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For the last few weeks I have been noticing various IP address users continuously and repetitively adding the same (or similar) unsourced content to several Wikipedia articles related to the Indian television. The IP address goes on changing every time with the article changes being same or similar. I reverted many of the changes and left warnings on the IP address users' talk pages but last week I noticed that there is an user account adding similar (rather, same) unsourced content repetitively to several Wikipedia articles. Going by the Wikipedia guidelines I see these edits as nothing but disruptive editing and vandalism, and the behaviour of these users seems to me as sockpuppetry. When the user spams the articles by adding unsourced content it mostly involves adding information such as "Tashagala Productions" or some producer name which is no doubt fictitious as no info exists on the web of a producer or person by that name. For instance, changes were made to the Bade Achhe Lagte Hain article saying its co-producer to be someone else and its production house to be "Tashagala Productions" which is false information. In fact, there is no production house by the name of "Tashagala Productions". When I had reported this incident for the first time to an administrator last week, I had collected some evidence. However, I am afraid that over the last week various such "disruptive edits" might have been made to several other articles. And I feel there might be further such user accounts. Though I can't be sure. However, the following links are the limited evidence I had collected:


 * Link #1
 * Link #2
 * Link #3
 * Link #4
 * Link #5
 * Link #6
 * Link #7
 * Link #8
 * Link #9
 * Link #10
 * Link #11
 * Link #12
 * Link #13
 * Link #15
 * Link #16
 * Link #17
 * Link #18

However, please note that this is not the end. If you go to the individual contributions list of the users there are many many more such changes.

If you go through these links, you can find the changes made under the IP addresses as well. Two of these links, one of them being link #18 shows same changes made under the user account. And another interesting thing which I find is that the user is changing the producer's name to "Daniel Amos" and "Lerato Moruti" in all these articles, following which there is another IP address user who edits the article after the first person edits and replaces "Lerato Moruti" with "Nitin Keni". I can provide you with the link of one such instance here. However, I am not quite sure of these "Nitin Keni" edits.

These edits are really really disruptive and they are everywhere; nothing less than vandalism, an annoying spam, and an annoying sham. I would be looking forward to the investigation, though I myself might not have the time to get involved with it as much as others, my real life being busy. But I hope this helps. Tamra vidhir (talk!) 17:25, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

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The IPs' edits are too old. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:18, 29 January 2017 (UTC)