Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Spjimr/Archive

17 June 2015

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COI editing on S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research. While some of these accounts have already been blocked for violations of the username policy. It appears that a person or group insists on creating new accounts every time they want to make changes to this article. Requesting check user to find any sleepers. Also, any recommendations to block future socks? I have requested semi-protection on the page in the meanwhile. Diifs: Special:Diff/667174524 Special:Diff/667298296 Special:Diff/653761029 Special:Diff/626579978 Special:Diff/626312757 -War wizard90 (talk) 05:38, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:34, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Two caveats to bear in mind. First, there are very edits by the accounts. Second, there is a significant lapse in time between SPJIMR Editor's edits and the other two non-stale accounts.
 * The following accounts are :
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * is to the two confirmed accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:45, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffing confirmed accounts plus stale Spmba, tagging and closing. Semi-protection may not be warranted here as the socking is infrequent...better to revert as you see them unless the frequency increases.
 * is to the two confirmed accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:45, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffing confirmed accounts plus stale Spmba, tagging and closing. Semi-protection may not be warranted here as the socking is infrequent...better to revert as you see them unless the frequency increases.
 * is to the two confirmed accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:45, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffing confirmed accounts plus stale Spmba, tagging and closing. Semi-protection may not be warranted here as the socking is infrequent...better to revert as you see them unless the frequency increases.

05 October 2015

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The IP is involved at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research and Delhi Technological University rather obviously being used by the listed accounts when accidentally logged out, e.g. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S._P._Jain_Institute_of_Management_and_Research&diff=674465661&oldid=674465387]. and co-editing so fast that the timestamps have been  the same [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S._P._Jain_Institute_of_Management_and_Research&diff=674482754&oldid=674482728]. It looks like paid editing by two accounts which are actually coordinated meatpuppets at least.

This edit [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delhi_Technological_University&type=revision&diff=684259640&oldid=684117640] by the IP on Delhi Technological University introduced Paytm and One97. This involves as creator of One97 Communications who is now indeffed for paid editing, also less directly  and  (see more details at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 87) but they might both be too stale for action. Note however that Arr4 is an Orangemoody associate and this might suggest further checkuser actions.

Please refer to WP:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard for full details. Brianhe (talk) 17:07, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


 * There appears to be at least one IP and one registered user active recently. – Brianhe (talk) 23:47, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:44, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've hardblocked the IP for three years as it is static with one of the previously blocked editors still trying to use it. I'm paying attention to the COIN thread and waiting to see their responses. That hardblock may create problems for them and then we will know.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:50, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing for now as this seems to have worked. Please refile if there is further evidence of illegitimate socking.

26 November 2015

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Both accounts have the common interest of spamming at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research which all the archived socks have. Anadichaturvedi did this which was reverted by, then VismayH came by to redo the edit and edit war with other editors. This was brought in at an earlier SPI but that was archived without action on the accounts due to an IP hardblock, I'm guessing there are other IPs involved. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:11, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Notifying and  about this SPI as they both have talk page discussions related to it. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:13, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

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Blatant COI editing and meatpuppeting at the very least. --Neil N  talk to me 09:17, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Pinging checkuser. - Brianhe (talk) 09:31, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Master and all previous sock are stale. CU should compare those two accounts to each other.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:33, 26 November 2015 (UTC)


 * VismayH is highly related to Anadichaturvedi. ✅ as VismayH is .  Elockid  Message me 14:13, 26 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Combining technical findings with behavioral evidence I have blocked all three accounts as likely socks of Spjimr. Closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  14:58, 26 November 2015 (UTC)