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Created at the same time (one day between creation date); same editing patterns (creating promo article about related people); Mr. Indian wiki participating in a page deletion discussion (as a Keep) for a page created by Lowslo. Users Good123321 and Pranjal Shukla 5780 are recently created accounts that have only made any edits to Ritu Taneja article; i.e. follow the same edit pattern. GreaterPonce665 (TALK) 19:13, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * This is according to the CU data. . Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:47, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Gaurav Taneja was edited several times by Lowslo, and at least once by Mr. Indian Wiki. After the article had been deleted twice and salted, Mr. Indian Wiki created Gaurav Taneja (youtuber), which eventually got deleted. Though I don't see any intersections between the two other than that, that seems a significant one. Not quite sure about Good123321, because here they seem to be suggesting that the Ritu Rathee Taneja article be deleted, which conflicts with what Indian Wiki would want. But maybe that's on purpose? Unclear. This is all I've had to look at for now, so maybe someone else with have other opinions. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:21, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Is there any way that Mr. Indian Wiki is related to, a similarly-named sock operator who also was interested in Amit Bhadana? Mr. Indian Wiki is an account created a month after Hindu Viki was indeffed, and appears to be interested in having the undisclosed paid editing template removed from that article. Has a stench to me. Hindu was blocked for sockpuppetry, but there is no master listed. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:19, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Mr. Indian Wiki is ✅ to and . Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:25, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Whoops, disrespectful. I said Indian Wiki instead of Wiki Indian. Thanks for the cleanup. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 08:37, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * - Adding, because of the obvious username similarity and editing overlap on Ritu Rathee Taneja.  My inclination here is that Good123321 and Pranjal Shukla 5780 are obvious socks of somebody, but I can't quite figure out if they belong to this group, or to Sockpuppet investigations/Swarup Kumar Solanki, or maybe both groups are just one big happy sock farm? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:55, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * - Mz7 (talk) 22:52, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Indian Wiki Head is ✅ to (which is an account that has only edited their sandbox in the last year, so not really an WP:ILLEGIT), but  to the other accounts. To be honest, after looking at the CU data, I think it is  that all of the accounts in this report are being operated by one person. Because this SPI has been open for more than a month, and the unblocked accounts appear to have been abandoned, I don't see the need to spend more time figuring out exactly who these people are. If the accounts return to activity, we can revisit the issue then. Closing without further action. Mz7 (talk) 23:00, 5 September 2020 (UTC)