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WP:DUCK. Similar account names. Both accounts are recent. Both !voted at Articles_for_deletion/Pavithra_Lakshmi. Both accounts edited Pavithra Lakshmi. Both have edited various Bigg Boss articles. --- Possibly (talk) 17:42, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, I know CU's cannot publicly comment on IPs, but 58.108.86.194 has the same editing interests.--- Possibly (talk) 07:38, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Also adding 175.38.40.69, which has been active at the Lakshmi AfD. The two IPs have short edit histories, but five pages in common that they have edited, and geolocate as the same city, same ISP.--- Possibly (talk) 16:47, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * Both joined almost around same time ago and similiar names. The sock came in this AFD to vote stack and the sock master also came after few hours to vote as keep. Both voted in same style. They did no signed and just simply said the subject is passing GNG Kichu🐘 Need any help? 07:14, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * that makes two AfDs (see the one filed above) where they are playing buddy buddy and also obfuscating their signatures so that it's not immediately evident who is voting. --- Possibly (talk) 07:21, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * , I already had plan to open an SPI. But I got busy in real life, took a break and entierly forget about these two. I am a regular patrollar at India related AFD discussions and this came to my attention. So I wasted no time and opened the SPI immediately. These two are also continuosly creating promotional articles and play buddy buddy in AFD's like you said. So its sure from these evidences that both accounts share the same chair or coudl be doing meatpuppetry. Kichu🐘 Need any help? 07:28, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * At a minimum, it's obvious meat-puppetry that's happening here.  Ravensfire  (talk) 14:53, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * The IPs match Sockpuppet_investigations/Srinesh.saravanan/Archive. Given the topic and history, it's 99% meat/socking, at least from IPs. — HELL KNOWZ   ▎TALK 10:08, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * Merged duplicate filing. Blablubbs&#124;talk 09:01, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * – obvious, but I suspect there's more to this; this farm has created pages with maintenance tag timestamps from 2019 and 2020, which makes me think "recreation", and there's some more general weirdness in the topic area and surrounding these AfDs. The IP is clearly related as well and rather static, which makes me hopeful that CU might be able to find more accounts. Best, Blablubbs&#124;talk 09:12, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. . .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:22, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * accounts, 194 IP, 175.38.40.69 left unblocked due to age. Closing.  The SandDoctor  Talk 18:36, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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Biggfoot23 was created shortly after the last round of sock blocks and has been creating articles based on the activities of questionably notable Indian reality show contestants in the manner of previous socks. 58.108.86.194, already previously blocked under this master, then proceeded to make substantial edits to these articles. 49.196.31.1's sole activity has been to remove PROD and AfD tags from these articles. --Finngall talk 00:43, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Comment - The 58.108.86.194 IP was blocked once already as a sock, probably needs a longer one as the IP seems static-ish. I suspect Would someone also mind putting Mugen Rao and Dharsha Gupta under semi-protection, those seem to be their most common articles to edit.  Ravensfire  (talk) 02:35, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging sock account. .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:43, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Gone ahead and closed this, seems all that needed to be done was done - TNT 💞 01:00, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

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Recreated Kaavya Arivumani almost immediately after it had been G5 speedied as a creation of Biggfoot23 above. Related but separate question: In my poking around I noticed quite a bit of similarity between these accounts and IPs and the sockfarm documented at Sockpuppet investigations/Srinesh.saravanan--could they be connected? Thank you. --Finngall talk 04:37, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, this is interesting...Special fans Editz has now recreated Divya Ganesh, which was an article that had attracted my attention a year ago as part of an entirely different SPI: Sockpuppet investigations/Sivagopalakrishnan/Archive.  (The advantages of keeping old deleted titles on my watchlist...)  Probably too far back to make a definitive connection, but it make me wonder what other connections might crop up. --Finngall talk  04:59, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Update: Special fans Editz was sockblocked, per a report in yet another SPI: Sockpuppet investigations/Giriprasad Damodar 02. Do I need to break out a bulletin board, thumbtacks and yarn to chart everything?  --Finngall talk  20:33, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * @Finngall I'm working through the long queue of old cases. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the thumbtacks and yarn analogy, could you clarify? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:03, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I was referring to a trope in various shows where people and events are charted and connected on a bulletin board, usually referring to criminal investigations (stock photo example) or conspiracy theories (as memed here). --<b style="color: green;">Finngall</b> <sup style="color: #D4A017;">talk  16:30, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm familiar with that concept. What I'm trying to figure out is how it applies here. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:32, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * There's possible connections between this sockfarm and at least two or three other SPIs as mentioned above--that's all I was trying to get across. --<b style="color: green;">Finngall</b> <sup style="color: #D4A017;">talk  16:50, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

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Re IPs, as I mentioned before, the IP ranges were confirmed to Srinesh.saravanan. It's "them" as in the same meat/sockfarm "enterprise". I reported quiet a few before, but I don't have as much time to sift through their endless socks. — HELL KNOWZ   ▎TALK 09:57, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Already locked; closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:50, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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Recreated Karthika Agathiyan which was heavily edited by Romil.Choudary and socks, including IP socks. The overlap between Powerstar2020 and the 58.108 IP (who has been blocked as a Choudary sock) is significant. I mentioned this in a comment on a prior report, but I would request that the IP (58.108.86.194) be blocked further as a Choudary sock based on behavior, they edit in lock-step with the named accounts.  Ravensfire  (talk) 14:23, 19 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I've added two additional IP's here. 49.196 is referenced in the editor interaction report already, the 175.38 IP has recently taken over for the other IP's. They all geolocate to the same place with the same ISP.  As HELLKNOWZ noted above, this has every impression of a paid editing group.  Ravensfire  (talk) 13:14, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I won't be too suprised if this is another group of socks.  They just recreated this page which was original from a GD02 sock.  Ravensfire  (talk) 14:06, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to the master: Powerstar2020,, , . . . Requesting locks. Closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:52, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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User:Powerstar2020 re-created a page Som Shekar that was deleted as per deletion discussion. This ip address ( 175.38.111.56) instantly removed Deletion tag that i marked as G4. Please check contributions of both that match eaxactly on each page.

175.38.111.56 Powerstar2020 GermanKity (talk) 06:49, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * Resolved by the above case. Closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:53, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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This editor created Pugazh (actor) and Sockpuppet Powerstar2020 created Draft:Pugazh (actor). Editiors has been blocked for disruptive editing but it's been a while since there has been a checkuser check on this sockpuppeteer and I have the feeling that more sockpuppets have been created since the last were blocked. I understand if you decline this request but I thought we might catch some sockpuppets earlier, rather than later. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:38, 24 December 2021 (UTC) Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:38, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 02:52, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Everything is stale. There's a little bit of data in the logs and cuwiki, all of which says Editiors is ❌ to Romil.Choudary. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:59, 25 December 2021 (UTC)