Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub/Archive

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Draft:Sachin Kapur is exactly the same as before. Master is globally locked so please do the same for the sock as well. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:57, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * (I already reported them to SRG before this was filed. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 22:40, 9 July 2021 (UTC))

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 * Merged to oldest I could find. SachinDrKapur has been locked since the report was filed, and the others were locked already. Tagged all. Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:59, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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Writing about Sachin Kapur + username pattern. Duck evidence so I've gone ahead and reported to SRG. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 22:28, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * - TheresNoTime 😺 22:33, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to . . - TheresNoTime 😺 22:35, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Locks already requested, closing. Blablubbs (talk) 23:08, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

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xWiki CU request, logging for the record ~TNT (she/they • talk) 00:01, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ to . ~TNT (she/they • talk) 00:03, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

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Both account was created when User:AssimAlHakeem got block. I found them following their edit trail. User:AssimAlHakeem uploaded c:File:Dr Sachin Kapur Stylish Picture.jpg on commons. On 21 August, User:ZamZam-WS created Sachin Kapur (Q108179917) and used c:File:Dr Sachin Kapur Stylish Picture.jpg. On 24 August, "User:Islamic Scholar Encyclopedia" created d:Q108208230 and used Sachin Kapur (Q108179917) item as "Property:P737 (influenced by)". Looks like they are promoting "Sachin Kapur". I am suspecting they are sock. please check them. They are active here on enwiki, as WP:BLOCKEVASION enwiki should block them. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 20:56, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * - I'm hesitant to make any judgement about Bishillah-WS based on just a single edit. I do, however, remember seeing another account name with -WS while I was looking around this case a while ago, but I didn't note it at the time.  The fact that Bismillah-WS and Islamic Scholar Encyclopedia both created accounts shortly after AssimAlHakeem was blocked raises a flag.  Beyond that, I'm mostly seeing shared interest in contemporary Islamic clerics/scholars, which is just as likely to be multiple people responding to some off-wiki urging as it is socking.  Based on the precceding alone, I would probably not endorse, but there's already several confirmed socks in the archives, so it seems likely there's more.  I've also spotted some WP:BEANS which I've made notes about. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:33, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The following are ✅ to :
 * is, maybe.
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:34, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * is, maybe.
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:34, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * is, maybe.
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:34, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:34, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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Account created purely to violate Wikipedia policy and to continue promoting Physics Wallah, who is an old favourite of the master. See Draft:PHYSICS WALLAH as well as this revealing edit, essentially admitting to being a sockpuppet of a blocked account. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 07:33, 28 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment - apologies, I have just realised that these two are both part of the farm User:Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub - please move to that one. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 07:34, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not following the connection to Physics Wallah. From what I can see, none of the socks mentioned anywhere in this case have edited Physics Wallah, and Happyrancho is the only one who has edited Draft:PHYSICS WALLAH. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:20, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. Alakh Pandey runs the YouTube channel Physics Wallah. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:12, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * is, maybe . Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:37, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Given the Alakh Pandey connection I noted above, blocking/tagging. The pleas to unblock Special:Permalink/1039776821 and Special:Diff/1039776049 could be direct evidence of blocking, or could just be getting caught in an autoblock from another sock, but either way, it's pretty obvious. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:17, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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New account created straight after the previous sockpuppet was blocked. Creates the article at, previous sockpuppet was active at the draft version at Draft:Mizanur Rahman Azhari. FDW777 (talk) 10:42, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 19:57, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to . . ~TNT (she/they • talk) 19:58, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * G5'd User:Xpërt100/Featured article", User:Xpërt100/Quote, User:Xpërt100/sandbox 1, User:Xpërt100/sandbox, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:22, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

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Created after the last sock with over 800 edits was blocked.


 * Expands professions of Muhammad Ali Mirza, like other socks.
 * Updated YoutTube views and subscriber count of Muhammad Ali Mirza, like other socks.
 * Updated Youtube subscriber count of Ismail ibn Musa Menk.
 * Same type of edits also about Tariq Masood's profession on lead.
 * Has interest in Indian film actors like Saif Ali Khan, Hritik Roshan.
 * Frequent use of emojis in edit summaries.
 * Apparently fluent in Bengali language. Georgethedragonslayer (talk) 06:08, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Interesting. @CU: On the cuwiki, you will find the "Wikipedia/bn/Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub" page. When i was bnwiki's CU, i added that page. You can match the results with that. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 23:32, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * - there's enough here to raise suspicions. Since cuwiki data exists, I think comparison to that would be helpful. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:46, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 13:04, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * . Other than geolocating to the same general area, the CU data mentioned by  doesn't match.  The behavior described here (updating biographical data on cinema performers) is endemic, so doesn't say much. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:12, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmm, "unlikely" might be a big excessive. Maybe more like, but it's still nebulous enough that I wouldn't give it any weight. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:19, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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Usmanmaifada has created Yasser Al-Dosari, which was previously created by another sock from this farm,. Usmanmaifada also shares with the other Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub socks the habit of responding to UTP messages in a similar manner and broken English. The topics of interest are around religion and Saudi Arabia, although not exclusively. I realise this isn't much as evidence goes, but maybe worth a look? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:55, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * Since we have some info on cuwiki from a Bangladeshi colleague I ran a check to compare. Usmanmaifada is very, unless they've moved to a different continent. They regularly use two large ranges that are anonblocked because of the massive amount of spam coming from them (there is a /16 blocked for ten years; CUs probably know exactly what range I'm referring to) but they don't match with any other users or logged-out edits that I can see. However, on Yasser Al-Dosari (a page previously created by ) they have added a block of text that Earwig shows has been reproduced in numerous places on the web, some CC and some not, and so far I can't get to the bottom of what the original source is, but it seems very likely that Usmanmaifada has reproduced it here from a promotional source that has been supplied to them; in other words, undisclosed paid editing. They've already received two uw-upe notices and haven't responded, that's not promising. Since it's fairly certain they're not a sock I'm going to close this, but will proceed with the next warning in that series. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:04, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you @Ivanvector for your efforts here, and sorry to have led you on a chase of ducks which turned out to be mere wild geese. :) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:08, 25 April 2023 (UTC)