Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vwvu/Archive

16 December 2015

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Single-purpose accounts editing Jain International Residential School, a totally unsourced article that has had problems with both promotional editing and WP:OWN since it was created a couple of years ago, with a long string of single purpose accounts making a small number of edits each, before handing the job over to a new account. Vwvu has edited longer than most though, racking up 134 edits, all but a handful of them on this article (with the rest of the edits being on articles about other Jain Group schools). After not having checked the article for quite some time I took a look at it today, and found that they had added a section about "Sports Programmes", consisting of nothing but a long list of internal links to articles about common sports, a section I removed since I found it totally meaningless. My edit was quickly reverted, though, by a loudly quacking brand new account, Wvuw. Which made me remove the material again, to see which of the accounts would make the next revert, a revert that, as I predicted, was quickly made by the older of the two accounts, Vwvu. So we have two obviously connected single-purpose accounts working together to keep the article the way they want it. Thomas.W talk 15:09, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Added one more suspected sock, Uwvu. Only edit so far is on MATS Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, a sister/parent company of Jain International Residential School, an article that has also been edited by Wvuw. Thomas.W talk 11:58, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * - per provided diffs.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:01, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * and are ✅ socks of .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:45, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Wvuw and Uwvu tagged and blocked indef, Vwvu blocked one week. Closing case now. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:43, 19 December 2015 (UTC)