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UPE. See below. Bbb23 (talk) 15:13, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
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See creations similar to this confirmed user Praxidicae (talk) 10:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * . Looks like it was missed in the original check because it was stale at the time, but it has since woken up to create the same article under a different name. ST47 (talk) 16:29, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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Recreated Draft:British Herald which was previously created by the sock User:Ibrahim.ram09 - I can't remember the exact wording of the previous version, but the content of this one is exactly what I remember from before. Ibrahim.ram09 requested an unblock through UTRS today, which was denied less than an hour before the Ansif account recreated the draft. Ansif is actually significantly older than Amvivek but has been dormant for several years. bonadea contributions talk 17:42, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Oh, and there is another obvious connection between Ansif's old user page and the article Ansif Ashraf which Ibrahim.ram09 edit warred to remove the COI tag from. --bonadea contributions talk 17:45, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare this suspected sock to and check for sleepers.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  18:53, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The following acconts are ✅ to Jesusislord2017
 * On the other hand, I'd say is .  Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I blocked Ansif for promotion (see Special:Diff/903057780). Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, I'd say is .  Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I blocked Ansif for promotion (see Special:Diff/903057780). Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, I'd say is .  Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I blocked Ansif for promotion (see Special:Diff/903057780). Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I blocked Ansif for promotion (see Special:Diff/903057780). Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

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The suspected sock was inactive since November 2018, reappeared today just to repost Dr Dhananjay that was previously created by under Dhananjay Datar. GSS (talk |c|em ) 07:41, 12 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Added GoToNB, a brand new user (?) appear to know a lot about Wikipedia, using Twinkle to tag article and moved it to Dhananjay Datar. GSS (talk |c|em ) 09:16, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Should note that GoToNB also recreated IMZahidIqbal's RentSeeker/RentSeeker.ca as RentSeeker INC. after gaming for AC. Praxidicae (talk) 13:53, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * They're someone's UPE socks, potentially Amvivek or IMZahidIqbal but it doesn't much matter., closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 02:48, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

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Both of these accounts with similar names were created after the master account was blocked. Bhengland made no edits outside Ansif Ashraf (similar to master's username). The IP address recreated Draft:British Herald as Draft:Britishherald where Bhlondon made some edits before re-posting British Herald in the  main-space. FitIndia ✉ बात 16:38, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:41, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

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Yet another recreation of Dhananjay Datar. GSS (talk |c|em ) 07:34, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 00:08, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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SPA here to re-create Draft:British herald and add promotional text to Ansif Ashraf ; note that there are connections to the User:Amvivek sock farm who has also been involved in these articles, as well as to User:Reddragon7 who was blocked for undisclosed paid editing. See the deletion log of Draft:British Herald (salted a couple of months ago). One indication that these users are the same person or paid by the same people is the inclusion of an unrelated newspaper called British Herald in the draft about the web portal, in an attempt to make it look as if the website has a history going back to the mid-19h century. bonadea contributions talk 11:32, 20 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Apologies for not including any diffs. I usually do in SPIs, but as I am not an admin I am unable to add diffs when deleted pages are involved. To me, providing the Wikilink to Draft:British Herald is the same thing as linking to the deletion log (at least, when I click the link I am taken straight to the log). I will try to be more specific in future. --bonadea contributions talk 16:31, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. I'll go back and G5, salt, etc.  Note to, it would have been a lot quicker to investigate this had you included links to specific diffs.  A link to the diff where a specific piece of text was added is a lot more useful than, see the deletion log.  -- RoySmith (talk) 15:33, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Clerk request: there's an assertion here that this case and WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Amvivek might actually be the same sock farm. I haven't done a detailed analysis of that, but it looks plausible.  Another pair of eyes on that would be good.  -- RoySmith (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The ongoing editing behavior on Ansif Ashraf regarding COI, and involving accounts that have been blocked for being socks of Amvivek as well as Ansif - add enough plausibility that these are all connected, and hence are connected to Amvivek as the master. I think it's safe to move and merge this SPI case and file it under Amvivek as the sock master.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   20:33, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The SPI report has been re-filed under the suspected master. Setting status to 'closed'...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   20:38, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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SPA only edits are linking simple:British Herald in Ansif Ashraf and posted the same promotional article in WP:SB. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 10:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ to Royalnational. They are technically to previously confirmed socks. The behaviour combined with the technical result is enough for me. Blocked, tagged and closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:07, 11 May 2020 (UTC)