Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gurumayum Arvind/Archive

08 January 2016

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Promotional editing, disruptive editing, edit warring, insertion of unreliable sources (Facebook pages, YouTube trailers, pages on http://e-pao.net/). These are already blocked and has run CU. They're pretty busy and like a dog return to their own vomit; a sleeper check might be handy. Drmies (talk) 15:35, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * Comment - This is a single purpose account whose focus is promotion of the film industry in Manipur, India In addition to the violations mentioned by Drmies, this editor violates copyright policy by copy pasting text and uploading copyvio images despite warnings and attempts to engage. — Cactus Writer (talk) 16:42, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * NOTE -- DeltaQuad has already issued one range block (45.127.137.0/24 ) but it appears another range block or blocks within the 45.127.137.0 to 45.127.138.242 is needed. — Cactus Writer (talk) 16:42, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * Rangeblocked by another CU (broadly enough). All resolved. NativeForeigner Talk 09:18, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Nothing more to do. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:37, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

08 April 2016

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Created after a week after a set of socks was blocked. Same behavior identified by in the archive. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:15, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * Comment: I posted about made by LembaGuru to Manipuri cinema at User talk:Drmies because it basically re-added content removed by  with  a part of the cleanup of the article which had been heavily edited by socks of Gurumayum Arvind. LembaGuru seems to be a SPA who has been primarily editing the same genre of articles which were the focus of the sockpuppetry. These edits include creating suspect articles about Manipuri films like, , , , , , , ,  to just name a few. Quite number of articles/stubs about actors/actress in Manipuri films of questionable notability like , , , etc. have also been created. By my count LembaGuru created 26 articles related to Manipuri cinema from January 13, 2016 to February 3, 2016. Almost all of these articles are all poorly sourced, mainly citing Facebook, Youtube, IMDb, or the same blogs that Gurumayum Arvind and the socks were citing. LembraGuru has also uploaded lots of non-free movie posters (16 over the same period) for use in these articles, many of which have copyright related problems or lack proper licensing and have been flagged as such. This too is also similar to what Gurumayum Arvind and the socks were doing. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:26, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * A good enough case to run CU which, however, revealed nothing. The argument will have to be made based on behavior alone, as far as I can tell. Drmies (talk) 14:07, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The evidence is not strong enough to block. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:03, 26 April 2016 (UTC)