Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thesatyam/Archive

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All users are editing in the same area and Thesatyam recreated Draft:Rahul Kaul earlier created by the master. He first created this in draft space and then copied and pasted to mainspace (Rahul Kaul) after the submission was declined and used the same image which was uploaded by the master as own work. Dangerrohit was registered last week and his first edit was to from Draft:Satyam Kumar and then repeated the same thing at,  and  all created by Thesatyam. GSS (talk |c|em ) 09:00, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


 * As per this (Satyam Kumar is an Indian entrepreneur... and then a backlink to Satyam Kumar) I can confidently say that Satyam Kumar (Draft:Satyam Kumar) who is the founder and CEO of Dataoxy (a company that provides digital marketing services) is the same person who is using these accounts and the username Iamskindia also sounds like I am Satyam Kumar India, after looking at their clients page I found they have developed a website for Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and then creating an article for Mithilesh Gautam who is an activist from the same organization is a clear-cut case of undisclosed paid editing. GSS (talk |c|em ) 11:33, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

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Group 1 are ✅ to each other:

Group 2 are ✅ to each other and on the same proxy:

This next account has a distinct UA on the same proxy as the above two groups that has nothing but socks. Timing of creation suggests that it may be from Group 1.

Group 3 are ✅ to each other and from an additional range shared by but  to others here:

Group 4 has many UAs and account creation was every few minutes for an hour and a half for most of them. IPs were mostly reset to new every couple a minutes as the accounts were created but not always. A couple of times, the pairings are on the same IPs and devices. Behavior certainly groups them and some of them are editing into sandboxes of other accounts that are not in the CU time window and therefore not listed here. It may be possible that it is a class but I haven't seen anything to confirm that. . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:29, 20 June 2018 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:03, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the accounts in Groups 1-3 except Swarajita roy without tags pending the evaluation of Group 4 and deciding how to tag. If Swarajita roy starts to edit, their behavior may be evaluated at that time.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:12, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * the accounts in group 4 seem clearly related, and there's good cause to suspect they're sleepers for a UPE operation. But none have edited since April. If any start editing and match the behaviours of this case, the entire group should be blocked. I think that group 2 is probably the same thing but a couple months later. I'm not sure what to think about group 3, the technical result makes me think they're an associated group of spammers but not the same person/operation. I'm tagging groups 1 and 2 and leaving the rest. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm of a mind to move this case to Thesatyam, since Iamskindia is stale and not confirmed, while all the other accounts are evaluated based on connections to Thesatyam. Am I about to do something bad? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:31, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm okay with the move if BH doesn't object.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:56, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Ivanvector, No objections here.
 * ✅, tags updated. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:29, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The suspected user was registered 10 days after was blocked. He first from Ashish Kumar Singh and then  from Raman Kapoor both articles were created by Thesatyam. GSS (talk |c|em ) 06:44, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ that and  belong to the same editor. - Mailer Diablo 15:10, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing for procedure; will tag when I figure out the report above. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:48, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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SPA who was registered yesterday editing in the same area and from Mithilesh Gautam which was created by their previous sock. GSS (talk |c|em ) 03:54, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * per history. I'll see about cleaning up the older open cases. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:42, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ to previous socks, e.g., + . .--Bbb23 (talk) 14:05, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Tag updated after case move. Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:30, 22 September 2018 (UTC)