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At the Thugs of Hindostan article, there has been a slow recurring edit war over the past month involving myself against User:Coolagrawal1999 and these anonymous IP addresses. These IP addresses have been making edits exclusively to the Thugs of Hindostan article, and their edits are virtually identical to that of Coolagrawal1999.

Coolagrawal1999 and the IP edits have been changing the cast order to place Amitabh Bachchan above Aamir Khan, claiming that Amitabh should be on top because he is "more experienced", while also placing Katrina Kaif above Fatima Sana Sheikh, claiming Katrina should be higher on the list because she's a bigger star, while at the same time some of these IPs post remarks insulting Fatima. However, the sources I've added to the article state that Aamir is playing the lead role, Amitabh the second lead, and Fatima the female lead, so I listed the cast in that order, while adding more information on what characters they're playing. In response, Coolagrawal1999 and the IP addresses have been repeatedly blanking sourced content and removing sources without any explanation whatsoever, which I've reverted a number of times while requesting them to explain themselves, which they refuse to do but just keep repeating the same pattern regardless.

In addition to myself reverting their edits,, and  have also reverted edits from these IP addresses at certain points. However, new IP addresses keep appearing, making the same kinds of edits, repeatedly blanking sourced content, removing sources without explanation, and changing the cast order. All of this leads me to suspect (for quite a while now) that these IP addresses are socks of User:Coolagrawal1999, whose edits are identical to the edits of these IP addresses. Maestro2016 (talk) 15:41, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * About half of these IP's are engaged in very obvious vandalism, by adding gossip regarding two the film's stars to the article, which Coolagrawal has not done. The others have been editing the article on a much smaller scale. All told, I think this several different people. Getting the page semi-protected might not be a bad idea though. Closing without action. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:50, 24 December 2017 (UTC)