Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sscomputers201/Archive

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Opening SPI since this has been going on a while. There are some CIR concerns and possible undisclosed paid editing concerns related to Sscomputers201's editing.


 * Circa 2017, Sscomputers201 created the vanity article Virendra Singh Patyal, which was deleted twice. At some point he tried to create the article on the talk page of that article, which is one of many examples of competency issues. He then created Draft:Virendra Singh Patyal, who I guess is notable because he has a job? The article was deleted.
 * Star Cast Picture recreated the draft article in Jan 2019, it was also edited by Saims243, both of whom are presumed socks of Sscomputer201. The article was again deleted, then recreated nine months later by PriyaSaim, who is a clear duck of Saims243. Random piece of info, Saims claims to be a journalist here.
 * Two months later, Meribaat is taking a stab at creating the draft. One thing of note is that Meribaat's formatting seems way different than other iterations of this article. They're using bold formatting in their section headings, underline formatting in section headings, and other weirdness that I haven't seen in other versions. This opens the possibility that it's a different person, but part of the same ring. But they are using the same photo of Patyal that I remember seeing in the last version. It's a b/w photo with Oct 1, 2019 stamped across the front of it.
 * Meribaat has three articles of intersection with the master, PLUS the draft article.
 * The current version of the draft has a great intro: "Virendra Singh Patyal popularly known as Virendra Singh Patyal or Virendra Singh Patyal". Not much of a bullet point, but it is funny.

Anyway, while it's been easy to clobber most of these as ducky sock/meatpuppetry, it's not unheard of for these rings to create one account per article. So for that reason I'm curious if a CU could link this user to PriyaSaim at the very least, and find any other accounts related to this group. I know the master and a few of the socks are gonna be stale though. I also feel like Sscomputers201 might have been related to another sock group whose master is escaping me. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:53, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * The two non-stale accounts are . TonyBallioni (talk) 00:30, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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overlap here, here and recreating this Praxidicae (talk) 13:22, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * Blocked based on behavior. Closing. ST47 (talk) 03:47, 21 December 2019 (UTC)