Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kumuthaseo/Archive

22 July 2013

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Both made Adityaram Properties with the same text and content. This user first made the article, then after the article was deleted per G11 and A7, user Sravam7 re-created page with same content and text. EuroCarGT 14:55, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * probable block evasion in Adityaram, removal of cleanup tags and AfD notice. Fiddle   Faddle  07:26, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Obvious sock blocked, master given 1 week. Endorsing CU for sleepers/confirmation. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 18:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * No sleepers. Tiptoety  talk 03:29, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks wrapped up. NativeForeigner Talk 18:28, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

07 January 2014

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Created a promo userpage about the same subject line. Likely the same user. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:56, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * Both accounts blocked indef as advertising-only accounts. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

06 March 2014

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 * added Adityaram-related external links here on 17 Jan 2014
 * re-created Adityaram on 22 January 2014 (see deleted contributions
 * re-created Adityaram Movies on 06 March 2014 (see deleted contributions

I just want to help write a good online encyclopedia. I really hate doing this sort of stuff. Shirt58 (talk) 11:20, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged based on duck. I note that Sravan7 is not the oldest account. The one I just blocked (Kumuthaseo) is older, and User:Sudharsankg is the oldest. It's easier to move this report and retag the users after it's archived. Either the archiver can do it, or, if I remember, I will.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:08, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

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There has been a bit of promotional editing to boost Aditya Ram / Adityaram recently, by accounts that are very clearly the same user. Although Kumuthaseo and the previous socks in the archive were blocked a few years ago, I think it is likely the same marketing team, if not the same individual user. Only the first two accounts in my list are not blocked; I'm including five blocked accounts to show the connections.

The currently active accounts are Lyla Albert and Lyla shaanvi. In addition to the similar user names (and user pages), their editing behaviour is pretty much identical. Lyla Albert was registered in April, created multiple drafts about Aditya Ram with different titles and relentlessly moved them to mainspace, see this log. Lyla Albert received (and ignored) multiple requests to declare any COI, and last edited on 30 Nov. Lyla shaanvi registered on 8 December, immediately creating Draft:Adityaram (Film producer) and later editing Lyla Albert's Draft:Aditya Ram. There is also a clear similarity in their talk page writing style: Albert, shaanvi.

Shaanvisuresh, Sharinisuresh, and John wickly were blocked in Feb-Mar 2021. Shaanvisuresh and Sharinisuresh are the same user, per this ANI thread, and John wickly was blocked a few weeks later, following this ANI thread. All pages edited by John wickly have been deleted, but this log speaks volumes.

Connecting the current users to this group: there is a user name similarity between Lyla shaanvi and Shaanvisuresh, and an even stronger similarity in their edits, cf this from Shaanvisuresh with this from Lyla Shaanvi and this from Lyla Albert.

Moving a few weeks further back, Kmsureshayyan and Adityaram producer were blocked in Feb 2021 for Adityaram related spamming. Adityaram producer is a dead giveaway from the user name, and this is pretty much the same thing as the edits by Lyla Albert and Lyla shaanvi, and exactly the same thing as this from Kmsureshayyan. Kmsureshayyan – another "Suresh" user name – has a log similar to the others, with rapid creations of Adityaram drafts in Jan 2021 but the account was actually created back in 2013, not long after the block of Sudharsankg, who is listed as a sock in the archives of this SPI.

There is also a connection between Lyla Albert and the earliest accounts – Lyla Albert and the previously blocked socks Sudharsankg and Sravan7 edited Swagatam, Sandade Sandadi, and Ek Niranjan, the last of which was also edited by sockmaster Kumuthaseo. bonadea contributions talk 16:35, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * and, tags added/adjusted for the rest. Also added to MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. Closing. DatGuyTalkContribs 17:45, 10 December 2022 (UTC)