Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nishantkumarjdu/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Bihar930 is resuming Bhumisena's edits from December 2021, repeatedly trying to create an article about Indian youth politician Nishant Kumar and getting into edit wars about related content. Bhumisena's deleted Nishant Kumar (Dablu Singh Patel) article is back at Draft:Nishant Kumar (Dablu Singh Patel) and is being edited by Bihar930.

While looking into this I see that Nishantkumarsingh930 seems to have been another sock, creating the same draft and edit warring at the Bhumi Sena article. They were already blocked for spamming in February but listed here for context. Lord Belbury (talk) 11:39, 2 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I've also turned up Nishantkumarjdu as another sock, which turns out to be older than the sockmaster I nominated here. Again, already blocked for spamming. Nishantkumarjdu and Bihar930 have both edited the Kurmi article. --Lord Belbury (talk) 14:50, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I've blocked Bihar930 without tags. I'll leave it to a clerk to sort out where this should be filed. Bbb23 (talk) 16:46, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved case to oldest account, tagged socks, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 17:47, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Both have yet again created drafts for Nishant Kumar (Draft:Nishant Kumar by the named account; Draft:Nishant Kumar (Dablu Singh Patel) by the IP). WP:DUCK. Curbon7 (talk) 01:37, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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The IP has admitted having created the article "2-3 times" before and is now offering payment for having their draft published. They've also been messing with the Nish Kumar article to deny that the comedian's full name is "Nishant", which the earlier socks were doing.

User:Nishantking27 may just be a different person with the same name, though, as their draft at Draft:Nishant Kumar is about someone ten years younger, with no mention of being a youth politician. But it is an odd coincidence that they both tried to hijack the hard-to-reach Nishant Kumar redirect within a few weeks of each other. --Lord Belbury (talk) 07:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Nishantking27 is right on the edge behaviorally (and -ish technically) but I'll refrain from blocking for now. I've blocked 146.196.37.155 for one week. Closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 19:16, 10 July 2022 (UTC)