Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Praispranav/Archive

24 February 2015

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Three SPA's that are editing each other's created articles in an attempt to remove deletion and copyvio tags without being the initial contributor. Users using misleading edit summaries in order to avoid being reverted. Users were warned not to use multiple accounts and continued abusively using all accounts after being warned. Special:Diff/648584717 Special:Diff/648584161 Special:Diff/648582315 Special:Diff/648578065 Special:Diff/648578811 Special:Diff/648573575 Special:Diff/648531929 Special:Diff/648363479 I could provide several more diffs, but you get the idea. -War wizard90 (talk) 04:36, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked two of the editors, Praispranav and Hritik Vardhan, for adding copyright violations, using Wikipedia for promotion, and because one of them has vandalized other articles in an attempt to add himself to Wikipedia. Now while Hritik Vardhan ‎has not done the vandalism per se, it's reasonable to suspect that he would do this as well if the other accounts are blocked. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Also adding the following names. They've all been blocked, but I want them on here just to have them officially listed. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:38, 24 February 2015 (UTC)


 * After seeing these other similar uses reported by Tokyogirl79, I am changing the status in order to request a checkuser in order to catch anymore of these accounts, likely a sock-farm situation. -War wizard90 (talk) 06:56, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * The accounts are ✅ to each other and there are no additional obvious accounts (caveat: there are multiple large dynamic ranges at play here and there could very well be more accounts than those listed above).-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:02, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * All accounts are blocked and tagged. No sleepers were found. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

04 October 2015

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per WP:DUCK -- user's talk page list same name and info from previous socks. Creates/edits the same articles. Account has now been blocked. — Cactus Writer (talk) 18:00, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * Filed, blocked, and tagged. Nothing more to do. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:37, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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Asking various administrators to unprotect Hrithik Vardhan, and signing as "H360V Team" e.g. here. Another connection is the article Pookway which H360v apparently created back in July; the same article had been created by User:Metolite1032 who was blocked not as a sock of Praispranav but as a spammer, but they were also creating Hrithik Vardhan articles. Also note that previously blocked socks include User:Hrithik Vardhan (Metrolite) and other user names with "Metrolite". bonadea contributions talk 12:25, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

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Before I became aware of this case, I blocked H360v as a sock of Metolite1032. I agree with Bondea. Behaviorally, the account is likely a sock of the master, so I have adjusted the tag of H360v and tagged Metolite1032. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:51, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

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Created Hrithik Vardhan (Entrepreneur) and Draft:Hrithik Vardhan, similar to confirmed sock User:Hritik Vardhan. In those created articles, Hp1032 uses File:Hrithik Vardhan.jpg, uploaded by sock User:Metolite1032. Ramaksoud2000 (Talk to me) 03:22, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Edited sock master userpage. Ramaksoud2000 (Talk to me) 06:03, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Behaviorally proven and self confirmed sock. Blocked and tagged. Closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:41, 14 December 2016 (UTC)