All accounts are highly active at Shruthi Reddy and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shruthi Reddy. In addition, from the contributions of D.f4c3r (which reads like Defacer, so there's some obvious hint I'm missing) and Itsmeesathya, they are active in what could be termed as COI editing at the least as far as film and actors goes ("the subject has requested this"). I expect more accounts involved here, and there's also the possibility of being linked to this SPI. —SpacemanSpiff 15:02, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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All these accounts have Nithya Menen in common. I hadn't made the connection earlier but then Sourabh1996 continued the tradition of uploading copyvio images to Commons and then linking them here. Both were reverted and the images deleted on Commons. Then Saurabhanand96 came in to do the same with an image uploaded by blocked sock Priya.wom. B103N48 is older than Bbb23's check (so not sure if I'm right on this particular one), but not stale, but the edits are the same: compare [1] with [2]. —SpacemanSpiff 16:45, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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There's usually a big collection, this is the only one I identified so far via this edit on a (now redirected) page created by the sockmaster. There's a huge COIN investigation on this sock farm now. Hopefully we can find the rest of the socks through CU. —SpacemanSpiff 16:43, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
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Cases filed under "Barney83Stinson"
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16 August 2016[edit]Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
Barney83Stinson has created a few puff-laden articles on companies lately, like at Whacked Out Media and I can't help but notice he's received two barnstars recently, one from a ClayFace32 and another from ManBat94.
I wonder if he's starting to feel pressure from my criticism of some of the puffery he's written, and he's trying to boost his own morale? It's also possible that these are co-workers or something. He's denied having a COI at Whacked Out Media, but I'm not quite buying it. Anyhow, I'd appreciate a CU look if one can be spared. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:59, 16 August 2016 (UTC) Comments by other users[edit]Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
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18 August 2016[edit]Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
A continuation of a previous investigation, KittenLynch just added a ton of credits to Abhishek Pictures, an article that was edited mostly by Barney83Stinson and his socks. There's only been one edit from KittenLynch, but the sheer size of the table they contributed, as well as having the relatively obscure film distributor article in common, makes it a very curious account. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:48, 18 August 2016 (UTC) Update: More edits have been made by the KittenLynch account and now there are several intersections with previously IDd socks, including at Whacked Out Media. I'd like to see what happens with them in the next few days before closing. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:37, 23 August 2016 (UTC) Update: User GreenLanternCorps has appeared at Whacked Out Media. Name shares thematic DC Universe similarity with ManBat and ClayFace. User employs "Infography" summary indicated below, which could very well just be the result of the sock knowing that there is this SPI open. His edit summary here is obvious bullshit. "First Edit. Adding citation link. Random article. Thank you wikipedia." Indeffing as duck. Closing this SPI for now. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:13, 25 August 2016 (UTC) Comments by other users[edit]Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
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08 September 2016[edit]Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
Checking for sleepers would be appreciated. I also want to note that NutJob tossed a barnstar out to Prakash Gollapalli007 for his work on Telugu Cinema, but Prakash didn't edit that article as far as I can tell. It is documented in the archive that Barney's socks/meatpuppets did the same thing to him. Might not be anything, though. One of the users who received barnstars is one of our trusted regulars. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 07:07, 8 September 2016 (UTC) Comments by other users[edit]Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
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Cases filed under "Proudpurian"
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27 March 2018[edit]Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
From this thread on my talk by GSS-1987. The first five socks are Confirmed to each other and the other two are Likely or possible meatpuppets. The connection to the master is behavioral which is UPE socks promoting Indian singers and actors. This case is possibly connected to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Virasatgaur/Archive. Blocked. Comments by other users[edit]Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims. @Berean Hunter: can you please take a look at user Murz97 (appears to be related) uploaded this image as own work which later used by Proudpurian in his article. Thank you – GSS (talk|c|em) 12:36, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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06 April 2018[edit]Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
Recreation of Chal Mohan Ranga and no edits outside this topic. The article was earlier created in mainspace by Pulkahulka (talk · contribs) a day after an AfC submission for Draft:Chal Mohan Ranga was declined. GSS (talk|c|em) 04:18, 6 April 2018 (UTC) Comments by other users[edit]Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
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23 May 2018[edit]Suspected sockpuppets[edit]
Yet another attempt to create Musskan Sethi and Uma Neha under S Uma Neha. GSS (talk|c|em) 11:54, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
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These are a group from whackedout.in that are promoting the Indian film industry. See UTRS #22155 for UPE meat admission. See this archived COIN post by SpacemanSpiff.
These other two cases are linked not only by behavior but also by the technical evidence in the CU logs which supports this. These three cases should be merged:
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Nomiyar is Confirmed to Safynin. Moiz Sd is Likely so I have blocked. AR767 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is Possible so Behavioural evidence needs evaluation.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 13:41, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
All three suspected users were registered last week and immediately start editing articles created by their previous sock Crispgatoglitz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Requesting CU but I'm not sure if it will be helpful since they are using a mobile device. GSS (talk|c|em) 09:14, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
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SPA with no edits outside recreating Khamakha. GSS (talk|c|em) 10:08, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
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Blocked and tagged.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 15:46, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
I was poking around in this article edit history when I noticed an old account Subrata99 had been blocked as a sock of Proudpurian, someone who was originally blocked for undisclosed paid editing. Immediately following their edits in the article history I saw Mr. Subrata Mandal and they're clearly the same Subrata based on their user page info, so Looks like a duck to me on that. Subrata99 was a CU identified sock of Tha D.f4c3r, who has a history of promotional editing.
However, I also noticed that Mr. Subrata Mandal edited another editor's user page. That editor was CU-blocked by Bbb23 a while back. It's possible that was yet another sock, and this guy has several accounts going. I'm going to block the Mr. Subrata Mandal account, and I'll leave it to someone else to figure out if a sleeper check is worth a look. Mr. Subrata Mandal hasn't made many edits recently. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 13:53, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
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