Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheDevNegi/Archive

26 February 2015

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Aside from the fact that "TheDevNegi" is openly in a COI situation owing to his near exclusive edits to the page Dev Negi I suspect that these two accounts may be linked to one editor; both have a near obsessive streak with the Dev Negi article, the former recreating it repeatedly after deletion, but what struck me here was the use of the bare url references, which seem to be repeatedly added to the article by both accounts. Since the articles been afd'd, csd'd, and re-re-re-etc-created, the evidencing here gets a little tricky, but if you look at the edits before the article is deleted for the former account and compare with the currently rebuilt article under prack's watch you can see the odd similarity of two accounts with minimal edit histories, no userpages, and mostly deleted edits to the article in question coming up with the same sources and using the same general format to add them. I admit its not much, but it does arouse some suspicion of sock puppetry on my end. TomStar81 (Talk) 12:48, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * An admin is needed to evaluate the evidence because contributions are deleted.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:56, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The timeline appears to be that the article was originally created in November, deleted at AfD, reposted recently by the alleged master, deleted by Tom under CSD G4, then reposted by the alleged sock. The latest version is very different and much more complete. I'm not convinced that these accounts belong to a single person, although it's possible that there is some sort of connection. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  21:00, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * - for repeatedly creating Dev Negi articles and uploading photos of Dev Negi ( and ).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:59, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:33, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sock + master -- I hesitated on indef'ing the master or not, but seeing from the COI (and attempt the dissimulate it), and the file upload problems, I think indef'ing is the right way forward because the user does not seem to understand (or want to follow) Wikipedia's policy and purpose, even if it leads to an unblock request and discussion with the user. ☺ ·   Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  18:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

20 March 2015

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recreated of the page that the original made (plus the name is already offensive enough) Wgolf (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * well that didn't take long to come back up now did it? I add as well, as that account seems tied into the article and the master sock. TomStar81 (Talk) 16:48, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note that was blocked for username violations. The unblock request has been granted in order to allow a requested name change (which has not yet happened). Admins should keep an eye on what new username is chosen to possibly apply any sanctions.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 23:36, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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I've blocked both accounts as this seems pretty clear to me. Devism tried to use the same image as Prackashrawat. ScrewHue picked up where the previous accounts left off by recreating the article. ScrewHue tries to use the same image as the previous accounts. The account (1, 2) also has similar habits as Prackashrawat (3,4), such as copy editing his own article. The article has been creation protected for a while and there doesn't appear to be any other accounts involved, so I don't think a check is needed. Mike V • Talk 03:08, 23 March 2015 (UTC)