Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arnab Piush Biswas/Archive

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Per WP:DUCK. On User:Simplewikipedian's user page he has a link to his Upwork account identifying himself as "Arnab Piush B.". The CU is to see if there are any further accounts out there because the number of articles completed listed on the account is larger than the number of articles created by either account. GPL93 (talk) 16:18, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * - based off the content in the self posted link to their Upwork page it seems likely there will be further accounts. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:21, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocking Simplewikipedian without tags pending CU. I think the connection is ducky enough (even without being able to see the VRT ticket which was mentioned in the block log). Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:31, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * - ~TNT (she/her • talk) 00:17, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * is for comparison - I checked  and there are  ~TNT (she/her • talk) 00:20, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I've declined their unblock request. Even without a CU hit, the fact that their self-declared Upwork account has a history of Wikipedia jobs back to 2020, despite this account being only five months old, makes it clear that they have a history; I cannot believe that there is not a connection between the accounts.  Girth Summit  (blether)  05:52, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm tagging Simplewikipedian as suspected. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:35, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Just as a comment, based on the jobs they list have having completed, User:Arnobdas09, User:Arnobdas0999, User:ARNOBDAS09999 and User:ARNOBDAS099999 would all be related, and all four have been blocked as socks/master under ARNOBDAS099. - Bilby (talk) 11:42, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @Bilby Thanks for noting this. Which jobs are listed and then completed by those accounts? (I can't find a list of jobs, except those on their userpage, which I couldn't find similarities). Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:53, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Actually I think I've found out how to view more job descriptions. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:58, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * In which case, to start with: "I would like to update the current Signarama Wikipedia page and create two new pages for A.J. Titus and Ray Titus." Ray Titus and A J Titus were created by ARNOBDAS099. ARNOBDAS099999 created Draft:Alex James Titus, and ARNOBDAS09999 for Draft:Ray Titus. I'll run through my notes and see if I can find any others. - Bilby (talk) 12:06, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay. It's just trying to find a link between Ray Titus and these two accounts. The last report in the archive for the other case is closed with the clerk finding no behavioral connection but instead blocked for UPE. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:16, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * The last report is probably for the client, although I know of one UPE who tended to make a username based on the client who hired them. Sorry, I don't have a lot of notes on Simplewikipedian, as they weren't one of the more active paid editors - the most recent account I have is User:Perzival08 for the first version of Komito Analytics, but they were blocked for UPE in March, so it may be stale. - Bilby (talk) 12:51, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Regardless, all the accounts are blocked anyway so I guess it's not a big deal if there is more than one case for the same person. I'm personally not seeing enough of a connection to link these cases, though the VRT ticket which was mentioned in the block log of the master account in this case might resolve some of the issues? Unless another clerk / CU wants to merge the cases I think we should be fine leaving it as it is. Thanks for noting this though. Happy mopping all, Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 13:19, 9 October 2021 (UTC)