Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sidsin17/Archive

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The main account was adding poorly sourced and/or promotional content to a BLP page and appeared to have a strong CoI. I asked around in TeaHouse and a rollbacker added a CoI welcome (asking to declare CoI if any) to the user while reverting their previous edits. Since then 2 separate IPs have reinstated roughly the same content on the page. The page was protected earlier when there was a spate of vandalism to remove info on a widely known controversy. All the accounts and IPs involved in that were new users and with similar edits. They all combined (pre-protection and post-protection) have made almost the same edits to the page. Two of the IPs (164.100.26.9x) have also made edits to a couple of other pages as well - possibly shared IPs as there are a couple of pages that are unique to each of them. I still suspect both as the addresses are almost the same.

All the accounts appear to follow the same or similar behaviour. They made some suspicious edits which were reverted and they got called out. They made at most a few more "benign" edits on the page and then basically disappeared only for a new account to show up and start making suspicious edits. These could be two separate groups of sockpuppets - one focusing on the achievements of the person and one focusing on the controversy but the similarity in IP addresses makes me believe they are all the same.

Diffs -
 * 164.100.26.98
 * Special:Permalink/1030832339 - achievements - reinstated recently reverted edit


 * Sidsin17
 * Special:Permalink/1030376302 - achievements - the edit that was reverted by rollbacker when they added a CoI welcome


 * 164.100.26.97
 * Special:Permalink/964220071 - earliest promotional edit
 * Special:Permalink/1030833165 - controversy - unsourced edit in defence


 * 103.161.56.222
 * Special:Permalink/1014489486 - controversy - removal of sourced content that was reverted when protection was applied to page


 * Shubhangi06
 * Special:Permalink/999726328 - controversy - removal of sourced content that was reverted when protection was applied to page


 * Madmashup
 * Special:Permalink/999729626 - controversy - removal of sourced content that was reverted when protection was applied to page

-Ujwal.Xankill3r (talk) 09:57, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * Sidsin17 and Madmashup are (same country, bad geolocation). Shubhangi06 is . My money is on meatpuppetry. . Closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:24, 29 June 2021 (UTC)