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Similar behaviour, edit warring to add hyperbolic box office claims at Madhura Raja and trolling at reverted users' talks. Shworks999 and Thommannasrani created around same time. Same "Mobile edit, Mobile web edit" on edit summary and see the preview of these edits, both signatures boxed. When Shworks999 got autoconfirmed, began edit warring at the page along with another user AJMAL SHAH S. At the same time Thommannasrani encouraged AJMAL to edit war. Continental Rift (talk) 05:18, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

And block evasion, User:Smedits999. Also adding Imus007 created after block and edited Madhura Raja and The Great Father as was Shworks999. Another new account Jesonwiki1 making semi requests, but unlike beginners make visual edits and adding codes such as. Continental Rift (talk) 05:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Another block evasion, Sabu Naveen. Blocked. Also, Thomas smoki. Continental Rift (talk) 12:45, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * User:Ponyo has already checkuser-blocked Smedits999, but there's no indication of who they confirmed as the master. Requesting CU attention to advise whether /all/ of these accounts are linked. Currently 2 are indeffed, 2 have short blocks, and 1 is unblocked. Their target page is extended-confirmed protected, so we can wait for a CU to clarify what they found when blocking Smedits999, as there might be a reason why they didn't block everything. ST47 (talk) 05:51, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I mistagged the sock with its own name; my intention was to link Smedits999 to Shworks999, which I've now done. The ISPs and IPs used in the check I ran yesterday are extremely dynamic and the UAs used, even on an individual basis, varied considerably. This is common for the WP:PAID editing groups I've previously seen from this geolocation. I will leave it open for another checkuser to go through, but my advice is to be liberal with blocks and protection based on behaviour.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 15:42, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Very good, thanks. everyone - the behavioral links are convincing enough, I think this is a combination of sock and meat, but maybe it's just the MO changing as the protection level changed. I'll leave this open to see if anyone wants to run a further sleeper check, but it sounds like that isn't likely to turn anything up. ST47 (talk) 19:13, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Having taken another look at this yesterday, I'm going to go ahead and close this. The chance of finding sleepers based on the dynamic nature of the IPs and the various UAs (possibly spoofed) at their disposal is exceedingly unlikely.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:45, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

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(Refer previous case) LR23 is a sock/alternate account of Jesonwiki1:, , ,. Jeson was obviously a meat, because unlike other accounts, this "newbie" seem familiar with editing Wikipedia, making better edit requests than the rest and knows how to  markup lang. LR23 is "older" than Jeson, so that explains, and by adding same content with that same tag Tag: Visual edit, it's pretty convincing the relation. Continental Rift (talk) 09:24, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * Not a Bollywood producer, he's a debutant Malayali producer and non-notable. Continental Rift (talk) 10:28, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * the evidence is weak. Many users have tried or requested to add the primary-sourced box office figures, but the person making the claim is a famous Bollywood producer with a large fan base from what I can tell. I'm not convinced this is evidence of sockpuppetry. Furthermore, the "Visual edit" tag just means that the user is using the visual editor, which has been the default for new users since April 2015, meaning there are probably hundreds of thousands of editors leaving these tags behind. It's meaningless for sockpuppetry. Third and last, this case was CU'd just last week while LR23 was active and no finding was returned. Closing with no action. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:22, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

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More possible meat/sock. Created solely to edit Talk:Madhura Raja for the usual stuff. And again the trivial but same "mobile edit" pattern. Continental Rift (talk) 13:22, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

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They are. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:50, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Probably worth a look given that none of the socks nor the master are stale., would you agree? -- The SandDoctor Talk 04:26, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, this guy again. ST47 (talk) 17:43, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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Same as Imus007. Trolling language in talk page instead of making civil conversations, similar to former accounts. Please note the use of emoji / emoticons used by both as if they are commenting below some social media content (Trivia: Not ordinary emoji, it's mobile emoji available in keypads) -. From the comment Anyway i am thinking when you will block me from wikipedia, it is understood this guy is anticipating a block, like he had been blocked before for similar activities. There's also an obvious logged out edit.

Tousifmt is another account solely for the same activities. Continental Rift (talk) 18:40, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * They're both pretty old. Psychotraveller I'll block, even though they're a month old they do appear to match the previous pattern. Tousifmt I think is not enough evidence, plus their account predates the suspected master by over a year. If they become active again feel free to return them to SPI, I just don't have enough confidence to issue a block right now. ST47 (talk) 18:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

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Questionable user accounts created solely to make promotional edits changing the box office data of Madhura Raja or other Mammootty-starring films. Continental Rift (talk) 15:00, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

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Please provide diffs for each suspected sock comparing to diffs of previously blocked socks.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:13, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No evidence provided. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 15:44, 7 October 2019 (UTC)