Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Noormohammed satya/Archive

08 July 2012

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User:Noormohammed satya and User:Noor119848 are two accounts operated by the same user (as evidenced by the same information disclosed on the two user pages, and also implicitly by the two accounts' contribution history). Both accounts were blocked yesterday due to persistent copyright violation and other disruptive behaviour. Almost immediately afterwards, it appears the user resumed editing via the above two anonymous IPs. This is evidenced by the fact that, with a single exception, the only pages edited by these IP accounts were those User:Noor119848 created or edited in the day preceding his block: It seems vanishingly unlikely that 25 of the 29 edits by these two "new" users would happen to be to the very same articles that User:Noor119848 was editing immediately before his block (including two articles that he had just created only a day or two ago). Psychonaut (talk) 12:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * All pages edited by 117.198.175.170, with diffs showing recent edits by User:Noor119848:
 * 12th Indian Telly Awards created on 6 July
 * Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Male edited on 7 July
 * Bharti Singh created on 7 July
 * All but one of the pages edited by 117.198.168.174, with diffs showing recent edits by User:Noor119848:
 * Mona Singh edited on 7 July
 * 12th Indian Telly Awards created on 6 July

Update 1: I have added User:Moviebuff 1990 as well; the pattern of contributions seems to be much the same. All three accounts' edits are concerned entirely with adding information on Indian television and movie awards, often to the same set of articles, and often posting material in violation of copyright. None of the accounts have ever made any edits to the talk namespaces, except to remove copyvio and other warnings from their user pages. —Psychonaut (talk) 10:30, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Update 2: Possibly all three accounts are sockpuppets of (see Sockpuppet investigations/Thomas.young234/Archive). That user also seems to have an obsession with Indian television and movies, and particularly with the awards bestowed upon them. The three accounts here edit many of the same articles as User:Thomas.young234's articles. One of the accounts has a similar name to one of the sockpuppets (User:Noor119848 = User:Noor201142); User:Thomas.young234 tends to name accounts in this fashion. —Psychonaut (talk) 10:39, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * Comment: Both Users User:Noormohammed satya and User:Noor119848 on their user pages describe themselves to be coming from Jamnagar, Gujarat and being students of Chartered Accountant. Also they use same user boxes to describe themselves. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 16:14, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * - Accounts are already blocked, CU not needed to make this determination. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  00:02, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

13 July 2012

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After the Master and sock  were blocked on 7th July, this new suspect has started editing from 13th July on same interested articles of Indian TV shows and its awards. The suspected sock has now created one unreferenced award article and corresponding template. The previous sock had created synonymous templates 1, 2, 3. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 15:28, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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Noorsatya and Noor119848 are ✅. --MuZemike 23:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * What about all the other accounts/IPs? Inconclusive? —Psychonaut (talk) 06:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

17 August 2012

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Same behaviour as the master account and other sockpuppet accounts (User:Noor119848, User:Noormohammed satya, User:Noorsatya, etc.): — Psychonaut (talk) 12:14, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Concerned almost exclusively with Indian television and movie awards.
 * No edits at all to Talk space, except to add project templates.
 * Creates new pages, usually on awards, by pasting in complete articles which usually lack sufficient context in the lead (e.g.,, )
 * Among edits to existing award pages, most or all of these were originally created by the other accounts (e.g.,, , , )
 * Edits to non-award pages tend to consist of adding templates created by himself or by the other accounts.
 * Adds text to articles in violation of copyright (e.g., )
 * Removes cleanup or copyvio tags without explanation (e.g., )
 * Completely unresponsive to attempts to engage him; only edits to User talk space are to remove messages and warnings (e.g., )

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 * . I would recommend blocking but I will let another administrator review it as well and make that determination. Tiptoety  talk 05:18, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked. Pretty clear case (re-creations of pages previously created by earlier socks etc.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:05, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

26 August 2012

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This recently created account is recreating deleted articles which were originally created by the previous socks. As I'm not an administrator I can't examine the deleted article histories to tell whether they're actually identical to the new ones. However, so far the overall editing pattern matches those of the previous socks: all edits are about Zee TV-related Indian television awards, and consist of creating award pages and templates and then linking to them from other articles. Psychonaut (talk) 11:20, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

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Technically not conclusive, but very possible. Template content alone is very similar, but that doesn't say that much in this case, there's more or less only one way to represent those factoids in a navbox. All taken together (same template pagenames, matching interests as described in history, matching (but not by itself conclusive) technical evidence probably accumulates to call this ✅. Amalthea  20:34, 26 August 2012 (UTC) —  Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:13, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeffing sock, tagging and closing.

