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KHAIDI NO.308 was created less than an hour after  blocked  PradeepKumar308 for 72 hours for copyright violations, and immediately began editing Srihari (actor), an article to which PradeepKumar308 has made dozens of edits in the last few days.

Both seem to edit in the same style - a series of short edits made very quickly, sometimes more than one a minute, often several in a row to the same article. Examples: PradeepKumar308 and ; KHAIDI NO.308  and. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 07:51, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Blocked sock, increased block on master to indefinite; behavioral evidence seems sufficient. Closing now.&mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:55, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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The account is an obvious sock, was created right after declined the unblock of the master on UTRS (he had confirmed the three as his socks). Given the humongous amount of edits in two weeks, there's a chance that this could be Sockpuppet investigations/Padmalakshmisx though in my opinion the editing style matches PradeepKumar308. I'm pinging who is more familiar with this area than I am to see if they have any particular opinion. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  14:26, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Also see the user pages: this account and master, while the format etc are different, the name, field of study as well as "time active on Wikipedia" are the same or similar. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  14:37, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Here we go, self confirmed now. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  15:21, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, and tagged. This case is ❌ to Sockpuppet investigations/Padmalakshmisx. First, the master/socks in this case do not use webhosts or open proxies. Second, the other technical data does not match, either. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:31, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

For whatever it's worth, I appreciate the guy's honesty even though the socking sucks. If he can manage to articulate why copyright violations and sockpuppetry are bad, I'd probably consider unblocking him on the basis that unblocks are cheap. He doesn't seem like a dick. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:44, 31 December 2016 (UTC)