Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Michaellko
Michaellko
- Michaellko (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
26 May 2024[edit]
– This SPI case is open.
Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
- SandeepKaimliya (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- KaimlaCity (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Same MO as blocked sock User:Pirate dzns's edits at Kaimla: promotion of someone non-notable from the village, with addition of unsourced WP:OR, and attempted description of the village as a city. Pirate dzns' edit-warring focused on unsourced addition of Samarth Ror, for whom we never did find a single reference.
First, 106.204.227.6 tries to change Kaimla from a village to city, a few days after semi-protection expired [1]. This is reverted, and IP blocked for a month for socking.
SandeepKaimliya (created 22 May) then adds Samarth Kaimliya to Kaimla, Baalveer 4 Dhindora and Gaami, sourced only by an IMDB reference claiming that he appears in the films: [2], [3], [4]. They then try to change Kaimla to a city again, contradicting the sources cited: [5]. They then add the same unsourced claims about tourist attractions that Pirate dzns did, with slightly improved formatting: [6].
While these edits are going on at Kaimla on the 25th, KaimlaCity is created, makes overlapping edits with SandeepKaimliya at Kaimla and Balraj Panwar, and uploads copyrighted image File:Kaimla.jpg to Commons.
106.204.226.75 then adds File:Kaimla.jpg to Kaimla [7], minutes after upload to Commons by KaimlaCity. Same anon then creates Draft:Kohand (note redlinked Kohand in Kaimla), and Draft:Samarth Kaimliya.
User:Star Mississippi noticed the pattern at about the same time I did, and has semi-protected Kaimla (with a courteous note at my user talk), to avoid a repeat of the sockpuppet edit-warring grief. SandeepKaimliya hasn't replied at their user talk yet to my warning about SP/MP with KaimlaCity. Wikishovel (talk) 00:03, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
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