Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prabhak582/Archive/1

Suspected sockpuppets



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The quacking is loud here. TheAwesome Hwyh  07:15, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Heres a lot more:

That's not all of them, but it's a lot. TheAwesome Hwyh  07:54, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Here is even more: I think that's all of them. TheAwesome Hwyh  08:17, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * For evidence, see the 50 diffs that I added to Administrators' noticeboard, for starters. That said, I suspect that you will find no sockpuppetry here, and at the worst all of the accounts will turn out to be at the same school.  I strongly suspect that these are indeed all different people, and that (moreover) these are their real names.  Uncle G (talk) 01:03, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Please move to the oldest account. Then create two lists of suspected socks, each in alphabetical order (mostly to make sure we have no dupes), the first being those that now are non-stale, and the second being those that now are stale. Although not much evidence is required from the filer in this instance, there must be at least some, so please ask the filer to provide it.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:14, 13 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Cabayi (talk) 13:19, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , the three oldest accounts mentioned are:
 * , who had just one edit twelve years ago - I don't believe any compelling evidence for SPI will come from one edit;
 * , one of the wiki's most prolific contributors - I'm not keen to move the case to Serol's doorstep without any evidence;
 * , the third oldest, and by this point it seems more like we're looking at pin the tail on the donkey than a serious nominee for the puppetmaster.
 * starting work on the sort... Cabayi (talk) 13:19, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure how Serols and Shivaswamy got here, that was a mistake on my end. Sorry. TheAwesome  Hwyh  00:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Stale


 * Not Stale (two duplicates removed)



-- Cabayi (talk) 13:29, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * -, please provide evidence. Cabayi (talk) 13:33, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure. Basicly, they've all been editing Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary adding weird stuff in broken English or just making bizarre edits to it, or they are making a page related to their opinions on the sanctuary in their sandbox. TheAwesome  Hwyh  00:49, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , many of those you have accused have not edited Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, they've edited nothing but their own talk pages, Special:Contributions/Yashoda1709, Special:Contributions/Vijayalakshmi chitrapura, Special:Contributions/Sujathaahegde...
 * , I presume you had the list split into stale & non-stale with the intent of carrying out a CU. The nearest I can come to any hint of any WP:ILLEGIT behaviour is that the first edit by the earliest accused on Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary was at 06:33, 6 September 2017 after  a sock of  (SPI) at 07:08, 8 June 2017. The edits however all appear to be test edits (just one or two edits per account) rather than block evasion or vandalism, and setting up an army of sleepers doesn't seem to be MRY's style.
 * Unless you feel the (very) tenuous link to MRY is worth a CU, I'm inclined to close this case with a recommendation that, given the large gaps between the edits, the semi-protection on Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary should be made permanent. Cabayi (talk) 11:02, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The three users which edited their talk pages added content about the sanctuary to them. TheAwesome  Hwyh  19:36, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * But yeah, close is probably the best thing to do now. TheAwesome  Hwyh  19:37, 18 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Requested an extension to the semi-protection. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 20:14, 18 September 2019 (UTC)