Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The Floka/Archive

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Similar editing style and on similar topics. Responds the same way as master when their edits undone. Knows way too much about Wikipedia for a 2 hour old account. Human (talk) 12:05, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * 100% the same editor. Only editing in Pakistan cricket-related articles, after the original account was blocked, such as Babar Azam. Assumes that editors are only here to "increase their edit counts" The Floka, TabiMah1234.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 12:20, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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✅, blocked and tagged. No sleepers found. --Yamla (talk) 12:40, 14 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Looks like there is nothing left to do here. Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 16:25, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The Floka was blocked in Nov 2020 and almost straight away tried to avoid their block with a sock account (see the archive). No red flags until now, when this new account started to edit in Feb 22. Their very first edit was to create this draft of a Pakistani cricketer, and area Floka was prolific in, with this being their third edit. Their next batch of edits was to the same article, finishing with this. Quite good for a new editor to get all the infobox syntax correct, along with the DMY tags, ref format, authority control and stub tag.

There is a lot of overlap between the two, including multiple edits by both accounts on Babar Azam, List of Pakistan Super League records and statistics, Pakistan Super League and List of Pakistan One Day International cricket records. There's also a batch of edits to three templates: ICC Top 10 ODI Batsmen, ICC Top 10 ODI Bowlers and ICC Top 10 ODI All-rounders, an area I wouldn't expect a new editor just to get stuck into from the word go.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 12:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Based on some old CU logs, Babar A. Khan 85 is to The Floka.  With the extensive editing overlap, blocking as proven. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:00, 11 April 2022 (UTC)