Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sirdevesh/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both accounts were used to generate the obviously promotional (and now deleted) Draft:Devesh Mishra. This second sock account was used to recreate the page once it was G11'd. I had various chats with this editor via IRC chat. They claim that creation of this page was an assignment from their "professor", as a creative writing exercise.

It seems more likely that this second account was created because this editor knew that IRC helpers had become interested in what they were doing. They presumed (incorrectly) that making a new account would conceal their activities. Salimfadhley (talk) 14:13, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

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I also chatted with the second individual on IRC, thinking that it might be a case (which we see often) of someone creating an account as the subject they wish to write about, then starting a new account because they do not know you can simply request a rename. They said they had only one account, so with nearly identical versions of the draft written by two different accounts I ran a check. The two accounts are ✅ and have been blocked. Primefac (talk) 16:19, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)