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06 September 2013

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This account was created to evade scrutiny and level 4 warning was given to sockpuppeteer. Evidence is same style of username (i.e. only first word starts with capital, rest with small). Both account edit from mobile and both give similar edit summaries (if they give). Both the account have edited only two article Sethi and Tuli clan. History at Sethi will show that both added same material. Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 06:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the sockpuppet indefinitely and the master account for a week. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:55, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

07 September 2013

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Another sock after two accounts were blocked. Same evidence as before. Kindly semi protect the article also. Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 06:20, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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Verified and blocked Gurlal singh kahlon. Also add and  (apparent master, though I'm not 100% sure that there are no older accounts). Materialscientist (talk) 04:02, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * moved accordingly SpitfireTally-ho! 13:35, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

09 September 2013

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another sock account, now this user has started adding unsourced content to other caste articles. Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 14:45, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

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Confirmed Devil badshah to all previous accounts; blocked. Materialscientist (talk) 04:23, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

29 July 2014

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Long term sock master. Doing exactly same kind of edits at Sethi Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 11:10, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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 * All I can say is that Jathedaargurbachansinghkhalsa uses same IPs as users from the archive (of this SPI). PC settings are somewhat different (though note a significant time gap in between). Materialscientist (talk) 12:25, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Already blocked, so closing. Rschen7754 06:00, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

13 August 2014

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I am suspicious that both of these are puppets of a different master. A lot of Wikipedia knowledge exists here that would not be expected with such a short acquaintance and career here. Evidence is in this diff - delivering Wikilove is unusual on one so new.

Because I cannot easily identify the true sockmaster I ask for CheckUser to be deployed. Fiddle  Faddle  14:07, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * Sockpuppet_investigations/Gurpartap_singh_kairon may be the actual sock master account. Editing behavior matches well.-- Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 14:14, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Some Evidence: one prime evidence is that all of the previous accounts of Gurpartap_singh_kairon and this new sock have mostly focused on article Sethi (a clan article). This, this and this show similar editing i.e. removing mention of possible presence of clan people in regions of India other then Punjab or belonging to religions other then Sikhism. Bringing forward offline books as proof vs this by an old sock. But there may not be much use in pursuing this present case. They usually come up with a new account, whenever they edit after some gap. -- Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ  00:33, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:56, 17 August 2014 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:51, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * There is a single scoop of evidence that incidicate that these are related, but conclusivity is not going to come with it. So i'm forgoing the results in the hope that the proper behavoiral case can take over the grounds where CU can't.. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:44, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * @, Can you clarify with evidence about the sockmaster? If so then we can rename the master but in the meantime I'm indeffing the sock here on behavior and giving the current master 3 days.
 * Thank you . I've changed the master and merged the case history as well as increased the block to indef and changed the tags. Leaving this for another clerk to make sure that I've done all that correctly and close.
 * Looks like everything is in order, closing case now. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:00, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

20 August 2014

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Fresh sock account of SPA editor. Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 11:07, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * I am not sure of the protocol. May I suggest that these two reports on the same editor be combined? It looks like we both reported at exactly the same time. Fiddle   Faddle  11:14, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * yeah, both reports should be merged. -- Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 14:17, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * Closing duplicate report. Superseded by the request below.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:44, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

20 August 2014

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Similar track record. The sole edit has been to Sethi and has ben to remove banners on the article. This is a normal practice for this washing line full of odd socks. Quacks very loudly.

Since there are likely to be sleepers and this is long term sockpuppetry I ask for checkuser to be performed.

I have chosen not to notify puppet or master at this stage. You may wish to do so in my stead. Fiddle  Faddle  11:11, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * is a sock when compared to one of the more recent socks . I've blocked the account and semi-protected the article.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:07, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

20 August 2014

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same edits as previous socks. Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 22:46, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * As noted above, I've semi-protected the article.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:08, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

25 November 2014

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WP:DUCK, see past history. Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 08:27, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * They all work on the same article, add unsourced content, edit war and they all have similar usernames. -- Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 00:44, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * CU logs only show the same geolocation. Materialscientist (talk) 08:38, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I looked through the edit history and other than having a common article, the contributions don't look very similar and this isn't a DUCK case. I'm closing with no action taken for the time being. If there's continued disruption, there are other avenues such as requesting semi-protection, reporting for 3RR violations, etc. Mike V  •  Talk  17:01, 25 November 2014 (UTC)