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Suspected sockpuppets



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All of these editors have the same edit active on the one article Nimal Lanza. It would appear that they are either sockpuppets or meat puppets, acting on behalf of Lanza or his supporters. They have all repeatedly tried to add the exact same promotional material. I am assuming that this is to do with Lanza's re-election campaign. Dan arndt (talk) 09:57, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
  Some interesting similarities between the edits of NimallanzamediaShameerayapaShameerayapaNimanthakaperera97 (in the table) and NimallanzamediaShameerayapaWvshehan (a section). Nirmalsk has only an username pattern and page topic in common and is for checkuser purposes. Nimanthakaperera97 is also stale. The other three accounts have recent edits that are timely enough for checkuser. Not sure if this is socking or meatpuppetry so asking for CU with the abovementioned similar edits as evidence. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:04, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Nimallanzamedia and Shameerayapa are ✅, Wvshehan is, and indeed the other two are . Blocked the confirmed accounts. ST47 (talk) 01:07, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I would block Wvshehan for sure; only 4 edits, all to Nimal Lanza, plus their first edit just screams out, "I'm not a brand new user". And, of course, the "likely" CU finding.   Nirmalsk has a single edit, to Nimal Lanza, so pretty certain they're also a sock.  Somewhat less confident about Nimanthakaperera97 but overall, it seems very likely.  I'd indef them all.  -- RoySmith (talk) 04:30, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , a block for all seems reasonable. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:10, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:24, 19 May 2020 (UTC)