Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sarang Anil Nakade/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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I recently indefinitely blocked as a spam-only SPA created specifically to promote Shri Gopal Puri. Since I blocked the presumed sockmaster, a number of newly created accounts have started editing Shri Gopal Puri (see ) which is rather suspicious. Requesting check for socks & sleepers. Thanks,  F ASTILY   09:14, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * I added Sarang Anil Nakade, who created the Yami tan account and also attempted to create an article on Sarang Nakade   - suspicious behaviour, please CU to confirm and check for others. (Sarang Anil Nakade is the oldest account, but I'll leave the case here for now in case CU finds an older master). Thanks, Spicy (talk) 16:06, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 18:37, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Yami tan is ✅ to Sarang Anil Nakade, which isn't a surprise given this log entry. I suspect, however, that the log message is disingenuous; they claim they lost access to the first account, yet they were logged into that account when they made the second one.  The rest of the accounts appear to be ❌, with widely scattered locations across two continents.  Some of the IP addresses used suggest proxy use.    -- RoySmith (talk) 19:00, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * After taking a second look at this, I realized that these new users all started editing the article after cleanup tags were applied, and many of their edits are tagged as "Newcomer tasks". The edits from these accounts are mostly minor gnoming (one is outright vandalism). I think the page must be showing up on the newbie portal because of the cleanup tags, which is how new users are finding it. I'm going to close this with no action against the other users (I am suspicious of, but not enough to block) - however, should be indeffed per the block on Yami tan.  - please indef Sarang Anil Nakade. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:00, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Done - hope I tagged correctly! firefly  ( t · c ) 17:00, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Fixed tags on . Archiving. --Jack Frost (talk) 12:47, 28 May 2022 (UTC)