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08 October 2015

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Master account was blocked October 2014 for self-promotion: "persistently adding edits about himself, his future films etc, despite warnings". New SPA account has recreated pages about Jaishankar Chigurula and his film. — Cactus Writer (talk) 21:49, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * User:Bunny8683 may also be worth a check. I can't check the article now that it's been deleted, but I think their DAYA (2015) SHORTFILM article was about a film by the same director (I gave them both a COI warning, on the mild AGF that the director had erroneously created two accounts). This article was created around the same time and matches the capslock style. --McGeddon (talk) 22:49, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, scratch that, I've found a Google cache of it and it's a different director. Perhaps just a coincidence that it was in the New Pages feed right next to Chigurula's spam articles. --McGeddon (talk) 08:22, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * Admin action needed - . Please, indef the sock.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:59, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked by . Closing. Mkdw talk 07:51, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

16 November 2015

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Recreated page 21st (2015 film) that was previously created by the master.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  11:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Should be compared to User:JAISHANKAR DIRECTOR, sock of this master.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  11:01, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Blocked and tagged Jai balu yadav, and retagged JAISHANKAR DIRECTOR.
 * is also ✅. The only question is whether the account should be tagged as a sock. They were blocked for impersonating a film director, which is what the master here may also be doing. Both the master and Rajeshbhatt director created articles about themselves.  The master's was pretty much a framework, whereas Rajeshbhatt director's was a very crude promotion. Despite some dissimilarities, in combination with the technical evidence, I think the account should be tagged, but I’ll leave it up to  or whoever looks at this later.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:45, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * is also ✅. The only question is whether the account should be tagged as a sock. They were blocked for impersonating a film director, which is what the master here may also be doing. Both the master and Rajeshbhatt director created articles about themselves.  The master's was pretty much a framework, whereas Rajeshbhatt director's was a very crude promotion. Despite some dissimilarities, in combination with the technical evidence, I think the account should be tagged, but I’ll leave it up to  or whoever looks at this later.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:45, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

19 November 2015

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Recreated article 21st (2015 film) that was previously created by the master and his socks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:46, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Compare this account with previous socks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked and tagged. This probably didn't need CU, the quacking is pretty obvious. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:35, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

30 November 2015

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User only edit was to recreate 21st (2015 film), an article previously created numerous times by Jaishankar Chigurula.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:50, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * I indeffed this obvious sock. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:52, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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According to Commons CU information (c:Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/JAISHANKAR DIRECTOR), JAISHANKAR DIRECTOR=Teena D'souza=Sajju bhai. JAISHANKAR DIRECTOR was blocked for not being here to contribute to the encylopedia. Another evidence that they are connected is the sockpuppet's editing of the article Jaishankar Chigurula (Director). Pokéfan95 (talk) 13:43, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * Socks indeffed and tagged. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:37, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

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C.H,Srivaas is a WP:SPA, all edits have been about Jaishankar Chigurula (Director), his films and people associated with them. Wikishovel (talk) 08:03, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Surya Rajam is a duck. Account was created right after Srivaas was warned about removing AFD tags. Sole edits so far have been:
 * a quick edit to user and talk pages to turn them blue in edit summaries
 * voting "keep" in Articles for deletion/Jaishankar Chigurula (Director):
 * attempting to IP block me:
 * attempting to become an admin, by adding WP admin category to their user page:
 * removing AFD tag at Jaishankar Chigurula (Director):
 * Removing AFD tag at 21 (2016 film): Wikishovel (talk) 11:04, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Rohith Shetty and Naresh Kumar aavula are more ducks. Contributions so far:
 * a quick edit to user and talk pages to turn them blue in edit summaries
 * voting "keep" in Articles for deletion/Jaishankar Chigurula (Director): Rohith Shetty, Naresh Kumar aavula
 * Rather than create their own user page, Naresh Kumar aavula pasted templates from User:Ganeshk, apparently trying to gain permission to operate multiple accounts

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 * The following accounts are ✅ and to the master:
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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Recreation of 21 (2016 film) as 21 ( film 2016). The article was previously deleted via a deletion discussion (Articles for deletion/21st (film)). GSS (talk) 11:19, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:08, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

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Duck: first edits were to create his user page and talk page, then straight on to creation of Talk:Jaishankar Chigurula  (article is salted, but not talk page yet). An hour later, creates Jaishankar Chigurula (film director), and the speedy tag is removed minutes later by Prasad Sarangapani. Wikishovel (talk) 17:00, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:08, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

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Recreation of 21 (2016 film) as 21 (film 2016) ( later moved it to 21 (2016 film)) and Jaishankar Chigurula (Director) as Jaishankar Chigurula (director). The creator tried to game the system as per the titles chosen by him/her has clear deletion log and the creator repeated the same dialogue here which s/he previously added at 21 (2016 film) talk page which I'm unable to see but yes I do remember. GSS (talk) 07:40, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Adding the content of Talk:21 (2016 film) that I WP:G8 deleted a few minutes ago.

I really hate being involved in sockpuppet investigations. If assuming too much good faith is wrong, I don't want to be right.--Shirt58 (talk) 09:35, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:08, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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Their first contributions were requests for undeletion of 21 (2016 film) and Jaishankar Chigurula (director),, previously created and recreated by earlier socks. See also this loud quacking. bonadea contributions talk 08:11, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:31, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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Recreation of 21 (2016 film) and 21st (film) earlier created by some socks and this time the title is 21 (2016 telugu film). The first article created by this possible duck was for Viswa Kamal who's debut film is 21 (2016 film) also the first edit of this user is very similer to others. GSS (talk) 12:14, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * Sock indeffed and tagged. Article deleted. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:02, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

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Duck: Recreation of 21 (2016 film) and 21st (film) using different 21 (2016 telugu film) and also recreated Dongala Bandi. GSS (talk |c|em ) 11:04, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:52, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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Recreation of 21 (2016 film) using different title 21 (film 2016). GSS (talk |c|em ) 10:52, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged per WP:DUCK. —  Cactus Writer (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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In 2017, SPA Gani mondeti recreated Jaishankar Chigurula as Jaishankar Chigurula (filmmaker) to get around protection and then dropped off Wikipedia - no edits to anything else. Now Sudhakar pops up, adding tons of spammy nonsense to the Chigurula article and trying to repeatedly spam and push through a film of Chigurula: Zinga (film 2019) (see also the drafts currently at MFD). I realize the Gani account is going to be stale and any CU evidence will be worthless but this seems like a heck of a lot of WP:MEAT to me. Praxidicae (talk) 20:42, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * Sudhakar naidu 118 is . Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:59, 26 May 2019 (UTC)