Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Randor5602/Archive

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On two related articles for deletion - Rajat Suri and E la Carte, a number of new editors registered and !voted. All the purported "new" editors have no other edits besides ones related to both these articles and their finished posts also demonstrate knowledge of WP editing policies and guidelines. This edit, where Luckyhorse significantly changed his edit with 1 minute between versions and where the second edit is significantly more knowledgable looks like meat-puppetery. -- HighKing ++ 12:03, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Just to add in the second account - very odd that KelseyAP removed their auto-added signature and replaced with a "fake" user and altered the timestamp. A suspicious edit although I'm not sure what the purpose was other than, perhaps, to hide their account? -- HighKing ++ 16:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I added to the list, since this account was created by KelseyAP. Regards  So  Why  09:29, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * The accounts are to each other. If they are not socks, they are very likely meat puppets. KelseyAP and K Hoya0213 are, of course, ✅ to each other, but that isn't surprising. Interestingly, rather than voting in their own name at the AfDs, KelseyAP has been changing the sig to K Hoya02013, which is immediately followed by a SPA tag placed by another editor who failed to notice the switch. I've removed those votes from both AfDs as "phony". Based on the technical and behavioral evidence, I'm blocking and tagging all the accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:05, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

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Yet another newly created editor !voting at the same AfD as the previous puppets. Behaviour exhibits the exact same knowledge of Wikipedia policies and profiles. The chances of yet another new editor finding this AfD and exhibiting the same knowledge of Wikipedia must be off the charts. Their initial contributions just appear to be a clumsy attempt to disguise their intentions. I've asked for a CU but it may not be necessary if behaviour alone suffices. -- HighKing ++ 12:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:10, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Prima facie case based on behavior. Indeffing, tagging and closing.