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Suspected sockpuppets



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These editors seem to be creating articles of questionable notability on topics mainly related to Azamgarh district. Typically, one of them would create the article and then another one would immediately mark it as reviewed in the page curation log. I see this pattern on Diwakar Tiwari (page creation log), Shikshanirman (page creation log), Adya Prasad Chaturvedi (page creation log), Vagmi Niketan (page creation log) and Tapsi Baba (page creation log). These users have also given one another barnstars. ,.

I'm requesting a CheckUser investigation as it's likely that there are other socks and they will be difficult to detect by behavioural evidence alone given how active the main user has been in WP:NPP. Uanfala (talk) 01:09, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked and tagged.
 * is also a technical match but .--Bbb23 (talk) 15:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see the behavioral connection between Govy1004 and the rest of the group, the topic choice is very different, so leaving that. All other accounts are blocked and tagged, closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged.
 * is also a technical match but .--Bbb23 (talk) 15:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see the behavioral connection between Govy1004 and the rest of the group, the topic choice is very different, so leaving that. All other accounts are blocked and tagged, closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * is also a technical match but .--Bbb23 (talk) 15:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see the behavioral connection between Govy1004 and the rest of the group, the topic choice is very different, so leaving that. All other accounts are blocked and tagged, closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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I first noticed suspicious activity when an IP posted a list of colleges/universities on the talk page of user Advait.kansal requesting nomination for deletion. Advait.kansal then nominated many of these articles for deletion without any discussion with the IP. I did think why would anyone accept such requests from a random IP? Perhaps this is meatpuppetry?

Since, delving a bit further I noticed that the same IP user posted this list of articles to 's talk, who suspected the IP was now blocked user (a sock of ). An interaction timeline between A.k and OW suggests a possible link.

Advait.kansal has made some requests for advanced permissions in recent days at NPP and pending changes. The reason I suspect Truesherpa, is they have very few edits yet have somehow randomly commented on A.k's pending changes request with knowledge of sockpuppetry - which is not something I would expect for a new inexperienced user. Polyamorph (talk) 11:56, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Please move if I'm not meant to post here, but in reply: the only reason I suspected a possible link is that another user (linked above) suspected the IP was OW. Since the name came up I thought it "might" be relevant. When checking the interaction timeline A.k and OW have commented on the same AfDs in the past. I'm not sure but it just seems like there 'might' be a link? Polyamorph (talk) 12:39, 28 October 2021 (UTC) (Moved from Clerk/patrolling admin section) Girth Summit  (blether) 13:03, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

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It was strange that out of the blue an IP posted on my talk page a list of Indian technical colleges to delete. I noticed that they posted the same list at User talk:Advait.kansal. The only connection between us was that Advait.kansal had followed me in !voting merge in Articles for deletion/Japanese School Dhaka, a deletion nomination by Orbit Wharf (then called Tajwar.thesuperman). [In my experience he was mainly interested in: Bangladeshi schools/colleges, first creating an article about his own, then about others, and after they were all deleted as non-notable, nominating others for deletion left and right; and creating articles about Bangladeshi/Indian web/TV series and films. I wasn't aware of his cricket-related interactions.]

Orbit Wharf had asked for support on my talk page before, had a similar degree of English proficiency, and had a recent history of nominating poorly sourced educational institutions for deletions, so I suspected the IP was him, possibly concealing his identity because I'd earlier taken him to task for his poor deletion nominations. The only thing that didn't fit neatly was that Orbit Wharf had always claimed convincingly to be from Dhaka, Bangladesh whereas the IP geolocated to Calcutta, India. When I asked Orbit Wharf if it was him, he didn't deny it, just asked for more information about why I suspected him, so I'm still not sure.

The bottom line is that I doubt Orbit Wharf and Advait.kansal are the same person. Orbit Wharf may have recruited Advait.kansal to make deletion nominations, and he !voted delete in one of the resulting nominations, Articles for deletion/Sunder Deep Group of Institutions (2nd nomination), but their coordination was on-wiki, so more like canvassing than meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:38, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:14, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment I'll be interested to see what Dreamy Jazz finds, but I don't understand the proposed Orbit Wharf connection: he is in Bangladesh, and is primarily interested in cricket; the mysterious IP and these deletions seem to be focussed on educational establishments in India. I'm probably missing something, but I don't see the link (beyond a shared interest in hat collecting, and OW !voting on one of Advait's many AfDs). Girth Summit  (blether)  12:30, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Seems at max  to
 * Based on data which was linked through the CU tool and also separately the CU log I would say it is to  that the confirmed socks are technically related to Sockpuppet investigations/Vinodtiwari2608.
 * - . I would note that the case other case mentioned the use of a new page patrolling sock to mark their other account's articles as reviewed, which based on Advait.kansal's request shows similarities. Please move to that case if you agree. CU blocking the confirmed accounts. Leaving the tags to the clerks. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:46, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * With my clerk hat on (and without putting my CU goggles on), I'm not seeing enough to link it to Vinodtiwari2608 - if there's anything you want me to take a look at, fire me an e-mail, but failing that I'd probably just tag all the confirmed accounts as socks of Advait.kansal and close. Girth Summit  (blether)  13:14, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit I'll email you. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 14:22, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I missed a few things (one obvious, some less so) - moved case, tagging, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:10, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Seems at max  to
 * Based on data which was linked through the CU tool and also separately the CU log I would say it is to  that the confirmed socks are technically related to Sockpuppet investigations/Vinodtiwari2608.
 * - . I would note that the case other case mentioned the use of a new page patrolling sock to mark their other account's articles as reviewed, which based on Advait.kansal's request shows similarities. Please move to that case if you agree. CU blocking the confirmed accounts. Leaving the tags to the clerks. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:46, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * With my clerk hat on (and without putting my CU goggles on), I'm not seeing enough to link it to Vinodtiwari2608 - if there's anything you want me to take a look at, fire me an e-mail, but failing that I'd probably just tag all the confirmed accounts as socks of Advait.kansal and close. Girth Summit  (blether)  13:14, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit I'll email you. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 14:22, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I missed a few things (one obvious, some less so) - moved case, tagging, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:10, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Possibly an old sock account (dating to first SPI) activated recently after other accounts blocked. Suspicious diffs. and Afds  Venkat TL (talk) 18:19, 13 November 2021 (UTC)


 * @GeneralNotability, All these socks have a history with this school (e.g. ) but now it is semi protected so new accounts cannot be used. They also vote on AfDs with new accounts.    . There are only a few edits so far by this sock, so that is all I can see as of now. Hope it suffices. May be admins who looked before can find more about them. @Girth Summit, @Dreamy Jazz Venkat TL (talk) 17:37, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , . You have given us a list of "suspicious edits," but have not explained how they indicate that Tnawang is related to Vinodtiwari. You also need to indicate why you believe checkuser is necessary. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:59, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. ✅ to and a couple others from the recent batch. ., closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:29, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
 * If Tnawang is tagged as confirmed to master, should Advait.kansal also be tagged as such? --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 22:28, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * , my mistake, I misread and thought the previous batch were confirmed. I've retagged as proven. GeneralNotability (talk) 04:04, 18 November 2021 (UTC)