Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sancalls/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Accounts edit warring to remove material from News Nation, compare with  and. Likely COI editing, see these comments and. Note that the parent company of News Nation is ITV Network (India), which was edited by Sancall previously and the company also owns a news website called The Daily Guardian, whose article Sanscall had tried to create. Sanscall and Shaqueeee are old accounts that have become active, so there's probably more of these. Tayi Arajakate Talk 08:19, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Going purely on the technical data, this is . The three listed accounts all geolocate to the same city, but they have not edited from the same IP range as one another. I will note that is ✅ to, and I am confident that the 'NN' stands for News Nation. It seems beyond doubt that there are COI issues at play, and given that the three accounts seem to be SPIs for News Nation, and also seem to be coordinating, I am going to block all three indefinitely.  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:58, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Did you intend to block NN Tahir Abbas? Thanks, Spicy (talk) 17:03, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was intentional, I should have said 'all four accounts'. Thanka for checking. Girth Summit  (blether)  18:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oops - just realised that wasn't why you were asking! Now blocked, don't know why that didn't go through earlier. Girth Summit  (blether)  18:16, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, closing. Spicy (talk) 22:08, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Yesterday, and  were blocked as socks. Soon afterwards, Terrymolly showed up at the article News Nation to make the same removal that the other two made for their very first edit. (Msjugran:, Shaqueeeee: ) Egsan Bacon (talk) 22:01, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * blocked as an obvious sockpuppet. As checkuser has been requested, I'm not tagging nor closing at the moment. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:10, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ to . Reblocked and tagged, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  06:03, 21 September 2022 (UTC)