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Is it possible to get a CU to look into whether or not Daaask is Fishdash and Dhashwanth Kumaran? Fishdash and Dhashwanth are the same person for sure. User page information, plus behaviour makes that pretty clear. Fishdash is extraordinarily incompetent and apparently relentless, which makes him a huge pain. Fishdash was also indeffed at Commons for repeated copyright violations, uploading non-free images.

There are several areas of intersection between the three users.
 * The main things I've noticed Fishdash doing, is making generally incompetent edits. He'd reorganise cast lists and starring credits without providing sufficient explanations. Example here where he's opted to reorder characters, but then make peculiar choices about phrasing, changing the existing content to read "The film stars Jai in the lead dual role, with Raai Laxmi, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar and Catherine Tresa are in the female leads." This creates a strange situation where the user is choosing to highlight a male as having the "lead role" and then indicating women actors as being the "female leads" as if it's a role of lesser importance. That reeks of unconscious gender bias.
 * This is similar to what Daaask does here, adding the phrasing the film stars Jayam Ravi, Kajal Aggarwal and Yogi Babu in the lead roles apparently unaware that a starring role is probably a lead role? He also reorganises cast arbitrarily. This are important points for this SPI.
 * Random cast reordering by Daaask here.
 * Random cast reordering here by Daaask. Even though we were previously looking at a list of an ensemble cast, Daaask decides that Nithin Sathya isn't part of the ensemble, but is the singular noteworthy actor to have "a supporting role". This user is trying to redefine cast importance based on their POV. This is consistent with the weird choices Fishdash was doing. And while this could be chalked up to Fishdash being a 15 year old.


 * Oh yeah, I forgot to mention edits like this, where Daaask is incompetently generating wikilinks to Kalyan Kumar that are tied to the name Dhashanth. My guess: Kalyan Kumar is this bloke's dad. Note also these edits where the same thing happens, only Daaask not only links to pater Kalyan Kumar, but also links to Ashwin. Same incompetent linking, all related to Dhashwanth, and a likely COI issue throughout.

I think this is enough to suggest a look for a connection to Daaask, and also a check for undiscovered socks. I could also use some help from a CU in stifling some anonymous edits related to this, since they have abused the system in that regard also. See for instance. In this edit, whomever is behind that IP (Fishdash, et. al) changes the clear existing wording to read The film stars Vijay in a dual role, alongside Sridevi features as the Queen of the film. While Hansika Motwani and Shruti Haasan are in the female leads. So now one of the actors is indicated as "the Queen of the film". Does he mean that she's the most important actor in the film, or does he mean that she plays a queen? It's unclear because a similar IP made these edits, where Premgi Amaran is indicated "as the film's comedian". Does that mean that Amaran is a comedian, or that he plays a comedian? And then notice again that once more, in that first IP edit that we have two people who are singled out as ultra important, Vijay and Sridevi, but then a separate cluster of "female leads". Mind-boggling.

Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:21, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

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All three named accounts are a (bordering ✅) match to one another, and Fishdash is a ✅ match to. Blocking and tagging (or retagging) all as socks of the oldest account, which appears to be Daaask. Yunshui 雲 水 10:28, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 18:28, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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All edits are to articles edited by recently blocked, including this one, same as prior sock edit. Clear WP:DUCK.  Ravensfire  (talk) 15:55, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Looks like I already took care of this. Blocked. Thanks ! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:22, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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Both the users have tried to remove speedy deletion tag from Shabana Shajahan that has recently created.  D My Son  14:59, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * case moved to oldest account. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:25, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * - Removing CSD template (Dhashwanth K.L. and Latha bsf). There are some interesting similarities between these diffs which make me believe these accounts are ducky (changing the dmy dates template to 2018, but leaving the month as is etc.) Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:35, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * is the best I can give you here. They have one large, busy network in common, but are using different devices on it. Go by behaviour for this one. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:11, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * . Removal of CSD nomination templates by Latha bsf on pages/files which Dhashwanth K.L. created (1, 2 and 3). They are editing similar topics and pages (interaction timeline). Similar edits at idwikipedia. Same removal of speedy deletion templates at commons, on a file which Dhashwanth K.L. created, by Latha bsf 30ish minutes after the nomination (file history). The large overlap with the quick removal of speedy deletion templates on multiple wikis for pages created by another account heavily suggests sockpuppetry. Sock blocked indef (the sock in this case is going to be Dhashwanth K.L. as it is the newer account). Master blocked 2 weeks. Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 18:41, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * To add I don't believe that this is because the user forgot their password on the first account. Their removal of the speedy deletion tags suggests that they are deliberately using a different account to give the impression it is not the creator removing the deletion template. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 18:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * is a brand new account, created 30 June 2020, a few days after presumed sock was indeffed.
