Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RajtheEmperor/Archive

30 June 2014

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I had revert the master who added the category Bharatiya Janata Party politicians to the article Krishnam Raju since the subject is no longer a member of the BJP. In fact the master posted on my talk regarding the same. Today the puppet account was created and re-added the same cat. The master is also involved in repeated addition of copy-vio material. &mdash;  LeoFrank  Talk 12:49, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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. The similarity in user names and the re-insertion of the cat might be enough to block, but I hesitate to block based on a single edit. , if you accuse another editor of copyright violations, please provide diffs. If there are blocks, it would help determine how long the master should be blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:39, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeffed and tagged puppet. Blocked master for one month. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:09, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

18 March 2015

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Name sounds similar ("Main Hoon Raj" translates to "I am Raj"), indicating Raj the "emperor". And this user also vandalises Magadheera often. Kailash29792 (talk) 09:35, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * - MainHoonRaj was created on July 8th, 2014, 4 days after a CU check was run and RajtheEmperor was blocked for a month. The master is by far the manin contributor to Krishnam Raju, which MainHoonRaj started editing mere days after RajtheEmperor was indef'ed. In fact, MainHoonRaj woke back up the day after RajtheEmperor was blocked ☺ ·   Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  18:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * RajtheEmperor created 10 minutes after creating the master account; it has never been used but should probably be blocked nonetheless as a potential sleeper. ☺ ·   Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  18:32, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * is a ✅ sock.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:04, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Wow, managed to archive this before I got to leave a closing note! Sock, master re, and   (suspected) for good measure even though it hasn't been used yet. ☺ ·   Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  23:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

20 March 2015

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Other then the similar names-continues to contribute to the articles made by Raj. Wgolf (talk) 15:59, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * Obvious duck. Kailash29792 (talk) 09:04, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * Note, that if it's an "obvious duck", checkuser is generally not needed. I agree though that it's a straightforward case. The user created the same article as another sock. I've blocked the account. Mike V • Talk 19:50, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

30 March 2015

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WP:QUACK, recreating same page, see past investigation. Phantom Tech (talk) 18:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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. Recreated S/O Satyamurthy (soundtrack) for the third time. Should be blocked.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:05, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked TomStar81 (Talk) 07:30, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

12 January 2016

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Identical names and interests; edits mainly Telugu cinema-related articles. Kailash29792 (talk) 05:00, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

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Might want to add to that. Dat GuyTalkContribs 21:10, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Re-created same article. Also similar username. Dat GuyTalkContribs 23:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * I've declined the CU request. First, all the accounts are . Second, you state no basis for the request.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:27, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  12:39, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The editing overlap is really huge, and their editing pattern too similar. I blocked RajIsKing. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:45, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Some evidence? Diffs?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:22, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * to check for sleepers.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:38, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * . The relationship between RajIsKing and Raj7845 is . Mike V • Talk 18:58, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * EmperoroftheKings was found during behavioral evidence check and found to be to RajIsKing. Raj7845 will be blocked on behavioral grounds. Rest blocked and tagged. --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 10:22, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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I noticed this user's editing has great overlap with RajtheEmperor sockpuppets. Desamuduru is one example. Trishulam is another example of the same blocked user returning to a somewhat obscure article. Then there's S/O_Satyamurthy:    Note also that none of these users ever leave edit summaries, and they demonstrate issues with copyright infringement. Note also that PhysicsScientist was created only about a week after the last sockpuppets were blocked. The editor interaction analyser is where most of my suspicions come from, though. Sro23 (talk) 03:50, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' So what's the progress? Over a month has passed without any action. -- Kailash29792 (talk)  16:56, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I think it's because the user has been editing w/o being detected for over a year, and all other socks are stale, etc. I have nothing more to add the evidence really. I've seen cases like this left open for 2, 3 months before any action is taken. Sro23 (talk) 17:17, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * If I may opine as a clerk, this has been left open so long because it's not really clear what this sockmaster's typical behaviour is, so it's difficult to say what connects this account to this case. It's tough to find the connecting behaviour when you're not really sure what you're looking for, so I'm kind of building the case from scratch. It takes time, and oftentimes the clerks just don't have it.
 * What I've done is I added the last two reported accounts to the editor interaction tool, and now I can see that this account has intersections on hundreds of pages (389 if my Excel-fu is accurate) with the other three socks. Notably, there are only a sparse few articles that the three socks edited that PhysicsScientist has not edited. RajIsKing last edited on 31 January 2016 (a "my brother did it" unblock request) and PhysicsScientist started 7 days later.
 * As far as contributions there's a lot to go through, but I at least found this cut-and-paste move at Trishulam, which involved PhysicsScientist restoring a name for the article which RajtheEmperor had tried to correct earlier. PhysicsScientist also argued against deletion of Desamuduru (soundtrack), a page created by RajtheEmperor and edited by several socks but which PhysicsScientist had not previously edited. I also briefly considered that this case may be related to Sockpuppet investigations/(Chemistry) instead, but that seems unlikely.
 * These are too many coincidences to be coincidences. So, after probably thinking about it for far too long, PhysicsScientist is . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:32, 7 May 2017 (UTC)