Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dominicvai/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The Dominicvai accounts have been trying to push an article on an Indian entrepreneur named Anisur Rahman Niloy, and Masudrana9772779 has also dabbled in it. Nitchat's being added here based on an IRC conversation where they opened by asking if there were other accounts on his IP, and is also intent on pushing this guy; their writing style's identical to Dominicvai732's. Asking for CU to see if we can't get an account creation block on the underlying IPs, as the master basically creates socks whenever the last one's rumbled and blocked. (While Masudrana is the oldest account here, I'm not 100% certain that they're part of this sockfarm.) —A little blue Bori  v^_^v  Jéské Couriano 02:58, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:36, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There's more than one farm here.
 * Group 1 contains the following, confirmed to one another:
 * geolocates to the same city as them, but is on a different range and doesn't look to be too closely connected. I can't block based on an IRC chat I wasn't party to, so I guess we'll need to wait until they start editing.
 * is in Group 2, geolocating to a different country, and confirmed to:
 * Several of these second group of socks are already confirmed to - I will block the confirmed accounts without tags, and recommend that these be moved over to that case.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I tagged the Dominic accounts as confirmed to each other and filed the other set of socks at Sockpuppet_investigations/Masud_rana505 (formerly Rajhossenrana007). We can revisit Nitchat if they ever edit Wikipedia. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * is in Group 2, geolocating to a different country, and confirmed to:
 * Several of these second group of socks are already confirmed to - I will block the confirmed accounts without tags, and recommend that these be moved over to that case.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I tagged the Dominic accounts as confirmed to each other and filed the other set of socks at Sockpuppet_investigations/Masud_rana505 (formerly Rajhossenrana007). We can revisit Nitchat if they ever edit Wikipedia. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Several of these second group of socks are already confirmed to - I will block the confirmed accounts without tags, and recommend that these be moved over to that case.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I tagged the Dominic accounts as confirmed to each other and filed the other set of socks at Sockpuppet_investigations/Masud_rana505 (formerly Rajhossenrana007). We can revisit Nitchat if they ever edit Wikipedia. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Several of these second group of socks are already confirmed to - I will block the confirmed accounts without tags, and recommend that these be moved over to that case.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I tagged the Dominic accounts as confirmed to each other and filed the other set of socks at Sockpuppet_investigations/Masud_rana505 (formerly Rajhossenrana007). We can revisit Nitchat if they ever edit Wikipedia. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Several of these second group of socks are already confirmed to - I will block the confirmed accounts without tags, and recommend that these be moved over to that case.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I tagged the Dominic accounts as confirmed to each other and filed the other set of socks at Sockpuppet_investigations/Masud_rana505 (formerly Rajhossenrana007). We can revisit Nitchat if they ever edit Wikipedia. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I tagged the Dominic accounts as confirmed to each other and filed the other set of socks at Sockpuppet_investigations/Masud_rana505 (formerly Rajhossenrana007). We can revisit Nitchat if they ever edit Wikipedia. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

Both users' purposes seem to be to promote non-notable vanity pages. They both tried to hijack The News Today (Bangladesh) this month. Both users reply to talk page messages using one unique phrasing, "please check". Requesting checkuser because I am certain from their behaviour that they are part of a large sock farm chasing paid editing work on Wikipedia. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 15:33, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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Whether they're the same person or coordinating off-wiki both Anisurwiki and Tinotendachiwar have attempted to create an article about "The Daily News Today" and have employed the same tactics for bypassing AfC.

Anisurwiki has created the article directly in mainspace after which Tinotendachiwar removed the speedy deletion tag.

They have both attempted to hijack The News Today (Bangladesh) (which has its own issues and I've proposed for deletions) to redirect to this newly created news site. (Anisurwiki:, ; Tinotendachiwar:.

Tinotendachiwar edited the article to list Anisur Rahman Niloy as the founder, which matches *Anisur*wiki's username.

Tinotendachiwar also created an article about Anisur Rahman Niloy in mainspace, but it was moved to Draft:Anisur Rahman Niloy.

I've also added users Anisur Rahman Niloy and Mdmasudrana2022. They have not directly edited enwiki, but Mdmasudrana2022 recently uploaded the photo used at Draft:Anisur Rahman Niloy, and Anisur Rahman Nilay of course matches the username of Anisurwiki, the founder of "The Daily News Today", and Draft:Anisur Rahman Niloy.

