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Potential sockpuppetry across Wikipedia editions[edit]

Earlier today a user requested on my talk page that I review their draft of an article about an Italian company. In checking to see if the company had articles on other editions of Wikipedia, I noticed that the Italian article was deleted five days ago for LTA evasion. Given the timing, it would appear this might be a case of sockpuppetry, but does the policy apply to users on different editions of Wikipedia? -CoolieCoolster (talk) 02:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @CoolieCoolster, if sockpuppetry and other problems that led to their block there are also present in the English Wikipedia, you may file a report here and also report them at Meta for cross-wiki abuse. Aintabli (talk) 14:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SPI template not working[edit]

I started the SPI Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thamilaneelam due to obvious rampant socking at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamil genocide. However, the SPI template is not working. Kindly fix it. Thanks Ratnahastin (talk) 06:13, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Interesting, looks like it is because you wrote [[WP:DUCK]. When I added in the missing right square bracket, then it worked. Not sure why that typo should cause the template substitution to fail. Mz7 (talk) 06:57, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help! Ratnahastin (talk) 07:08, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]