 * Dashukl created user page with a "hey, I'm a new user assume good faith" message, which we've all seen. Why would a newb know about AGF?
 * Dashukl and Dhashwanth seem roughly similar, with the Dash/Dhash beginnings.
 * Dashukl, for a brand new user, seems to be editing confidently in image uploads with complicated licensing.
 * For a brand new user, I am surprised to see 16 articles of intersection with Dhashwanth.
 * Of those intersections, several of them are at articles created by Dhashwanth K.L. including:
 * Hansika Motwani filmography
 * Piriyadha Varam Vendum (TV series)
 * Gokulathil Seethai (2019 TV series)
 * Endrendrum Punnagai (TV series)

I think a CU might be helpful, because per the archive, we already know that the user had two accounts open at the same time. Also, this new user's edits give me strong undisclosed paid editing vibes. This user is very aggressive with their editing, and some of the articles they've edited have been created by socks of people like, who was a very aggressive, incompetent editor, who created tons of Tamil TV articles.

Note Endrendrum Punnagai (TV series), which has had very few edits by people other than Dhaswanth. I see some likely logged-out editing there, and some edits from some random accounts like Rvsran, who happens to be a prolific Tamil TV article creator.


 * I think this could wind up being , based on the Tamil TV obsession, and some incompetent choices that only I'd notice, like that Endrendrum Punnagai (TV series) uses location with "Tamil Nadu", which is not the proper usage of that parameter. I also notice that the article has a boneheaded category Category:Tamil Nadu drama television series, as if that means anything. (Does it mean that the show is set in Tamil Nadu? Does it mean that the show is produced in Tamil Nadu?) Not surprisingly, this cat was created by Arnav19 and manipulated by one of his socks, Thilakshan. Another possible tell: I see an edit like this by Rvsran. Note how in the genre parameter of the infobox, they include "Tamil soap opera" rather than "Soap opera"? That's probably because Arnav19 created Tamil television soap opera and likes to link to it any chance he gets. (As of this SPI, there were about 350 articles with this link, but I plan to pare it down.) Part of what made Arnav19 so pernicious, was that he'd make a mistake or do something boneheaded, then propagate those problems to SCORES of articles. I spent about a year trimming leading zeros from dates (among other things) because he didn't know how to properly format a date, and removing preceded_by and followed_by from articles, because he didn't bother to learn how to properly use these parameters. Obviously we'll never be able to CU this back to Arnav19, but I think there's definitely an Arnav19 stink here. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:18, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Not expecting too much given the previous CU finding, but endorsing - I've also added Rvsaran to the check list. Pretty sure about Dashukl (lot of overlap plus un-draftifying a Dhashwanth K.L. creation), Rvsaran has a fair amount of article overlap but I haven't dug enough to have a firm behavioral opinion. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:23, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I think Arnav was in Switzerland, and looking at the editing time cards, Arnav appears to be in a different region than Rvsran, or at least edited at times that were significantly different. Dashukl appears to be editing at similar times to Arnav, but it's not fully conclusive. And there indicators that Rvsran is a sock of someone. For starters, drive-by creation of Tamil television articles, as if they were being paid to manufacture these. The shows are on from different TV networks, so I don't know who to suspect--the State of Tamil Nadu? Here Rvsran uses arrows to indicate that an actor replaced another actor. That spread to tons of articles. I notice the use of an arrow by sock operator Swakutty here. I also notice that Dashukl sometimes used edit summaries, wehre Rvsran did not. So, I don't know... Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:24, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Rvsvan is ❌ to this case, very strongly to Arnav19, and I don't see any indications that they may be related to any other known masters. Dashukl is, same huge network and same very common OS but different browsers. As before, . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:56, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Out of curiosity, would any of the Daaask socks line up with Dashukl and Dhashwanth K.L.? Why I'm asking, is that two of Daaask's alter-egos were Fishdash and Dhashwanth Kumaran, and I notice obvious name similarities to Dashukl and Dhashwanth K.L. I only noticed today by accident while doing an interaction analysis that I had a Dhashwanth in my browser's auto-fill cache. If all of these people are on the same network, then I think we're in duck territory. There are significant overlaps between this group of four. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:53, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't give you any better than with the Daaask accounts. They are using the same very large network. