Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Winged Blades of Godric/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
TrangaBellam and Walrus Ji were sockpuppets of Winged Blades of Godric for quite a long time. The accounts of TrangaBellam and Walrus Ji were used many times to gain initial consensus in many article deletion pages.
 * Winged Blades of Godric was an old wiki editor who stopped editing on 10 July 2020 for unknown reasons. Just after a few days, TrangaBellam's account was created on 13 July 2020 which has the same editing interest as Godric See, after two months he created another account Walrus Ji on 14 September 2020. This account has also the same type of editing interest see 1 2.
 * Winged Blades of Godric and TrangaBellam both have removed the same information related to some awards won by Sanjeev Sanyal here 1 2. Both added information related to some criticism at Yellapragada Sudershan Rao's reception section see 1 2 and 3. Both added the same information related to some criticism in Republic TV See 1 2. Both removed the Marichjhapi incident from a template see 1 2. Again common editing at Koenraad Elst's reception section 1 2. Segments that are edited by Winged Blades of Godric are further copy-edited by TrangaBellam. Again TrangaBellam edited Tashkent File's reception section where Godric also contributed, see 1 2. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is a lesser-known topic in which both Godric and TrangaBellam have shown interest. Both removed the same Marichjhapi massacre incident from a template 1 2. TrangaBellam is also protecting Rajiv Malhotra which was edited by Godric before, looks like he knows everything about Godric and his edits. Please check the list of articles to which both have contributed, I am just giving very few examples considering their long common edit list.
 * Godric and TrangaBellam both have similar wording and tone, please see both are using the same type of wording legal document/ legal note here 1 2. Both demanded Good Article reassessment(GAR) in Yoga 1 2, only they initiated a discussion for GAR in Yoga. Both used the same headline "New message from Winged Blades of Godric" and "New message from TrangaBellam" to ping someone, just like a signature see 1 2. Further, both have a similar tone, and writing style, while nominating an article for deletion 1 2. Both used the word "Fwiw" many times in discussions. Both are using similar short forms in edit summaries like "Ce, Ed, ++, SI, T/P". Another idiosyncratic aspect is the usage of the preposition "over" in the writing of both editors.


 * TrangaBellam and Walrus Ji(currently blocked) supported each other In every article deletion page please see 1 2 3 4 the interaction time was also so close see. Maybe this was the purpose of creating Walrus Ji.

UPDATE: Winged Blade of Godric got multiple warnings for his behaviour and editings please check 1 2 3. Going by these multiple warnings I think he/she was so close to get a ban from admins, maybe this was the reason why he/she needed a new account. Trangabellam also showed similar aggresive behaviour, got warnings from admins 1 2. Timovinga (talk) 07:59, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

I think it is not possible to catch this using technical similarities because he/she described himself/herself as a programmer, however their interests, editing, behaviour, wordings looks exactly similar. - Timovinga (talk) 14:08, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Declining Checkuser request and changing the status to "open". Only one account is non-stale.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:59, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * After consulting with an arbitrator, closed with no action taken and unfortunately that's all I can say RoySmith (talk) 18:34, 28 December 2023 (UTC)