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EruTheLord has been in a battle with across numerous articles, seemingly edit warring about whether a community should be called Pallar or Devendrakula Velalar. I've given both of those contributors a warning of sorts - see and. EruTheLord has also had the IPA discretionary sanctions notice and  has had words with them also (they keep blanking their talk page - see ).

Abjith Iyer has turned up today and is making similar content changes as EruTheLord to the same articles, eg: this redirect by them is similar to Eru's effort, and this change by Eru is similar to the subsequent change by Abjith. That Abjith turns up around the time EruTheLord got a talking-to from me seems suspicious. I realise that Abjith is using edit summaries and one of Eru's recent issues has been not using them but historically EruTheLord did use the things and seems to have stopped mainly because they've become frustrated in the tit-for-tat edit warring with Mamallarnarashimavarman. The warring is going on all over the place and I recently asked to protect one venue, hence we see the frustration actually voiced at Talk:Devendra Kulathan.

Might not be a sock but the timing and the similar interests are odd. I have a feeling that this might be a Brahmin vs Dalit (high caste contributor vs low caste contributor) battle. Sitush (talk) 12:34, 19 July 2020 (UTC)


 * In the event that there is no socking, I still think something needs to be done about the situation, and in particular the edit warring of EruTheLord and Mamallarnarashimavarman that is happening at a dozen or more articles, eg see here. It is impossible to determine who is right and wrong when they have spread the battle so wide and I'm tempted to revert all of the articles back to their state prior to the involvement of EruTheLord and Mamallarnarashimavarman, regardless of how long ago that was. - Sitush (talk) 13:54, 19 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Might be important: after further digging around, and working through numerous articles, I feel that the problem here is frustration with the historical revisionism/political activism of Mamallarnarashimavarman. EruTheLord and associated accounts do in fact seem to have done the right thing in terms of article edits, just by the wrong method. Not ideal behaviour by any means but faced with the sheer volume and obstinacy of Mamallarnarashimavarman's edits I can sort of understand. Even I'm not sure how to discuss it across so many articles, nor which centralised venue would work for such matters. See User_talk:Mamallarnarashimavarman for some discussion. - Sitush (talk) 08:46, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Bish and I both have the feeling that there may be a lost password situation regarding the oldest account. I'm wondering whether there might there be scope for a "tell us which account you want to use and we will block the rest"? We do that sometimes for newbies. - Sitush (talk) 09:51, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * . Salvio 15:48, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * And . ST47 (talk) 15:51, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * . Salvio 15:48, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * And . ST47 (talk) 15:51, 19 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Since is the oldest account, I suppose this should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Viswanath Iyer? Bishonen &#124; tålk 08:38, 20 July 2020 (UTC).
 * In consideration of Sitush's latest comment above, I would suggest that the socks need blocking, of course, but the master Viswanath Iyer could perhaps be left unblocked with a warning. ? Bishonen &#124; tålk 09:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC).
 * I must say that I am really quite unfamiliar with the underlying situation, so I'm not sure my opinion is going to be particularly insightful; however, as far as I'm concerned, I can't say I'm opposed to that course of action. Salvio 10:39, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Keep this account EruTheLord, you can block the rest. EruTheLord (talk) 10:38, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I was just going to suggest something like what EruTheLord says, because from the edit pattern, it looks like Viswanath Iyer may have lost their password. I now see Salvio on Sitush's page — would that be allright, Salvio? And should I do any blocking/tagging, or do I leave that up to you or an SPI clerk? (I'd love to leave it to you guys, I admit.) OK, ? It's a little IAR, but I think it's warranted in this situation. Bishonen &#124; tålk 12:00, 20 July 2020 (UTC).
 * I go on and on, don't I? But I also want to say, if this goes through as Sitush and I suggest, then please don't move the page to Sockpuppet investigations/Viswanath Iyer. It's better at EruTheLord. Bishonen &#124; tålk 12:15, 20 July 2020 (UTC).
 * As I said, I'm unfamiliar with the underlying situation, but I'm not opposed to your solution. Salvio 13:28, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I've implemented Bish/Sitush's solution and blocked everyone except EruTheLord, and I will leave EruTheLord a warning about use of multiple accounts. Will leave this under EruTheLord. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

