Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Anup Rajbanshi/Archive


Anup Rajbanshi

27 May 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Per WP:DUCK. This is either sockpuppetry or a highly coordinated case of WP:MEAT, the three account are essentially taking turns trying to publish what appears to be an autobio (Bimal Acharya, Draft:Bimal Acharya & Draft:Bimal Acharya1) and then two related pages (Gopal Chandra Budhathok, Draft:Gopal Chandra Budhathoki, Draft:Gopal Chandra Budhathoki1 & on the 2022 Mechinagar municipal election. Bimal Prasad Acharya actually once created the User:2022 Mechinagar Municipal election user page. GPL93 (talk) 14:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think you mean that Bimal Prasad Acharya created the 2022 Mechinagar Municipal election user account, rather than the user page. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:04, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Bimal, 2022 Mechinagar..., and the name that Google Translate says is Nepali for "Gopal Chandra Budhathoki" are all confirmed to one another. Moved to Anup Rajbanshi since they created the Bimal account. I'd normally slap the master with a week's block for socking, but there's enough NOTHERE that I'm just indeffing the lot.  Blocked without tags, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

29 May 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Both accounts have created pages Draft:Bimal Acharya, Bimal Acharya and have been contributing from a different account on Draft:Mayor of Mechinagar Munciplity in the same way and tone. I strongly think these are sockpuppet accounts. Owlf 📪 15:24, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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11 July 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Compare version edited by blocked socks with newly created Draft:Gopal Chandra Budhathoki. – NJD-DE (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

IP *:617c added image File:Chairman of Barhadashi Rural Municipality.jpg to an article. Image had been uploaded a day before to Commons by a user named Khadga Prasad Rajbanshi. Given the edit interest overlap and username similarity looks like another sock. – NJD-DE (talk) 22:52, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Adding another IP (usual range, blanked Draft:Gopal Chandra Budhathoki) and a user as the IP edited the user's sandbox. Also the user writes about Gopal Chandra Budhathokiwho in their sandbox, and makes other edits related to Nepali mayors. Requesting CU as more users seem to be popping up. – NJD-DE (talk) 10:11, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
And another user: Koi xaina. They uploaded File:Newly elected Chairman of Rural Municipal.jpg which Mike Meg then added to Draft:Devindra Prasad Chamlagain. – NJD-DE (talk) 17:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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05 August 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Ojibwe Kerry recreated article Gopal Chandra Budhathoki with some of the same typos (e.g. "politicaian") and using an image uploaded by sock Mike Meg: File:Gopal Chandra Budhathoki (2022)2079 789.jpg. They also edited article Rabin Koirala which was created by a blocked sock. This article has also been edited by obvious sock Anup Rajbanshi (Nepalese). – NJD-DE (talk) 03:32, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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12 August 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Same general interest in Mechinagar Municipality, List of mayors of Pokhara and some specific things I noticed:

NJD-DE (talk) 14:35, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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23 August 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Brand new account and sock master's favorite editing on Mechinagar Municipality. Also, used files that were previously uploaded by one of his socks (I've deleted those files on Commons as copyright violation). Kind regards, — Tulsi 24x7 05:42, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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25 August 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Similar username. Similar area of interest. Like blocked sock Harrison Fordham they add an image of Dhiraj Pratap Singh to article Inspector General of Police (Nepal): Special:Diff/1103928646, Special:Diff/1106603026. Image was uploaded few hours earlier by Knight llll who is not registered on enwiki. – NJD-DE (talk) 17:51, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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06 September 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Duck. Usedtobecool ☎️ 17:36, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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15 September 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Same images uploaded on Commons which were previously uploaded by their puppets. Edit on Harka Raj Rai just few days after block. — Tulsi 24x7 12:40, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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16 September 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

editing same articles as the blocked sock, [4] I share the same suspicion of the above report that Uraj Magazine is also a sock. Venkat TL (talk) 11:15, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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18 September 2022

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DUCK — Tulsi 24x7 15:27, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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21 September 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

New account with same interests and edit on similar articles as in Harka Raj Rai. — Tulsi 24x7 03:21, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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25 September 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

New account with same repeated activities; same photographs uploading on Commons, similar edits on Puppet master's favourite articles. — Tulsi 24x7 05:30, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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04 October 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Same nature of edits and interests. To note as evidence, edits on sock's favourite articles: Mayor of Dharan and Harka Raj Rai. — Tulsi 24x7 12:18, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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08 October 2022

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DUCK. Please check archives. Similar names had created by sock master. — Tulsi 24x7 04:07, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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09 October 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Duck:

NJD-DE (talk) 12:31, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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12 October 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Edits on Mayor/politics articles and same images upload on Commons. — Tulsi 24x7 05:30, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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20 October 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

New account with same edits pattern from Anup's socks. Edits revolve around same Nepali politics and same images upload on Commons. — Tulsi 24x7 09:45, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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21 October 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

New account just after few hour of block of previous sock. Edit on Harka Raj Rai and repeated uploads on Commons. — Tulsi 24x7 07:33, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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29 October 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

New account with same editing interests and also edit on Harka Raj Rai's article on newiki. — Tulsi 24x7 12:53, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I added Nirvana Karima to the list. Some reasons here:

NJD-DE (talk) 22:25, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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04 November 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

New account with same interest and edits pattern — Tulsi 24x7 07:51, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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08 November 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

New account with same politics interests — Tulsi 24x7 07:45, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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13 November 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Similar username like sockmaster, same area of interest. Article Jeevan Bahadur Shahi is an example having been the target by multiple Rajbanshi socks. – NJD-DE (talk) 11:40, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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15 November 2022

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Bennv123 (talk) 16:50, 15 November 2022 (UTC) Bennv123 (talk) 16:50, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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21 November 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Same politics interest and nature of edits, for instance, Mayor of Pokhara and Mechinagar Municipality. — Tulsi 24x7 03:17, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Just FTR, I started a thread about Commonscity at ANI, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Commonscity, rapid disruptive page creations and moves.

