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03 January 2015

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The two accounts are both promotional/seemingly COI regarding the work of Birbal Jha and his British Lingua organisation. The pair of them use similar edit summaries, including use of the words "... added" and, most significantly, "pix". Sitush (talk) 21:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Per WP:DUCK, master blocked for 1 week, sock blocked indef. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

09 January 2015

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The master was blocked for a week on 3 January and the suspected sock registered on 5 January.

Similar poor and POV-y edits to the Birbal Jha article, regarding which the suspected master was a SPA. In particular, adding the some bizarre "celebrity status" to the Awards & Recognition section.

The sock also appears to have re-uploaded after it was deleted at Commons.

I suspect a duck but I guess it could be a meatfarm job. Sitush (talk) 21:39, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Yep, this seems pretty clear cut to me. The edit summaries, the contributions, and the general behavior is enough to block the account and extend the master's block to 1 month. Mike V • Talk 03:30, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

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Birbal Jha was recently soft deleted and then immediately recreated by Keshavj00 before a large, mostly unsourced expansion by Manpourgao. Birbal Jha has been repeatedly promoted, including in related articles, by Darrenmong and other accounts that, while not reported, were almost certainly socks or meats. I can't provide diffs due to the prior deletion but I've been tracking this one for years and it is as clear a case of WP:PROMO as I've ever seen. It may be possible to CU these two new accounts but, obviously, information on the master is stale. Sitush (talk) 12:25, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * . Technical evidence isn't going to tell you anything useful. --Deskana (talk) 15:41, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Not only inconclusive, but also too old now. Closing without action.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:30, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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Meant to file this a few days ago...see Draft:Birbal Jha. Appears that Darrenmong is back to spamming us again. Praxidicae (talk) 16:57, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

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Cabayi (talk) 18:13, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * - 6 months for the master and indef for the sock, please. Cabayi (talk) 18:14, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:06, 24 March 2019 (UTC)