Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dashing boy31/Archive

Evidence submitted by Catfish Jim and the soapdish
User:Dashing boy31 has an apparent interest in one Ankit Singh Gehlot, a non-notable pharmacy student from G.D Memorial College of Pharmacy, Jodhpur. He has also edited extensively on Gehlot's businesses and his family. He originally signed up in March 2008 to create an article R. H. Sankhala, whom he revealed was Gehlot's grandfather here, and submitted a photo of Sankhala File:RHSankhala.jpg, which lists Gehlot as the photographer.


 * note Files subsequently uploaded by User:Dashing boy31 are listed as "I (Dashing boy31 (talk)) created this work entirely by myself." e.g. here. However, they have identical metadata, listing a Samsung ES15/VLUU ES15/SL30. There seems little doubt that Dashing boy31 and Ankit Singh Gehlot are one and the same. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 14:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

User:AlexNewBritain has recently started the same pattern of editing, creating the article Ankit Singh Gehlot (previously created by User:Dashing boy31 and deleted CSD-A7), as well as BRSG Global Business Group, listing Gehlot as CEO.

User:Ankit Singh Gehlot, User:Ankitsingh2020 and User:Ankitjodhpur have all edited in the article R. H. Sankhala, and I have listed them for obvious reasons. User:Ankitkeru I have listed simply as an additional user with the name Ankit who has edited that article. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 10:37, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
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 * is the same as well. The other accounts are . TN X Man  14:56, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

24 November 2010

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User:Dashing boy31 and his socks were indefinitely blocked for abusing multiple accounts on Nov 2. An article he had been working on (R. H. Sankhala) was deleted on Nov 3 by User:Ron Ritzman following normal AfD process (consensus was that subject was not notable). It was noted that the article was a memorial about the sockmaster's grandfather. User:27.107.186.238 complained about the deletion on Nov 4 to the deleting admin, and the article was placed in the article incubator. User:UnbeatableIndia2020 registered on Nov 5 and proceded to edit Article Incubator/R. H. Sankhala. He has subsequently uploaded the article Ankit singh gehlot, the sockmaster's main focus before being blocked.

This seems to me like a clear case of WP:EVADE. Catfish Jim  &#38; the soapdish  14:22, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

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I was looking at this after a post to my talk page. UnbeatableIndia2020 is editing from the same ranges as User:AlexNewBritain. Add in the editing overlaps and I'll say this is a match. No comment on the IP listed. TN X Man 14:33, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * OhanaUnited took care of the blocking, and the tagging is all done. The IP hasn't been active in three weeks so I'm going to let it go for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:56, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. It couldn't be easier than this when both accounts, Dashing boy31 and UnbeatableIndia2020 both identified where they live on their userpage. OhanaUnitedTalk page 14:57, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

30 November 2010

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Admits it in this diff:  &#124;  Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  13:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

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 * I blocked User:Ihateblockingwiki for block evasion per his admission in his first edit; I came across the SPI afterwards. I don't do much sockpuppet blocking - the editor is requesting block review on their talk page, so I haven't redirected it yet (as instructed here). -- Kateshortforbob talk  13:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The block review was declined (and rightfully so), so I'm going to close this for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:52, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

08 April 2012

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User:Dashing boy31 is a user who has previously been blocked indefinitely for sockpuppetry on Wikipedia and has been subject to several subsequent SPIs. He has previously identified himself as Ankit Singh Gehlot, non-notable pharmacy student from Rajasthan. His activities on Wikipedia have been of a self-promotional nature, including an vanity article on himself Ankit Singh Gehlot, his non-notable business ventures (eg. Green India Initiative) and various family members, including his grandfather R. H. Sankhala, a non-notable biochemist. User:Prakashpanwar created his account shortly after User:Dashing boy31's third SPI was concluded. One of his first edits was to restore Green india initiative and to insert "Shri A.S. Gehlot", founder of "Green India Initiative" as a notable person in Rajput Mali here:. He has also restored the article R. H. Sankhala. It seems highly improbable that two unconnected people would choose to focus on the same non-notable subjects.  Catfish  Jim  and the soapdish  11:51, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

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Unfortunately, all of the accounts in the archive are for checkuser purposes. TN X Man 13:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Dashing boy31 has edited again, so maybe a checkuser could take another look at this? Jafeluv (talk) 09:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * . They edit from the same city. AGK  [•] 20:23, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Prakashpanwar has not edited for some weeks, so I think we can safely close this. If there is more activity, we can look again at both the behaviour and the technical evidence (if new evidence is generated from future edits) AGK  [•] 22:48, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * [possible sock added later at 05:58, 15 May 2019 (UTC)]
 * one more at 06:03, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * one more at 06:03, 15 May 2019 (UTC)


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As evident in the archive of this SPI, master is a person by the name Ankit Singh Gehlot. The puppet has re-created an article for the same subject, but now he is a poet, and blogger. Ankit Singh (writer).

In the archive, it is explained how the master also created articles about his family members, including his grandfather R. H. Sankhala. This time, he has created an article about his father Kapil Singh Sankhala, where it is mentioned that Kapil is son of RH Sankhala.

A few months back dashing boy requested to be unblocked, which hasnt been assessed yet. Now this sleeper has woken up. Archive shows there were multiple accounts being handled at the same time, hence requesting a CU. — usernamekiran (talk)  05:47, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:26, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Marwariguy is ✅ to Sentiments777
 * Stud0708 is to the above as is.
 * They are technically to the master. The last locations for Dashing boy31 in the cu log are in the same country as the above socks but are quite some distance from them but it is possible that he has relocated.
 * Sentiments777's account creation date of Oct. 2012 roughly coincides with the last edits (see Special:DeletedContributions/Prakashpanwar) of the last reported sock in the archive. Given the technical data plus the behavioral aspects, I'm indeffing the lot as either the master or meatpuppets helping him.
 * Cabayi (talk) 09:10, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * G5s, closing. Cabayi (talk) 09:10, 22 May 2019 (UTC)