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There has been suspicious activity on Shalby Hospitals since the article was created. Shalby article was started on 19 December 2014 by User:Sanjeev.08 who had also edited Raheja Developers before being blocked in January 2015 after a SPI linked it to User:Wikiaccnt1234. The article has been renamed twice (once by me). Multiple accounts have added promotional material, often not being used after a challenge is made or repeated. For example: 182.156.82.34 added which was same as Mukesh8120. NameeJani added which was later re-added by Mukesh8120.

The accounts with Shalbyhospitals in their name added promotional content lifted directly from the Shalby Hospitals website. Edits by Hjkarnani were reverted, but similar edits followed using the Shalbyhospitals12 account. The accounts with Shalbyhospitals in their name were blocked as being promotional. The awards content that was added seems to have been lifted from Shalby's award webpage.

There was only a single edit from Savant Fernandez. Two of the IPs have only made single contributions to Wikipedia, where one was to edit a link a few minutes after the Shalby article was created and the other's only contribution to Wikipedia was to change a URL address directing to Shalby website.

My suspicion of a link to the User:Narendra Dangi account is that it was only used to make couple of promotional edits by putting a biography onto their own user page in May 2013, but since then that user page was edited a couple of times by IPs, with one significant edit by an IP involved in the promotional edits to the Shalby Hospitals article. Drchriswilliams (talk) 14:43, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * Comment It certainly looks likely. The four IP addresses are assign to ISPs in India. User:Narendra Dangi appears to be linked with the IP address 117.247.81.172 since that IP address blanked that user's page. Similarly IP address 182.156.82.34 edited User:Narendra Dangi's page as their first edit. At the very *least*, it appears that User:Narendra Dangi is editing while logged out to evade detection. There also appears to be a strong connection with the (blocked) User:Shalbyhospitals and User:Shalbyhospitals12 accounts as they have attempted to add the same promotional content and puffery to the article. Finally, the language used by all of those accounts is remarkably similar with the added coincidence that they all add pretty much the same promotional content and puffery with further similarities found in their editing of the founder and his "revolutionary" knee replacement techniques. Looks like a slam dunk to me. -- HighKing ++ 14:03, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

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I've blocked Narendra Dangi, Mukesh8120, Hjkarnani, and NameeJani indefinitely for spamming and sock puppetry. I wasn't sure about Hjkarnani until I saw SrujanShalby's edits, which seemed to bridge Narendra/Mukesh8120 and Hjkarnani. I've indefinitely blocked SrujanShalby, too, and to discourage further socking, I've semi-protected the article for a month. Some of these accounts are a bit stale, but at least one of them was brought back into active service recently. I've left the already-blocked Shalbyhospitals accounts alone. I don't think there's enough evidence to conclusively tie Savant Fernandez to the others, and the IP editors are mostly stale. Semi-protection will take of their edits, anyway. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:14, 13 February 2017 (UTC)