Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chaudhurisagar/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The master owns Draft:HiFives and has created that draft. The puppet has created Draft:HiFives Platform. The puppet appeared the day after the master and is an SPA. The master has made a small number of spammy edits, all reverted as far as I can tell. Master is warned for UPE already, sock is about to be

This duck is quacking very loudly. I doubt we need checkuser verification. I have notified both editors Fiddle   Faddle  23:11, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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Note: If the master does not come forward with a clear statement as required by m:Terms of use I would suggest that the master gets indefinitely blocked, basically regardless of the outcome of this investigation. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:11, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Sock indeffed and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:07, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Reblocked, tagged Chaudhurisagar as master. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:28, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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User:Chaudhurisagar was blocked for sock puppetry and undisclosed paid editing after using multiple accounts to write promotional drafts about his company, HiFives. The username similarities between the three accounts are obvious, rising to the level of WP:DUCK and all three accounts have a similar interest in adding promotional material about HiFives.

User:Hr_brain's first contribution here was to recreate Draft:HiFives,, full of promotional language. Their contributions since have focused exclusively on editing that draft with two exceptions, inserting an inappropriate external link to the HiFives website, and editing copyright infringing material lifted from the HiFives website which was inserted by another sock.

User: HRtrends has focused exclusively on two kinds of edits, inserting copyrighted material lifted from the HiFives website, and inserting promotional material and links to HiFives, disguised as references

User: WinHR added another promotional link disguised as a source, and has also cleaned up the edits made by the other accounts ,.

I strongly suspect that this is a case of either WP:SOCK or WP:MEAT. 192.76.8.82 (talk) 16:33, 21 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Could a clerk please add User: Ragaswriter to this SPI as well please? (I don't know how to and don't want to break anything) They've made similar edits spamming links to HiFives and have also edited Sudipto Das to add reference to Sagar Chaudhuri,, both the master and one of the other sock puppets have edited this page. 192.76.8.82 (talk) 20:56, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * I also found and ✅:
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:44, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:44, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:44, 22 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Tags applied, draft G5'd. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:39, 22 October 2020 (UTC)