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User:Rukkumani Rukku re-created the page Aranmanai 3 with exactly same content which was previously created by User:Sathish Kathiravan and moved into the draft as per COI. Draft:Aranmanai 3 (film) and Draft:Aranmanai 3. GermanKity (talk) 09:53, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Bbb23 (talk) 13:10, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:11, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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The user account is created few hours after the sockmaster is blocked. The sockpuppet is involved in the articles edited by the sockmaster.

Uploaded the same image without a license to commons sockmaster: Special:Diff/1022479415 sockpuppet: Special:Diff/1026247007 -- DaxServer (talk) 12:04, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅., closing. Mz7 (talk) 20:57, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

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This account adds images to infoboxes. The copyvio images were added by blocked sock (not blocked on commons). The copyvio images were previously added by sock and sockmaster and removed for copyvio. This account is created right after the last sock is blocked.

The last sock (Rakshitha Vandana) uploaded the images in commons and this account added them to here. -- DaxServer (talk) 14:15, 8 June 2021 (UTC)


 * The CheckUser on commons has confirmed (link) -- DaxServer (talk) 15:50, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

The edit by this account on another suspected SP account's user page Special:Diff/1027375796 is a clear indication. The accounts edit [almost] the same pages. If ample time is given, the overlap of pages edited would only increase. -- DaxServer (talk) 14:28, 8 June 2021 (UTC)


 * The CheckUser on commons has confirmed (link) -- DaxServer (talk) 15:50, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

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Uploads the same images on Commons as other socks, Shabana Sheriff adds them here -- DaxServer (talk) 19:03, 14 June 2021 (UTC)


 * The CheckUser on commons has confirmed (link) -- DaxServer (talk) 19:38, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging account. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

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This account edits similar pages as the other socks, like Madonna Sebastian, Aranmanai 3 (protected, thus an edit request). Similar name as the sock "Rukkumani Rukku", the first name is a spelling variant. -- DaxServer (talk) 17:49, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging sock account. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:12, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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Created a few hours after the last sock's block, this sock also edits the same articles. -- DaxServer (talk) 18:58, 23 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Looking at the history of Sananth, Kolamavu Kokila, Kashmira Pardeshi, Ramya Pandian, Nakshathra Nagesh, Sakshi Agarwal, Arya (actor), Andrea Jeremiah, I now have deep suspicions whether Sathish Kathiravan is a sockpuppet of User:TamilMirchi afterall? SK and the its socks edit primarily Tamil related movies/actors/actresses. So does TamilMirchi. The above articles are edited by Pooja Ramkumar sock. I haven't checked articles edited by other socks of SK and cross-compared if TamilMirchi has edits. -- DaxServer (talk) 19:25, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. . We have a lot of sockmasters interested in Indian topics, so it's unsurprising that there might be certain coincidental similarities between two unrelated ones. In this case, I don't think we need to merge with the TamilMirchi case, especially since that case appears to be dormant for half a year now. Closing. Mz7 (talk) 18:35, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

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Edits on the same line of interests and seems particularly interested in Aranmanai 3 and Rashmika Mandanna as other socks. -- DaxServer (talk) 10:29, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * We need more than just "an IP is interested in the same articles" to seriously consider a socking investigation. I see some IP edits on the articles you mention, but nobody's even reverted them so I have to assume they were OK edits.  In any case, this looks like a very wide dynamic range, so blocking wouldn't be feasible.  If bad IP edits persist, I would suggest asking at WP:RFPP for semi-protection, and cite this SPI in the request. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:32, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

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Interested in the same articles -- DaxServer (talk) 16:42, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * See 30 June 2021 -- RoySmith (talk) 17:33, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

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This user is as well in the same interest group of Tamil films and actors/actresses. All the edits to Raashi Khanna article were reverted. -- DaxServer (talk) 08:43, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging sock account. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:19, 9 July 2021 (UTC)