Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Saishna96/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Mr.shaikmeer was blocked on February 5th and the account Nss999 was created on March 9th. Mr.shaikmeer created Dwaraka Creations and Nss999 continued editing it in a similar manner. Nss999 also created Draft:Sreshth Movies, a similar topic written in a very similar style to Dwaraka Creations. These two pages makeup the majority of each account's contributions. –– Formal Dude  (talk)  04:07, 23 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Pinging, this is related to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Cricket Butterfly. Sorry I filed it incorrectly. –– Formal Dude  (talk)  03:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Nss999 indef'd by . –– Formal Dude  (talk)  02:31, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Moved under correct master. Closing. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:06, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

Pulmowrites requesting reviews in the same manner as previous sock, for the same type of South Indian films. Both users use two before their signature. Please check 1 and 2. – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:29, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * OK, and  are both pretty much confirmed to,  and . I was also able to connect them to the old account . I'm not seeing connections to other accounts listed at this case - I can't rule out a connection, but if there is one it's behavioural rather than technical. I'm going to tag these as connected to one another; it's possible that they should be split out into a separate case.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:59, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * - OK, I've tagged all the accounts I've confirmed to one another, with shown as the master as the oldest account. (See also the comments I made in the 5 February report.) Please consider splitting these accounts off into a separate case:
 * Thanks, Girth Summit  (blether)  12:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Section-moved this to under the correct master. Closing. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Girth Summit  (blether)  12:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Section-moved this to under the correct master. Closing. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Girth Summit  (blether)  12:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Section-moved this to under the correct master. Closing. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Girth Summit  (blether)  12:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Section-moved this to under the correct master. Closing. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Girth Summit  (blether)  12:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Section-moved this to under the correct master. Closing. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Section-moved this to under the correct master. Closing. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
ShamiBeldee was registered shortly after the master and other sock accounts were blocked. Their first edit was to add to their user page, and based on this disclosure, off-wiki evidence suggests a connection with the master, and I'm happy to share those details privately. SB then created Draft:Shruti Reddy, which user Rsjaffe tagged with paid contributions. After a few hours, user Serious Modi became active and moved the draft to the main namespace and. SM earlier moved another undisclosed paid article, draft:Wooden Street, to the main namespace after it was created by user Harin212 who was registered just two days after SM. This PR company seems to be quite active in paid editing, so I'm requesting CU based on the previous findings. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 10:35, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Pinging from Conflict of interest/Noticeboard in case they want to add anything here. <span style="font-family:monospace;font-weight:bold;font-size:16px;color:hsl(205, 98%, 55%);">GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 14:07, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I added User:1 too 10 to this investigation. See above. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this comment. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 17:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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In my review of the behavior involved, I felt that I was seeing 1) in Serious Modi, a "new" user who was anything but new, and 2) a paid editor ring managed by Serious Modi. I cannot comment on sockpuppet/block evasion concerns about users other than Serious Modi, as I am not privy to the off-wikipedia evidence. However, if there is concern that many of the accounts in the paid editor ring are sockpuppets instead of meatpuppets, then it may be useful to review all the users whose pages Serious Modi moved to mainspace. I am not listing them here though I can if requested. A perusal of Serious Modi's edit history will also readily produce the list. One of the users whose page was promoted by Serious Modi was Imran of Pakistan, who is already blocked for abusing multiple accounts. — <b style="font-family:Papyrus;color:DarkSlateGrey;">rsjaffe</b> 🗣️ 19:39, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The four accounts listed above plus and  are ✅ to each other and the master.  Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:37, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * per below. Ponyo bons mots 16:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged. Noting for the record.-- Ponyo bons mots 16:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Recreating the same spammy article, Draft:S S Karthikeya which was previously deleted as Draft:S. S. Karthikeya, there created by confirmed sock,. Self-endorsed, wanting a sleeper check. Yamla (talk) 13:24, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅, no new sleeper accounts at this time. --Yamla (talk) 13:26, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

Draft:S. S. Karthikeya is, almost entirely, copied and pasted from the G5'ed S. S. Karthikeya created by a prior sock. Thanks to for pointing this out. Yamla (talk) 16:28, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to, a different sockmaster:


 * Looking at Sockpuppet investigations/Saishna96/Archive, Cricket Butterfly came up over there, but on first glance, appears to be a separate sock farm. I suppose this report raises additional suspicions they may be the same underlying sockmaster, but the CU evidence doesn't support that at this time. Whatever. I'll tag and block this new one. Presumably that means this whole report should be moved over to there? If so, could you please do so? :) --Yamla (talk) 16:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 10:25, 31 May 2024 (UTC)