Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zaketo/Archive

25 April 2015

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Zaketo has on a few occasions embarked on a campaign to change links to British India, usually arguing that specific princely states were not officially a part of British India but rather autonomous areas within India. After various warnings etc on their talk page, this thread emerged at the India Project noticeboard. Thereafter, they appear to abandon attempting the changes.

Sqiczm has just appeared and it making identical changes, often to the same articles. For a newbie, they show a surprising familiarity with past discussion, eg: this versus this. Sitush (talk) 03:35, 25 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Now at CHUS also Zaketo has now requested a CHUS. - Sitush (talk) 08:50, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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 * This certainly smells. Besides the exact same narrow and contentious content focus also note:
 * User:Zaketo made this edit to British India inforbox on Dec 27, 2014, which was soon reverted. Within hours the User:Sqizcm account was created, and reverted the infobox to Zaketo's preferred version. This was the latter account's one and only edit in the last 4 months, till the spree today.
 * Note the similarity in language and punctuation of the edit-summaries, eg Officially the Indian Empire or simply India, not the 'British Raj'. by Sqizcm versus The British Raj was officially the Indian Empire or simply, India, not 'British India'. by Zaketo. And As a princely state, the Kingdom of Mysore wasn't part of 'British India'. by Sqizcm verus Kashmir wasn't a part of 'British India' as it was a princely state. (many, many such examples, since both use simple variants of each of the quoted edit-summary).
 * This is duck-territory, but would like checkuser confirmation since Zaketo is not a known suckpuppeteer, and to catch any sleeper accounts given that Sqizcm had remained silent for four months. Abecedare (talk) 04:04, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:00, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 * - - Indeed,  and  is very suspicious.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  00:01, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, the evidence is . . Mike V • Talk 01:05, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocking master 72 hours, indeffing sock and closing.

05 July 2015

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Firstly, note that on May 22nd, changed their username to  and then chose to vanish, changing username to. So the edit-history, talk-page, block log, and probably the CU data, is under that last name, although here I will continue to use the name Zaketo, for convenience. Note that Zaketo had similarly tried to change username when previously under scrutiny (see the previous SPI report). Now the evidence: Zaketo's main interest was fiddling with infoboxes especially to expand the listing of establishment events in a region's history (example), fiddle with the languages (example), and most contentiously, edit-war over the name of pre-independence India for which they preferred the term "Indian Empire" or "India" over "British India" ( and regions/states of pre-indepenence India; see numerous warnings in their talkpage history, and this project noticeboard discussion they started but abandoned). The new accounts have resumed those activities, at the same pages Zaketo edited, example Overlap also seen at List of wars involving India, Allies of World War I and Allied leaders of World War II. In my opinion, behavioral evidence esp. the peculiar combination of articles and issues of interest, make User:Sony2k20 a duck. I am also convinced about Xbox420 being a sock, but given their short editing history other may prefer to see the evidence bolstered by CU data. Abecedare (talk) 19:04, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * At British Raj: changing British India -> India and Indian Empire and expanding list of foundational events, ,
 * At Haryana: compare vs  and
 * At Allies of World War II: changing British India -> India and Indian Empire eg, and ,
 * Also: compare made by previous sock of user, and this edit

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the master:
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)