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Devika.rajagopal

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

08 December 2019

Suspected sockpuppets

Devika.gokul (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Vidhyaappviewx (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Nishevitha (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Devika.gokul was blocked a long time ago, and is stale for CU purposes. The article AppViewX has history of SPAs. But these three are the most recent ones. The SPA activity dates back to 4 years.

Devika.rajagopal (talk · contribs) has clearly stated they are an employee of AppViewX, while Vidhyaappviewx (talk · contribs) has an explanatory username.

Kindly note the similarities in their language, and vocabulary. As the article/case has promotional purpose, it is possible that the socks might return. Hence requesting CU. —usernamekiran(talk) 01:52, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

update: I have added one more account (user:Nishevitha) to the suspected socks' list. In this, and in this edit Nishevitha states she is an employee of AppViewX. User:Vidhyaappviewx has a COI username, and has been editing only AppViewX, and nothing else. There is a possibility of shared accounts, and/or socking. If nothing else, meat-puppetry is present for sure. Both of the currently active accounts are SPAs editing the AppViewX article, and AfD. User:Vidhyaappviewx requested undeletion of the aricle even when it wasnt deleted: special:diff/929376768. —usernamekiran(talk) 18:28, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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update: @Bbb23: i apologise for the confusion from my end. It is Nishevitha (talk · contribs) that I wanted to add in the original report. They have declared being an employee of the company in special:diff/929525074. —usernamekiran(talk) 02:22, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

Only one of the three users is not stale. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:03, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Usernamekiran: I don't understand what you're saying, but if you want to add another user to the list of suspected puppets, then why haven't you? Also, you have not presented one diff in this report. Diffs are required for every user you suspect of socking.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:33, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vidhyaappviewx and Nishevitha are Confirmed to each other. Blocked without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:55, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Close per the above. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 02:46, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]