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12 November 2014

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The IDs have very similar names, and both editors have a partilcuar interest in Rajesultanpur and related articles. Their editting patterns are similar showing editting competence issues with mismatched brackets, ambiguous wikilinks (, , and image copyright issues (,. Whpq (talk) 12:41, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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Sock indeffed, master blocked one month.  Mini  apolis  23:42, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

22 April 2015

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has the same interest in Rajesultanpur as the other accounts, and exhibits similar editing competence issues. He cuts of large gobs of text mid-sentence just like Prashantpking did. He has engaged in adding photos of other parts of the world and claiming it as his own work and purporting it to be photos of Rajesultanpur. This image addition was from a file uploaded to Commons. See. Prashantpking did the same with File:Rajesultanpurcity.jpg and File:Korte rajesultanpur.jpg. And on common, this editor has uploaded File:Prashantpking2.jpg which has an obvious naming connection. Whpq (talk) 19:36, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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 * uploaded File:प्रशान्त पाण्डेय.jpg which is used on w:hi:सदस्य:प्रशान्त पाण्डेय (translates as "Prashant Pandey"). What "other accounts" are you talking about?  Vanjagenije   (talk)  21:36, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * My apologies for the ambiguity. I was referring to the name similarity to the sockpuppet accounts from the first investigation:, and  -- Whpq (talk) 12:00, 23 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I was tired yestersay, and I made a mistake here, CheckUser can't help, two older accounts are . Anyway, I'd say this is not a case of sockpuppetry, because the two older accounts ( and ) were both abandoned before was registered. They do belong to the same person, that's not in doubt, but multiple accounts were not used abusively. Closing. Vanjagenije   (talk)  17:18, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Even with the blocks on previous accounts and hoax activity? -- Whpq (talk) 20:51, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * is not blocked.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:04, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

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See the alleged master's MapmyIndia: The alleged sock is an SPA for this article (first edit 5 minutes after creation) - removing notability tag, removing AFD tag. Since promotional editors frequently have multiple accounts going at once, I think CU may be a good idea, but I'll leave that up to another clerk. Thanks, GABgab 14:34, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare to the master.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:57, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ❌, or, at best. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:32, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Marking as closed unless thinks the behavioural evidence is strong enough alone? Mkdw  talk  21:21, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

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Creation of multiple hoax television stations. User:प्रशान्त पाण्डेय and his various alts keep creating fake television channels particularly of the Zee Network. They have been at it since 2014. All of them leave "Fixed grammar" edit summaries. Here it's Prashantpking, and then Rajesultanpur.

All the alts obsessively edit a place called Rajesultanpur.
 * Prashantpking editing it https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajesultanpur&diff=744434646&oldid=744103154
 * Rajesultanpur editing it https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajesultanpur&diff=prev&oldid=736750389 . Xzinger (talk) 05:50, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

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User:Prashantpandeyking is already tagged and blocked as a sockpuppet. Aside from the topic interest overlap, user:Rajesultanpur also shares similar incompetence with respect to editting articles. Both accounts have botched edits by removing removing large chunks of content. See and  for example. -- Whpq (talk) 00:22, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * Since the accounts which have edited (relatively) recently are blocked, I don't see anything left to do here. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:13, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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Creation if this article [] which seems to be a recreation of this article []. Which is an odd thing to do for a separate account.Slatersteven (talk) 16:51, 23 November 2017 (UTC) Slatersteven (talk) 16:51, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * I came here to report the same suspicious activity. The Boing India article was created by copying the Boing (Spain) article and (incompetently) modified leaving behind stuff related to the Spanish channel.  This is the exact same behaviour as Prashantpking in creating the Boing India article as discussed at Articles for deletion/Boing (India). -- Whpq (talk) 19:16, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please confirm the similarities between the two versions of Boing (India) and Boing (Spain) as described above. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:10, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Articles created by Bxgsvzjfzhxzcb and the master are almost identical. Blocked and tagged. CLosing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:03, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

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Keeps adding a long list of television stations to the article even after being told not to do so by multiple editors.
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Removal of channel list by other editors 1 2 3

Previously User:Rajesultanpur, a blocked sock puppet used to do the same thing to mess up that article.
 * 1 Xzinger (talk) 04:36, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Update - User:Cuty Pie Sweetu deleted entire sections of the page and then left an nasty message on my user page. I guess he is not here to contribute.--Xzinger (talk) 14:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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Although the topic interest is the same, the behaviour is not. None of the Prashantpking socks engaged in personal attacks or ever communicated much on talk pages. --Whpq (talk) 17:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * Does not appear related. &mdash; Coffee //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 15:07, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Checkuser note: No apparent connection between these two accounts. This may be archived. Risker (talk) 04:49, 1 January 2018 (UTC)