Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rabindranath 01/Archive

19 January 2016

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The master account has been repeatedly creating an article (possibly autobiographical) about an 18-year-old marketer/SEO person, and sourcing it with newspaper articles that are very obviously about another person with the same first name. Admins can see the deleted Talk:Amardeep Tiwana. The article has been recreated again as Amardeep Singh Tiwana, and now the other three accounts have shown up; they are also SPAs with a few edits each to that article. GodDav1 has removed the speedy deletion tag from the article; both GodDav1 and Auragod (and an IP) have added the SEO guy's Twitter account to the article:,. I think the behavioural evidence is rather strong, but if there are three socks there could be more. bonadea contributions talk 12:15, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * Rabindranath 01 and GodDav1 are ✅.
 * Satyavaan1 and Auragod are ✅ and to the master.  If they're not the same person as the master, they are definitely meat.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:49, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

21 January 2016

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Identical MO: created Amardeep Singh and a draft version as well, both of them identical to the deleted articles. bonadea contributions talk 06:38, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Adding User:Sheoran29 who was created in order to create Talk:Amardeep Singh with a request to delete the article, a few minutes after DharmIND12 had placed a G7 deletion request on the article itself. This is also the same MO as previous socks, though I have no diffs to offer since those articles have been deleted. --bonadea contributions talk 10:03, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

And now User:Royyo03, who created Draft:Amardeep Singh, identical to all the other versions. --bonadea contributions talk 19:42, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ...and now a new version of Amardeep Singh, which is openly contradictory. I have no idea what this guy thinks he's doing - it's getting to be rather disruptive. --bonadea contributions talk 08:45, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * already blocked two accounts under WP:DUCK. I've blocked the last one as another WP:DUCK. Closing. Mkdw talk 18:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

25 January 2016

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WP:DUCK: recreated Draft:Amardeep Singh. bonadea contributions talk 07:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * A duck indeed, taking into account not only the re-creation of the same page, but also a striking similarity of edit-summary, so I have blocked BFFforEVER21. I also discovered and blocked an earlier account, namely, so perhaps a clerk could move this SPI to that name. (The account Roy012 was created on 17 December 2015, and Rabindranath 01 on 16 January 2016.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:28, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

28 January 2016

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Created Mr. Amardeep Tiwana which is sourced to a wiki where the same contradictory sources as in the many previous incarnations of the article on WP are used. bonadea contributions talk 08:32, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * Yet another duck, already blocked by Boing! said Zebedee, so I am closing this case. This person clearly has no idea how blatantly obvious his sockpuppetry is. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:06, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

31 January 2016

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Asking about how they can recreate Amardeep Tiwana here. If this is not a sock, it's certainly a meatpuppet, and it's interesting that they said "We want to create..." - that could just be a first-language interference thing, though. Their first edit was to create a page for the name Tiwana, which listed Amardeep T. bonadea contributions talk 11:55, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare him to the master and previous socks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 01:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:48, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

24 February 2016

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Duck quacking into a microphone. Recreated Amardeep Singh Tiwana, with the same misleading references as usual. I'm sure the Singaporean writer is not aware of his identity being used in an attempt to make a young marketer look more notable... bonadea contributions talk 08:05, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * . Blocked and tagged. BethNaught (talk) 12:53, 5 March 2016 (UTC)