Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andrewsuraj1/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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where he was told his draft was rejected as advertising; (and is currently edit-warring) – new username clearly a reference to the editor who applied the deletion template. ClaudineChionh (talk – contribs) 10:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Puppet blocked in the time it took me to report this, but puppeteer should still be watched. ClaudineChionh (talk – contribs) 10:52, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I was about to block the master and tag everyone, but I looked a little deeper and found Suraj Beera. That iteration of the bio was created by and edited by Andrewsuraj1, whom I've added to the suspected list above. I've therefore requested a CU to see if this report should be merged into Sockpuppet investigations/Billyatthewheels.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:26, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:30, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * No connection to that I can see (different user agents, geolocate to different countries).  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:34, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Case renamed to oldest account, Andrewsuraj1. All confirmed accounts blocked and tagged. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:36, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * No connection to that I can see (different user agents, geolocate to different countries).  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:34, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Case renamed to oldest account, Andrewsuraj1. All confirmed accounts blocked and tagged. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:36, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * No connection to that I can see (different user agents, geolocate to different countries).  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:34, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Case renamed to oldest account, Andrewsuraj1. All confirmed accounts blocked and tagged. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:36, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Case renamed to oldest account, Andrewsuraj1. All confirmed accounts blocked and tagged. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:36, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The account recreated the draft Draft:Suraj Beera, which as been repeatedly recreated by previous socks of this same person (see logs). Minutes after the draft was tagged for speedy deletion, the account was created and almost immediately removed the CSD tags. Recommend deleting and salting the draft since it has been repeatedly recreated and this person uses socks to remove CSD tags. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:59, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

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I see the accounts have already been blocked. , I didn't know if you wanted to leave a comment as the blocking admin. TornadoLGS (talk) 01:05, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * My apologies; I did not see this request before blocking the accounts and salting the articles. Obviously, I concur with Mr. Tornado's analysis; this is a duck block of the same editor or farm of amateur paid editors. Long history of fake refs, fake claims, and promotional articles for one non-notable person. Kuru   (talk)  01:10, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * - accounts are blocked and locked now, but worth a check for sleepers since the previous one found several other accounts. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 19:18, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 21:38, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Kgfrockybhai and Saraswatideviom22 are to Jackfrozenmyfoot; I'll tag as suspected.   -- RoySmith (talk) 21:52, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The Rodeo799/Rodeo879 accounts have been used to hijack the dab page Suraj, turning it into an article about a singer and film producer called Beera Andrew Suraj, with blatantly fake references. This is the version by Rodeo799, and this is from Rodeo879. Both accounts have also been involved in some page hijacking shenanigans at Suraj (director). There have been a lot of edits back and forth in that article, and a couple of good-faith editors have been unwittingly helping the Andrewsuraj1 socks. One account that I don't think is a GF editor is Minseola, who was the first user to hijack Suraj (director) in this edit – cf the birth date to the one here in the hijacked version of Suraj.

CU requested to try to untangle this, and find any sleepers. I know the socks blocked in the archived reports are stale, but the behavioural evidence should be enough to show it's the same outfit. bonadea contributions talk 18:58, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - clearly some shenanigans going on, please CU to check for others given the number of accounts here. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:53, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 10:03, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Variously and ✅ to each other:
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Some of these are also doing Suraj-related stuff on eswiki. Technical data is consistent with logs for Andrewsuraj1., , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)