30 August 2012

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Following the blocking of the latest User:Noormohammed satya sock a couple days ago, this IP and newly created account are removing copyright violation templates from Noor's articles, and reposting the contents of Noor's deleted articles such as Winners of 1st Gold Awards, 2007 into existing ones. Psychonaut (talk) 16:40, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * User:Aashna Khanna may be a false positive. Though the account has persisted in removing the copyvio templates, the operator is now giving rationales via edit summaries, which is something User:Noormohammed satya and his socks never do. —Psychonaut (talk) 10:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Based on comments of reporter and lack of edits from IP, closing as unresolved with no prejudice to reopen if more evidence comes to light. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 15:34, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

02 November 2012

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The user has recreated the templates that were deleted twice before. Template:Gold Award for Best Actress, Template:TheGlobalIndianHonourBestActor and Template:Gold Award for Best Actor. he also shares the same interests as previous socks and master; the Indian television shows and it's associated actors and actresses. §§ §§ {T/C} 09:28, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * I endorse this report. The alleged sock is creating the same templates as the previous ones and adding them to the same articles (compare, for example, Noor119848's  and Sagufa.angel's ). —Psychonaut (talk) 09:32, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:23, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeffing sock, tagging and closing.

05 January 2013

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Similar user name (cf. Noorsatya and Noormohammed satya) and editing patterns (concerned exclusively with Indian TV and particularly the Indian Telly Awards). Psychonaut (talk) 07:45, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the sockpuppet. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:00, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

07 April 2013

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Same modus operandi and favourite articles (Mona Singh, Indian Television Academy Awards, etc.); almost the same username. Duck sock. Psychonaut (talk) 07:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * One of the user's edits popped up on a page I watchlist, and it's so obviously a sock of noormohammed satya I already indeffed it. I don't think we need a CU to be sure here. Qwyrxian (talk) 14:43, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Closing case as this new sock is already blocked as a duck, and all previous accounts are stale for checkuser anyway. Someguy1221 (talk) 05:51, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

02 June 2013

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The behaviour of this account is the same as the previous socks—most notably, creation of Indian television awards articles (including the same ones previously created by the socks) with little or no context provided. As usual, the user is completely unresponsive to attempts to communicate. Psychonaut (talk) 16:36, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

The IP account edits almost exclusively the same articles as the other sockpuppet, User:Huzaifakhanwla, often immediately after the latter creates them. Psychonaut (talk) 21:20, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

In response to the clerk's query: the best evidence for sockpuppetry is the (re)creation of similar or identical articles which had previously been created by User:Noormohammed satya's other sockpuppets (but then later deleted). I'm not an administrator so I can't provide diffs to deleted articles. I'll ask an administrator already familiar with this sockpuppeteer to take a look at the case. —Psychonaut (talk) 21:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * In addition to BIG Star Most Entertaining Television Reality Show mentioned by User:Legoktm below, someone could also check out the recreations Apsara Award for Best Non-Fiction Series and Apsara Award for Best Lyricist. Again, an admin will have to check who created the page the first time.  The deletion log claims the latter article was created by a sockpuppet of User:Ali Mohammad Khilji, who has been confused with User:Noormohammed satya and User:Vibhas Kashyap on occasion—all three are very prolific sockpuppeteers active on Indian TV articles and it can be hard to tell them apart. —Psychonaut (talk) 14:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I've had some more time to trawl through my notes on User:Noormohammed satya's deleted contributions. I think if you check the deleted articles with titles of the form "Global Film Honour for X", most of which were probably created by the sockpuppet User:Noor119848, you'll find they're almost identical in style and format to User:Huzaifakhanwla's "Aspara Award for X" articles.  These two sets of articles share so many similarities that they led to almost identical personalized criticisms from users who were not aware at the time that they were talking to a sock farmer:   —Psychonaut (talk) 09:56, 6 June 2013 (UTC)


