Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Muthuwella/Archive

02 December 2010

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the three suspected socks have been involved in desperate attempts to save an article here Articles for deletion/Anushka Wirasinha (2nd nomination) and in a deletion review. LibStar (talk) 06:48, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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New IPsock has shown up at. At WP:Deletion_review/Log/2010_November_29 they admit that they're Chamithra (although denying the others) and just using the IP to evade the sockpuppet block. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:49, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * It does seem highly strange that a new account's first edit would be a DRV. But Chamithra is an older account, so this could be meatpuppetry. I'm adding a CU to suss out what's going on here. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:36, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Chamithra and Muthuwella were both set up the same day, 24 June, immediately after Anushka Wirasinha was first deleted at AfD; they have been more or less SPAs on the subject, and there were other SPAs at the second AfD. Still, my impression is of a fan club, with off-Wiki canvassing probably going on: meat-puppetry at worst, rather than actual socking. JohnCD (talk) 13:59, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ the following are the same:
 * TN X Man 14:53, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I assumed too much good faith. Ah well... JohnCD (talk) 17:22, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the socks, and blocked the master account for three days. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Per this edit, I've blocked for a week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 12:54, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I assumed too much good faith. Ah well... JohnCD (talk) 17:22, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the socks, and blocked the master account for three days. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Per this edit, I've blocked for a week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 12:54, 3 December 2010 (UTC)