Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Sureshmaran

User:Sureshmaran

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * ShivNarayanan (talk) 05:49, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
 * Sureshmaran has been adding spam and deleting sections from articles Sengunthar, Mudaliar and Thondaimandala Mudaliar using various socks and ips. I discovered that he recently started making numerous edits to the user pages of and . After going through the history of the user pages of these alternate accounts, I found other users and ips who have been editing in the same style as Sureshmaran by adding unknown personalities and random people and deleting info from the same articles namely Sengunthar, Mudaliar and Thondaimandala Mudaliar. I'm listing Sureshmaran as the puppet master as he is the one making edits at present. I believe that the other accounts are all aliases and sleeper accounts of Sureshmaran. I'm listing some diffs below:


 * Sureshmaran, , , ,
 * Istvan56
 * Redlance ,
 * Chola_and_sengunthars
 * Pallavacholasengunthar ,
 * 61.95.253.205, , ,
 * 136.8.5.100
 * 117.193.194.9


 * Comments


 * Response of Sureshmaran

I had done many tentative edits in the user pages of cholas and sengunthars, pallava chola sengunthars for the sake of using it in the article sengunthar. These user accounts are not created by me. I accept that i had used the above mentioned user pages created by others solely for experimental purposes

While doing such trial,the edit identified by this IP address 117.193.194.9 is entered when i had logged out from user account

The rest IP addresses and user accounts/pages had never been created and used by me respectively --Sureshmaran (talk) 10:14, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I find the creation of the various Userpages, and the then admitted editing by Sureshmaran (and also users Istvan56 and Redlance) too close in timeframe to be pure co-incidence. Two individuals create an account and use it to make a proto article, and then three more unconnected accounts disregard WP guidelines to edit either or both? It seems a little far fetched. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:14, 31 December 2008 (UTC) Addendum; whatever the result, user pages "Chola_and_sengunthars" and "Pallavacholasengunthar" will require deleting. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:19, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't see much to do here. Almost none of the claimed sock accounts have been active in the past two months. The IP 136.8.5.100 is the only one recently active, except for the final IP 117.193.194.9 which has only one edit (which looks like formatting). I hope someone is watching this report who can clarify whether the active IP 136.8.5.100 and Sureshmaran have collaborated in any way that breaks WP:SOCK. EdJohnston (talk) 23:26, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by EdJohnston


 * Conclusions
 * I see edits that reflect inexperience with use of Wikipedia, and am reluctant to write this up as a violation of WP:SOCK. One IP is currently active,, and has been a source of bad edits. It could be a shared IP that includes some vandals and some regular editors. I have blocked this IP six months anon-only for vandalism, but without labelling it as a sock. The only connection to Sureshmaran is that the two accounts edited the same article at different times. I don't see any other actions being needed. Let me know if anyone disagrees. EdJohnston (talk) 03:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I haven't been on Wikipedia for a while. Just checked in and see that my edits here were questioned as a sockpuppet account. Nope, just me editing a poorly written article. It needed more than I could give it though. Don't know who this guy was who had the alt accounts but Istvan56 isn't one of them.--Istvan56 (talk) 05:52, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by --Istvan56 (talk) 05:52, 25 March 2009 (UTC)