Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ranjan Mistry/Archive

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Arun1409cv is already blocked as sock (just added for documentation). Continued self-promotion by Ranjit18, see Draft:Ranjanmistry and other India-related articles. Also seamless re-usage of Arun1409cv's Commons uploads for promotional edits. Obvious duck. GermanJoe (talk) 14:12, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 19:03, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

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Strong topical overlap. Another single-purpose account to promote Ranjan Mistry, his company Campus Varta and his various activities in the Bihar startup scene. See the large list of rejected and speedily deleted articles in this topic area on the user's talkpage. As most of the drafts and promo articles have been deleted, it is difficult to provide example diffs, but afaik all of them contain promotional content about this businessman and his activities. An obvious duck with the same self-promotional edit pattern and topical interests. GermanJoe (talk) 20:12, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

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✅ plus. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:00, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

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All of the accounts are working on Draft:Ranjan mistry and involved in promoting subject. Blatantly SPA, no other contributions outside this area. Needs to be checked and blocked.  Harshil want to talk? 08:15, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * All three accounts are ✅ to each other and are to Sockpuppet investigations/Ranjan Mistry. .  Please move this case to Sockpuppet investigations/Ranjan Mistry. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 08:26, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved. Closing. The SandDoctor  Talk 09:31, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Strong topical overlap at Patna University, the same promotional nonsense for local startups and himself, based on advertorials, has been removed several times in the past. Incidentally Draft:Bihar Entrepreneurs Association is about an organization that Mistry is deeply involved with and promoting online in various PR articles and interviews. Also, see a previous sock named Komalgupta67848 for a similar username. It seems duck-ish enough for an immediate block, but I am somewhat too involved in the past dispute about this self-promotional editing. GermanJoe (talk) 08:17, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

, thank you for the advice. I have blocked the user as an obvious/very likely sock, this is a recurring problem and especially the edit in Patna University is almost identical in phrasing and source usage. GermanJoe (talk) 07:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * - No non- editors to check against. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 14:16, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * , if you are confident enough that this is the same person, you can block on behaviour without filing an SPI and without CheckUser. You can always file an SPI for the record if you want, but as an administrator, if you believe the evidence is strong enough, you are free to block at your discretion. Let me know how you want to proceed. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:52, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * , sounds good to me. I’ll tag as a suspected sock (you can too if you want in the future, but also not strictly necessary.) thanks for your help here at SPI. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 07:48, 21 March 2020 (UTC)