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TejinderPSingh

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

22 May 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

octonian (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
fineconstant (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
dimnumero (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 · SPI Tools

These accounts keep adding a reference to the page for "Fine Structure Constant" that was removed because the original user is the author of this research. This paper has no citations and has likely been given undue weight in the article. These accounts often have names (octonian, fineconstant) relating to the paper and they have no other edits except to post this paragraph and defend the article. Diffs: [1] [2] [3] [4] Lucasisaacfrye (talk) 17:57, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

Clerk declined - Stale: All but one of the reported accounts is stale. --Jack Frost (talk) 00:55, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, Looks like a duck to me, but not clear there was any intent to evade. Some people just forget their password. Left the most recent account, dimnumero, a warning for socking (AGF) and COI, and partially blocked them from the pages where they were self-promoting (which has the effect of barring them from using other accounts). Closing. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 18:59, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

18 July 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Physicsenduser (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 · SPI Tools

Pro forma. Reported by 172.82.46.195. Sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 17:36, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Some chance here they never saw the original p-block, but we've reached the point where that can be sorted out in an unblock request. New account and most recent other sock (Dimnumero, the one I p-blocked) indef siteblocked. Master as well, to avoid having a situation where sox are blocked but the master isn't. Filing as closed. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 17:36, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

24 August 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Priyanka.giri0 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Ignotus12 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
WrightSisters (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 · SPI Tools

I blocked Ignotus as a duck for reasons that should be obvious from Special:PageHistory/Fine-structure constant. (Priyanka.giri0 is also probably a sock, but seems to be a throwaway account so I haven't blocked.) WrightSisters, a brand new account, has now shown up on my talk page to request that I self-revert. Their interpersonal approach is a bit different from Singh accounts in the past, so requesting CU in an attempt to tell if this is socking or "just" meatpuppetry, and also to freshen the CU trail. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 18:48, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Self-endorsed by clerk for checkuser attention. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 18:48, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's interesting.

WrightSisters (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is Confirmed to Physicsenduser (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) and Dimnumero (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). Relatively busy range, no obvious sleepers. We can block it if we have to but we're not there yet.
Priyanka.giri0 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) and Ignotus12 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) are Technically indistinguishable to the confirmed accounts. I'm not going to comment further because I like BEANS but not up my nose. Suffice to say that they're trying to be sophisticated about adding this Most Important Research, but I'm better at this than they are. ;-)

All socks blocked and tagged. Closing. Katie^talk 22:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]