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All the above accounts having been making the same disruptive edits (randomly bolding parts of the text) on the same article, Nature: Siddhesh74, Rohanthakur, Saurabhchavan0404, Tejassunilkadam25, Abhijeetpawar1575, Mappi007. Requesting checkuser to find any other accounts I missed. Bennv3771 (talk) 16:43, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Per the evidence above, please check to confirm sockpuppetry and identify potential sleepers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:42, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other:


 * At first, I thought this was a school where the instructor was giving stupid instructions, but no. Every few days, a few more accounts get created in the same narrow time block and make the same kind of edits. Several were already blocked but I'm inclined to cu block the lot now. Edits are in a series and never in parallel. They are on the same IP with exact UA match. Many accounts are permutations of names of previous ones. They appear to be getting treated as throwaway accounts. On occasion, there are runs of account creations but it would be at two or three per minute and appear sequential with about 6 to 7 accounts created total in a 15 minute spurt. That happens a couple of times but I don't think this is proper students so much as someone who has access to a computer and bored during that block of time.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:33, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Since this is so many accounts, I will leave this open for another CU to look at. We want to be sure before doing any blocking. If I have duplicates, please remove. Good chance that I may have missed an account or two while checking.
 * More accounts ✅:
 * I agree with your conclusions, as bewildering as this is. I think we can just normally block without a CU block. On the off-chance one of these accounts come forward with a valid explanation of the technical data, it would allow a non-CU to unblock. ~ Rob 13 Talk 02:17, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is, by the way, and is ✅. ~ Rob 13 Talk 05:10, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * After some off-wiki discussion, we've agreed to CU block these. I hate to ask you to do this, but could you figure out which account is oldest so we can tag appropriately when we do it? (Sorry!) ~ Rob 13 Talk 00:51, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is also connected because it was created by one of the existing accounts; I noticed this while looking at the logs for one account. While checking creation dates, Sputnik, please pick up any other accounts that were created like this and include them here so we can block those as well. ~ Rob 13 Talk 00:53, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Turns out the three oldest of these accounts were created within a minute of one another so I can't tell which of these is technically the oldest, but I'm assuming on that precise a level time keeping we don't really care. I went ahead and chose to treat Pranay99patil as the master, since that was the first of these three to actually edit. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:34, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's all the precision we need. Thanks! . ~ Rob 13 Talk 01:37, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:47, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is, by the way, and is ✅. ~ Rob 13 Talk 05:10, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * After some off-wiki discussion, we've agreed to CU block these. I hate to ask you to do this, but could you figure out which account is oldest so we can tag appropriately when we do it? (Sorry!) ~ Rob 13 Talk 00:51, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is also connected because it was created by one of the existing accounts; I noticed this while looking at the logs for one account. While checking creation dates, Sputnik, please pick up any other accounts that were created like this and include them here so we can block those as well. ~ Rob 13 Talk 00:53, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Turns out the three oldest of these accounts were created within a minute of one another so I can't tell which of these is technically the oldest, but I'm assuming on that precise a level time keeping we don't really care. I went ahead and chose to treat Pranay99patil as the master, since that was the first of these three to actually edit. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:34, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's all the precision we need. Thanks! . ~ Rob 13 Talk 01:37, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:47, 12 November 2017 (UTC)