Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trend7773/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Two users restoring Hari7773's last preferred version of the Bishangarh article prior to that user's block, restoring empty/misnamed sections and removing citation needed tags in the process.

Both Balotra and Maru Pradesh have also made malformed edit requests at Talk:India, and Balotra's most recent edit prior to the creation of the Maru Pradesh account was to the article about ... the Maru Pradesh region. Belbury (talk) 16:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - There's at least one earlier account,, so I'm requesting a check to look for others before potentially moving the case. Bbb23 (talk) 17:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * To complicate things further, this may be related to Sockpuppet investigations/Bishangarh.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:53, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Added Manish 4 4, who has also been advocating changing the name of the India article. The contribution history suggests an unlikely relationship, however, but I thought I'd add it in here to check. ~Anachronist (talk) 04:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, that is not a very uncommon POV or unexpected request. Is there any other evidence other than that? MarioGom (talk) 19:52, 1 November 2023 (UTC)


 * is ✅ to, and also to .  is almost certainly the same person - they operate out of the same ranges, using the same fairly distinctive UA, but I don't have them on the same IP at the same time so it's very  rather than confirmed. Blocking the above. Manish4 4 did not show up in any of my checks, and I tend to agree with MarioGom that it's a common enough viewpoint to be coincidence - I'm leaving them alone.  - I looked at the link to the Bishangarh case. The accounts there are stale, but the CU logs tell me that they edit out of the same range; however, it is probably the most-abused range in the world, there are dozens of other sockmasters and trolls (not to mention good faith users) who use it, so I wouldn't go stronger than . Would you care to consider tagging and moving as necessary?   Girth Summit  (blether)  15:11, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Some questions/concerns. I assume we are not going to merge this report into the Bishangarh case? Considering that you are not confirming the new master (Trend7773), what would the tagging look like? Finally, patrolling administrators are not supposed to move cases, so I've always avoided doing so. I don't think it's a move that requires an admin clerk, so couldn't take care of the tagging and the move?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:24, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, you're quite right - a clerk should do any move/merging. I don't have a view on the strength of the connection to Bishangarh - you mentioned that above, I'm not aware of the behavioural evidence that caused you to suggest it, all I'm saying with regards to that is that it's definitely possible. With regards to Trend7773, I'd suggest tagging these as confirmed to each other, and suspected to Trend7773 (or to Bishangarh if we're sufficiently convinced of that connection). Girth Summit  (blether)  18:09, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * In the Bishangarh case, the socks, most of which have 0 or few edits, intersected on 3 articles. Of those three, socks in this case edited two of the articles, Maru Pradesh and Proposed states and union territories of India. Also, note the username similarity between the socks in this case - Maru Pradesh, Bharat and Balotra - and the socks in the Bishangarh case, e.g., Balotra Municipal Corporation and IndiaMaru. All that said, I'm not going to request a merge now in case someone else wants to do further behavioral analysis. I'll leave it for a short time.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Regarding the Bishangarh link, it's reasonable enough for it to be coincidental with two different sockmasters that reside in Maru Pradesh. There also isn't a lot to miss in not merging since the accounts there are stale and the range is said to be very active, so if I do get that wrong I'm not too miffed about it. is behaviourally similar to the rest of the accounts and CU returns a positive result, so as the proven oldest account I am moving the case there; but they're not confirmed, so only tagging their userpage as a suspected master., , , and  are all confirmed to one another, so tagged as such to Hari7773 (the oldest account) and to Trend7773 as the proven altmaster.  is almost certainly unrelated and therefore left alone. DatGuyTalkContribs 15:02, 7 December 2023 (UTC)