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12 January 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

All three accounts are here as part of some political campaign related to Latur that involves deleting opponent politicians and promoting their own, including votestacking at AFDs. I'm ready to duck block but bringing here as I think there's more to the farm than meets the eye. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gopalrao Patil. — Spaceman Spiff 03:33, 12 January 2017 (UTC) reply

  • I blocked 2 & 3 as socks of 1 but on deeper investigation, I've found the likely master and also another sock. I'm leaving this open for CU and then a clerk to retag as appropriate. The goal seems to be to promote Keshavrao Sonawane and remove political opponents from en.wiki. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 03:48, 12 January 2017 (UTC) reply
    • Adding a fifth sock to check, this appears to be more of a regional division of the political party working together. — Spaceman Spiff 03:55, 12 January 2017 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

  •  In progress - Katie talk 12:34, 12 January 2017 (UTC) reply
  •  Confirmed. I don't see any sleepers. All blocked and retagged, closing. Katie talk 12:45, 12 January 2017 (UTC) reply

24 January 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

I've already blocked ShaileshLahoti as a suspected sock. MumbaikarLaunda I think has sufficient behavioral overlap to warrant a duck block too, but the only reason I'm not doing that is because on the master's unblock decline, Jpgordon listed another sock but not this. As for edits by this one in comparison with earlier socks: this compared to this and this and then back to disruption on Keshavrao Sonawane (which was autoconfimed due to sockign: removal of maintenance tags with dubious edit summary like this and so on. All accounts seem to be part of a political campaign, I'm not sure I've found them all, so requesting a CU check for others too. I'm not listing the other one confirmed by Jpgordon as it has no edits yet. — Spaceman Spiff 13:21, 24 January 2017 (UTC) reply

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My Take on My Nomination

I am Based in Maharashtra and not in any contact with the User @AbhijitSonavane: I am related to Indian Film Industry (Bollywood) and Makes edits only on TV Shows, Actors, TV Channels, Politicians, etc. I am no either any kind of sock-puppet or anything. Whenever I get free Time I go to /info/en/?search=Special:Random and starts finding mistakes in Random Article. I seek and destroy vandalism too on Wikipedia. -- MumbaikarLaunda ( talk) 13:27, 24 January 2017 (UTC) reply


Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

  • ShaileshLahoti is  Confirmed. MumbaikarLaunda is between  Unlikely and  Possible.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:18, 24 January 2017 (UTC) reply

24 January 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Editing this SPI's archives here and persistent editing of Keshavrao Sonawane evident at Special:Contributions/103.249.241.56 (similar to prior socks).   Looks like a duck to me However, 99% chance that CU will not link IP to sock. Already CU-blocked by Bbb23 ( talk · contribs). Hence, just logging. Kindly review and close, thanks. JustBerry ( talk) 16:11, 24 January 2017 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

Range-blocked, closing. GAB gab 16:19, 24 January 2017 (UTC) reply
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