Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Roastedcocoa/Archive

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Over the last few months, I've been dealing with a flare-up of promotional editing, in which users, typically IPs, have been spamming Indian biographical articles and Indian film articles with content about the Indian Society of Cinematographers. In most cases, this has involved tacking ISC after cinematographers' names. We never do this in film articles and only occasionally do it in biographical articles. But they would also persistently misuse the title parameter of the infobox to erroneously add it there, as well in the name parameter of the infobox. Attempts to educate have been impossible.

Some (but not all) IPs involved are as follows, however obviously I'm not asking for CU on these. This is just for data collection.
 * 49.207.63.117
 * 106.51.107.188
 * 106.51.109.159
 * 106.51.109.35

User Roastedcocoa was also doing this and here where he insanely added a dozen circular links to a section that clearly listed these people as founding members of the Indian Society of Cinematographers.

I indeffed Roastedcocoa in mid-May 2019. I just noticed Indiravallam today. Indiravallam seems to be ISC agenda-driven

It's such a weird, spammy niche that these have to be related, but there are dissimilarities with their editing, like that Indiravallam marks everything minor and Roastedcocoa seemed to mostly have mobile edits, so I thought I'd ask a CU to see what's going on. Meatpuppetry? Different promotional rings? Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
❌ — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:21, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I think they are MEATs, and would not endorse a check. Passing this off for a second opinion.  qedk ( t  桜  c ) 15:00, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Close per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 03:50, 8 July 2019 (UTC)