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GABgab 16:33, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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✅, in Sockpuppet investigations/BhushanSRT. GABgab 16:33, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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WikiWiki5678 has self-identified in a Teahouse post (diff) that they created ABP Ganga, whereas it was created by ZaxoteZ. Both accounts are currently actively editing at around the same time, and this Editor Interaction analysis shows that WikiWiki5678 always frequently edits shortly after ZaxoteZ, and never beforehand. Nick Moyes (talk) 21:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Zee Entertainment is one of those subjects keeps popping up at SPI across multiple cases. (Judahgreg, BhushanSRT, Vibhas Kashyap, Prashantpking, Shiwam Kumar Sriwastaw to name a few.) The admission makes the connection between the two listed accounts obvious enough, but I suspect there may be more. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:42, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other:

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:02, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Checkuser log suggests that this is Cuty Pie Sweetu based on multiple ranges. I need a clerk to move this case to that master and then tag, please. Blocking all.
 * ✅. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:06, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

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See.  General Ization Talk  20:34, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged as a self-confessed sock. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:39, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

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Same focus (Zee TV channels, ABP Group and its cluster of articles) and other similarities, for instance compared to  by a previously blocked sock. bonadea contributions talk 08:31, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:03, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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They came to my talk page out of the blue asking about the same types of articles as User:WikiWiki5678 persistently did previously. When I checked WikiWiki5678 they were blocked as a sock of Cuty Pie Sweetu. DreamFan789 was created a few days after User:WikiWiki5678 was blocked.Checking interactions between the users indicates editing the same subjects. WP:QUACK KylieTastic (talk) 09:06, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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✅, . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:03, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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New account recreating G5'd article Star Maa Gold. Requesting CU to confirm and find any additional accounts as they have a history of making several sleepers. Kb03 (talk) 15:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * based on multiple (large) ranges shared with previous socks, no additional accounts are visible, . ST47 (talk) 17:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
 * is as well, and has some suspicious article creations, including Surya Samachar and Big Ganga.  ST47 (talk) 18:02, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced that Nitin is related. There might be some COI editing going on, but that's for another venue. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:55, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

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Recreation of Colors Gujarati Cinema, a page repeatedly created by and various socks. Hugsyrup 11:27, 29 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I realise given the respective ages of the accounts that I have put the puppet and puppeteer the wrong way round, apologies. And I knew I recognised the account name - has quite a history of sockpuppetry, although the last time I reported him for what I thought was a pretty obvious violation, it was ignored. Hugsyrup 11:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

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This account doesn't bear any of the hallmarks of previous socks - Noormohammed satya has been editing since 2011 on a variety of subjects (CPS socks are generally SPAs), and the content of the newly-created page doesn't resemble that of the deleted versions. I don't at this time see enough evidence to warrant a CU investigation. Yunshui 雲 水 11:41, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing for insufficient evidence. Bbb23 (talk) 21:26, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

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I actually want to report an IP range, 2409:4061:x:x:x:x:x:x, where this one is the most recent incarnation; these IPs have been requesting the creation of typical CPS articles such as Zee Classic, Zee Bollywood, ABP Ganga, and Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand (as well as several others) at the talk page of User:Noormohammed satya ; this becomes evident if you look at the talk page history here, as the requests have been blanked after Noormohammed satya has created the articles. See for instance, , and. There have also been recent requests at the same user talk page to upload logos, and Noormohammed satya has indeed uploaded a bunch of Zee TV related logos and added them to articles at the IPs' behest (there are WP:OUTING concerns with the diff to that request from the IP so I won't add it here). An earlier sockpuppet concerned with logos was WikiWiki5678, see the many notices at User talk:WikiWiki5678 and, e.g., cf. (by another sock) and by Noormohammed satya. From the user talk page activity it looks like Noormohammed satya is being used by the CPS socks and I have posted a note to their talk page, that they need to be more discriminating about creating articles on behalf of IP users.

