Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Osmangani2019/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The similar usernames should be a loud enough quack. Edits are to similar self-promotion drafts: Draft:Osman gani, Draft:Osman Gani, similar self promotion in edit summaries:,. Checkuser is requested to if there are any other connected accounts and/or sleepers. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 12:57, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 14:51, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * All three accounts are ✅. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:58, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * -- RoySmith (talk) 15:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Recently became active again, recreated Draft:Osman Gani. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 11:45, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * @Bbb23, the first IP edited today, just before I tagged the draft for deletion. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 14:35, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Bbb23, my bad, the edit today wasn’t made by the first IP, but User:2A02:CB80:4226:2047:217D:46DB:3617:3B58. However, I still feel it is appropriate for some of these IPs to get blocked, the user had evaded block several times. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 16:10, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Bbb23, I think there is a miscommunication. One of these IPs edited the draft today, 7 March 2023, which I noticed because the draft is on my watchlist. I cannot pin down which IP it is since the page got deleted. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 17:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * None of these IPs has edited recently. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:25, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The first IP's only edit (now deleted) was on February 23, and please don't comment in this section again (I've moved your comment to the appropriate section).--Bbb23 (talk) 14:41, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * 2A02:CB80:4226:2047:217D:46DB:3617:3B58 hasn't edited since February 18. The only thing that happened today was that blocked the IP for three months, which I personally would not have done. And that ties me into your comment "evaded block several times": when I (and most others who work at SPI) decline to block IPs, it's not necessarily because they are not socks but because they haven't edited recently, so a block serves no purpose and may, depending on how dynamic the IP is, prevent an edit by a non-sock. It's similar to vandalism by IPs - no recent vandalism, no block.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:03, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't call it a "miscommunication" exactly, but you're right, Special:contributions/2A02:CB80:4222:9040:516:BB11:B3C3:11A7, which you've not listed, edited the draft today. That IP has also been blocked, though, by yet another administrator for one month, so hopefully we're done now, and we've got it all sorted.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:05, 7 March 2023 (UTC)