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03 May 2015

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All of these accounts are suspected sockpuppets of the main account, which has already been blocked for sockpuppetry. I don't see where an SPI was formally opened, so I'm opening one for record's sake. All of these accounts have been involved with repeated attempts to re-add the article for Sachin Tomar in various formats (SACHIN TOMAR, Sachin Toa) and one of the accounts created a sandbox version of the article, which I've deleted just to prevent re-creation of the article since that seems to be what they're pulling from. I'll block and tag all of the accounts (not the IPs), but I do recommend a sweep for possible sleepers. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:46, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:07, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * , and  are ✅ to each other.  is very  to be the same user. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:16, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffing Delhiman, blocking 223.xxx and 168.xxx for 2 weeks and closing.

04 July 2015

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Recreated the 6x deleted Sachin Tomar, now as (Sachin Tomar) to get around the create-protection applied to the former. Not familiar enough with this farm to know what the sleeper/cu situation will be. Crow  Caw 18:16, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked for abusing multiple accounts. Nothing to do here. Bbb23 (talk) 18:38, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

14 July 2015

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User already blocked as spammer, but I thought it would be important to include this sock in the SPI. See Special:AbuseLog/12641688 for evidence. Drm310 (talk) 19:10, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * Tagged as suspected. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:42, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

14 August 2015

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Stale account but this makes it pretty clearly a sock per WP:DUCK. Drm310 (talk) 21:09, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * Admin action needed - Block the obvious sock.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:06, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Obvious sock, and an advertising-only account as well. Thanks for the report, and for processing this Vanjagenije. Nick-D (talk) 03:29, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing per above.--Bbb23 (talk) 10:17, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

15 August 2015

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Recreated article, now as Sachin-Tomar, again to get around the salting. Crow  Caw 21:00, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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Already blocked and tagged. Closing. TDL (talk) 18:29, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

17 September 2015

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Fairly obvious sock, recreated same article Sachin Tomar, name is a bit of a clue too! Crow  Caw 19:41, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * See also Sachin-Tomar. Crow  Caw  20:29, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Also ping who is attempting to talk to the user, just as an FYI.  Crow  Caw  19:43, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * FOR ADMINS: The article in question appears to have been create-protected twice in a row: Not sure what's broken in the software...  Crow  Caw  19:46, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Both blocked and tagged as suspected socks. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 22:32, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

18 September 2015

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Accounts blocked, adding to main report for archival purposes. Drm310 (talk) 07:34, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

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Accounts have been blocked and tagged. Closing. TDL (talk) 16:22, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

19 September 2015

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(Place picture of a duck here) Shirt58 (talk) 04:07, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged accordingly. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:56, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing. TDL (talk) 16:22, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

20 September 2015

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Recreated same article yet again, under a different name to avoid scrutiny and salting: SachinTomar's Crow  Caw  15:32, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Puppet blocked. Nothing more to do. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 23:13, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

22 September 2015

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Creating various badly-named articles about Sachin Tomar. (SACHINtomar, Tomar Sachin) McGeddon (talk) 17:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 17:37, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

22 September 2015

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Same again. McGeddon (talk) 18:25, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Blocked duck. Didn't realize this has been going on for awhile. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:43, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

25 September 2015

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Recreating an article about Sachin Tomar. Time to spam blacklist sachintomar.wordpress.com or title blacklist the name? McGeddon (talk) 10:40, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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I have deleted and salted the article "Sachin Tomar"s. I have blocked as an obvious WP:SOCK of User:Iamsachintomar. I hate doing sock puppet investigations. --Shirt58 (talk) 12:35, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Puppet blocked. Nothing more to do. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

26 September 2015

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Created Sachin Tomar... after having Sachin Tomar"s deleted. So said The Great Wiki Lord. (talk) 01:30, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Duck. Blocked and tagged. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 01:57, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

04 October 2015

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Newest sock of this obsessive autobiography factory. Created Sachin Tomar (actor). Drm310 (talk) 05:48, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * I'm going to ask around about getting this name added to the blacklist registry. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like I was beaten to it by McGeddon. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:18, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

27 December 2015

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 * re-directed Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai to Sachin Tomar 3 Shirt58 (talk) 11:11, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:35, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

23 February 2016

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New re-creation of their article: ( Sachin Tomar) Crow  Caw  22:55, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * has been tagged and blocked indef by . Closing case for now. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:02, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

25 February 2016

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A couple of new SPA accounts promoting Sachin Tomar, this time at Tomar Sachin. McGeddon (talk) 16:53, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * Add Sachin11111515, who just created a redirect at Sachin Tomar 2016. Crow  Caw  23:31, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