Some of these may be different people, but they all seem to be coordinating to promote this one person and his business. Politanvm talk 20:14, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * - ~TNT (talk • she/her) 21:57, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * It's certainly, but so is their claim that this is their friend's account(s) ~TNT (talk • she/her) 22:03, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I had a conversation with Anisurwiki in, where they couldn't figure out why they couldn't move a page. As they were autoconfirmed, this perplexed me as well. I asked them to create Special:MyPage/sandbox, and they said they had. When nothing came up in their contribs, I found this in Special:NewPages. They said that was their brother and that they had accidentally logged in to his account, and I chose to AGF, in part because some things they said subsequently seemed atypical for a sockmaster and more like someone who had genuinely messed up. However, now that I realize that "Anisur" = "Anisur Rahman Niloy" = "A. R. Niloy", I am much less inclined to believe them, at least as to Arniloywiki being their brother. At which point I see no reason to trust a "just a friend" excuse either.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 22:10, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Eh, technical data (likely to Arniloywiki) + commons behavior is enough for me to block Mdmasudrana as proven. bnwiki has them as part of another group of socks per bn:উইকিপিডিয়া:সকপাপেট_তদন্ত/Shamim_hossen405 (Google Translate has wonderful gems there like "Scoppet investigation" for SPI and "user tester" for CU) but I don't trust GTrans enough to be confident in actually using those findings. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:05, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Anisurwiki has been blocked as a sock of Dominicvai - merging case from Sockpuppet investigations/Anisurwiki to here. Spicy (talk) 01:57, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
All three are hell bent on promoting Anisur Rahman Niloy )though Arniloy is just a WP:BROTHER claim) CUPIDICAE💕  19:48, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 23:47, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * All of these are ✅ to each other: . I also see  who is only  based on the raw CU data, but the username is a pretty good hint  -- RoySmith (talk) 00:00, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * PS, somebody should review the tagging on all of these; at least the last two need updating. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged the confirmed accounts. Not convinced about Md rustum ali shak - "Md" is short for Mohammed, which is a very common name in this part of the world, and the behaviour doesn't match. (None of their edits are productive, but that's not really a matter for SPI). Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:16, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same pattern of creating non-notable articles which are very likely paid work. They have also created another "newspaper" article founded by the Anisur Rahman Niloy whom the original sock farm was trying to promote and his non-notable newspaper which is used as a reference here. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 02:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)


 * One of the socks previously blocked was named ArniloywikiVinegarymass911 (talk) 02:51, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

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Adding Saritu24. Saritu24's only substantial edit is at The Daily Earth, and the rest are gaming edit counts by changing wikilinks, similar to Arnproo. Politanvm talk 03:42, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Arnproo:
 * Saritu24:


 * And Saritu24 editing another article recently created by Arnproo: Politanvm  talk 02:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * - same promotion of Anisur Rahman Niloy as previous accounts, and signed up shortly after the last block; pretty sure these are socks, but please check for other accounts given the history. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 17:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - Mz7 (talk) 18:57, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Arnproo is ✅; Saritu24 is . Both accounts pass the WP:DUCK test in my eyes, especially given the behavioral overlap highlighted by Politanvm above. Both accounts, closing. Mz7 (talk) 19:14, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
yet another spa, recreating Tanvir Shahriar Rimon, joined just a few days after the last sock block. PRAXIDICAE💕 19:30, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:57, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
– NJD-DE (talk) 09:28, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Creating drafts/articles on Draft:Tanvir Shahriar Rimon/Tanvir Shahriar Rimon like blocked socks and
 * Creating drafts/articles on Radisson Digital Technologies/ Radisson Digital Technologies‎ Ltd/Draft:Radisson Digital Technologies/Draft:Radisson Digital Technologies Ltd like blocked sock
 * Promoting Radisson Digital Technologies on Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services: diff, diff

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 * Will clean up. firefly  ( t · c ) 11:54, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
First and only edits made to create Draft:Mohammad Mohasin, one month after account creation. A draft with this title was deleted a week ago as a creation by sock Marjianitu. Requesting CU as no sleeper checks since April. – NJD-DE (talk) 13:45, 31 July 2022 (UTC)


 * They've now also recreated Women_and_e-Commerce_Trust_(WE), so I'd suggest a block. PRAXIDICAE🌈 20:05, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 16:49, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * This is complicated. First, Marjianiu Marjianitu is ✅ to Im46726, but it's unclear how these are connected back to earlier socks in this case.  I'll let somebody who is more familiar with the behavior in this case figure out where to go from there.  The other interesting thing I saw is that these three are ✅ to each other:  but that group is only  to anybody else in this case on the technical data.  .  Overall this case looks like it's got lots of proxy use, so the CU results should be treated with some scepticism. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:01, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * please block based on behavioral evidence and recreation of Women_and_e-Commerce_Trust_(WE) as well. PRAXIDICAE🌈 20:06, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Im46726 and articles deleted. The rest seem unrelated to Dominicvai behaviorally, but seem very related to one another. I've left them all maq, and will split them off to their own SPI at Sockpuppet investigations/জাবিরটটক. Closing.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 10:41, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Re-created Draft:Masud rana which had been previously created by a sock. Username similarity to other socks. Might be worth running a CU, but since this is kind of stale I'll not request it myself and let someone else decide. Uhai (talk) 05:48, 17 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Could also be a coincidence as I don't know how common the name "Masud Rana" is. But there's been three prior creations of this draft, all with the first name capitalized and the last name uncapitalized, by socks listed here so maybe it isn't a coincidence. Uhai (talk) 05:52, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * The sockpuppeteer's articles were about a musician - this one is about a software developer. It does appear to be a common name. Closing without action. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:48, 17 March 2023 (UTC)