Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RadheSlate/Archive

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So, this feels fairly ducky, but if this is UPE and if they're resorting to multiple accounts, it's possible there are others out there. Looking at the edit history of the Faisal Saif article prior to 2016, it's a massive wall of sockpuppets. And looking at some of the older accounts, I think this editor has been disallowed from editing here since 2012 or so. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:56, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * CursedSoulFromIndia and RadheSlate have numerous intersections. Among those intersections, there are distributional similarities as well, ex: both are heavily interested in Faisal Saif and Kavita Radheshyam, and Islamic Exorcist and Ullu App, making many edits to those articles.
 * Faisal Saif is a director in India's Kannada-language film industry, and is known mostly for horror films. Kavita Radheshyam has appeared in many of his films. Islamic Exorcist is one of his films and yes, she stars in it. Two of Radheshyam's films have been released on the Ullu App. Obviously, there is an underlying theme here, and it has the aroma of UPE. It would be an exceptional coincidence for two people to be interested largely in Kannada-language horror, a specific director and actor from this genre, and the app where some of the actor's films can be seen.
 * RadheSlate's user page declares "I am also a Journalist and Publicist on freelance basis." Publicist, eh? Like someone who gets paid to promote stuff? And Journalist? Here CursedSoulFromIndia describes themself as a journalist.
 * Both editors commented at Articles for deletion/Sandalwood Cinema, which would be indicative of bad faith editing if they are the same person.
 * And the coup de grace is the following: RadheSlate created Draft:Ashuddhi. I commented on the quality of the references supplied (or lack thereof) and since then, RadheSlate and I have been going back and forth. But out of the blue, CursedSoulFromIndia comes out of a five month hiatus to vote for the article to be kept. Then, a three-day-old account, ShaheenGowda, also decides to chime in.

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 * ✅ They are all each other: blocked, not tagged. Ran CU on the range but found no others. Drmies (talk) 22:55, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks . I made a mistake; RadheSlate appears to be the older account, created on 31 December 2015. CursedSoulFromIndia is much younger, having been created a day later on 1 January 2016. please file under RadheSlate. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:47, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Cyphoidbomb, CU myopia: looking at CU data rather than all the other stuff. Thanks, and thanks to the clerk, Drmies (talk) 00:45, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Case moved from CursedSoulFromIndia to RadheSlate. Tagged —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:04, 7 February 2021 (UTC)