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Everyone is blocked and tagged. Closing. TDL (talk) 05:22, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

13 March 2016

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Created Sachin S Tomar, another variant on the usual to get around the salt flats. Crow  Caw 16:42, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * I strongly suspect Newaccrksf4 is a sockpuppet. The user has repeatedly removed the speedy deletion notice on the article. In addition, various IP edits to the same effect are also going on at the article. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:54, 14 March 2016 (UTC)


 * User:Newaccofwiki92 has since created (SachinTomar) and User:116.202.38.138 has redirected the above Sachin S Tomar title to it. --McGeddon (talk) 10:03, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * . Socks are blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:35, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

05 April 2016

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I'd like a second opinion on this one. Is this user so desperate to get onto Wikipedia that he'll misspell his own name in order to do so? Note that I salted all variations of "Sachin Tomar" using MediaWiki:Titleblacklist not that long ago. The evidence is in the deleted contributions. MER-C 08:38, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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I am unable to comment much on Iamsachintomar and the socks listed on their SPIs, as I am unable to clearly identify their modus operandi. However, the two socks listed here quacks so loudly, action should be taken on them.

I have a feeling that Iamsachintomar is not the master of the socks listed here, as not only is the first name different, 1) the MO of the socks here have been self-promotion, while Iamsachintomar and its other socks have been blocked for advertising, however I'm not very clear on that based on the del/block reasons of the socks as shown in the archived SPIs, 2) the personal page of Savintomar,, may help shed light on his real name (this is not outing as he had already put the link in his contribs, and he uploaded an image of himself from his page to Commons and Wikipedia, which showed up on Google image search).

But even then, a CU could be a possibility (I guess) since Savintomar is obviously abusing multiple accounts. Either way, I believe that he has been abusing Wikipedia through repeated article creation and repeated copyright/licencing violation. Optakeover (U)(T)(C) 18:13, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Sachin is one of the socks on my regular hunt list, and I think this one is unrelated (without actually having access to deleted revs that is). Sachin always claims to be something like a cricketer, or usually a former child actor. They invariably give their birthdate in 1997, while Savin's page says he's 27 (or was in 2010, the copyright date of the website). The 2 Savins are ducky to each other but I think the name is just a close match of what seem to be fairly common names.  Crow  Caw  22:23, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, looking at User:Savintomar/sandbox the birthday is different, the place of birth is the same and the page was initially created with a cricketer infobox. MER-C 04:25, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Well darn, that pulls them a tad closer. Can you restore a copy of the article somewhere for quick comparison? Curse my lack of sorcery! Crow  Caw  22:25, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * One of the pages uses an officeholder infobox but the same content, one other page has a copy of the infobox from Kachche Heere. The deleted content of File:Savin Tomar.jpg is the most interesting, which is, in its entirety,

{{Infobox officeholder
 * image        = savintomar.jpg
 * office       = Medit (Editor)
 * primeminister = Narendra Modi
 * term_start   = 01 Jan 2008
 * term_end     =
 * predecessor  = Sushilkumar Shinde
 * successor    =
 * office1      = Freelanc
 * term_start1  = 23 January 2013
 * term_end1    = 8 July 2014
 * predecessor1 = Nitin Gadkari
 * successor1   = Amit Shah
 * Also note the middle name is different. MER-C 03:41, 7 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Looks like he was using a succession infobox to outline his work experience. "Editor" from 2008 to now, Freelancer 2013-14. Pretty sure we've got a misfire here. Digging more on Sachin, he seems to go go great lengths to publicize himself as an actor, and Savin more of a web content guy. Crow  Caw  22:07, 7 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Weighing in here a little - this doesn't offhand seem like it's the same person, although it wouldn't entirely surprise me if this was a relative or someone that knew Sachin. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:22, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * No evidence that those two belong to Iamsachintomar. But they are blocked anyway, so I'm closing this case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:34, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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This user obsessively and relentlessly recreated autobiographies until they were blocked. Having dealt with the sockpuppeteer in the past, the behavioural pattern seems to be an eerie match. I'll concede that it's possible to be just a coincidence, but I'd be remiss if I didn't report the possibility of a new round of socks from this chronic sock farm. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:10, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * I'm not seeing an obvious overlap in topic (unless I've missed something). Obsessively recreating a promotional page is incredibly broad behavior, so nothing that justifies a check in and of itself. Already indefinitely blocked for spam. In short, nothing to do here. ~ Rob 13 Talk 05:10, 12 October 2017 (UTC)