Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Urali gounder Tn45/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
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 * ( original case name)
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Puppeteer blocked and apparent puppet created 37 minutes later. Both focused on Urali Gounder. Both using visual editor/mobile edit/mobile web edit. Sockpuppet has posted threat to create more accounts on puppet's talk page: "Urali gounders are the sub sect of gounder community as the name suggests..And if they continue changing the content that is practically irrelevant. Then rewriting will be continued from multiple accounts. Or else I request you to delete this page."

and added for similar names, and somewhat similar behavior, though these existed before the block was instituted.— rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:54, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * Based on edit summaries, I'm fairly certain that the three suspected sox are the same person. There's no temporal overlap, though, so at most the appropriate response would be to instruct them to stick to one account (given the multiple warnings they picked up on one of them). Two other edit summary similarities make me think they're probably also the same person as Gounder parambarai, but there isn't quite enough for me to be sure. with respect to the named accounts and, which uses the same recurring edit summary as the rest.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 07:37, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 14:25, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There's two groups.
 * ,, and are ✅ to each other.
 * and are ✅ to each other.
 * Based purely on technical data, the two groups are to each other.  It also looks like Urali gounder Tn45 is the oldest account, so the case might need renaming.  I'll hold off on any blocks until that's sorted out. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:41, 15 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I would call group 1 behaviorally proven to group 2 based on both usernames and edit summaries. Compare these ESes (group 2) to these and these (group 1). They've been running these in parallel, seem aware of what they're doing and have vowed to continue, and are not contributing constructively, so my inclination is to block all five accounts from RoySmith's results. therefor. If they would like to explain how they can be a constructive contributor, then they can explain that in an unblock request. Which should come from Urali gounder Tn45 if you buy into the idea that an unblock request needs to come from the oldest account, although personally that just seems like bureaucracy to me. Also, moving this SPI to that account's name, per Roy.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 00:29, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * -- RoySmith (talk) 17:04, 21 February 2022 (UTC)