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Joined Wikipedia and created Dr. Amar Prasad Reddy as a duplicate of Amar Prasad Reddy, half an hour after the latter was put up for AfD. User:Akashantony had created two biographys of Reddy, one of them having title of "Dr.Amar Prasad Reddy", before being blocked. Their most request unblock request was earlier today, and was rejected an hour before Googlemarri decided to join Wikipedia and create a copy of the disputed article. McGeddon (talk) 17:28, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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For reference, the following IPs: have already been blocked in relation to this user's activities. -- Finngall  talk  17:42, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * and are ✅ to Akashantony. Blocked and tagged. Katietalk 17:45, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Forgot - no comment about IP addresses. Katietalk 17:48, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and . Closing. GABgab 20:25, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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Recreated sockmaster page Amar Prasad Reddy with identical content. I am blocking this per WP:DUCK but if a checkuser wants to check, that's fine too, but likely not needed. ~Amatulić (talk) 05:30, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * Also created Dr .S. Amar Prasad Reddy, now deleted as G4 and salted. Another attempt was Dr.Amar Prasad Reddy. EdJohnston (talk) 05:42, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Sony created Dr .S. Amar Prasad Reddy which looks identical (in my recollection) to the deleted versions Dr.Amar Prasad Reddy, and Dr.S Amar Prasad Reddy created by Tachs (and others?). Pushpita piku 1995 uploaded the image, maybe other socks involved (only Tachs is named in my CSD log). Cabayi (talk) 17:39, 9 November 2016 (UTC) (Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Tachs) GABgab 15:40, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Tachs may well be an innocent bystander - several versions of the article were created and moved around. He may well just have moved a version of the article to a better name and incidentally created a redirect. Without admin tools I can't tell. Cabayi (talk) 17:44, 9 November 2016 (UTC) (Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Tachs) GABgab 15:40, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks to for resolving so quickly & apologies to  for dragging him into this. Cabayi (talk) 19:24, 9 November 2016 (UTC) (Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Tachs) GABgab 15:40, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I became aware of this sock puppet investigation against me only today. The sequence of incidents related to Amar Prasad Reddy article reads like this. I created an article on Amar Prasad Ray, an Indian physician, when I was working on articles on Padma Award winners. The article was edited to include Reddy's details by User:Akashantony and then redirected to Amar Prasad Reddy. In fact, it was a clever way to get an article on Reddy without attracting the attention of vigilant new page patrollers. Subsequently, it was moved a few times. When it came to my attention through an article deletion intimation, I left a message at Akashantony's talk page and created another article, Amar Prasad Ray (physician), a stub with the same content as my original article. The rest, everyone knows. Felt bad to know I was viewed as the culprit. Anyway, all's well that ends well. --jojo@nthony (talk) 03:48, 10 November 2016 (UTC) (Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Tachs) GABgab 15:40, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * - The articles are identical. Katietalk 18:12, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Sony0wayne is ✅ as a sock of . Blocked and tagged. I don't see any sleepers right now.
 * The other two accounts are ❌ to Akashantony and to each other. Please do that voodoo that you do so well and move this under Akashantony. Thanks. :-) Katietalk 18:26, 9 November 2016 (UTC) (Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Tachs) GABgab 15:40, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing. GABgab 15:40, 10 November 2016 (UTC)