Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shivam268/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * - created Infinite fins
 * - created Anandakuti vihar
 * - created Production facilities
 * - created Plate Boundaries
 * - created Functoin of lubrication, Mechanical and pneumatic governor, Benifits of mrp, Methods of purchasing, added copyvio to Lubrication
 * - created Multi bearing, Purchasing by requirment, Features of pocess layout, Fixed position layout
 * - created Limitations to Supercharging, Backlashing in Keys
 * - created Input processing instructions
 * - created Green engine technology, Invitation to vendors
 * - created Fuel injection pump
 * - created Motoring Test, Richer Coasting System
 * - created AUTOMATION PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES, Automation principle and strategies
 * - created Surface resistance to radiation, Automated assembly system
 * - created Automation migration strategy, Flow patterns in plant, Storage buffer
 * - created Working of a reciprocationg pump, High speed cams, Spring Surge,unbalance,wind up
 * - created Application of group technology
 * - created Air washer
 * - created Air Film Lubrication
 * - created Outputs of MRP
 * - created Multi Compressor System, Backslashing in Key
 * - created Stages of combustion in SI engine, Supervisory control in automation
 * - created Transistorized coil ignition, Crankshaft Bearing
 * - created Air refrigerartion system, Line balancing in a production system
 * - created Space resistance to radiation, Space resistance
 * - created P&Q systems of inventory, Inspection Principles
 * - created Speed reducer, Elements of an automated system, Hybrid pvt collectors
 * - created Conveyor analysis
 * - created Advanced automation functions
 * - created T5-52
 * - created Automated production lines, Workpart transfer mechanisms
 * - created Stress in rotating rings and went on with editing Stainless steel
 * - added significant text to Organizational behavior that was almost certainly copyvio


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Well. Since I came back to NPP, I've seen a spate of articles from (usually) single-use accounts, all posting copyrighted information from technical textbooks. I brought this up in ANI (see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Series_of_very_brief_pages_on_highly_technical_subjects) and haven't gotten a lot of traction. This could be sockpuppets or meatpuppets, perhaps it is some homework assignment, but this is overwhelming NPP. Mr. Vernon (talk) 08:15, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Also notice many similarities in the names. Besides the South Asian origin, you have frequent pairs: Singhkumar/Skumar125, Amik9pande/Kami9pande, Anushu100/Anshulsingh870, etc. If you need article names, you should be able to find lists on the Talk pages (since I used Twinkle and they should automatically have been added. Of course the contents are gone but a few books came up more than once.) --Mr. Vernon (talk) 08:43, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I added to the list.  De728631 (talk) 23:08, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Reminds me of the India Education Program, which also resulted in lots of badly written articles on technical topics from South Asian editors, many of which were copyvio, duplicates or promotional. I can readily believe this is a class assignment, but whether we block them as a result is another matter.  Hut 8.5  10:41, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd think fairly certainly a class (or classes...) assignment. One where Wikipedia has not been properly explained to the class. I did a Google search on Grouprsv as that was the only one that I saw that argued about deletion, and by the name could possibly be an instructor posting examples. I couldn't find anything seeming to be related, but I didn't go too far as there was heavy irrelevancy from other rsv subjects. This appears to be the only one not editing under a personal name, judging from the list above. I can predict that a CU would find a relationship of IP, but probably not machine. Definitely a geographic link. I hope that the instructor has taken note, but in previous cases they seem to think they know Wikipedia better than we do, and that if it isn't what they think it is, it ought to be changed to fit them. Peridon (talk) 12:13, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure how we are supposed to be patient with them. Articles are still being created, see Richer Coasting System, this user was given an l4 warning and they still went ahead with creating it. What should we do? --Mr. Vernon (talk) 15:54, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I've tagged it A10. Peridon (talk) 19:12, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I also tagged another Workpart transfer mechanisms‎ which was a blatant copyvio (thanks to Google Books.) I am a bit concerned that some editors have just added a redirect to another article - my understanding is that the copyrighted text must be removed, and we should always notify someone so that this can happen. Is that correct? --Mr. Vernon (talk) 19:18, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * The trouble is, we don't know who the puppet-master is - if indeed there is one - so we risk tarring all these individuals with the same brush. Deb (talk) 19:40, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - very common behavior for a class assignment. A bit of patience and communication with the users. Materialscientist (talk) 09:32, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I am closing this investigation, as it does not appear to be a case of sockpuppetry. OF course, that does not mean that there aren't problems with these editors, and those problems must be dealt with. As Materialscientist rightly says, in the first instance the way to deal with them, as in any case of good faith but problematic editing, is patience and communication. That is more difficult in a case like this one than in a more typical case, because of the very large number of editors to communicate with, but it still must be done. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:14, 23 November 2016 (UTC)