Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abhikhurana/Archive

20 August 2015

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Both users are constantly editing and vandalizing same pages. Both users are engaging in disruptive editing, including removal of AfD and CSD tags from same articles. Kindly block. Thanks  Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  08:22, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Comment: My internet acted up when I was opening the SPI investigation against this user and hence there is a duplicate report. I don't want delete anything (duplication) here and hence am requesting an admin to take necessary action.  Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  08:25, 20 August 2015 (UTC)


 * which came by to re-create the article Ankuj Kumar. adding at 08:18, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * which came by to re-create the article Ankuj Kumar. adding at 08:18, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * which came by to re-create the article Ankuj Kumar. adding at 08:18, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * which came by to re-create the article Ankuj Kumar. adding at 08:18, 22 August 2015 (UTC)


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All accounts have a significant overlap on what appears to be some sort of paid editing. Karansharma1 created Minaakshi S Dass which was AfDed, and immediately the master gets to removing the AfD tags --,.

The other accounts are all single article accounts, but there's a common theme of IPEGLOBAL, Raghaw Sharan Pandey. Bringing me to this was Ankuj Kumar the bio of an SEO and likely the voice behind these edits. I'm guessing this is part of a larger group that I've only touched, so any additional check from CUs would be helpful. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:31, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Also pinging to see if this fits in with any of the other SEO groups as I can't seem to find a link to other groups yet. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:32, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Took me a while to assemble diffs, so I see that the report's been duplicated, I'm leaving this for now and will let the CU/Clerk combine/delete/archive as they see fit. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:34, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I think from Sockpuppet investigations/Manveermalhi might be linked based on the page move of Raghaw Sharan Pandey which all the socks have done -- there's been like about six page moves on that article!
 * AKS.9955, I'm going to let a clerk/CU decide what to do with the duplicates.&mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:46, 20 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks SpacemanSpiff. I was reading Raghaw Sharan Pandey article and looks like this group has spent a lot of time and thought in writing that page. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  08:51, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * Hello SpacemanSpiff, sometime back, I opened SPI investigation for the same users above. Since this is duplication and your SPI is more detailed, can you please delete my SPI? Many thanks. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  08:41, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I consolidated the three reports. The resultant formatting is somewhat non-standard, but hopefully no information was lost and report is still understandable. Abecedare (talk) 13:01, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot Abecedare. Cheers,  Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  13:03, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: Wow, when I opened this SPI, never thought there will be so many issues and socks involved. Kudos to SpacemanSpiff, Bbb23, Georgewilliamherbert, Abecedare and all others who participated in this investigation. Cheers,  Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  13:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * User:Georgewilliamherbert has already blocked two accounts and all the listed accounts (as well as ) are obvious sock/meatpuppets and likely paid advocates, based on behavioral evidence alone. However checkuser would be useful to find other members of the group, and to determine if this group is is related to the Manveermalhi group, with which it shares several characteristics. Will wait for a clerk/CU to weigh in before undertaking the blocking and tagging. Abecedare (talk) 12:31, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked a couple more per the convention on aquatic wildlife, but I'd like to see if there's a link to the other group and see if the rest can be confirmed. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:07, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * ,, and : Before I post my results, I need some assistance because it affects who the master is. Please look at , who's been around for four years longer than the listed master, and let me know here whether you think they are behaviorally related. It's a technical match, but the behavioral connection doesn't leap out at me. Don't forget to look at deleted contributions, too. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:15, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I have gone through Pradyumnas741's edits pretty carefully, and while he has written some promotional content about three individuals (1 notable, 2 speedied) those seem to be persons he potentially knows/knows about from real life. The edits of the above listed editors, on the other hand, smell strongly of straight-up paid advocacy. I didn't find any overlap in the topics of interest, or general POV either. Abecedare (talk) 01:50, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The edits of Pradyumnas741 typically don't match the pattern of the above in terms of topic and language, the only serious exception being Janata Shiksha Prasar Samiti, but that could be attributed to a copy-paste of something too. However, there are some other oddities (such as a sudden regional or topic departure for a few edits etc) that perhaps suggest that Pradyumnas741's account might have been used by someone else a few times, but nothing I'd bet my dinner on.&mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  04:18, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I think they're behaviorally different ( including mobile edits and evident familiarity with non notable article subjects). Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 07:24, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks everyone for your comments.
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocks and tags as appropriate for the above accounts.
 * and are ❌. There is a marginal technical connection between Abhikhurana and a couple of the unconfirmed-to-the-master accounts listed at Sockpuppet investigations/Manveermalhi, but in my view it's insufficient to connect the SPIs. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags as appropriate for the above accounts.
 * and are ❌. There is a marginal technical connection between Abhikhurana and a couple of the unconfirmed-to-the-master accounts listed at Sockpuppet investigations/Manveermalhi, but in my view it's insufficient to connect the SPIs. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags as appropriate for the above accounts.
 * and are ❌. There is a marginal technical connection between Abhikhurana and a couple of the unconfirmed-to-the-master accounts listed at Sockpuppet investigations/Manveermalhi, but in my view it's insufficient to connect the SPIs. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags as appropriate for the above accounts.
 * and are ❌. There is a marginal technical connection between Abhikhurana and a couple of the unconfirmed-to-the-master accounts listed at Sockpuppet investigations/Manveermalhi, but in my view it's insufficient to connect the SPIs. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags as appropriate for the above accounts.
 * and are ❌. There is a marginal technical connection between Abhikhurana and a couple of the unconfirmed-to-the-master accounts listed at Sockpuppet investigations/Manveermalhi, but in my view it's insufficient to connect the SPIs. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * and are ❌. There is a marginal technical connection between Abhikhurana and a couple of the unconfirmed-to-the-master accounts listed at Sockpuppet investigations/Manveermalhi, but in my view it's insufficient to connect the SPIs. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

08 February 2016

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Duck: created User:Sardar22ji‎, User:Ankuj kumar, Ankujkumar. NeemNarduni2 (talk) 17:31, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * . Blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:30, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

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AnkuPrince7, registered in January 2021, claims to have been here since 2015, and to be the creator of Raghaw Sharan Pandey, actually created by Abhikhurana, and of IPE Global Limited, actually created by the (stale) SPA Netherchiboo276 in 2019. IPEGLOBAL and Raghaw Sharan Pandey are mentioned as common links between older Abhikurana socks in the archived SPI. AnkuPrince7 states that his name is Ankuj Kumar. Previously blocked Abhikurana socks have been creating Ankuj Kumar and previous user names include – see also this version of the userpage of blocked sock  and compare with AnkuPrince7's userpage.

AnkuPrince7 has been adding promotional text and links to Vijay Shekhar Sharma, an article that's been the target of some recent promotional and partly identical editing by two different accounts. Cf this by Gannu143, this by Karandpw143, and this by AnkuPrince7. bonadea contributions talk 09:02, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * The accounts that aren't already blocked for obvious spamming appear to be no longer in use. Nothing to do here. – bradv  🍁  00:41, 16 April 2021 (UTC)