Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sunny singh9128/Archive

29 September 2015

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This is a bit of a complex mess with the troubles shared between en.wiki, Commons, and hi.wiki. The master is not the oldest account, but it is the oldest active account (I suspect that the oldest account is which has been inactive for about eight years now. The main issue here is copyright violations. As can be seen from the master's talk page this has been a persistent problem since 2009. I came across this a couple of days ago when there was some spurious PD-tagging on Commons. The file was deleted there, and subsequently was brought here and uploaded as something lik my uncle owns the copyright. I deleted and blocked as this was effectively the third license for the same image in less than 48 hours and there was the history of copyvios. While unearthing the other copyvios I also found some by the sock account, and invariably went to Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bn bt ec01. Now, the master has gone to that same deletion discussion and done the weird re license tagging of images. The en.wiki evidence is available at the history of major articles like Anuragh Narayan Sinha where both accounts have a fondness for promotion and adding images. In addition there's this post by the sock: "...I have been a Wikipedia Contributor since last 9-10 years and all the pages/link pages you would find related to Bihar Vibhuti Dr. A N Sinha's family have been created & maintained by me..." which seems to be a clincher that there are multiple accounts at play here and given that the listed master was the one "maintaining" that page for at least three years before this one came up, it seems to be a clear indication of socking. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  04:32, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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✅. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:58, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

06 November 2015

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Few edits but there's the common theme of "verifiable facts" and "pic needed". Compare edit summary with ;  and. The issue is that there was a boat load of copyvios here and on Commons from the old socks, so it's good that the user is requesting pictures, but then it's also block evasion which will likely see a repeat of how the original socking started. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:32, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * Sorry for the trouble to the clerk/CU who will now have to archive this, I opened the Commons page but forgot to look at it while filing the SPI. It's a CU confirmed sock on Commons, and with the behavioral evidence here it's sufficient for a block and I have done so. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:36, 6 November 2015 (UTC)