Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thiyyan/Archive

23 April 2012

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Thiyyar, which is by past consensus a POV fork, was created by the sockmaster. That person has also been busy changing links at other articles in order to direct them to the new article. The alleged socks are all demonstrating similar behaviour and are all recently registered users (+ the anon account). This swarming around a new and contested article, which is currently at AfD, suggests at least some form of off-wiki co-ordination and/or meatpuppetry but my past experience with caste-related articles gives me cause for concern that it may in fact be socking. Concerns have been raised by others, eg: here and here. I realise that you cannot connect IPs to user names but nonetheless the activities of the IP need to be looked into. Sitush (talk) 14:40, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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All of the named accounts appear ❌ to each other. TN X Man 18:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)