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These three accounts seem to be collaborating to create low quality content and articles about subjects usually prone to paid editing; this appears to be a small undisclosed paid editing sock farm.

Per its edit count the master's account was created in Oct 2012 and has made around 570 edits. Most of their edits have been to Indian "institutes", very similar to Wifione and Nalchap, including Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (this is a branch of the institute that Wifione most heavily advocated for), Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology, and Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology. Very recently they made this string of 58 edits] to Chhatrapur, adding unsourced tourism brochure promotional content.

Per its edit count the HoundstoothSC account was created in Oct 2017 and has made around 200 edits. Their main contributions have been to


 * 149 to Draft:BlackWatch Advisors
 * 31 to Draft:MailControl - Guild is the main investor and Shovlin is on the board
 * 26 to Draft:Guild Capital
 * 6 to Draft:List of Guild Capital Investments
 * 6 to Andrew Kass -- executive at BlackWatch Advisors
 * 2 to Draft:Iain Shovlin -- executive at BlackWatch Advisors and founder of Guild

Per its edit count the AadarshNagarik account (and ironically "aadarsh naagarik" means "good citizen" in hindi) was created 14 Dec 2017 and has made 40 edits. Their main contributions have been to:


 * 5 to Andrew Kass
 * 1 to Perry Brooks
 * 22 to Draft:MailControl
 * 9 to Draft:Iain Shovlin
 * 4 to Draft:Argyle Search Partners

You can see the two socks collaborating very clearly at History of Draft:MailControl] and history of Draft:Iain Shovlin and history of Andrew Kass which was directly created in mainspace by Houndstooth.

If you look at the history of Guild Capital (which is a little confusing because it was deleted and there was a history merge into the draft) you will see that it was originally created as a draft by Houndstooth on 23 October then developed there, and was moved to mainspace by the master on 9 November and then the two of them worked on it. It was AFDed and snow deleted on 13 December. (NOTE That the AadarshNagarik account was created the next day) It was recreated in mainspace by Houndstooth that same day, then PRODed, then draftified the next day, then the history was merged. Immediately recreating a deleted article is classic paid editor stuff.

Based on the spam edits and collaboration, this is a small SOCK/MEAT farm. A CU might find other participants. Jytdog (talk) 20:38, 21 December 2017 (UTC) (correction made above re Wifione as suggested here -- my apologies Jytdog (talk) 14:39, 22 December 2017 (UTC))

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 * - Please compare these accounts and check for others. Thanks, GABgab 21:43, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:57, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:57, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:57, 22 December 2017 (UTC)