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Maheshkumaryadav

Maheshkumaryadav (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

02 June 2011

Suspected sockpuppets

Creatingabetterworld (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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New user is showing a remarkable ability to create redirects, add infboxes etc and is creating articles similar to the alleged sockmaster in terms of topic, content and layout (eg: current protests, corruption/conspiracy in India, judicial matters). See this for a sample of redirect/new page creatino about "black money", which is similar in method to this article created today. S/he has also used redlinked categories, as did the sockmaster in numerous places, eg: on this newly created article today, which also reflects examples of articles previously created by the alleged sockmaster, some of which are shown in this diff. The new articles today are being created at a rapid rate, which is yet another similarity.

The disruption is because the alleged sockmaster is under a mentorship agreement agreed at here. The agreement is still in force & prevents the alleged sockmaster from editing in mainspace. I am about to notify the mentor, but have earlier today raised some concerns with him, here. The mentor is almost certainly now offline due to time differences, and the number of new articles is rising fast. Sitush (talk) 14:36, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A fairly comprehensive list of past pages created by the alleged sockmaster, and the work involved in fixing them, can be found at User:Anna_Frodesiak/Silver_sandbox. - Sitush (talk) 14:42, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Courcelles refers to UAs. What's them, then? User activities? - Sitush (talk) 12:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users

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I agree with Sitush. I've read a lot of the alleged sock's contribs, and these new stubs look the same. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:23, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto on Anna's thoughts, I was a little suspicious, but wasn't going to raise anything under WP:AGF, but that other people were seeing the same thing, has turned me towards a support of this move, Sadads (talk) 15:25, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It may also be indicative in this case that Creatingabetterworld wrote "Like in Pakistan the military have more influence in politics and have taken the power in its hand several times in past from democratically elected representatives on various pretexts in the past" in the article Politics and armed forces. Which was about the only statement of the whole, totally unsourced article. Why pick solely Pakistan as an example when there's a huge number of confirmed military dictatorships world-wide to cite? Unless one has an interest in that specific topic like Maheshkumaryadav (diffs: [1], [2]). De728631 (talk) 15:35, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

Clerk endorsed - Sure, let's see what's up. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 15:36, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Likely. Same dynamic ISP, and same UA's. Courcelles 09:53, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Sitush, UA = User agent. Courcelles 12:31, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Administrator note Blocked and tagged Creatingabetterworld. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 22:28, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]