 * User:Huzaifakhanwla just got blocked on Commons after a spree of uploading Indian TV show images with falsified authorship and licensing tags there and linking them from articles here (see Commons:User talk:Huzaifakhanwla and the block log). This is the same behaviour that led to the banning of User:Noormohammed satya and User:Noor119848 back in July 2012 (except that most of their uploads were to Wikipedia rather than Commons).  —Psychonaut (talk) 20:12, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

In response to User:King of Hearts's request for evidence for the IP: —Psychonaut (talk) 09:25, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The editing targets are the same as the other socks: always articles related to Indian TV shows and movies and their awards.
 * As with the other socks, they almost never leave edit summaries.
 * As with the other socks, they almost never use talk pages.
 * The non-disruptive contributions are pretty much the same (editing templates and tables)
 * The disruptive contributions are pretty much the same (adding copyvios, and moving or removing material without explanation)—I'm not the only person to have noticed this; User talk:178.61.8.29 is littered with the same warnings (some personalized rather than templated) given to other socks.
 * Most damningly, its edits are often consecutive with User:Huzaifakhanwla's—often they're no more than a few minutes apart (see a partial list below). In some cases, such as Template:FilmfareAwardBestDebutDirector and List of awards and nominations received by Jodhaa Akbar, the only edits to the page were from these two accounts—User:Huzaifakhanwla creates the page, and then User:178.61.8.29 edits it a few minutes or hours later.  It's unlikely that the IP account is an independent user who just happened to find the newly created articles.
 * Veer-Zaara:
 * Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Award:
 * 3 Idiots:
 * Bigg Boss 5:
 * 12th Indian Telly Awards:
 * 53rd Filmfare Awards:
 * Apsara Award for Best Story:
 * Screen Award for Jodi No. 1:
 * Template:FilmfareAwardBestDebutDirector:
 * List of awards and nominations received by Jodhaa Akbar:
 * Jodhaa Akbar:
 * List of awards and nominations received by 3 Idiots:
 * Colors Golden Petal Awards:

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 * Started browsing the deleted edits, looks interesting (don't have time to do much digging though). Legoktm (talk) 21:36, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * As I said again, you will need to present diffs from Huzaifakhanwla, 178.61.8.29, as well as Noormohammed satya (or a previous sockpuppet). King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:24, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * fwiw, the relevant articles For Huzaifakhanwla have been see  and .   DGG ( talk ) 03:55, 7 June 2013 (UTC)


 * OK thanks, Huzaifakhanwla looks like a WP:DUCK to me, blocked. Do you have evidence for the IP? King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:17, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * That's all I needed, thanks. Blocked for 1 month, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 18:24, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

07 June 2013

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WP:DUCK: Same article targets as previous socks (Indian television/movie awards), same modus operandi (blanking and copyvios), and almost identical username. Account hasn't edited recently but is being reported here for the record. Psychonaut (talk) 09:00, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * This one's easy, blocked and closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 09:06, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

25 July 2013

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This account has the same editing interest and patterns as previous socks: it is concerned almost exclusively with televised Indian award ceremonies, makes persistent copyvios (see Commons:User talk:3lakapkgk), and is completely uncommunicative. As with the last sockpuppet account, User:Huzaifakhanwla, an IP confirmed to be User:Noormohammed satya,, edits the same articles within minutes or hours (e.g.,  ). Sometimes these articles were freshly created by User:3lakapkgk so it's unlikely they were discovered by accident. I recommend reblocking the IP as it's been editing with impunity since the lapse of the last block. —Psychonaut (talk) 16:33, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * See 28 July below. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 18:38, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, and closed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:48, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

28 July 2013

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Almost identical username to the previously reported sock. Identical editing interests (Indian TV awards). Since there are now apparently three socks operating simultaneously, I'm requesting CU in case there are additional ones which have not yet been identified. Psychonaut (talk) 15:40, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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Fairly reasonable evidence, plus the similar usernames almost surely demonstrate there is some correlation between those accounts. NativeForeigner Talk 17:35, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3lakapkgk and 3apkgklak are ✅ matches to . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 18:38, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

01 July 2014

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All signs point to these accounts being DUCKs:
 * The registered account's name is nearly identical to that of a previously confirmed sockpuppet (User:Huzaifakhanwla).
 * The IP account is the same as the one previously blocked as a Noormohammed satya sockpuppet.
 * The registered account is recreating Noormohammed satya's deleted articles (List of accolades received by Kaun Banega Crorepati is a recreation of List of awards and nominations received by Kaun Banega Crorepati)
 * The accounts are acting in concert to spin off useless award articles, as Noormohammed satya's socks (and particularly User:Huzaifakhanwla) often did.