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:50, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Well what if I were to sweeten the deal with This Dhashwanth K.L. sandbox compared to this Dashukl user page? I know, I know, not much more you can do. But I think it's pretty clear that Dashukl is evading a block as Dhashwanth K.L., and I do think they're tied to the Fishdash/Dhashwanth Kumaran socks. I just wish I had a better idea of the master, but I know you've done what you can. I've blocked Dashukl as a duck of Dhashwanth K.L. and tagged him as a sock of Daaask. I'm not sure where all this data should be filed, though. Flagging for clerk attention. Thanks for the help. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:11, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing where clerk assistance is needed here? Am I missing something? :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   04:37, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Per the last response above to Ivanvector, I'm not clear on where these reports should ultimately be filed. I think there's enough duck evidence to support Dashukl as a sock of Dhashwanth K.L., but I also suspect both of being ducks of . Hasn't really made a name for themselves to be implicated as a clear sockmaster, and I don't know that there's sufficient behavioural evidence to name them a sockmaster. The CU can't peg a clear sockmaster either, so someone should probably figure out where to leave all the data. Archived in one SPI? Copied to another with clarification? I mean if someone finds more Daaask socks, will it be clear that the Dashukl/Dhashwanth K.L. socks were related? That's where I'm coming from in requesting a clerk. And if a clerk sees some other potential solution, great! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:04, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Cyphoidbomb - Ah, got'cha. Thanks for clarifying. Good question... Let me take a gander and see what the right way to file this would be...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:33, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah-ha-ha! This is exactly what the altmaster tag is for...and I've got just the script for the job., just to make sure I understand the situation:
 * Latha bsf/Dashulk/Dhaswath KL are believed to be the same editor based on behavior
 * We think that this group may also be related to Daaask, which currently has a separate SPI, but we have neither CU nor clear behavior to prove the two.
 * Does that sum it up correctly? GeneralNotability (talk) 15:28, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Latha bsf didn't make enough edits for me to say definitively that it was related to the others, but behaviourally, and with their overlap with the others, it's possible. The rest of your summary is correct. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:47, 13 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked, tagged with altmaster. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:42, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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Same edit removing post from talk page as prior sock. The history of List of programs broadcast by Zee Tamil shows extensive history of Daaask socks (and related IP's, see that also removed the talk page edit as IP sock of Daaask.  Daaask is known to be active on the Tamil wikipedia, see  this page which all of the most recent edits are from Daaask socks.  Ravensfire  (talk) 16:05, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Hmm, interesting. This is also an area of interest. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:25, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * - behavioral overlap, sleeper check please. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:18, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅. Range is too large to do an effective sleeper check. – bradv  🍁  20:06, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

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Per a report on meta and cross-wiki abuse at Tamil Wikipedia (thanks ). See below. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:30, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * see, who's first edit was to restore a sock edit with a very heartfelt plea, okay, it was a demand.  Ravensfire  (talk) 01:28, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * علاء reported that Bal58328oo is confirmed to Dhashwanth K.L., who was previously implicated in this case and is tagged as suspected. The following are ✅ to each other and to Sockpuppet investigations/Daaask:
 * while I follow up. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:30, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting that Bal58328oo sock. I forgot to do it. They seemed to have created it only to edit twice. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:21, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * while I follow up. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:30, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting that Bal58328oo sock. I forgot to do it. They seemed to have created it only to edit twice. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:21, 4 August 2020 (UTC)


 * After fairly exhaustively looking, I'm confident with some additional conclusions.
