Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Premkoli99/Archive

16 September 2015

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Koli people was semiprotected following the repeated insertion of the same text by different accounts; this brand-new account created Notable Koli Peoples which contains the identical text to that removed from Koli people. Cf and. Several socks have already been blocked; CU requested to check for sleepers. bonadea contributions talk 10:12, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Sparkle54 is to Mahaursaab. A sleeper check is a bit difficult to perform here, though I don't see any immediate concern. Mike V • Talk 18:13, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

06 October 2015

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This is a weird one, had blocked a, and these have popped subsequently to create more articles around the Mandhata/Koli theme. These are all single article accounts with the same theme. I'd suggested to Yunshui that they may be related to but I'm given to understand that the technical connection isn't there. There's something weird going on will all the Koli edits popping up suddenly and there's likely some off wiki caste group that's pushing for it, bringing it here so that we can document it. Once I get an understanding of what this is about I'll go ahead and G5 the new articles. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  15:36, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * The following are ✅ to KingMandhata74
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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:33, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've done a G5 deletion of eligible articles, since Erroshan777 hasn't done any edits there isn't any behavior to evaluate, will keep a watch on that. Marking for close. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:25, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:33, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've done a G5 deletion of eligible articles, since Erroshan777 hasn't done any edits there isn't any behavior to evaluate, will keep a watch on that. Marking for close. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:25, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:33, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've done a G5 deletion of eligible articles, since Erroshan777 hasn't done any edits there isn't any behavior to evaluate, will keep a watch on that. Marking for close. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:25, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:33, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've done a G5 deletion of eligible articles, since Erroshan777 hasn't done any edits there isn't any behavior to evaluate, will keep a watch on that. Marking for close. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:25, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

08 October 2015

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The same article creations around the Koli theme. I'm really not sure what's going on here, there looks to be some connection with, but I have seen two different IP ranges involved in this but both belonging to Idea cellular, so I'm not sure if it's just the ISP geolocating incorrectly due to relays. I can't find much of a behavioral difference between the two groups, to have a preference for duck blocking. As always, there's likely more socks than have been identified (in this case by 1.39.137.35 who brought it to my attention), and therefore I'm requesting a CU. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:51, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Pinging who has done some editorial clean up in this area, and  who has also blocked some socks. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * For reference sake, I've found the Idea IPs geolocating to Central/North Maharashtra, UP and Tata IPs to Uttarakhand (while whois says the IP is static, I don't think that's necessarily the case). &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:01, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * Look like ducks to me but, as SpacemanSpiff says, a sweep would be useful because there have been quite a few accounts making similar poor Koli-related edits in quick succession. They're moving pretty fast. (Agree about the IP geolocate thing - that raised concerns for me initially and I too figured it must be some sort of technical issue.) - Sitush (talk) 06:22, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:20, 8 October 2015 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:24, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * - for a sleeper check.
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked where needed, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:17, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note to clerk. All of the accounts that have been confirmed by me and by Callanecc (see archive) should be retagged as confirmed to Premkoli99. In addition, these two accounts are ✅ and need to be retagged:
 * After that, the case may be closed. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:40, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All accounts retagged including those in the archive. Closing.
 * Blocked where needed, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:17, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note to clerk. All of the accounts that have been confirmed by me and by Callanecc (see archive) should be retagged as confirmed to Premkoli99. In addition, these two accounts are ✅ and need to be retagged:
 * After that, the case may be closed. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:40, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All accounts retagged including those in the archive. Closing.
 * After that, the case may be closed. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:40, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All accounts retagged including those in the archive. Closing.
 * After that, the case may be closed. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:40, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All accounts retagged including those in the archive. Closing.

12 October 2015

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Similar edits at Koli people as the earlier socks; compare this to older sock. I'd block per duck but this one has the problematic part of running multiple socks in parallel with each focusing on a different article every time an account is created. I haven't found any others right now, so CU help would be great. Please note that not all of the socks are in the archive, some are at and some others at  (some of the latter group are in the archive) &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  07:49, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've retagged all of the accounts in the KingMandhata74 sockpuppet categories. No more.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * is ✅. Retagged. . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:30, 12 October 2015 (UTC)