Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mahi Choudhary falka/Archive

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The user Mahijaat created Gaon Dastak and removed notability tag multiple times. However, when he was notified about removing maintenance tag, a new account "RKChoudharyG" (the only purpose account) popped up today and removed COI tag from the article in question. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 15:17, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

On 20 February 2021, the user Mahi Choudhary falka created page Draft:Gaon Dastak. He later requested draft deletion under G7 to bypass AfC review process. I think, the case should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Mahi Choudhary falka if endorsed. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 08:48, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Also found and ✅:
 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:23, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:23, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:23, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

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After the draft was declined at AfC, a new account popped up today to complete the task. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 06:26, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Same geolocation. Different ranges and user agents.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   08:06, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocked based on behavioral evidence. GABgab 20:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

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Joined 2 days after the last set of socks were blocked to move Gaon Dastak into mainspace and edit war over g5 tags. TAXIDICAE💰 13:04, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * - requesting CU for confirmation and sleeper check as previously other accounts have been found. Everything is fresh in the archives for a check. The SandDoctor  Talk 01:13, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * . Same geolocation, different ranges and user agents. .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:13, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Not sure if this is a sock- or a meatpuppet, but like the others, they are clearly here solely to promote Gaon Dastak and I don't really care about the difference here. – please block the sock indefinitely. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 14:41, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. Back to . Cabayi (talk) 13:04, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks., closing. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 16:50, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

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This user initially made 12 edits to be eligible for autoconfirmed user account. All this has been done to move protected page Gaon Dastak under different titles such as Draft:Gaon Dastak, Gaon Dastak (GD Live), Draft:Gaon Dastak (GD Live) and Draft:Gaon Dastak (Rural News). The article in question has been previously created/edited by socks. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 18:04, 16 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment Again same article published with different title Gaon Dastak (Rural India). GermanKity (talk) 03:20, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * Comment If this isn't sockpuppetry, this is an extreme case of WP:MEAT. They are both SPAs on the exact same subject and the lack of overlapping edits is probably more due to attempts to WP:GAME the system by creating the article in different namespaces than anything else. Best, GPL93 (talk) 00:43, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * there does appear to be overlap with, who admitted to being a sockpuppet of Mahi Choudhary falka (see unblock requests). Note that the new account name is "I'm Mahijaat". Best, GPL93 (talk) 02:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * I need a little bit more information. The editor interaction analyzer for these accounts show no common pages that they've both edited. I understand that this user has renamed an article many times, and that it's been the frequent target for sock puppet accounts. My question is: How do you know that the account and the  account are being controlled by the same person? Your evidence does not point this out.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   18:25, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked, tagged (sorry for intervening - I got here through WP:AIV). Materialscientist (talk) 06:31, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks like we're all done, closing. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 12:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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It looks like Gaon Dastak, the news portal promoted by Mahi Choudhary falka and previous sockpuppets, has changed its name to Nagaur News. Compare these press releases: Gaon Dastak, Nagaur News. Ravibadiyasar has created Draft:Nagaur News, and also Draft:Mahendra Kudiya. Mahendra Kudiya is the name of the founder of Gaon Dastak/Nagaur News, and one of the previously blocked socks is User:Mahendra Kudiya. bonadea contributions talk 08:55, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Based on the focus on the same non-notable topic (kinda funny that they forgot to change the name from Gaon Dastak in the second press release), it's either socking or UPE meat.  - please indef Ravibadiyasar. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:48, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ~TheresNoTime (to chat) 20:15, 18 October 2021 (UTC)