Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prashant Wankhed/Archive

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WP:AFDSOCK at Articles for deletion/Nihal Kirnalli Cabayi (talk) 19:39, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Since this is an account registered for the purpose of commenting on a deletion discussion for a Prashant Wankhed created article, please check to confirm and identify potential sleepers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:10, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Some other accounts already dealt with by CU are confirmed to the master, but this particular user is technically ❌ although in these sort of AfD discussions WP:MEAT is quite possible. NativeForeigner Talk 05:28, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually both meatpupetry and direct sockpuppetry are possible, with my money being on a sock puppet used by the same person. A lack of technical connection found by CheckUser is very far from a proof of not being the same person. It is not at all unknown for a sockpuppeteer to start with a couple of sockpuppets which are quickly caught and confirmed by CheckUser, and then, warned by that experience, to take care with future sockpuppets so that they can't be connected. As well as the AfD comment, there is the timing of the creation of the account, on the same day that one of the known sockpuppets suddenly made an edit after none of the editor's accounts had been editing for a while, which adds to the impression of sockpuppetry, as does the first edit from the account being the creation of a trivial user page with a similar character to that of the master account and the one known sock that has actually edited. Despite the very limited amount of editing and the negative CU result, I regard the combination of evidence enough to make "sock" far more likely than not, and "sock or meat" virtually certain, so I shall block the account. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:18, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * All very true. NativeForeigner Talk 05:30, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

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Another WP:AFDSOCK at Articles for deletion/Nihal Kirnalli. Quack! Cabayi (talk) 15:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * per James above, and other linguistic similarities in the accounts. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:49, 16 February 2018 (UTC)