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Pro forma report. See below. Mz7 (talk) 06:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * All ✅ to EruTheLord., closing. Mz7 (talk) 06:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * . Mz7 (talk) 06:10, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * After further review, the following accounts are also ✅:
 * . I am leaving this on hold as I may take a deeper dive here in the morning. Mz7 (talk) 06:14, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Also ✅: . . There were a couple other accounts I found that were already blocked, so I have not listed them here per WP:DENY—I will say this for future reference: it seems that this master is capable of creating usernames that harass other Wikipedia users. Closing now. Mz7 (talk) 20:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * . I am leaving this on hold as I may take a deeper dive here in the morning. Mz7 (talk) 06:14, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Also ✅: . . There were a couple other accounts I found that were already blocked, so I have not listed them here per WP:DENY—I will say this for future reference: it seems that this master is capable of creating usernames that harass other Wikipedia users. Closing now. Mz7 (talk) 20:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * . I am leaving this on hold as I may take a deeper dive here in the morning. Mz7 (talk) 06:14, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Also ✅: . . There were a couple other accounts I found that were already blocked, so I have not listed them here per WP:DENY—I will say this for future reference: it seems that this master is capable of creating usernames that harass other Wikipedia users. Closing now. Mz7 (talk) 20:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Also ✅: . . There were a couple other accounts I found that were already blocked, so I have not listed them here per WP:DENY—I will say this for future reference: it seems that this master is capable of creating usernames that harass other Wikipedia users. Closing now. Mz7 (talk) 20:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

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Pro forma report. See below. Mz7 (talk) 19:02, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅., closing. Mz7 (talk) 19:02, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

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Disruption on Madurai Nayak dynasty, same as blocked sock. Please check for sleepers. ɴᴋᴏɴ21 ❯❯❯  talk  07:31, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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User:Lorreroods and User:Barbarrosesaw are also vandalizing the same things done by eruthelord in Devendrakulam and also deleted all content and redirected Devendrakula Velalar. Plz check this accounts also. 2409:4072:6D8C:A9FA:7598:F416:6A47:9DCD (talk) 14:35, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

He is deleting my comments here. Plz stop him 2409:4072:6D8C:A9FA:7598:F416:6A47:9DCD (talk) 14:35, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * Nothing left to do here, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:23, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

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Based on the comments made by an IP on User talk:Mz7, i'll file the request in here since the IP did not file the SPI on their own. Evidence given by the IP are Harpypawl's contributions, Scalerebel's talk page, and Bonecipro's edit history. Requesting CU if there is any relation between them.  SMB9 9thx   my edits  08:51, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Mz7 (talk) 19:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ plus the following accounts:
 * , closing. Mz7 (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , closing. Mz7 (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , closing. Mz7 (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , closing. Mz7 (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

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Pro forma report. See below. Mz7 (talk) 16:38, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅., closing. Mz7 (talk) 16:38, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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He is back to revert his reverted edits in Thiruchendur and in Tiruchendur Murugan Temple. 2409:4072:6390:9C31:E914:C69C:76A7:EC7C (talk) 18:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Mz7 (talk) 00:01, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * ., closing. Mz7 (talk) 00:06, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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This sock user is consistently adding "article deletion tags" to pages relevant to the Nadar article. As far as I know, this is his/her 4th sock account. He/She also removes content, from pages relevant to the Nadar article, with references. Based on Vendsoil's recent edits I suspect he could be a sock of EruTheLord. Please investigate this when you find time. Thank you.

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Diff1 Diff2 Diff3 Mayan302 (talk) 17:13, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:26, 31 May 2021 (UTC)