Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Somesh9041/Archive

10 September 2015

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Not sure which is actually the sockmaster and which are the puppets, but over the past few days there have been a large chunk of niche articles on "rule-based" manufacture processes such as Rule Based Design for Manufacturability - Deep Hole Drilling, Rule Based DFM Analysis for Casting, Rule Based DFM analysis for Injection Molding, Rule based DFM analysis for Deep drawing, Rule Based DFM analysis for Electric Discharge Machining, Draft:DFM Guidelines for Metal Extrusion Process and DFM Guidelines for Hot Metal Extrusion Process. The obscurity of the topic and the ethnic similarities of the usernames in combination with the general format of names mixed with numbers leads me to believe this is a case of Sockpuppetry. RegistryKey(RegEdit) 15:18, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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Possibly related to a school assignment. Can a limited CU be done to see if all are from the same IP that's likely under a schoolblock, perhaps (guessing) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi? If so, let's AGF and try to engage with the students, try to contact the professor and guide all of them to the Education program tutorials and guide them how to make a Wikipedia page. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 21:28, 10 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I had just written a long SPI report about this, but the possibility of a school assignment has given me pause. I do think there is some assignment going on.  See, specially their user page, who was picked up by the autoblock on . Pinging Yunshui regarding this account.


 * Other articles that I had deleted, but will stop doing so:
 * Rule Based Design for Manufacturability for Spot Welding Process
 * DFM Analysis for Die Casting
 * Rule based Design guidelines - Stamping
 * Rule Based DFM Analysis for Die Casting
 * Rule Based DFM analysis of extrusion process
 * Rule Based analysis of Extrusion Process
 * Rule based DFM analysis for metal spinning
 * Draft:Rule Based analysis of upsetting manufacturing process
 * Draft:Rule based manufacturing of Injection Molding: Revision history
 * Or Special:PrefixIndex/Rule%20Based and Special:PrefixIndex/Rule%20based


 * I added in the list of accounts that I had tracked down. I also directly asked if they are taking a course since they are responding to messages.  Maybe that will shed some light on what is going on. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:11, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I did some Googling and now I'm positive that this a course related to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. These are all students there . Perhaps we should close this SPI and move the discussion to Education noticeboard/Incidents? -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:41, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * User:MEL434IITD and likely others would be added to the list of accounts after a CU.. MEL434IITD's trying to comment here (see history).  I see he added a link to the class roll.  His talk page note here led to my comment above.  I see several are already indef blocked for sockpuppetry.  Hoping to invoke Hanlon's razor so original accounts will be unblocked.  They didn't know about rules against multiple accounts and were desperate to find a way to earn a grade in their class.  I hope one of us can find and engage the professor and get him involved in the Education program so that students aren't again put in a situation that will get them into trouble.   DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 14:44, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I just unblocked the Risav1994 account and asked him to do me a favor and have his instructor got to the Wikipedia Education Program. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:56, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

I closed this SPI down. I think we are all convinced that this is not a malicious case of sockpuppetry. Moving the discussion over to WP:ENI where it is better suited. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:59, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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