Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sankararamank/Archive

29 October 2013

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This looks like a juvenile and mistaken attempt at sockpuppetry, bit one never knows, so I have started the investigation. It is always possible that the alleged puppet is a family member. The editor concerned is very proud of his family, but it feels odd. I have chosen not to notify the editors concerned, preferring to keep this low key. Fiddle  Faddle  23:25, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * The users are already blocked; nothing to do here Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 21:18, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

26 November 2013

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Desire for pre-emptive prot of own userpage, creation of same Template:Pp-semi-lock to put padlock on own userpage. xFascination with the Muni/Ayan film series (including creating pages for not-yet-released ones). Also Sankararamank requested other page-proptections to enforce his own versions of some Muni-related films, and created other padlock templates to do so. Creation of articles in someone else's User: namespace, which are also about topics closely related to each other (User:Jaippavan Yaar and User:S.Krishnan). Sankararamank also engaged in other user-space page-move and -creation bad behavior (including creation of User:SDMCKS (blocked via CU)).

Lots of this behavior is suspicious for a new editor, so there may be an older master or SPI.

115.247.165.146 claims to be Sankararamank.

DMacks (talk) 15:10, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Just noticed both named accounts also had copy-pasted templates onto their userpages rather than transluding or subst:ing (identical unusual (esp for newbie) behavior). DMacks (talk) 18:08, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * Closing as master and both suspected socks have been blocked and no sleeper check has been requested. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:19, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

28 November 2013

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I am unsure about this, but IF displays the same love of movies as S, and also inserts little padlocks to suggest protection on his articles. He displays the same linguistic abilities (shared with several tens of millions of his fellow countrymen), and a similar lack of WP:COMPETENCE, shared by hundreds of millions of us across the world. I suspect use of Checkuser would seal this beyond doubt, and part of me hopes I am mistaken. This is the reason I have chosen not to notify IF. If he is not a sockpuppet then why should he have an embarrassing note on his talk page? If he is one then process will take its course Fiddle   Faddle  14:22, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * Another common behavior is copy-pasting of userbox template sources (rather than transclusion/substitution). This seems to be a *very* rare behavior on WP. Given the relatively long time these accounts have been active before someone recognizes their behavior, CU might help us find others who have not yet been noticed (there are zillions of mediocre and poor editors on Indian-film/personality articles, anything to cut down that time-waste would be appreciated). DMacks (talk) 20:06, 28 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Another common behavior (also as I noted in previous report) is pre-emptive request for prot of userpage and favorite articles. Based on that, I'm indef'ing this editor as obvious sock, but still suspect there may be others out there. DMacks (talk) 20:08, 28 November 2013 (UTC)




 * This IP seems to say he is caught in Sankararamank's autoblock, and his other edit is to Nenjam Marappathillai, which is one of Indian Fellow's pet articles. DMacks (talk) 04:30, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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See heading of 2013-12-02. -- Avi (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Indian Fellow tagged and blocked indef. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:32, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

29 November 2013

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Block evasion and the same style of editing as the sockmaster and his multiple puppets. Do we have sleepers? Checkuser is needed I think. This time I choose to notify them. The overarching problem here is WP:COMPETENCE together with an imperfect grasp of even basic English Fiddle   Faddle  13:57, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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And another: Same symptoms of WP:CIR problems with communicating, misunderstanding of deletion and protection systems, same favorite other editors and article-targets, and use of each others' userspace. DMacks (talk) 17:34, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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See heading of 2013-12-02. -- Avi (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Ramesh Rahul tagged and blocked indef. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:32, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

02 December 2013

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This just carries on and on. Same naive edits on user and talk pages. Same knowledge of other linked users' talk pages. Same film interests. Checkuser for sleepers etc, please. Fiddle  Faddle  14:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh good grief. See this diff for an admission! Fiddle   Faddle  14:43, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

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. Whilst the specific IPs are different, the used ranges are very close (owned by same companies; same local geopolitical area, even between ranges) and the other technical information is identical. It is my opinion that the technical evidence can serve to confirm behavioral activity as being sock/meat puppets. -- Avi (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Amsaveni Suganya tagged and blocked indef. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:32, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

11 December 2013

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Same focus on building userspace with prot and template games, and on certain film-stars and their supposed films. DMacks (talk) 14:55, 11 December 2013 (UTC) DMacks (talk) 14:55, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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Sankararamank is a sockpuppet himself. see Sockpuppet investigations/Amaravathiarun/Archive Fiddle   Faddle  15:04, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * D'oh, forgot that got [confirmed]. Clerk, should these cases get merged, or at least leave a non-archived note here pointing to there? DMacks (talk) 15:07, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Only clerk action needed here, see DMacks' comment above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:28, 21 December 2013 (UTC)