As regards the socking, here are some diffs for Commonscity – no obvious smoking guns for PenGear, but I did not spend a very long time looking:

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04 December 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Edit on Rajendra Kumar Rai (Nepalese politician). New account with same politics interests and the same images upload activities on the Wikimedia Commons. — Tulsi 24x7 06:08, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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16 December 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Attempted to edit user page of blocked sock; see Special:AbuseLog/34053946. Editing interests appear to be in line with previously observed behavior. Uhai (talk) 05:22, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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20 December 2022

Suspected sockpuppets

Similar nature of edits and interest; Mayor of Dharan and so on — Tulsi 24x7 13:55, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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5 January 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Disruptive moves, messing up edit histories, of same articles previously disrupted by master account and socks. --Soman (talk) 20:02, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The account is a galringly obvious sockpuppet, and I have blocked it. I shall now look at clearing up some of the mess it has created, and then look at the IP address if I have time. At a quick glance it seems the IP address is this persn, but I haven't yet checked thoroughly enough to take any action. JBW (talk) 20:38, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, the IP editor is clearly the same person, and has now been range blocked for a week by Daniel Case. JBW (talk) 21:06, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]



10 January 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Proforma - cu-confirmed, mostly blocked already, adding for the scripts. Girth Summit (blether) 15:46, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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15 January 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

The usual behaviour of disruptive page moves and redirects. User:339pizza moved existing redirect Aindra to Aindra Bikram Begha, previously deleted G5 at Draft:Aindra_Bikram_Begha. User:89 Merry then jumped in to create the article: [5].

339pizza also:

89 Merry also vandalised this SPI:[6], and created Draft:Hikmat Karki cabinet, after 339pizza created redirect Hikmat Karki cabinet. 2A01:4C8:B3:B050:71DD:2B8D:47B5:2B0A (talk) 14:51, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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06 February 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

1. Also created some articles on simplewiki that I deleted: created simple:Minister of Health (Bagmati Province); enwiki version (Minister of Health (Bagmati Province)) had also been created by sock of Anup Rajbanshi. History indicates there may be others. --IWI (talk) 12:13, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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21 March 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Mostly edit on Mayor related articles, adding fair use images and behavior looks same. Tulsi 24x7 03:56, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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13 June 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Clear overlap with previous socks on this farm in almost every edit. All edits seem to be moving articles around, redirecting and 'accepting' draft space articles.

See public logs for the below (and there are many more):

Now you will also notice that all of the articles touched by 1govnvl were created by an 'IP user'. This is obviously the same person and what the user is trying to do is game the system by doing all of the 'significant edits' under an IP knowing damn well that we're not allowed to connect an IP to a user. The end result being that the articles are technically ineligible for the WP:G5 deletion that they sure as hell deserve. Is there any chance that we can apply common sense and still G5 all of these articles? Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:00, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I was just coming to make the same report. There is also an IP address involved in these article recreations an mentioned above. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 19:27, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They have already been blocked as a sockpuppet but I'd still be interested in a Checkuser's opinion. Liz Read! Talk! 02:20, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I know that typically you just close a SPI case if the editor is blocked. But articles have already been CSD G5 deleted and so it's worth knowing whether or not this has been block evasion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:44, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's been over a week, will a new post cause this request to pop to the top of the SPI list? Liz Read! Talk! 03:48, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
SPI is very very slow. A week is nothing. There are not many SPIs, so most likely, everyone is always aware of all reports. It's just that there are even fewer people working them and WP:NOTREQUIRED applies. Usedtobecool ☎️ 10:01, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks, Dreamy Jazz. I primarily wanted to know if this was ban evasion and it looks like it was. Liz Read! Talk! 02:26, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like their article creations have already been CSD G5'd when they were identified as a sockpuppet by a non-CUer admin. Liz Read! Talk! 02:29, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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16 July 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Over the last few days there have been a large number of Nepalese politician stubs submitted to AfC all from the 182.50.66.0/24 range. I noticed that many off these are were previously deleted as created by other Anup Rajbanshi sock accounts. Not sure if anything can be done due to CheckUser limits with IPs but though I would report KylieTastic (talk) 16:05, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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2 September 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Disruptive moves, messing up edit histories, of same type of Nepali politician articles previously disrupted by master account and socks. --Soman (talk) 15:30, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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2 September 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Another IP that seems to be linked to the tag-team effort of the sock-puppeteer. I can't say with 100% certainity, but it is very weird that an anon IP would pick up on the editing drive just 2 minutes after the disruptive moves. --Soman (talk) 22:45, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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27 September 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Repeated creation of Nepalese politician releated articles. Fade258 (talk) 13:44, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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21 October 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Creating several redirects related to the articles created by the master. UtherSRG (talk) 13:12, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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7 November 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Pretty obvious editing pattern, again with the redirect and moves as before. --Soman (talk) 23:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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28 December 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

Recreation of Draft:Gita Timsina, previously created by 2Reading 94rain Talk 04:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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07 June 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Creation of Nepalese politician bios which were previously created by socks of master account Saqib (talk) 07:39, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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14 October 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

Re-creation of articles previously deleted. --Soman (talk) 09:56, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Recreated many deleted articles (ex: Jasmaya Gajmer). C F A 💬 01:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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