Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Uday88mandal/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Both are very much interested/obsessed over Samata Party and Uday Mandal — DaxServer (t · m · c) 18:31, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * vs
 * Uday Mandal article recreations and further bypass Articles for deletion/Uday Mandal (Bihar Politician)
 * Uday88mandal is obvious COI with sockpuppet username transliterated to "Samata 1988", the year representing the year Uday Mandal was supposedly born
 * If confirmed, please request global locks, like that of sockmaster

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 * Master is . Ran check on the sock. Their IPs are very dynamic but no other accounts seen. This will have to be decided on their edits. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:15, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - the username similarity + focus on Uday Mandal and Samata Party are enough to convince me. Please indef समता1988 as a suspected sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 16:59, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged as a suspected sock. Closing. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 11:21, 4 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I requested a lock. Spicy (talk) 15:04, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

These 2 diffs connect the two accounts vs

I believe this is related to Sockpuppet investigations/Uday88mandal Since all three are promoting one politician Uday Mandal (check the deleted version of the article. ) on the page Samata Party. They are even photoshopping the pics of Uday Mandal on the party flag (pic was deleted at commons). Blatant vanity.

Since the last SPI was not connected on technical grounds, so I am filing a fresh one at समता1988 Venkat TL (talk) 13:20, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Case merged from Sockpuppet investigations/समता1988. Spicy (talk) 17:03, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Seems likely based on behavior and edit summaries.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 04:59, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * . Sonubihari and समता1988 are on the same very wide IP range, but that's it. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Unlike the last time, there's no hyperfocus on Mandal here (just adding his name in a place where it's reasonable), and no telltale username. However, there's clear shared interests and, what tips it over the edge for me, matching talkpage posts and article edits about the rejection of the party's merger (  vs.   ), complete with that same BBC link and an idiosyncratic usage of "refuse" to describe that rejection. Possible that this is MEAT rather than SOCK, but I don't buy that it's unrelated.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 21:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
continued promotion of Uday Mandal and removing information about opposite camp leader. Venkat TL (talk) 15:54, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Continued Promo of  Uday Mandal. Venkat TL (talk) 14:26, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * As with the last case in the archive, this is : they are using the same wide IP range as the last socks, but different user agents.   Girth Summit  (blether)  09:48, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Shared interest in promoting a politician by multiple people who share the same wide IP range doesn't add up to evidence of socking to me. Closing without action. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:13, 3 October 2022 (UTC)