Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Postnoonnews/Archive

06 January 2013

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A thorough review of editing history of articles St Paul's High School, Hyderabad, V Adept Energy and Vishal Kandukuri clearly shows a typical type of sockpuppetry going on. First Account User:Postnoonnews created on September 23, 2012 (see ) creates article Vishal Kandukuri on the same day. They also created article V Adept Energy and kept editing Wikipedia until indefinitely blocked on October 18, 2012 (see ). Account User:Saveeducation was created on October 2, 2012 (see ) and started this AfC submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/V Adept Energy on the same day (see ) even before it was created by Postnoonnews on October 12, 2012 (see ). Similarly like this, other user accounts User:Acquw, User:Elsaae, User:Fiona-Gaelic, User:Major2w, User:Martymcfly1 created by this person only edit to these topics (and there can be many more unknown too). Edits from these accounts, discussions going on at Talk:Vishal Kandukuri and very close similarity of editing behavior pattern from these accounts strongly suspect me and many other people that all of these accounts are sockpuppets controlled by one person. Also the point to note here is that these accounts and IP's do not discuss any changes with each other as all of these accounts and IP's always edit in these particular areas. Even more, all of these 3 IP addresses, namely Special:Contributions/124.123.23.204, Special:Contributions/183.82.36.221 and Special:Contributions/49.207.108.242 have an awesome similar edits on the same articles and talk pages and all of them traceroute/geolocate to Beam Telecom Private Limited, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Now, best of luck to Checkusers to find out the truth and also flush out any/possible sleeper accounts. ~ TheGeneralUser  (talk)  01:03, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Thank you everyone that helped on this case for your quick response and great work. ~ TheGeneralUser  (talk)  06:13, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Looks suspect to me. CU may nail it straight away if the information is not stale. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 01:20, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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. J.delanoy gabs adds  04:37, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged ( X! ·  talk )  · @271  · 05:30, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

14 January 2013

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User:Chennaibc account created on January 13, 2013 at 19:49 and their very first edit to Wikipedia is on Talk:Vishal Kandukuri 15 minutes after account creation. Various other IP addresses which have all also edited the same article and it's talk page have been shown above. I request the Checkuser to fully check the account and all the IP addresses for socking evidence and to find out any/other additional sock accounts, as this person quite clearly seems to evade blocks and scrutiny by any way possible ~ TheGeneralUser  (talk)  12:34, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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I'd call Chennaibc bordering. Might want to have someone more familiar with Indian ISPs double check. as usual. T. Canens (talk) 15:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Not that I am, but: some of the above IPs are actually a possible or likely match to Elsaae, but the rest could just as well be appropriate edits or off-wiki canvassing per technical evidence. Seeing that this all focuses on only one article which, by the looks of it, will likely be deleted, I'd say we wait it out. Amalthea  16:05, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * And in fact, 180.151.44.20 seems to try and get some images deleted that were uploaded by blocked socks previously. Amalthea  16:08, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Closing, all quiet now that the article is gone. Feel free to reopen if the silliness continues. Amalthea  12:31, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

27 January 2013

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Behavioural evidence: only concerned with restoring the article Vishal Kandukuri. Their user page is a copy of User:Johnpacklambert. The writing style is very similar indeed to that of the previous socks of Postnoonnews. bonadea contributions talk 17:56, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * what should i do now? what this has to do with me ? i am trying to contribute some sources to couple articles and requesting help from administrators over a contribution.Randioten (talk) 18:17, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Where did you find the article text you put in Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Vishal Kandukuri? --bonadea contributions talk 19:23, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * wikia.com Randioten (talk) 19:25, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I came across about this article in wikia.com later at wikipedia deleted page which was a subject under lack of citations. Upon search in google and on request of User talk:Anna Frodesiak to find more links which will mention about this person in detail, i was able to find good amount of sources which satisfies WP:GNG& while contributing to other articles i also took part in creation of article and requested help from MatthewVanitas administrator over this contribution. I think this person is subject of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources such as The hindu news, ibn live, Economic Times, Deccan Chronicle, Postnoon, Hybiz tv, Namaste telangana , Andhra Prabha, Eenadu , Sakshi and more. Randioten (talk) 20:12, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' I came across article in wikia.com (also visible in google search) later at wikipedia deleted page which was a subject under lack of citations. Upon search in google and on request of User talk:Anna Frodesiak to find more links which will mention about this person in detail, i was able to find good amount of sources which satisfies WP:GNG& while contributing to other articles i also took part in creation of article and requested help from MatthewVanitas administrator over this contribution. I think this person is subject of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources such as The hindu news, ibn live, Economic Times, Deccan Chronicle, Postnoon, Hybiz tv, Namaste telangana , Andhra Prabha, Eenadu , Sakshi and more. Randioten (talk) 20:38, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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Since I still remember the case, the focus on the Vishal Kandukuri topic is sufficient for me: Based on technical evidence, the following are the same: Amalthea 22:46, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Please provide diffs to support the case. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 19:57, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged, closing. Rschen7754 08:26, 28 January 2013 (UTC)