Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Romesh67/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The two accounts have done tag-team editing on articles related to Lasantha Wickrematunge, using the same peculiar style of referencing, the same liberal pasting of copyrighted content, and the same crusading journalism style of writing about the unfortunate Mr. Wickrematunge, which has simultaneously evolved in both accounts as I've fixed the problems. In July I posted a question about the Romesh67 account at the more active account NalinWijer, and got no reply. but the Romesh67 went inactive. Today in their first edit since 2 July, Romesh67 created Ahimsa Wickrematunge about Wickrematunge's daughter, deleted sometime back at AFD, so I posted a templated request for clarification on multiple accounts at User talk:NalinWijer. User:Romesh67 almost immediately replied there. Storchy (talk) 05:06, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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I too had the same suspicion for months about these two users. Additionally, I think, who edited Articles for deletion/Ahimsa Wickrematunge could be the older account. Chanaka L ( talk ) 11:46, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Romesh67 seems to have spotted this discussion, as they've just gone on a marathon burst of minor edits to other Sri Lanka articles, presumably to demonstrate that it's not a single-purpose account. Storchy (talk) 13:21, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:18, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are all ✅ to one another:
 * Will block etc. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:21, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know about Dhananjaya82, they haven't edited for years so will be stale - if they resume editing we can investigate then.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:24, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Will block etc. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:21, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know about Dhananjaya82, they haven't edited for years so will be stale - if they resume editing we can investigate then.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:24, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Will block etc. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:21, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know about Dhananjaya82, they haven't edited for years so will be stale - if they resume editing we can investigate then.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:24, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Just like User:Romesh67 and their sock User:NalinWijer majority of edits are to the Lasantha Wickrematunge article. Editsrilanka shares the modus operandi of the same small and dozen-or-so at a time edits. Also, edits only United National Party (UNP) politicians alluding to the other sock account User:Unpelephant. Chanaka L ( talk ) 02:41, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I added User:SundayLeaderAlumini, because Romesh87 mentioned that he was a former journalist. The more Editsrilanka edits more they behave like Romesh87. Eg, struggling with copyvios. Romesh87 vs Editsrilanka. This is more like WP:DUCK right now. CC pinging . Chanaka L ( talk ) 03:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * Thanks for the ping. The referencing "peculiarities" pointed out at the previous SPI seem to appear here too (Editsrilanka, Romesh67, NalinWijer). Similarly, recent editing at Lasantha Wickrematunge has introduced all manner of copyvio and close paraphrasing (which I suspect will need to be checked source by source). Feels like WP:CIR territory to me. /wiae /tlk  21:43, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * SundayLeaderAlumini has made Lasantha Wickrematunge edits on Commons, if that helps you decide whether to block. &mdash; Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 23:11, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ and . Unfortunately the other previous socks are . Given the behavioral evidence, there's enough to reasonably conclude these are socks of Romesh67 unless compelling evidence can prove otherwise. Since SundayLeaderAlumini has not edited, I'm going to block Editsrilanka as a normal blocks since CU evidence did not play a role in the decision to block beyond DUCK. Mkdw  talk  04:31, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
 * , closing. MarioGom (talk) 21:36, 25 February 2023 (UTC)