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22 January 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

• Indiver576 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Picantho (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Articles about Priti Paul have been created, deleted and salted since at least 2017 by socks of User:Aankan Das, so it may be that this report needs to be moved to that name (or even Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HemantDas34/Archive, which seems to be related as well, with the master and socks editing Priya Paul, the sister of Priti Paul). After Priti Paul, we have had at the very least Priti Paul (businesswoman) (deleted in March 2023), and then Priti Paul (architect), moved to Draft:Priti Paul (architect) in December 2023 and the creator indef blocked for spam. And now Indiver has created Priti Paul (entrepreneur), with identical text as the draft article.

There is also user:Picantho who has repeatedly linked to the newly created articles[1][2][3][4], which seems suspicious but may have an innocent explanation? Fram (talk) 09:29, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• Daffy11 and Indiver576 are  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely) in my estimation based on CU data, but combined with behavior, I'm certain they are operating in concert. I will say their use of language on talk pages suggests meatpuppetry, but it comes to the same thing here, and the intent is clearly promotional. Indiver576 was also very obviously created to game AC rights, and I saw evidence of deliberate logged-out editing as well. I am blocking Indiver576 as a proven sock, and I suggest their creations be tagged for G5. I did not investigate Picantho, and did not see them appear anywhere in the CU data; their MO appears to be linking to new or short articles, and I do not see enough suspicious evidence to CU them directly. Leaving this open in case someone else wishes to look into connections to older socks from other SPIs, but I'm not seeing anything obvious. Vanamonde93 (talk) 19:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Closing based on lack of further input. Vanamonde93 (talk) 21:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]