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Two new accounts working closely on a previously deleted page per the history here  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 18:13, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * See also . GABgab 21:37, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
 * As noted below:
 * and Copeflojo are ✅.
 * Krawtani2600 is ; I suspect the use of proxies, but I don't think there's enough there to block yet.


 * Mratnam176 is . Katietalk 01:41, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * - I advise blocking Copeflojo and Senhashiw as pretty blatant COI/promo accounts. Haven't yet evaluated the others. Thanks, GABgab 17:12, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:49, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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Attended to remove content regarding controversies similar to how this account did.. Concerns of COI with respect to this topic. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:28, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * Senhashiw and are ✅.
 * Krawtani2600 is to these two; I suspect the use of proxies, but I don't think there's enough there to block it yet. Katietalk 01:28, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:49, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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LinkPelikan is a brand new account trying to downplay controversy around this person similar to the other single purpose accounts. Evidence around of undisclosed paid editing. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:26, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * Technically ❌. L Faraone  01:36, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:50, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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A discussion took place at WP:COIN which can be viewed here. Uyarafath has agreed to paid editing, and he initially claimed to be not working for any organisation. However all his edits are related to the above sockfarm, and even though he may not be explicitly working in their office (in Mumbai, this guy seems to be residing in Kanpur), the reason why the company chose him to write/update the articles probably has to do with the fear of an SPI connecting their newer accounts to the sockfarm, while writing from Kanpur would not trigger a checkuser match.
 * He has been using childish arguments and a combination of feigning ignorance and a narrow reading of our policies to make his case in the COIN section.
 * After the COIN investigation began, he added a lot more pages to the list of pages he wrote in lieu of payments. In Talk:Creditseva and pages of most of his other articles, he claims that he has been paid by Facilius. Searching for them reveals that they are a paid Wikipedia editing company, and they refund money in case the articles are deleted (Source - here). Which probably is the reason for his vociferous campaigning for Keep on the AfD's of some of his articles taken to AfD (though that by itself is not a negative aspect).
 * Another explicit linkback to this sockmaster can be seen from the name of the sockmaster and the name of the Founder Director of Facilius which can be viewed here.
 * Batwoman3366's main edits have been to remove tags from pages associated with the sockfarm and Uyirafath. They probably should be a technical match to the above sockfarm.
 * WP:SPI allows for a block in case of meat puppetry. Probably that should apply to Uyirafath.  Jupitus Smart  12:56, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Addendum : I feel that Uyarafath is not even writing the articles himself, but is just uploading articles that are probably written by the marketing team in Mumbai. The main reason for my doubting so, lies in his grammar. Uyarafath claims on his user page to have made 3 non paid articles. 2 of them were deleted - 1 as G11 and the other as A7. The third is Karuppanadhi Dam, which is also replete with grammar mistakes. The poor grammar was also evident in his discussions at AfD, COIN and talk pages. However all the articles he has created for the paid editing firm, are written without any grammar mistakes, indicating that he has probably not written them himself.  Jupitus Smart  13:04, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Addendum 2 : All is well that ends well. Some other admins blocked him anyway.  Jupitus Smart  07:32, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Good investigation. As a side note, the mentioned Facilius page has now been deleted (coincidence?) but archive can be viewed here —  kashmiri  TALK  07:28, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * closing with no action. Batwoman3366 hasn't edited since July, Uyarafath is disclosing their paid contributions as is required, and I have reasonable doubts that they are the same person as the sockmaster. Technical data may have been useful here but it was not requested and the archive is now much too old. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:34, 29 November 2017 (UTC)