Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Powerkoteshwararao/Archive

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The sockmaster was created created on 9 September 2021. Shortly after the sockmaster's creation, the sockmaster created a sandbox page. This sandbox page was deleted by for advertising in the userspace.

Shortly after the sandbox was deleted, the sockmaster created another promotional article in their own userspace, which was promptly deleted by. One day later, on 10 September 2021, the user once again created promotional material in the userspace, which was deleted by.

During this time, the sockmaster uploaded images to Wikimedia commons. These images include c:File:Me pkr.jpg and c:File:Creative family.jpg. Both of these files were listed as being the sockmaster's own work.

After being thrice deleted, the sockmaster appears to have stopped making edits from that account. However, the sockmaster does not appear to have stopped making edits from Wikipedia—they simply appear to have used a second account to try to get their promotional material to the mainspace.

On 13 September 2021, the sockpuppet was created. The sockpuppet immediately created a sandbox and proceded to build an article about "Power Koteshwara Rao". The sandbox draft even went on to include the images that the sockmaster, whose name bears an uncanny resemblance to the article subject, had uploaded to commons.

Later on September 13, the sockpuppet would create their own talk page. On September 21, a few days after the sockpuppet became autoconfirmed, the sockpuppet moved their talk page into the article mainspace.

It appears to be the case that the two accounts are connected in some way, and I believe that the accounts may be promotional in nature. This seems to be an illegitimate use of multiple accounts, where the sockmaster switched accounts to potentially avoid the same pattern of deletions that they had experienced on their own account. , and I'm requesting checkuser to see if there are any sleepers. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 06:15, 3 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Just as a note, this appears to be a cross-wiki problem (this appears to affect Commons as well). Would it be appropriate to request global locks in this case? — Mikehawk10 (talk) 01:02, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Generally global locks are applied for sockpuppets where lock evasion has happened, or for sockmasters where they are blocked on multiple wikis for valid reasons. In this case, they have only been blocked for sockpuppetry on enwiki. However, if the account(s) intent is only to spam on wikimedia wikis then this is a reason for requesting a lock. I'm not going to request locks in this case as I don't believe this rises to the level for a lock. However, you are free to report for a global lock if you think it would benefit wikimedia wikis. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:41, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * - although these two accounts seem to be WP:DUCKy, running CU may bring up a connection to another case. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Although I couldn't find any links to other UPE farms, I was able to find another account. are both ✅ to . Blocking all for promotion using multiple accounts. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:32, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Only one of those was active on Commons, so no need to ask for locks. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:25, 24 October 2021 (UTC)