does not seem to have anything to do with the individual that Metaverse Yadav was promoting. Closing. Spicy (talk) 02:23, 4 January 2023 (UTC)