Would a range block be possible? I'm not sure whether blocking just the IP in this report would help much, since the IPs have shifted pretty rapidly. I also wonder about the logos uploaded by NS; if they are not a sockpuppet but uploading files sent to them by a sockpuppet, it seems that those files should be deleted, too. bonadea contributions talk 17:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I forgot this diff which rather confirms that it is an IPsock. --bonadea contributions talk 17:55, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * Range blocked. Sro23 (talk) 05:07, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

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Looks like the sock of User:Cuty Pie Sweetu has returned with the same creations as can be seen in Zee Classic (TV Channel) and Zee Bollywood. At first, I was helping them out to fix a few dashes, but on a second thought, I decided to go through their edit history and looks like they're the same person. — Nnadigoodluck 🇳🇬 08:33, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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I went through the edit history of User:Cuty Pie Sweetu and it is exclusively restricted to editing television channels and related articles which isn't the case with me. While I have recently edited articles related to Zee somewhat substantially, I don't think that on its own would be even circumstantial evidence for me being the same as that person. The articles that I created are channels that listed on the network and anyone would encounter them if they began reading up sources related to the network. Lastly, not that it would mean much coming from me, but just for the record, I am not User:Cuty Pie Sweetu. Have a nice day, cheers. Tayi Arajakate Talk 08:59, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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❌, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:24, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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Has a very similar editing pattern as another sock of the puppeteer, user:Cuty Pie Sweetu. See this.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:04, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Another one with similar editing habits to DreamTeamzz and Cuty Pie Sweetu, two other socks of the puppeteer.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:08, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * , Unless you have some specific reason to think this is BhushanSRT, I'm going to move this to Cuty Pie Sweetu -- RoySmith (talk) 19:34, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , other than the similarity of editing patterns, no, I just felt someone should take a look.  Onel 5969  TT me 19:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * - Please compare DreamTeamzz to Mhatre Akash. Based on the "dream" naming theme (vs several confirmed socks in the archive), I have no doubt that DreamTeamzz is Cuty.  Mhatre is more complicated.  Certainly plenty of overlap and other suspicious behavior, but Mhatre has never used Visual Editor, while DreamTeamzz does.  There's one non-stale user in the archives (Tayi Arajakate), but they were found unrelated the last time, and I see no reason to question that. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:07, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Master is . Mhatre Akash and DreamTeamzz are to one another. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:05, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged DreamTeamzz as proven. As for Mhatre, I don't think they're the same person based on the CU result plus some technical clues and this user page note from one to the other.  Could well be MEAT, but I'm not even sure of that; could just be a fan of the TV shows edited, so taking no action on them. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:18, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

