Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Swapnil.pathre/Archive

15 July 2015

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Multiple accounts all working on similar article requesting its undeletion(before it was deleted) and very similar naming convention. Looks like a duck sounds like a duck creates articles and names itself like a duck. Check requested for sleepers as multiple accounts created in short succession. Amortias (T)(C) 18:40, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Possible longer term problem see [] for last case with similar name. Amortias(T)(C) 18:48, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Third possible sock linked due to similar name and recent creation.

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In looking this over, I added Swapnil vasudeo pathre. Not sure if a CU is actually necessary (could only compare the new accounts as the master is stale), but I'll let a clerk decide whether to endorse and why.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:54, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
 * - Those are almost certainly socks, but a sleepers check might be useful (master is stale, others are no). We can see that NIRDUDE SWAPNIL has no edits, so there might be more yet unnoticed accounts. By the way, I don't think this has any connection to the Mrpontiac1 case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  07:42, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * with regards to sleepers. Accounts are related.  NIRDUDE SWAPNIL was created through WP:ACC, so I've left a note there. NativeForeigner Talk 14:07, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - All accounts should be indeffed per CU finding.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:54, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * All blocked now.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:29, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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At least the first 6 continuing the efforts of the previous socks to create an autobiography for a non-notable local politician. The 7th has a sufficiently similar user name & topic of editing. In view of the number of socks already seen it is doubtless worth checking for further sleepers. David Biddulph (talk) 10:46, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * To add insult to injury, one of the socks blanked this page (before being blocked). --David Biddulph (talk) 11:05, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Added Khushipathre who created Mr.swapnilpathre and other variations on a familiar theme. JohnCD (talk) 11:50, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * All of these are complete ducks, most of them having existed for the sole or principal purpose of creating copies of the same deleted self-promotional page, in several different namespaces. I have blocked them all except Khushipathre, which was already blocked by JohnCD. The accounts were created at various dates, the first of them two days after the master and the last of the previous socks were blocked, the latest more than a year later. All of these new socks, however, were created without any of them being blocked, and at least one of them did not edit for several months after being created, so the possibility of further sleepers is a real one, and a CU would be welcome. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:54, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * - Sleeper check requested; may prove lucrative. GABgab 19:03, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Everything I can see is blocked, however the size of the ranges used are not conducive to a sleeper check.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:03, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:59, 18 October 2016 (UTC)