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13 October 2015

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I am not privy to the contribution record of ChristineMarkeeWriter because I am not an admin. I found this user id by following the trail from the contribution log of User: Rajesh-barclays whose block log refers to this user id. Since they are substantially blocked already I have no idea whether it serves any purpose to add them to this list, so have not done so.

Each account and IP whose contributions I can see seem to have a profound interest in the Jain family with Draft:Smita Nair Jain, Abigail Jain, Draft:Rajiv Jain, and all matters Jain.

I am lodging this here so that those better qualified than I can make a judgement Fiddle   Faddle  11:29, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * With the exception of AbigailJain1992, these accounts plus others were CU-blocked by . I will list them for the record, but mostly all that needs to be done with them is tagging or adjustment of tags.
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the master:
 * I've CU-blocked the two master-possible accounts but without tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I also blocked the IP for 48 hours.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the master:
 * I've CU-blocked the two master-possible accounts but without tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I also blocked the IP for 48 hours.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've CU-blocked the two master-possible accounts but without tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I also blocked the IP for 48 hours.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've CU-blocked the two master-possible accounts but without tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I also blocked the IP for 48 hours.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

13 October 2015

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Popped up far too quickly after the SPI just closed with various blocks to be anything other than a sock puppet (0.9 probability). Pinging who handled the last report in case they wish to take this one on as well.

Sole edits in the Jain area yet again. Check User at your discretion. It may be required since this may be a growing sock drawer. Or I may be mistaken and this may be a coincidence. Fiddle  Faddle  15:59, 13 October 2015 (UTC)


 * While I am not sure that this is evidence, please see User talk:Abigail Jain1992 where the editor of this name makes an impassioned plea. Something is going on here. Determining with precision what that is, that is another matter. Fiddle   Faddle  16:37, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * Technically, is ❌ or . I'm convinced behaviorally that it's a sock, but the account can't be blocked on the present technical data.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:13, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

17 October 2015

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This editor is already blocked as an identified sock puppet. I am filing this report solely for completeness, that others may see the issue the more clearly when chasing down the edits made by this sock farm

No obvious administrative action is required here, save for archiving this report with the remainder Fiddle   Faddle  15:44, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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This guy caught my attention because of...
 * Genuine films
 * ...these edits where he was trying to elevate Rajiv Jain, a second unit photographer for the film linked, to the same prominence as the film's primary cinematographer in the infobox.
 * As I poked through more of his edits, I found a number of similar edits all involving either the addition of Rajiv Jain to articles or manipulations to wikilinks around his name, or parentheticals like "Additional cinematography" nearby.
 * Genuine films admits to being a film cinematographer. "I am an Indian Cinematographer, I am native of 24 parganas in West Bengal and an alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, where I have studied 2012-2015." West Bengal is mid-east India, but Pune is in the southwestern state of Maharashtra.
 * As I poked through more of Genuine films' stuff, I found a number of crossed-out users, like...
 * VishwanathanNair
 * in this edit history. VishwanathanNair is a CU-confirmed sock of Rajesh, and made edits like this. Or more telling these where he keeps toying with the non-existent "additional_cinematographer" parameter, trying in futility to get it to work. And yes, it involves Rajiv Jain.
 * When VishwanathanNair uses references, he tends to rely on IMDb, as does Genuine.
 * Rajesh-barclays
 * When I look at Rajesh-barclays, I find Rajesh Jain-related stuff here, here, and here.
 * Misc
 * for good measure, an interaction analyzer, with significant intersections between Genuine films and VishwanathanNair, with the distance between their edits almost the same across all the articles, 351-353 days. Has the appearance of starting up a campaign after going dormant.
 * Going through the archive, I notice previous interest in "all matters Jain".
 * Looking at the article on Rajiv Jain, I notice that it's been created numerous times, first in 2006, then 2009, and then a few times in 2013. In Genuine films' user page statement, he says he was a student between 2012-2015, which is when most of the Rajiv Jain disruption seems to have occurred. He may not be Rajiv himself. Maybe there's some other relationship. (Teacher/student? Relative?)
 * The first creation of Rajiv Jain was by, who I assume is Rajiv himself. That could be the sockmaster, but I'm not positive. He seems to be into lasers, where the others aren't. The second time the Rajiv Jain article was created was by Maniksh, who was a sock of Wanurikahiu (extensive history of disruption from that guy). That could be the actual sockmaster here. I mean one of his CU-confirmed socks is . At the Rajiv Jain article I also saw a lot of IPs from 203.192.* and 203.194.* These geolocate to the southwestern Indian state of Maharashtra, ISP: In2Cable. That's consistent with Genuine films' time in Pune.
 * I also found Rajeev Jain (different spelling) which was created as far back as 2005, and salted in 2008. Same sordid history, including edits by Wanurikahiu. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:34, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the following accounts as ✅ socks from each other:


 * Given the obvious abuse of multiple accounts and promotional activity at a overlapping articles (e.g. Rajiv Jain, The Wishing Tree (2016)), it's not a leap to connect them to the Rajesh-barclays group. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:32, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)