 * is fairly to everyone, including previously tagged socks. struck, see below
 * Group 1: the following accounts are ✅ to each other and, to quote, " (bordering on ✅)" to Daaask:
 * Group 2: the accounts below are ✅ to each other and to group 1:
 * is with group 2.
 * for group 2 and below. Please merge this case with Sockpuppet investigations/Daaask, and determine if the Tamilvj accounts should be spun off to a new case or filed with this one, and then re-tag everyone. If Latha bsf matches on behaviour, please tag as a Daaask sock. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:58, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going to propose that Group 2 could be related to Bothiman based on some behavioural stuff. Looking at Special:Undelete/Draft:Madan_Gowri, I notice that it was moved to draft space by a CU'd sock of Bothiman. The naming conventions of "Veejay" and "Tamilvj" and "Vijaya" seem to implicate Bothiman in this context, since Bothiman is a known lickspittle for Indian Tamil actor, Vijay. However, the other article that Tamilvj883889 edited, Thirumakkottai, is not one that any of the other Bothiman socks have edited, so that might be a strike against. Or not. Given that this new batch appears to be working in tandem, i.e. creating a draft dump from one account, then fleshing it out with the other, that looks like UPE to me. Looking at the versions of the Draft:Madan Gowri articles created by VigneshVijayaRaj and by Tamilvj883889, I see some inconsistencies between their writing style but that could be because one of them is getting passed content from someone else, or because they're cribbing it from somewhere. Both of them spell Tamil Nadu "Tamilnadu", which is interesting. I wouldn't mind someone else taking a look. I don't specifically recall Bothiman being as incompetent as this last batch--his real issue was that he was a Vijay promoter, but as I look through some of his edit summaries, he does not have a great grasp of English. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Group 2: the accounts below are ✅ to each other and to group 1:
 * is with group 2.
 * for group 2 and below. Please merge this case with Sockpuppet investigations/Daaask, and determine if the Tamilvj accounts should be spun off to a new case or filed with this one, and then re-tag everyone. If Latha bsf matches on behaviour, please tag as a Daaask sock. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:58, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going to propose that Group 2 could be related to Bothiman based on some behavioural stuff. Looking at Special:Undelete/Draft:Madan_Gowri, I notice that it was moved to draft space by a CU'd sock of Bothiman. The naming conventions of "Veejay" and "Tamilvj" and "Vijaya" seem to implicate Bothiman in this context, since Bothiman is a known lickspittle for Indian Tamil actor, Vijay. However, the other article that Tamilvj883889 edited, Thirumakkottai, is not one that any of the other Bothiman socks have edited, so that might be a strike against. Or not. Given that this new batch appears to be working in tandem, i.e. creating a draft dump from one account, then fleshing it out with the other, that looks like UPE to me. Looking at the versions of the Draft:Madan Gowri articles created by VigneshVijayaRaj and by Tamilvj883889, I see some inconsistencies between their writing style but that could be because one of them is getting passed content from someone else, or because they're cribbing it from somewhere. Both of them spell Tamil Nadu "Tamilnadu", which is interesting. I wouldn't mind someone else taking a look. I don't specifically recall Bothiman being as incompetent as this last batch--his real issue was that he was a Vijay promoter, but as I look through some of his edit summaries, he does not have a great grasp of English. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Group 2: the accounts below are ✅ to each other and to group 1:
 * is with group 2.