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Same pattern of editing, high overlap and recreation of the same pages, username style is similar to previous socks as well. Tayi Arajakate Talk 09:34, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 * @Tayi Arajakate, help me out here. What are the specific recreated pages you're talking about?  What is the "pattern of editing" which you think is the same?  Which previous usernames are similar in style? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:26, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , sorry about not elaborating, I thought this would end up as confirmed with CU. I was comparing with EditzIndia.
 * Both the accounts edit(ed) exclusively in the topic area of Indian television channels and their companies, and have mobile edit tags. They insert the same color coded directory lists in articles, compare these two for example Special:Diff/1016102180 and Special:Diff/1023773080. On a second look they haven't restored any specific pages, both of them did attempt to repeatedly restore redirected pages though, see Special:Diff/1025892166, Special:Diff/1025921091 and Special:Diff/1016592376, Special:Diff/1016479328. Tayi Arajakate  Talk 04:48, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Both the accounts edit(ed) exclusively in the topic area of Indian television channels and their companies, and have mobile edit tags. They insert the same color coded directory lists in articles, compare these two for example Special:Diff/1016102180 and Special:Diff/1023773080. On a second look they haven't restored any specific pages, both of them did attempt to repeatedly restore redirected pages though, see Special:Diff/1025892166, Special:Diff/1025921091 and Special:Diff/1016592376, Special:Diff/1016479328. Tayi Arajakate  Talk 04:48, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * . They look to be in the same very wide range. That's all I can provide, unfortunately...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:43, 16 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Ugh, this is a mess. I'm convinced that EditzIndia and DreamTeamzz are the same person based on extensive editing overlap and similarity of usernames as noted, plus some other BEANS I found.  On the other hand, in 15 April 2021, I tagged DreamTeamzz as proven, and based partly on 's CU finding of "DreamTeamzz unlikely to Mhatre Akash", and some other reasons noted in the archive, I took no action on Mhatre Akash.  Now I see that Mhatre Akash has since been CU-confirmed to Cuty Pie by .  In short
 * Cuty == DreamTeamzz
 * DreamTeamzz != Mhatre
 * Mhatre == Cuty
 * so we fail transitivity somewhere. One possibility is that this is really several different people in one big sock meta-farm, perhaps multiple people sharing accounts.  In any case, there's no doubt this is all UPE/socking/COI of one flavor or another, so I'm not terribly worried if we've got mismatched hosiery.  Blocked and tagged. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:19, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

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Sidharth TV, a non-notable article was created by user DreamTeamzz, a sock account on 18 May 2021. However he was later blocked on 30 May.

User Logitechsence created their account on 24 May and made their first edit to Sidharth TV. They turned plain text to redlinks. Later, he created Draft:Sidharth Bhakti and Draft:Sidharth Gold, TV channels owned by Draft:Namita Agrawal and Draft:Sitaram Agrawal for whom Logitechsence created drafts and submitted for AfC.

Summary: Sidharth Gold, Sidharth Bhakti, 91.9 Sarthak FM (violation of ban policy), and Sidharth TV are owned by owned by Sidharth TV Network founded by Sitaram Agarwal and Namita Agrawal.

Possible sock is extensively editing Sidharth TV Network's articles.

Possible results: DreamTeamzz created Sidharth TV in violation of ban policy. And user Logitechsence is a possible sockpuppet of the master Cuty Pie Sweetu.

It is also a case of possible WP:MEATPUPPET. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 22:40, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:18, 23 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't be surprised if there's COI/UPE going on here, but I don't see any reason to think they're a Cuty sock based on behavior. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:04, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

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Similar name to prior sock (EditzIndia), and the interaction is way too high for a new user. Same focus on Indian television stations.  Ravensfire  (talk) 20:31, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:41, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

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Similar name to several prior socks (EditzPoint, EditzIndia). The four articles they've edited so far have all been hit by those socks as well.  Ravensfire  (talk) 19:09, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:16, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

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When creating Asianet Movies (Indian TV channel), they goofed and left references to at the bottom, which they later removed.. This is an article they've tried to create before - see. The editor interaction for EditzIndia and Plusnow is significant, but especially the high edits both accounts have made to List of Malayalam-language television channels, Asianet Star Communications and Star Suvarna.  Ravensfire  (talk) 13:10, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * This case is (though I haven't run CU to be sure, my tool that indicates whether the accounts are probably stale say no accounts in the archive or sock categories are not stale). Comparing to CU logs and SPI tools CU log tool to the CU results on running a check on Plusnow I would call this . Same country, but this country is known for having bad geolocation accuracy and very quickly changing dynamic IPs. . Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:34, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on the inclusion when they created the draft of what was later removed by the listed sock in this diff I am confident enough to block as suspected. Certainly, any explanation that discounts this evidence would have to explain why this was added in when they created the draft. Close. Will G5 as appropriate. Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:38, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

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These three have contributed to the page of Star Pravah, usernames are similar PravinGanechari (talk) 16:45, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Mostly everything in this case is stale, but FireEdit is ✅ to Plusnow. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:16, 10 July 2022 (UTC)