See also Sockpuppet investigations/Imaginationcolors/Archive. Given the evidence presented there and at Sockpuppet investigations/Noormohammed satya/Archive, I'm pretty sure that Imaginationcolors is Noormohammed satya. But even if not, clearly the accounts listed in the present report correspond to Imaginationcolors. Requesting checkuser to flush out sleepers, as Imaginationcolors had dozens of them. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:34, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Just like Noormohammed satya and his socks, this account's main purpose is creating articles about Indian television awards. It is certainly another sock because the new articles it creates get immediately edited by confirmed socks such as User:178.61.8.29. Examples:  Psychonaut (talk) 12:25, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

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 * I am marking this as "open" as there isn't much that CheckUser has to offer here. I will note that I checked the named account for sleepers and found nothing of interest. Everything else is stale, including the account below. Tiptoety  talk 17:24, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked the appropriate and merged the two cases. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  02:48, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note that the main account recently became active again. PhilKnight (talk) 05:40, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

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I was initially suspicious of these users due to:
 * The Bekaaboo page, originally created by user:Pariwarking (now blocked as a sock of user:Immirzakhan) being promptly recreated by a different user, User:Noormohammed_satya, after it was G11 CSDd
 * Then, when I AFD'd it, a keep vote appearing almost immediately by a third user, User:Exploreandwrite whose history closely aligns to the other two, and who looks to me to be leaving brief, meaningless votes on a lot of non-contentious AFDs to avoid suspicion, and then occasionally contributing more substantively to ones that other users in this group are involved in.
 * Finally, we now have a second vote on the AFD by User:Noormohammed_satya, the re-creator of the page, which uses some identical wording to the previous vote, and has a very similar tone and style and use of language for the rest of the comment.
 * I hope this is enough to be at least worth having a look at, and of course I apologise if I am mistaken. Hugsyrup (talk) 08:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * Merely a coincident. However, yes, for your satisfaction, please check indeed. Exploreandwrite (talk) 10:02, 30 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Pariwarking is already Confirmed to User:Immirzakhan. If CU turns up a positive result, perhaps this may be moved. Lexiconteacher (talk) 10:50, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I am marking this as "open" as there isn't much that CheckUser has to offer here. I will note that I checked the named account for sleepers and found nothing of interest. Everything else is stale, including the account below. Lexiconteacher (talk) 11:10, 30 May 2019 (UTC) I have struck these comments by an account that has now been blocked as a sock. I think it is worth noting the interesting attempt to avoid a checkuser being carried out in this seemingly unrelated case, however. Hugsyrup (talk) 12:41, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Addition as original reporter. Two further accounts have since made keep votes on this AFD, both appear to have been created recently and to have few if any other edits. These are User:Reading_and_writing_movies and User:Literacylord. All four comments have a similar tone and style of making an argument, in my view. It seems obvious to me that either sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry is going on here. Hugsyrup (talk) 11:56, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Regarding Literacylord and the other two recently blocked accounts, see Sockpuppet investigations/Ziggy 2milli. I can also say that those three accounts are ❌ to Immirzakhan. Because much of this report relies on connections that turn out not to exist, I am closing this report with no action.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:25, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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I don't know who belongs to which farm but it's obvious to me that Rafik is not a new editor, given the fully formed articles in their first 10 edits, both of which are creations of various socks. Manor Rama Pictures previously created by Noormohammed and Hum Tum and Them by + overlap here Praxidicae (talk) 18:22, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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✅ to Noormohammed satya and ❌ to MohammedS2221. . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:48, 28 February 2020 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:03, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Changed above to confirmed.


 * Closing as everything looks done here. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:27, 1 March 2020 (UTC)