Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Whisperwire/Archive

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Whisperwire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Whisperwire

BombayGin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BombayGin

The behavioral evidence is that both of these editors have done nothing but edit Sanjay Poonen and remove maintenance tags. BombayGin began editing when Whisperwire was given a formal warning about the removal of maintenance tags. I am not requesting CheckUser at this time because the behavioral evidence seems definitive. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:40, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * Comment - I have nominated the article in question, Sanjay Poonen, for deletion. The AFD, which is based primarily on lack of notability, does not turn on whether it has been edited by a sockpuppet.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:06, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * duplicate report below. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:14, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Whisperwire created the article Sanjay Poonen (currently nominated for deletion as non-notable), and removed maintenance templates and add content sourced to Facebook and Linked In despite warnings, for example Diff 1, Diff 2, Diff 3 etc. BombayGin was then created and made the same kinds of edits Diff 4. nominated the article for deletion. Twinpeaks1900 was then created and its first edit was to again remove maintenance tags Diff 5 before arguing for the article to be kept in the AfD Diff 6. Dynamitecotton was created shortly thereafter and made similar arguments on the AfD Diff 7 Melcous (talk) 10:38, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - brand new accounts vote-stacking an AfD is pretty likely but please check. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:15, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. Blocked, tagged, closing. Katietalk 12:49, 2 May 2017 (UTC)