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I'm trying to get to the bottom of what I suspect to be a Colors TV (Indian TV network) paid editing ring. Chandu Kumar Potter appears to be the older of these two accounts.


 * Lots of intersections between these two
 * Both largely mobile web edits.
 * Both have gone nuts with the creation of redirects. (Please be sure to set your view to 500 edits so it's more obvious)
 * Here Chandu Kumar Potter tries to blank out an entire article with no explanation, when a couple of weeks earlier, Sheena Dwivedi blanked out the cast and tried to have the article speedy deleted. This was an article that Sheena Dwivedi created.
 * I indeffed Sheena Dwivedi on 12 August for poor editing practices and for never responding to warnings. A day later, Chandu popped out of a 2 week hiatus to make this edit.

I feel that there are a lot of similarities, but if this person is deliberately ignoring warnings and community input to edit out of multiple accounts, it would not surprise me if they have a whole system going on. Hence my request for CU to see if there are other accounts being abused. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:43, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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✅, blocked and tagged. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:22, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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Same incompetent page moves and then this vs this is pretty telling. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  20:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * - TNT 💖 15:39, 29 September 2018 (UTC)


 * technical evidence. Likely meatpuppetry? - TNT 💖 15:46, 29 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Blocked without tags - TNT 💖 15:49, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

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. GSS (talk |c|em ) 11:01, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 01:33, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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Account editing in the same topic area as master, additionally they recreated Ishtiyak Khan 3 days after it was G5'd. It seems like a duck but requesting CU to confirm. Kb03 (talk) 14:37, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * - The Ishtiyak Khan article was actually recreated one year and three days ago (Kb03 likely didn't catch that the year was 2018, not 2019). The content on the page creation is entirely different than what was created before, which was a simple redirect to Har Shaakh Pe Ullu Baithaa Hai. Given the fact that the main piece of evidence provided was incorrect, I'm declining the request for CU.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:30, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * - Having encountered Virenderthind2019 at The Game of Votes where he's been unable to tell a reliable source, or to act consistently (1, 2), I'm not sure he's capable of editing for hire. He's shown no interest in Colors TV which was supposedly the master's defining trait. Beyond that comment, I recuse myself from clerking further for previous interaction. Cabayi (talk) 18:56, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't see any behavioral connection between and  (the user who last created the Ishtiyak Khan back in 2018). The creation by Sheena Dwivedi was a redirect; the creation we see in the page history is completely different. These two users haven't edited any of the same articles, nor have they with any deleted edits (outside of the creation of this article, of course). I'm just not seeing anything that I can use as evidence to assert that there's a connection here... Hence, I am closing this SPI.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   22:56, 24 October 2019 (UTC)