Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Samithaathula/Archive

27 March 2015

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On User talk:Mahilkk, they have admitted to using multiple accounts, including User: Textlover, User: Dinura Pradeep Balasooriya,User:Lkwikie, all of which are permanently blocked accounts. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Nothing is there to suspect. I revealed myself talking my heart out. I'm not a destructive editor. But I know many faults were done by me because I did not know about that. I honestly did not know that I was not allowed of owing multi-accounts. Mahilkk (talk) 12:41, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


 * That may be the case, but 3 of your accounts have been blocked, with the reason given that they were disruptive. You are allowed to use multiple accounts for some legitimate reasons, such as you cannot access your previous accounts, but actively using multiple accounts simultaneously is not acceptable, and is sockpuppetry. Also, creating a new account after your old account has been blocked is block evasion, which is not acceptable, and will inevitably lead to the new account being blocked too. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Mahilkk (talk) 14:08, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * In Wikipedia, all blocks (except username blocks) are issued to the persons, not to the accounts. That means that you, as a person are blocked (three times) for disruptive editing. Using other accounts while blocked is called WP:Block evasion and is forbidden. You are facing an indefinite ban.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, is older than, so that account is potential master.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  21:08, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Per this discussion, I've blocked the named accounts for block evasion. Mike V • Talk 21:34, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * User:Samithaathula and User:Harshasd are also part of this (Samithaathula account is even older than Dinura Pradeep Balasooriya). See here: User_talk:Dinura_Pradeep_Balasooriya.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:54, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. The case and been moved and the tags corrected. Mike V • Talk 23:01, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

09 May 2015

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User:Samithaathula/User:Dinura Pradeep Balasooriya and his sockpuppets (User:Lkwikie, User:Textlover etc) were blocked for abusing editing privileges - primarily for creating articles about or promoting himself (Dinura Pradeep Balasooriya). User:Freedombelieverlk and User:Toranamv are two new accounts that are also trying to promote Balasooriya:
 * Freedombelieverlk tried to create Dinura Balasooriya recently which was speedily deleted.
 * Freedombelieverlk tried to falsely give Dinura Balasooriya credit for drafting the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka.
 * Toranamv tried to create Dinura creations recently which was speedily deleted.

They are also editing the same articles:
 * W. D. Amaradeva - Dinura Pradeep Balasooriya v Toranamv
 * Dharmasiri Gamage - Dinura Pradeep Balasooriya v Freedombelieverlk
 * Victor Rathnayake - Lkwikie v Freedombelieverlk v Toranamv
 * Mahagama Sekara - Dinura Pradeep Balasooriya v Toranamv
 * Sri Lankan literature - Textlover v Freedombelieverlk  obi2canibe talk contr 11:02, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * The following are ✅ to one another:
 * The master and remainder of the accounts in the archive are.
 * Most of these accounts have also edited/uploaded to Commons, so you may want to have a look over there as well. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:03, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will take a look. Tiptoety  talk 15:47, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The master and remainder of the accounts in the archive are.
 * Most of these accounts have also edited/uploaded to Commons, so you may want to have a look over there as well. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:03, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will take a look. Tiptoety  talk 15:47, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The master and remainder of the accounts in the archive are.
 * Most of these accounts have also edited/uploaded to Commons, so you may want to have a look over there as well. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:03, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will take a look. Tiptoety  talk 15:47, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Most of these accounts have also edited/uploaded to Commons, so you may want to have a look over there as well. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:03, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will take a look. Tiptoety  talk 15:47, 12 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I've blocked and tagged the accounts as being related to the master. (See the case archives for an admission of the master account operating a few of the confirmed accounts listed above.) Mike V • Talk 04:50, 15 May 2015 (UTC)