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Same “Deepak Kumar” bio posted all over various articles (and talk page), same photo — Gorthian (talk) 00:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * The previously blocked puppets of the master that have been tagged are listed at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Karanshrivastva. Bollywood Filmies is ✅ plus:
 * Blocked and tagged the three unblocked accounts and retagged the master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the three unblocked accounts and retagged the master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the three unblocked accounts and retagged the master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

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Same bio as before; potential sleeper accounts. Note edit summary for Deepak Kumar official. — Gorthian (talk) 02:06, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

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These accounts are too old. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:59, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

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Same bio with same picture as before:. Also posted in Draft space: ] — Gorthian (talk) 04:41, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * . Please indef the sock. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 06:01, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:58, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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It’s quacking loudly on DKS. — Gorthian (talk) 22:36, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 02:04, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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Quacking the same song:. — Gorthian (talk) 03:29, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * , closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 03:46, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Quick note prior to archiving, I also blocked as an obvious sock.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:27, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Add to the list. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:13, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

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This account has been adding material about Deepak Kumar to page D.k., see.

Based on a search result (I cannot the page directly as it is deleted), it appears content about the same person was recently added to Muna (film director) by User:Parampita Brahma, and deleted for being created in violation of Karanshrivastva's block. Karanshrivastva also has a history of adding material about this individual to articles, for example, so this looks like a duck. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 20:38, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Account now blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 21:40, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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Megaquacking at D.K., replacing a redirect with an article. theinstantmatrix (talk) 22:42, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * - This is rather obvious. Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:28, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 23:35, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

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These are obvious socks and have already been blocked. I'm adding this report to request a sleeper check and the possibility of blocking the underlying ISP. With these two latest socks he has moved to using sleepers to circumvent the semi-protection on his preferred article targets. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:23, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * - As per request. Thanks, GABgab 15:12, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Sleepers:
 * Possible sleepers, please keep an eye on them before blocking:
 * Unfortunately, a range block is not possible, because there would be massive collateral damage.  Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:01, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Sleepers . Can you recheck the second listed sleeper, &Uedit, the account doesn't exist. One of the possible sleepers has already made a suspicious edit. I will keep track of them. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I have rechecked the second list, feel free to block them all. As far as the &Uedit account goes, I really don't know why it popped up in the CU thingy if it doesn't exist... I seem to remember there was some kind of an explanation, but, for the life of me, can't remember it. Salvio Let's talk about it! 13:30, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Second list . No worries about that &Uedit account. Thanks! -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:08, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * A quick check of this filter log should explain how &Uedit is connected to all this. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:01, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Possible sleepers, please keep an eye on them before blocking:
 * Unfortunately, a range block is not possible, because there would be massive collateral damage.  Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:01, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Sleepers . Can you recheck the second listed sleeper, &Uedit, the account doesn't exist. One of the possible sleepers has already made a suspicious edit. I will keep track of them. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I have rechecked the second list, feel free to block them all. As far as the &Uedit account goes, I really don't know why it popped up in the CU thingy if it doesn't exist... I seem to remember there was some kind of an explanation, but, for the life of me, can't remember it. Salvio Let's talk about it! 13:30, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Second list . No worries about that &Uedit account. Thanks! -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:08, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * A quick check of this filter log should explain how &Uedit is connected to all this. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:01, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, a range block is not possible, because there would be massive collateral damage.  Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:01, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Sleepers . Can you recheck the second listed sleeper, &Uedit, the account doesn't exist. One of the possible sleepers has already made a suspicious edit. I will keep track of them. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I have rechecked the second list, feel free to block them all. As far as the &Uedit account goes, I really don't know why it popped up in the CU thingy if it doesn't exist... I seem to remember there was some kind of an explanation, but, for the life of me, can't remember it. Salvio Let's talk about it! 13:30, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Second list . No worries about that &Uedit account. Thanks! -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:08, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * A quick check of this filter log should explain how &Uedit is connected to all this. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:01, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * A quick check of this filter log should explain how &Uedit is connected to all this. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:01, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

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Just like all the other socks, Valmiki keeps trying to create the Deepak Kumar page from various titles, including Deepak Kumar (Actor), Deepak Kumar (film actor), Deepak (actor), Deepak Kumar (actor), Deepak Kumar (director), and possibly others. In addition, the sockpuppet master and all of their socks seem to have a habit of quoting the content that's in a page in their edit summary when making edits, which is something I don't see often. SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 12:33, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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. Highly likely on behavioral evidence. DrKay (talk) 15:04, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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Overlaps at Barbarik Singh and editing of user-pages of blocked puppets over here and here. &#x222F; WBG converse 16:07, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅. .   AGK  &#9632;   22:41, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:00, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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Very similar behaviour and recreated Mananpur. GSS (talk |c|em ) 15:18, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:03, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

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Another one, start editing the same day blokced their previous sock and recreated Mananpur under Mananpur (Village). GSS (talk |c|em ) 03:28, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 03:56, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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Munneshbar was blocked in late October, just wanted to add them to the archive. Like some of the other socks, the user typically pastes article contents into their edit summaries, so you'll see stuff like (  {{Infobox cricketer | name = Sunil Gavaskar | image = Sunny Gavaskar Sahara.jpg | image_size = 250px | fullname = Sunil Manohar Gavaskar | birth_date = in the edit summary field, which may be a convenient "tell".

