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Suspicious activity detected at Articles for deletion/Vikash Verma. Not sure who's the sockmaster, and maybe one of the first two accounts listed is innocent, shrug. I filed this under 'Archiedesai' b/c they are the oldest account here. Two accounts (Archiedesai and Suchayaar) create very similar articles/edit in a very similar topic area, the rest (SmartSameer Patil, Ashitamlk and 01lt) are SPA who just came to vote keep on a niche AfD. At the very least all the one-vote accounts are very likely socks, but the odds are they are tied to one of the two more active accounts. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I'll ping User:Deb who recently blocked one of those accounts for "abusing multiple accounts"... Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:54, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Comment: I looked at User:Archidesai with suspicion but could not find any conclusive evidence that he is a sock, or at least not of this particular sockmaster. Deb (talk) 17:40, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I think it's likely that is a different person (potentially UPE), but somehow related.  is here only to publicise Vikash Verma – they drafted an article about him on their userpage (and one about his father in their sandbox; Archiedesai later published a different version in mainspace. Based on BEANSy quirks, I'm pretty sure,  and  are socks of Archiedesai, only created to back them up at Articles for deletion/Vikash Verma and Articles for deletion/No Means No (film); please compare these two each other and look for others. I suspect that we might find that Suchayaar is related to a different sockfarm. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 09:55, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The five accounts are technically to each other (maybe borderline  but that's as high as I'll go). Note that Ashitamlk has edited mostly using IPs that have hosted proxies and so could also be called  but I actually think those are their real IP addresses. From a behavioral perspective, meatpuppetry certainly seems plausible.   KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 05:39, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * - given that everyone Suchayaar uses the exact same formatting at the AfD (KEEP in all caps and then a paragraph break) and that there's additional overlap with 01lt at WP:Articles for deletion/No Means No (film) (note the rather strange interaction between the two), which was directed by Verma, combined with the fact that Archiedesai seems to be only to promote Verma and associated topics, I'm convinced that there is meatpuppetry going on at the very least. I recommend blocking Archidesai indefinitely for a mix between meatpuppetry and blatant promotion and block the rest for meatpuppetry except for – I don't see enough here to action that account purely from a socking perspective. Thanks. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 18:37, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * . GeneralNotability (talk) 02:23, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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A number of strange overlaps. Here Archiedesai edits BraEpreSS's sandbox. BraEpreSS U1's the sandbox shortly after, but then Tere42 posts an article with the exact content of the deleted sandbox a couple weeks later. Tere42, in turn, was at work in User:Spiridina/sandbox. Given the subjects of the articles (living people and movies) and the wide spread in topics, I'm thinking this is one or more UPEs. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:48, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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