 * for group 2 and below. Please merge this case with Sockpuppet investigations/Daaask, and determine if the Tamilvj accounts should be spun off to a new case or filed with this one, and then re-tag everyone. If Latha bsf matches on behaviour, please tag as a Daaask sock. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:58, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going to propose that Group 2 could be related to Bothiman based on some behavioural stuff. Looking at Special:Undelete/Draft:Madan_Gowri, I notice that it was moved to draft space by a CU'd sock of Bothiman. The naming conventions of "Veejay" and "Tamilvj" and "Vijaya" seem to implicate Bothiman in this context, since Bothiman is a known lickspittle for Indian Tamil actor, Vijay. However, the other article that Tamilvj883889 edited, Thirumakkottai, is not one that any of the other Bothiman socks have edited, so that might be a strike against. Or not. Given that this new batch appears to be working in tandem, i.e. creating a draft dump from one account, then fleshing it out with the other, that looks like UPE to me. Looking at the versions of the Draft:Madan Gowri articles created by VigneshVijayaRaj and by Tamilvj883889, I see some inconsistencies between their writing style but that could be because one of them is getting passed content from someone else, or because they're cribbing it from somewhere. Both of them spell Tamil Nadu "Tamilnadu", which is interesting. I wouldn't mind someone else taking a look. I don't specifically recall Bothiman being as incompetent as this last batch--his real issue was that he was a Vijay promoter, but as I look through some of his edit summaries, he does not have a great grasp of English. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * for group 2 and below. Please merge this case with Sockpuppet investigations/Daaask, and determine if the Tamilvj accounts should be spun off to a new case or filed with this one, and then re-tag everyone. If Latha bsf matches on behaviour, please tag as a Daaask sock. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:58, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going to propose that Group 2 could be related to Bothiman based on some behavioural stuff. Looking at Special:Undelete/Draft:Madan_Gowri, I notice that it was moved to draft space by a CU'd sock of Bothiman. The naming conventions of "Veejay" and "Tamilvj" and "Vijaya" seem to implicate Bothiman in this context, since Bothiman is a known lickspittle for Indian Tamil actor, Vijay. However, the other article that Tamilvj883889 edited, Thirumakkottai, is not one that any of the other Bothiman socks have edited, so that might be a strike against. Or not. Given that this new batch appears to be working in tandem, i.e. creating a draft dump from one account, then fleshing it out with the other, that looks like UPE to me. Looking at the versions of the Draft:Madan Gowri articles created by VigneshVijayaRaj and by Tamilvj883889, I see some inconsistencies between their writing style but that could be because one of them is getting passed content from someone else, or because they're cribbing it from somewhere. Both of them spell Tamil Nadu "Tamilnadu", which is interesting. I wouldn't mind someone else taking a look. I don't specifically recall Bothiman being as incompetent as this last batch--his real issue was that he was a Vijay promoter, but as I look through some of his edit summaries, he does not have a great grasp of English. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Based on crosswiki results (thanks again !) Latha bsf is to Dashukl. I can't say confirmed because I can't actually see the data, just the summary provided on the private wiki. Cyphoidbomb, I'll take a look at the Bothiman case shortly if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:44, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Cases merged per CU request (went with the copy-and-paste with attribution approach since the two cases have overlapping edits). Moving to "checked" pending evaluation of group 2. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:00, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and retagged everyone from group 1 + Latha bsf as "proven" to Daaask as well. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:03, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * My last comment on this: I also think the Daaask socks (not Bothiman) are related to, although there's probably no data on this user anymore. This was a totally incompetent editor who kept making idiotic choices, like changing film translations that were formatted Translated title to English: Translated Title , which is problematic for multiple reasons, including that English speakers don't need to be told that something is English. The user was also prolific, and they ignored every comment trying to educate them. Virtually every choice they made was wrong for one reason or another, which is kind of what these Daaask socks are doing. Daaask kept doing stupid stuff like adding to film articles "John Doe in the lead, with Jane Doe in the female lead", despite being told multiple times that we don't need to segregate men and women or indicate "female lead" as if it were some kind of lesser role subordinate to men. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:23, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ,, my money is on separate UPE for Tamilvj and Veejay - not quite enough overlap with past versions of that draft. I'm wondering if this might have actually been a fight of sorts, VVR moving Madan Gowri to draft because it wasn't "their" version (I can't think of a good reason for a member of the farm to have draftified). My vote is that we just block the two as socks of each other and call it a night. Don't see enough behavioral evidence to tie Symphocation to the other two. