Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kulvir97/Archive

16 October 2015

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Definitely a duck situation here. Some guy has a weaksauce cookie cutter Indian entertainment website called filmybase.com. One of your usual content scraping jobs. Probably taking content from Wikipedia, but he also wants to spam Wikipedia with it. He starts off as Kulvir97. He tries adding his URL to an article. It's reverted. He tries adding it to an article on IMDb. It's reverted. He creates an article on the company but it gets wiped out. He tries to create it a few more times under a slightly different capitalization. He gets indeffed.

Boparae reverts my reversion. The cad! He creates a draft article on the company. Note the name in the Infobox: Kulvir Singh Boparae. Kulvir? Boparae? Socks! I decline the draft because it's clearly a promo piece. I block the sock for sockpuppetry and promotion. I later deleted the draft for unambiguous promotion, so you'll have to take my word that the name in the infobox is what I say it is!

Jatt97 appears. Monkeys around at Draft:Filmybase. Drops a note at Boparae's talk page.

Anyhow, logging the ducks. They're all blocked. Next step is the spam blacklist. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:36, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Added FilmyBase per Ravensfire's notes below. Another duck. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:27, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * Good work there, CB, you knocked this one out of the park. — Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:37, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks man. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:37, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * See new user . Ravensfire ( talk ) 13:25, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I think I got all of their article edits, but someone should probably delete the FilmyBase.com template and the FilmyBase redirect they created and consider salting the article and template given their determination. Ravensfire ( talk ) 13:33, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Good eye, . I've deleted and salted both. I think there might be some sub-pages I still have to handle, but I'll take care of that. I also reported the domain at the spam blacklist, so I'm waiting for that. I'm hoping someone can block it quickly, as that might thwart him. I'd do it myself, but I'm not slick with regular expressions (regex). Given his persistence, I wonder if it might be wise to run a CU for sleepers. It seems like he's a new disruptor and that he creates accounts as he needs 'em, but who knows. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:27, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Addendum Looks like the domain has been added to the blacklist. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:38, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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✅. Accounts tagged. .--Bbb23 (talk) 17:21, 16 October 2015 (UTC)