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28 November 2015

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I'm concerned that Raghu is part of an editing ring, paid or otherwise. Raghu was indeffed for copyright violations, which centered mostly on the uploading of non-free images. I also had to lecture him about promotional tone here. I notice that Himesh Kuttiyal also has a track history of copyright violations. If you notice his contribs, he comes out of an almost 2 month editing hiatus to file an un-autoblock request since he is clearly using an IP related to Raghu. Elockid declined the request. Both accounts have numerous intersections. Clearly they're the same guy, but I'm concerned that there may be more undiscovered accounts out there, so I'm hoping to get a CU for sleepers and such. My feeling is that these guys will create an account, and when they start to catch heat for problematic editing, they'll move to a different account so that they always have a backup. Sorry for the extra work, but any help knocking down some of these Indian cinema socks would be helpful. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:51, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

strikes me as another potential sock based on the similarity of name formatting RAKESHmanu vs RAGHUallen and because RAKESH also had problems with copyright issues. This account's info is probably stale, though. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:05, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

seems like a possible sock candidate as well. One edit, but it's at an article created by RAGHUallen. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:19, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * . Both RAKESHmanu and ALLENCareer are .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are ✅. After looking through an incredible amount of unrelated traffic, I found no sleepers. Tagged the two accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:18, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

08 December 2015

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The formatting of the name RobertGRAND is visually similar to the last sock, RAGHUallen. There are numerous editing intersections with Himesh, for instance here you'll see that Himesh edited that article in August 2015 and Robert recently edited it. Here you will notice numerous GRAND edits, and if you scroll to November 21, 2015, you'll notice a lot of RAGHU edits.

The full scope of the intersections between the three can be found here.

RAGHU was blocked on November 23, 2015, and GRAND was created a week later. I think that's enough to warrant CU. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:48, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

I will also note for the record as a behavioral guideline, that the sock tends to go heavy-handed with promotional language. I had to warn him at least twice at RAGHUallen to stop using promotional words like "immense", "popular", "sweet". He continued this practice here as RobertGRAND with the introduction of really sycophantic language like "The film's promotions were taken to a new level by the unique promotion strategies by the makers", and "It beacme highly successful and was appreciated". He also tends to add to film article marketing sections information about run-of-the-mill marketing standards, like the release of a "first look" poster, the release of a teaser trailer, trailers, personal appearances, etc. These all contravene WP:TRAILER, which I've brought to his attention twice and it seems to be part of his editing pattern. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:54, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Addendum: I'm adding this note after the case has already been archived. I suspect 1.39.84.226 (Gujarat, India; ISP: Vodafone) as a possible IP used by the sock operator because in these edits we see him editing in the same area of content that he had edited in a few days prior, focusing on promotion of the film, the video game, the release of songs on the "auspicious and festive event of Ganesh Chaturthi", and more vague promotional fluff like "The satellite rights of the film were sold to a leading entertainment channel...". Maybe it's him, maybe it's not, but he was one of the last few people to substantially edit that article. I'll see what happens when I delete the Controversies section that he added. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:32, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare RobertGRAND to the master.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:09, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ indeed belongs to Himesh Kuttiyal. - Mailer Diablo 16:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * RobertGRAND tagged and blocked indef per CU findings, closing case now. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:28, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Mark. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:54, 9 December 2015 (UTC)