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:26, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I just noticed this guy, Abishekjerold rearranging cast and adding "female leads" phrasing into that article, which is what Fishdash, one of the Daaask socks was doing, like here. Abhishek also needlessly adds the redundant "stars...in lead roles" phrasing here, which was the same thing I warned Fishdash for doing that here. The one thing though, is that I don't see any intersections between this new guy and Fishdash, Daaask or Dashukl. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:09, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * My bad, typo. Here's the interaction report. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:16, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The above can be ignored because I've pasted my relevant notes into the new SPI that was opened. Don't want anybody to do more work than is necessary. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:56, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked Veejay and Tamilvj as socks of each other, I think this can be closed now. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:13, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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I don't know if this level of wild incompetence is a normal behavior for bothiman or Daaask and I honestly can't tell based on the results who belongs to what but it's clear to me that SUSTAMI, originally TamilMirchi2 has some relation. See this recration of Madan Gowri/Draft:Madan Gowri etc... they also popped up a single day after the last CU was run and accounts were blocked. Praxidicae (talk) 12:15, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Interestingly enough, they've just requested a recreation of a creation from the sock farm here. Praxidicae (talk) 11:11, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I've actually refiled under 's case per Steward findings and global lock, as well as the similarity with the last blocked sock. Praxidicae (talk) 11:28, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * self endorsing per above. Praxidicae (talk) 12:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Added Abishekjerold to the CU list above per my query in the last SPI report on this. My pinging of Ivanvector got munged I think because I tweaked the report. The gist was:
 * I noticed this guy, Abishekjerold rearranging cast and adding "female leads" phrasing into that article, which is what Fishdash—one of the Daaask socks—was doing, like here. Abishek also needlessly adds the redundant "stars...in lead roles" phrasing here, which was the same thing I warned Fishdash for doing that here. There are also several intersections with prior socks in the interaction report.
 * Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:54, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * SUSTAMI is - one of the same common devices and similar geolocation. If you have better data connecting them to 0lesson then go with that, I did not check. Abishekjerold is ❌. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:22, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked Sustami a while ago as a 0lesson sock, no further action here. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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Might be a case of a sockpuppet, but might only have the same areas of interest. However, it's very suspicious that they create an article, the day after it was deleted for being created by another sockpuppet. Looking at the user's contributions, they also had input at articles in common with the puppet master or one of their socks, such as Poove Poochudava (TV series), Gokulathil Seethai (2019 TV series), and Gokulathil Seethai (2019 TV series).  Onel 5969  TT me 16:26, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked as duck. Articles deleted. User was also being followed around by a 2409:4072:* IP, which I'd seen a lot when Daaask was editing. Other notes: user can't spell and seems to think it's okay to steal content from other sources. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:12, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Virtually all pages that they have made significant edits to thus far have been articles edited by Daaask's socks (Poove Poochudava (TV series), Suryavamsam (TV series), Poove Unakkaga (TV series)), and now they're going around asking me and if they can re-create articles that were just deleted as G5 creations by Daaask (, . signed,Rosguill talk 15:49, 10 October 2020 (UTC) signed,Rosguill talk 15:49, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Blocked as a duck, CU endorsed for a sleeper check. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:12, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Parkijolli and Tamilseriallover456 are both from the above. . –  bradv  🍁  00:30, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Suspicious edits from a brand new account. Their first edit was to recreate Draft:Piriyadha Varam Vendum (TV series), which had recently been G5-deleted as a creation by Daaask socks. While the original draft there was different from what prior socks had submitted, Kannalane then went on to nominate two articles for deletion over the next few days, Articles for deletion/Kadaikutty Singam (TV series) and Articles for deletion/Sundari Neeyum Sundaran Naanum (TV series), and then reached out to me to ask me to approve their draft into mainspace, similar to a prior sock. I don't really see how a brand new editor that has yet to even receive a talk page message would know to do any of this. signed,Rosguill talk 15:26, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Noting also that here I see a follow-up from a 2409:4072.* IPv6. This is consistent with the range suspected to be used by Daaask. The edit in question also appears to be Daaask refactoring the comment they stole from another AFD. Nice. I also note that the articles they've nommed for deletion are on the Vijay TV network, where this new sock suspect seems to like Zee Tamil. Retribution to a competing network, or just brand loyalty? Or just pissed off their articles were deleted?