They also seem to edit a variety of Tamil articles. I only know this operator from their edits at Shubhangi Atre. I have blocked Rillino Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:00, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * As noted above, I have indeffed Rillino. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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Their edit summaries are the same as past socks like Munneshbar and they recreated Deepak Kumar (film actor) after making only edits to userspace to gain autoconfirmed status HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 19:31, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:55, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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Exact same as sock above. Made enough edits to get autoconfirmed and recreated the Deepak page. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:49, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Since they registered this account before their last sock was blocked, this is probably worth a check to see if they have any others. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:56, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * That is him; however, . Salvio Let's talk about it! 21:39, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

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similar user pages, see this as an example with the squished "This is a userpage" and userboxes to the right. Also creating this super totally not obvious "article". Praxidicae (talk) 13:59, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * Requesting CU to find additional accounts. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 14:25, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * - Check for sleepers.  QEDK ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 20:46, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Check completed, although nothing sticks out. NativeForeigner Talk 06:57, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Nothing more to do. Closing.  QEDK ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 07:19, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

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Yet another recreation of Draft:Deepak Kumar (actor). The suspected use was registered a few weeks ago and made no edits outside the draft. GSS (talk |c|em ) 08:46, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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I went ahead and blocked him as not here to build an encyclopedia.-- Dloh cier ekim  (talk) 15:18, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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recreated Mananpur (that is salted) at Mananpur Village, and Draft:Dk (actor) for Draft:Deepak Kumar (actor) D Big X ray ᗙ  21:08, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

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 * This is obvious enough to not require CU attention. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:05, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

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The suspected sock was registered in May last year but start editing today and recreated Mananpur (that is salted) at Mananpur (Village). GSS (talk |c|em ) 15:34, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:46, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

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See below. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:18, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * All three accounts are ✅ to each other and to previous confirmed socks and are ., since you're the most familiar with this case it seems, I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not to rename to Sanam puri143. I don't care either way, and can see arguments on both sides. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:21, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Given that Sanam puri143 predates Karanshrivastva by one edit, it doesn't seem worthwhile to me. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:44, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

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The suspected sock was registered three days after the last case was closed and recreated Deepak Kumar (actor) under Deepak (artist) to evade the protection + used the same image. GSS (talk |c|em ) 17:41, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the master:
 * RobertGerrard
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:16, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:16, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:16, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

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No contribs, only used to attempt to edit DK. See Special:AbuseFilter/933 and their filter log. DannyS712 (talk) 20:39, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * Filter log tripping was months ago. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 23:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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Tuxr started by making twenty rapid nonsense edits to User:Tuxr/sandbox. I questioned this and received a. Tuxr has since made edits to Draft:Mananpur which blocked sock created. Tuxr then who had been active in stopping prior socks of this master. That looks like too many overlapping coincidences. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 16:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * Introductory notes:
 * Stepping through many of those sandbox diffs, I see complete gibberish, either a complete inability to speak English, or an intentional interjection of nonsense. This tends to look like someone beefing up their edit count so they can edit articles that have the extended-confirmed protection on them, which Chris picked up on.
 * An article, Mananpur had previously been created and maintained by suspected Karanshrivastva socks. Though Tuxr was trying to create a draft article on Mananpur, which he ultimately set up at Mananpur, Jehanabad, the two versions (last version of Mananpur prior to deletion and first edit by Tuxr at Mananpur, Jehanabad) are dissimilar. The only real similarity is that both users name the two schools in the village. I don't get a good sense of Karanshrivastava's English skills.
 * Looking through the archive, suspected sock Corue also recreated the Mananpur article at Mananpur Village, which has been deleted. That is suspicious.
 * One of the notes in the archive about suspected socks, is that they often paste the contents of articles into their edit summaries. You can see that in their earliest edits, like here and subsequent changes to that user page.
 * Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:51, 16 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Although past accounts are stale, there is some archival evidence in the CU log which makes it that Tuxr is related to Karanshrivastva socks. Based on the CU information, the clear attempt to game extended confirmed, the overlap on the drafts, and other behavioral tendencies, ., closing. Mz7 (talk) 21:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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A wise person once said, "I see complete gibberish, either a complete inability to speak English, or an intentional interjection of nonsense." Still true. Adding this for the record; CU revealed no other accounts on the /64 range. Drmies (talk) 20:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * . Closing. --Jack Frost (talk) 11:03, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 14:19, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

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Created Draft:Deepak Kumar Mahajan, which is a subject of interest for the sockmaster (as shown by the extensive deletion history at Draft:Deepak Kumar). Liliana UwU (talk / contributions) 11:45, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * I blocked as a username violation and for spam, they were also trying to hijack an article. Closing because there's very little to compare to. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:53, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

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See interest in Draft:Deepak Kumar Singh and Draft:Deepak Kumar. Same exact quacks that caused all the other blocks. microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 18:52, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Probably UPE or PAID going on here, but I'll bite. Blocking Controldeepak despite its inactivity based on (in part) Special:Diff/1207614626 and deleted history., closing. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:28, 16 June 2024 (UTC)