Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mr.sahota/Archive

27 April 2015

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These users both edited the blatantly promotional Furvah with Mr.sahota originally creating it and Show-reality recreating it several times afterwards. Today Mr.sahota created Prathik Jain which contains images that Show-reality uploaded minutes earlier, which strikes me as a little odd! The same happened at Mayur Verma: creation,. SmartSE (talk) 20:30, 27 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Strangely, Show-reality also just turned up at an AFD of an article that is also most likely the work of undisclosed paid editors. The link to the users in Sockpuppet investigations/Girlishkim seemed to thin to lump them together though. SmartSE (talk) 20:41, 27 April 2015 (UTC)


 * . Greeting everyone i know this guy with user name show-reality he is my lodger. He saw me editing Wikipedia several time and become interested to do so so as i teach him how to do. So yes I request him to upload picture of my previous page Prathik Jain because i was not able to search his pictures due to some other work but rest am not aware of about his other contributions. Thank You. any question please ask. Singh (talk) 05:39, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:05, 27 April 2015 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  10:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * - to confirm socking.
 * ✅. Mike V • Talk 03:28, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocking master 72 hours, tagging and closing.

29 April 2015

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Sockmaster has already been blocked and this user turned up at Prathik Jain and also promoting the same person in other articles. Also created Draft:Furvah which was another attempt to create Furvah (see diffs in archive). SmartSE (talk) 12:52, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

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We can add this user who just awarded a barnstar to the master and is bragging on their user page about their promotional work. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:51, 29 April 2015 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:53, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * - to determine between block evasion or meatpuppetry.
 * is ✅.
 * is.
 * Mike V • Talk 16:00, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:09, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocking master 2 weeks and indeffing confirmed sock with tag. Blocking unconfirmed as a meatpuppet. Closing.

18 May 2015

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Cross-over between users here:. Behaviourally, both users include unsourced DOBs and use 'retreived' rather than 'published' in reference lists: e.g. and. SmartSE (talk) 18:19, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * Comment - Greeting everyone i just want to clear that i dont know this user and found this page in the list of newly created pages so thought to check if anything to edit. So it might be a coincidence that this user editing the same page on the same time. Regards Singh (talk) 19:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * . The evidence provided does not establish any abuse of multiple accounts. Adding categories from an alternative account is not abusive, so even if these allegations are true then the behaviour is not blockable. If there's other evidence, then please provide it. Thanks! --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 06:04, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * No objections to Deskana's comment. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:19, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

04 July 2015

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Just found that User LeiaWriter and User FunnyGuyNot both are working on same pages as when User:FunnyGuyNot created a draft Terry Brival (French Music Artist) the user LeiaWriter edit it and reviewed it in the result he moved the page to main article space from draft and then again User FunnyGuyNot created the draft for Mark Leigh and it happen same again when user LeiaWriter edit it and reviewed it in the result he moved the page to main article space. I also think that they are Undisclosed Paid Editors. Gurvinder &#124;  Talk  18:36, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * This report was copied from Sockpuppet investigations/TejaswaChaudhary.
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:33, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:33, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:33, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

19 July 2015

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Recreated Mary Laurent originally created as Ayo Mary Laurent by this group of socks and recently recreated by a sock of Mr.sahota (Gurvinder09). OSNN's first edit is exactly the same as Gurvinder09's. SmartSE (talk) 11:44, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * is ✅. Blocked and tagged. Laurent article G5'ed. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:48, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

28 July 2015

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This user is obviously promotional and has just edited GoldCore which Race786 created. SmartSE (talk) 09:48, 28 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Race786 isn't actually included in this SPI, but was confirmed as a Mr.sahota sock in Sockpuppet_investigations/Girlishkim/Archive. SmartSE (talk) 09:49, 28 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Now we also have these two accounts at Dawnn Karen, but this could be fun and games by other paid editors after Mr.sahota's sock started an SPI on them, so I'll resist WP:DUCK for now. SmartSE (talk) 20:24, 29 July 2015 (UTC)



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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Hi! I have been accused to have more than one account, but in fact i have only one account on wikipedia or its sister projects, you can check my ip. I just edited the GoldCore as i was requested by the company admin, that they does not know how to edit on wikipedia, so i tried to help him and tried to make wikipedia better for everyone. If doing so is not accepted, then sorry for that and i will not do it in future.Nocompromise6 (talk) 11:04, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * - If an user edits an article created by a master, that does not mean he is a sockpuppet. Do you have any stronger evidence? Please, cite WP:diffs to show similarity between the alleged sockpuppet and the master.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  20:14, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I didn't provide more background - I thought it was fairly self-explanatory. The master, like this editor, was a promotional, undisclosed paid editor and that is the main piece of behavioural evidence. It's not very easy to see in the diff I gave above, but they added two promotional sections "Research and Awards" and "Media Profile and International Expansion" to GoldCore. They created other promotional articles e.g. Sarah Alderson, Yet Another Cleaner, E:DJ (see contribs) in quick succession so clearly aren't an employee of GoldCore but rather someone being paid to edit. It is fairly academic as they need blocking regardless of socking, but I thought it was best to follow procedure. SmartSE (talk) 20:48, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
 * - per provided diffs.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:14, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I saw this pop up at ANI so I checked the accounts mentioned there., and  are ✅ to each other. As  is running a check against Mr.sahota I'll leave it at that for now. Note that this has all the hallmarks of paid editing, regardless of the connection between the accounts.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:59, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I was aware of Moonlight78644 when I ran the CU yesterday. As I wasn't aware of Nocompromise61, I didn't check it, and it didn't pop up in my CU. In event, I would add one more account to the set of accounts identified as confirmed to each other:
 * I have blocked that account in the same way Ponyo blocked the others (without connecting them to a particular master), which leads mt to Mr.sahota. Although there are some possible technical commonalities, they are not sufficient in my view to tie these accounts to Mr.sahota. Thus, without more data the accounts are ❌. I agree 100% with Ponyo's comment about paid editing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * We're done here, at least for now. Bbb23 (talk) 00:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * We're done here, at least for now. Bbb23 (talk) 00:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)