Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wikisrilanka/Archive

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I believe these three usernames or maybe just two could be the same person but I'm not sure - all have made edits to create/for the same person; Draft:Nimal Korale/Nimal C Korale, and the usernames are similar if that means anything I don't know. An IP has also made an edit. Here are the diffs made by the users in order to both draft and mainspace:

Draft:


 * 19:45, 14 October 2019‎: Lankanwiki92 creates Draft:Nimal Korale
 * 19:50, 14 October 2019: Rejected by
 * 09:18, 1 November 2019: Rejected by
 * 09:42, 1 November 2019: Sl wiki12 makes an edit to the draft: Removes the submission and comment templates, adds a "Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF)" section with some text. No more edits by this user except one on 14 November 2018 to car spotting
 * 12:47, 2 November 2019‎: Only contribution by an IP to the draft: Removes two empty Nimal Korale headings — a possibility of forgetting to log in?
 * 20:42, 3 November 2019: Last edit by Lankanwiki92: Infobox additions

Mainspace:


 * 20:59, 3 November 2019: Wikisrilanka creates Nimal korale
 * 21:02, 3 November 2019: Wikisrilanka moved page to Nimal C Korale — no more edits by this user
 * 21:17, 3 November 2019‎: Lankanwiki92 makes an edit: "added references and early life" per edit summary
 * 21:20, 3 November 2019: Lankanwiki92 makes second edit: "spell check. SLBF not sufficient evidence" per edit summary

The latest revision of the draft is exactly the same as the mainspace creation revision: Comparison diff — this could support the possibility of just Lankanwiki92 and Wikisrilanka as being the same person, due to Lankanwiki92 removing the SLBF text which was added by Sl wiki12 in the draft, and perhaps as a way of bypassing the twice-rejected draft?

Not sure but definitely worth checking, and the mainspace one should be deleted anyway as there is already a draft. Thanks Steven (Editor) (talk) 00:27, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Commonality of pages edited, commonality of usernames, the fact that the two new socks (Lankanwiki92 and Sl wiki12) are both sleepers is sufficient to convince me. Blocking and tagging all three.  -- RoySmith (talk) 01:06, 4 November 2019 (UTC)