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I am concerned that these three accounts are the same person. I observed this on Articles for deletion/Amrita Jash, where I actually thought the article was good and notable, but on advice from a Hindu Wikipedia editor (आर्यावर्त), realised that it was possibly created by a undisclosed paid editor, or someone with a conflict of interest, and that all the references were no good.

My concerns started based on the fact that all three accounts commented on the AfD in the same way (they all omitted the starting  when making a new comment) see diff 1, diff 2, diff 3 (also page history). And userpage 1, userpage 2, userpage 3 are remarkable similar, and have a little blue box on all of them that is not a common little blue box. Then this diff shows one user correctly the commenting time of one of the others, which is odd, and suggests it's the same person, correcting himself perhaps.

All three accounts have edited East Asian political journalism, Indian biographical, and Indian company articles, without any clear overlap, but definitely the same subject area, and all possibly with a conflict of interest or for pay.

Also looking at the global SUL contributions logs of these three accounts, they all make roughly the same proportion of edits to en.wikipedia, hi.wikipedia and wikidata, another fact which could indicate a connection.

I am requesting that one of your trained Checkuser operatives examines this, to see if my concerns are correct or not. Regards. Ilyina Olya Yakovna (talk) 11:01, 25 January 2018 (UTC) Ilyina Olya Yakovna (talk) 11:01, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

--Update. I added User:NaveenPatnekar since filing the above information, but the userpage is the same basic template, and the account has only edited Articles for deletion/Amrita Jash, seemingly with it's first edits on en.wikipedia. Other than that it has related edits on Wikidata. Ilyina Olya Yakovna (talk) 11:29, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

--note. More possible accounts. Based on the user-page design, use of the Template:User encyclopedist, and editing patterns. I checked everyone using that template and these were the only accounts that match behaviourally. Also see. Both accounts are inactive however.

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 * ✅ plus:
 * . Please move this case to Rahulogy, the oldest account.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:58, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:53, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please move this case to Rahulogy, the oldest account.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:58, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:53, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please move this case to Rahulogy, the oldest account.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:58, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:53, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please move this case to Rahulogy, the oldest account.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:58, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:53, 25 January 2018 (UTC)