Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Necromancer12458999/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Necromancer12458999 has been editing Wikipedia since 2019; Nandanvinayan2555 was registered in 2020, but never made any edits under that username until 2023. However, they've both recently been tag-teaming on a brand new article about NNDN, an Indian musician whose real name is stated in the article as Nandan Vinayan (see the suspected sock's username), an article that was first created by Nandanvinayan2555 just seven hours ago and received followup edits by Necromancer just 14 minutes later — and their interactions there have also included Nandanvinayan2555 attempting to blank the AFD discussion, and Necromancer12458999 attempting to strip the AFD template from the article. In addition, both usernames also recently interacted on Romancham and Qala (film). And when using the editor interaction analyzer to verify their cross-interactions on the films, I also came across Nandanvinayan1454463563, a username that was also registered in 2020 just three minutes after 2555 — there have been no edits made to Wikipedia at all under that username as of my filing of this report, but the name and timeline clearly suggest the premeditated creation of multiple accounts, so I recommend a check for other sleepers. I'm not entirely sure whether the puppetry here is of the sock or meat flavours, but there's definitely some sort of puppetry or coordination going on since it's incredibly unlikely that Necromancer would otherwise have known about an article that was created just 14 minutes before their first followup edit to it. Bearcat (talk) 18:04, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * and are ✅ to one another.  is stale, but obvs. Blocking all.   Girth Summit  (blether)  19:04, 12 February 2023 (UTC)