Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rudra john cena/Archive

18 February 2014

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Jim Cartar is admitted (after an earlier denial). The behavioral pattern suggests that Rudra john cena was not this editor's first account as they still claim - their first edit added a piped link, implying some degree of familiarity with Wiki markup.

Arunsingh16 is less obvious. However, both accounts are from India, both have a custom signature, copyright violations, interest in technical "review" edits such as NPP and AfC (at which they are not competent). Rudra john cena became more active at the same time that Arunsingh16 quit editing after it became obvious that their history of copyvios was going to interfere with their hat collecting - Rudra requested adminship almost exactly a week after Arunsingh16 stopped editing. Prior to this time, the two accounts appear to closely correlate in editing pattern, possibly editing at the same time from two different devices. Both accounts both were apologetic when challenged for their copyright violations and other disruptive behavior, but then continued doing the same thing while attempting various means at avoiding scrutiny (talk page blanking, multiple accounts, informing editors that they were leaving).

All of these accounts have had issues with copyright violations, so I think WP:SOCK is being violated as it makes this editor's edits more difficult to track to verify that more policies are not being violated. For this reason it would be preferable if this editor commit to using only a single account from now on.

Requesting CU to verify if Arunsingh16 is associated and to check for additional accounts. VQuakr (talk) 04:14, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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Both accounts are currently indeffed. Should one be a finite-length block? VQuakr (talk) 04:24, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * - For confirmation and sleeper check per VQuakr's evidence and comments. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:26, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Arunsingh16 is ❌ to the other two accounts, and I didn't find any technical evidence of any earlier accounts. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:36, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing without action per CU findings. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:47, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * , I should have said so, but the other two accounts are the same, and are in violation of WP:SOCK. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 18:11, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked that account and closing. Rschen7754 03:50, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Unblocked the one account as it was a (confused) attempt at a clean start, but any admin should feel free to reblock if issues continue. --Rschen7754 15:54, 26 February 2014 (UTC)