Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pranshu25/Archive

25 September 2014

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The user names overlap: "Pranshukul" repeats the first part of "Pranshu25", while "Amberkul" repeats the last part of "Pranshukul". The IP user manually signed [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Labels_India&oldid=626897121 comments] at Talk:Labels India, "--Pranshu".

More tellingly, the writing styles of Amberkul on Muafinaama ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muafinaama&oldid=626354499 diff]) and Pragaash (film) ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pragaash_(film)&oldid=626655908 diff]) is similar to the writing style of Pranshukul on Eon Films ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eon_Films&oldid=625827635 diff]). Compare, for example, "I have planned to take the film to various film festivals across the globe" (Amberkul in Muafinaama) and "We are all set to announce soon he launch of Eon Film Acting & Training Academy" (Panshukul on Eon Films). See also the use of ALL CAPS by Amberkul in Pragaash (film) and [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Labels_India&oldid=626892490 Labels India], and similar use in edit summaries by Pranshukul.

Amberkul, the IP address, and Pranshukul traded edits of Labels India with User:C759 between 13:22 and 15:11 on 24 September. The three possible socks removed a speedy deletion template eight times, with C759 re-adding it seven times. (Amberkul created Labels India.)

Also, Mohan Das is the subject of each of the four articles edited. He "leads" Eon Films; he directed both Muafinaama and Pragaash; and he edits Labels India.

Pranshu25 uploaded the Eon Films logo at Wikipedia commons. Panshu25 was blocked from editing English Wikipedia in January 2014; Pranshukul began editing 16 September and Amberkul began on 20 September 2014.

It is, of course, possible that these are not the same individual but different people who work for the same company. Even in that case, though, it would appear to be a case of meat-puppetry.

If these users are Pranshu25, they are evading a block. Even if they are not, they are edit warring. (See also my own involvement with Amberkul [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pragaash_(film)&diff=626765982&oldid=626730441 here].) Cnilep (talk) 00:58, 25 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Addendum: According to user warnings on their talk pages, both Pranshu25 and the IP address added promotional language to the now-deleted Verifxn. Pranshu25 also created the now-deleted Eon films, which may have been the same as Eon Films, created [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eon_Films&diff=625827635&oldid=550278691 altered] by Pranshukul. Cnilep (talk) 01:21, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

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Between the similar edit summaries, prose and editing topics, I'm convinced. Certainly meatpuppets if not true socks. Accounts blocked and tagged, IP for a 72 hours. thank you for your nicely presented evidence. Closing &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 03:08, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

30 December 2014

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Same weakly-sourced promotional edits about Eon Films and related projects. Username is an abbreviation of previous sock User:Amberkul, and Mbrkul has attempted to create an article about Pranshu Kulshrestha, a similar name to another sock, User:Pranshukul. McGeddon (talk) 10:39, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

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Indeffed and tagged based on duck. Also deleted three new articles created by sock per WP:CSD. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:42, 1 January 2015 (UTC)