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Similar usernames and editing the same Indian football related pages and trying to create opinion in their favour, such as Talk:Youth League U18 Coderzombie (talk) 13:03, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * Their only direct overlap is to ask for the creation of articles, which isn't exactly disruptive. Given that they appear to have stopped using multiple accounts when asked, I see no need to action this. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:09, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * , this comment was made after the warning. The user hasn't explicitly stated that they'd stop using sock. Coderzombie (talk) 17:33, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * That's exactly my point. They went back to their first account after you asked them to stop using more than one. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:33, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ok fair enough. Coderzombie (talk) 18:37, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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It seem interconnected in Indian football, which "Aditya debnath wiki" seem a black hand account to move userified draft back to main namespace, such as 2018 Nike Premier Cup (User:Aditya debnath wiki/2018 Nike Premier Cup) and South West Asian Football Federation (last located in User:Hhkohh/South West Asian Football Federation). The draft "2018 Nike Premier Cup" was only contributed by those two accounts if excluding maintenance edits Matthew_hk   t  c  19:15, 19 August 2018 (UTC)


 * It seem "Aditya debnath wiki" made most edit in wikitext editor (some in mobile), while "Abhishe78" made all the edit in mobile phone. With the very short timeframe on edit in 2018 Nike Premier Cup and Nike Premier Cup, it seem an evidence they are actually the same user but in two different devices (or may be two ISP, one using mobile network operator), which, to me, unlikely that the new stub "Nike Premier Cup" was pick up by another user within the first few hours of creation. In specific, Aditya debnath wiki was the creator of 2018 Nike Premier Cup while Abhishe78 is the creator of Nike Premier Cup.


 * While the rationale to request CU: "Abhishe78" was created first, but at first only a disposable account to upload the new logo Jamshedpur FC in 2017 in commons-wiki, which the logo was then inserted by ips, which looks like there may be a true sockmaster that not yet discovered. Those ip than attempted to insert "Colours and badge" section. Nevertheless those ip were stale and no trace of those edits (logo and color) are associated with other registered account; did upload the logo to en-wiki but he knew what NFC is and had edit dispute with Aditya debnath wiki.


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 * Lastly, adding one more suspect,, more on the similarity of username and shared interest with (I-League 2nd Division, Youth League U18) and the admitting on "transferring" /shared use of account? However, also stale since May 2018.


 * And very last,, similarity of username and shared interest and shared interest in Indian football and also admitting of lost password, stale since July 2018, track record of sock-puppetry. Matthew_hk   t  c  07:13, 20 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Have to add more suspect again,, creator of Draft:I League under 15, seem associated with 's Youth League U15 (despite may also associated with 's I-League Youth U15, but Coderzombie had given warning to Aditya debnath wiki) as well as 's comment on the creation of such article in Talk:Youth League U18. Yet, Aditya Debnath123 was stale since April 2018.
 * While, no way in probability in similarity of username and interest in Indian football despite stale since February 2018. Matthew_hk   t  c  07:48, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Add comparison of wording of U15 season article 2017–18 Youth League U15 (Special:Diff/855556190), to the season article of U18 (Special:Diff/851305411). It seem written by the same person rather than c&p and changing wording by another unrelated user, especially the latter (User:Aditya debnath wiki/2017-18 Youth I-League competitions) was userified in July and normally difficult to search by other user. Matthew_hk  t  c  09:25, 20 August 2018 (UTC)  strike off as similarity to 2017–18 Youth League U18 by. Matthew_hk  t  c  10:01, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * Comment I am not sure about, but other accounts clearly belong to the same user. I have warned him in the past and he claims to have lost the password to all the accounts, which is probably genuine because they have very few overlapping edits, but beyond that, the user does not engage with other editors. I have warned him about some pages not being notable, but instead of replying on the talk page or AfD pages, he just recreates the pages some time later. Coderzombie (talk) 02:42, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


 * It seem Aditya debnath used the accounts and  at the same time in July, which already break the guideline as he already recovered the password of probably the account Aditya_debnath_wiki, as well as using the two accounts on socking purpose in the same area of interest and without other explanation.  Matthew_hk   t  c  15:08, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * How about this unblocked account ? Hhkohh (talk) 17:08, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * He claim in his talk page Hhkohh (talk) 17:08, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Abhishe78 has made no edits to SWAFF, and their only edits to 2018 Nike Premier Cup were after it was moved into the article space. Having edited a page created by someone else in a shared area of interest is fairly week evidence of sockpuppetry. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:55, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * - That the various Aditya debnath accounts are the same person is fairly obvious. I'm less sure about Abhishe78, but given there's enough overlap with Aditya debnath to warrant a closer look. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:50, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Aditya debnath wiki and Aditya debnath Atk are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Abhishe78. . The remaining accounts are .--Bbb23 (talk) 01:02, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * - Given the CU results, I'm inclined to say Abhishe78 is not the same person. Could an admin clerk please merge this into Sockpuppet investigations/Aditya debnath wiki? Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:40, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's worth doing anything about the stale accounts. All of them were only ever active for a very short period of time and have been inactive for a few months. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge done. Sro23 (talk) 20:08, 30 August 2018 (UTC)