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This is going to be something that will need to be decided on editing habits, as the master has long since gone stale. I'd have blocked them as a likely sock of the master, except that I would like to have some sort of paper trail, given how persistent the original sock was and that by all accounts they seem to have tried to return after a few years. At the very least this would be a case of meatpuppetry, since the person they're trying to add is a fairly obscure author.

Long story short - back around 2014 Laddanansari tried to add an author named Azhar Sabri to Wikipedia. There were attempts to add him under various names (Azhar Sabri (writer), Azhar Sabri (Author), Azhar Sabri (Writer), Azhar Sabri (author), Azhar Sabri(poet), Azhar Sabri.), both under the account name Laddanansari and under other usernames (,, , , , . There were numerous attempts to add him to other pages, most commonly List of people from Bihar.

In 2016 QKUMAR has created an account and is behaving in an identical manner, as he has added an article for Sabri and has added him to List of people from Bihar. He's gone a step farther and added him to Magadh University and Bihari literature. Most of his edits are Sabri related and again, Sabri is a very obscure author. It's unlikely that he would have signed up to write about him unless he's the editor that was previously blocked or he was someone that Sabri asked or hired to write about him.

There's enough here to block him, but I would like to have a paper trail since I get the impression that we'll likely see people trying this again at some point in time. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * There's also this post to Mike Rosoft's userpage, where he asked about Draft:Azhar Sabri, which was deleted several times at AfC. I also note that the current version of the article in the mainspace is identical in some places to the draftspace version written by . What's suspicious about all of this is that the person who originally created the article was Laddanansari and their only edits was to create the article. I'm going to block them as a sock/meat of Laddanansari, but since QKUMAR is still active, I'll leave that up to you guys. It's just more than a little sketchy that one of their first edits was to ask about a draftspace article about a very obscure author. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:33, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm fixing that - it looks like their first edit was actually to work on the draft article, followed by them going to Mike's page. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:36, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * Indeffing and closing. If the PR aspect persists then it may be good to get a COIN listing.