Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Roshanmalviya89/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


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Behavior seems ducky.
 * Vidhinagpal adds copyvio to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP from India Today at 09:36, 20 November 2021, adds copyvio to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP from India Today  at 09:43, 20 November 2021.
 * Rashinagpal adds copyvio to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP from India Today at 09:58, 20 November 2021, inappropriately adds content to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP from India Today  10:02, 20 November 2021, adds copyvio to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP from India Today  at 10:00, 20 November 2021.
 * Rashinagpalbuisness adds copyvio to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP from India Today at 10:08, 20 November 2021, adds copyvio to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP from India Today  at 10:12, 20 November 2021, attempted to add disruptive prose and what I initially thought was a broken link (but was actually copyvio) from India Today to the lead of an Indian writer's BLP  at 10:11, 20 November 2021.

The usernames are similar, and based on copyvio warnings on some of the userpages, there may be more similarities. All accounts started editing in July 2021. Beccaynr (talk) 13:45, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I've blocked all three as duck socks. Clearly the same pattern of copyright violations along with the username pattern. A checkuser scan may be a good idea to see if there are other associated accounts, or to tell Mr. Kuru that he's insane. Kuru   (talk)  14:34, 20 November 2021 (UTC)


 * - first look suggests further accounts. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 16:55, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1: All are ✅ to each other
 * Group 2: All are ✅ to each other
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 2: All are ✅ to each other
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 2: All are ✅ to each other
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 2: All are ✅ to each other
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Group 1 and Group 2 have shared the same single IP a couple of months apart with different browsers. This IP does not seem to be a proxy and has very little unrelated edits. on whether to split or if these are all the same case. Given the large number of accounts there might be a preexisting case but I couldn't see any blocked accounts which were blocked for sockpuppetry reasons. Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Yikes, that's a lot of socks. I think the two groups are related. The second group is editing slightly different topics, but they share the same MO of adding short updates sourced to a news article (often from India Today), e.g. . And that's all they do - they don't ever fix a typo for example.  Both are also using the autocite tool on the visual editor, which is responsible for the weird "first2=2021UPDATED:" thing in the citations. I will move the case to the oldest account and tag the socks accordingly.  Spicy (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged Group 1 as confirmed and Group 2 as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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 * Created 5 days after the last set of socks were blocked.
 * Same name as.
 * Same type of content additions to lead like previous socks., -   SUN EYE 1  15:53, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - looks like a duck, but please check for other accounts since the last round of CU found a couple dozen of them. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:05, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ to several account from group 1 of 20 November 2021. There's a bunch of possible sleepers with zero edits, but they have such a common user agent, I think blocking them would be excessive. -- RoySmith (talk) 05:02, 2 December 2021 (UTC)