 * SUB-NOTE: So Kannalane lifted an AFD comment written by CleanAmbassy, who also has all the hallmarks of a sleeper account of someone.
 * Their user page has a world-weary proclamation that they are not a paid editor, yet I see no indication on their talk page that anybody accused them of that. Seems like a weird thing to be suddenly defensive about.
 * Their editing history also seems questionable. They went into hibernation early, then came back, made a slew of "Welcome" edits, and later a burst of "Shortdesc helper" edits, as if they're trying to get to Edit-Confirmed.
 * The Shortdesc helper tool was utilised by 0lesson, who also operates on the same internet network. So my rough supposition is that Daaask and 0lesson could be working in tandem, orrrr, even weirder, what if they were competitors? The Zee Super Family article that CleanAmbassy nommed for deletion was created by a Daaask sock. So maybe Daaask saw the deletion notice, then nommed two articles in retribution, using CleanAmbassy/Olesson's words to do so.
 * Ah, but I could speculate for days... Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:31, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I think we're in duck and megaphone territory at this point, but I can't fathom what they could possibly have been hoping to accomplish by reaching out to me directly. signed,Rosguill talk 16:39, 16 October 2020 (UTC)


 * - I think Kannalane is a Daaask sock, given their singlemindeed focus on ZeeTV (I wonder if the show they nominated for deletion is by a ZeeTV competitor?). Agreed that CleanAmbassy looks like somebody's sock, but I'm not especially confident that they're Daaask...if CU turns up any connections to known sockmasters that would be helpful. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:45, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Kannalane =, a previously blocked sock. CleanAmbassy comes from the same range, but it's extremely difficult to tell who is who. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 17:47, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Prior CUs noted that 0lesson was on the same network as Daaask. Was there any way to link CleanAmbassy to 0lesson? I know that it's a big network, but I thought I'd ask. If not, do you think that behaviourally CleanAmbassy resembles 0lesson? To me the user-welcoming and Shortdesc abuse seems like the really obvious link and their attempts to game the extended-confirmed system. Even if there was a doubt that they were the human behind 0lesson, I think we both agree that they're a sock of someone and are likely not here for good reasons. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:11, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * No way to link them from the technical side. Both have very generic useragents on both ends. It's like trying to differentiate a pencil with an eraser from one without the spread of a 1,000 pencils that have equal features. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 19:42, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * (wrote this comment before you reverted) pretty sure they're not Yoodaba, they aren't showing any of the common behavioral tells and I don't think we've seen Yoodaba edit South Asian topics before. As for 0lesson...maybe? Based on behavior, likely Asia, and per AmandaNP (if I understand correctly) same wide range. I'll split the difference and UPE block rather than sock block. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:08, 20 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Kannalane. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:09, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:11, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Harrgi345 has 3 intersections with Daaask, despite only being around for 2 weeks.
 * In these edits, an IPv6 range that Daaask is known to use hijacked an existing article and wrote content about Endrendrum Punnagai on top of it.
 * Endrendrum Punnagai (TV series) has been repeatedly created by Daaask socks.
 * Harrgi345 moved the hijacked article to Endrendrum Punnagai (Tamil Tv serial). The capitalisation fail was likely on purpose to avoid scrutiny.
 * Serialkiller435 has a 435/345 similarity, and has an intersection with Harrgi345 at the newly-created Anbe Vaa (2020 TV series).

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 * - Looks fairly likely to me, the hijacked article is very similar to deleted versions by known Daaask socks. Harrgi345 due to the article hijacking (they did the move but not the content changes, but it's convincing enough to me). Endorse to check Serialkiller and, if possible, sleeper check (if they're on a difficult range, don't spend too much time on it). GeneralNotability (talk) 15:44, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   08:27, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked Serialkiller as suspected. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:37, 15 November 2020 (UTC)