Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ShantanuSingh198/Archive

Evidence submitted by Deli nk
All the editors are creating articles and editing in a promotional manner related to Taj Pharmaceuticals (Taj Agro India (listed at Articles for deletion/Taj Pharmaceuticals), Taj Pharmaceuticals (deleted twice G11, A1, currently at Articles for deletion/Taj Pharmaceuticals), Priyanka Singh (deleted Articles for deletion/Priyanka Singh, currently at Articles for deletion/Priyanka Singh (2nd nomination)), Taj Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (deleted twice G11), Taj agro (deleted A7), Taj pharmaceuticals company (deleted G11), Taj Api (proposed deletion). See Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive635 for additional details. Deli nk (talk) 17:18, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Related IPs include:

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
All of the named accounts are ✅ as being the same. I asked Deli nk to file this case so we can have an official record of the spammer. TN X Man 17:28, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Bullmedia9988 blocked and tagged. Tajapi reblocked with autoblock enabled and account creation blocked. Tajapi's tag updated.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 00:40, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Marking for close. TN X Man  14:03, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Deli nk
These users have continued the same spam campaign as the previous users blocked as confirmed socks. Two of them created pages (Taj Pharma and Taj agro international) about the same group of companies related to Taj Pharmaceuticals. User:Tajpharmagroup has a connection by name and by promotional activities on Commons. See User:Deli nk/Taj spam campaign for more details. Deli nk (talk) 12:34, 19 October 2010 (UTC) Deli nk (talk) 12:34, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Good catch. The following are ✅ as the same spammer: The last one, is obvious by name alone and did not turn up any sleepers. TN X Man 16:23, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked & tagged. Tiptoety  talk 18:37, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by January
Recreated Taj agro products January talk 13:19, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅, along with
 * TN X Man 14:08, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Tagged and blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Tagged and blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Deli nk
These two users have recreated articles about Taj Pharmaceuticals, a subject that has been the focus of a persistent and long-term spamming effort begun by the sockmaster User:ShantanuSingh198. The recent articles are Taj Pharmaceuticals india and Taj Agro. The user has a history of creating multiple sockpuppets at the same time, so using checkuser to find potential sleeper accounts might be useful (it has found multiple socks each of the previous SPIs). See User:Deli nk/Taj spam campaign for details about this long-term abuse. Deli nk (talk) 19:13, 13 November 2010 (UTC) Deli nk (talk) 19:13, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Seems after looking a both technical and behavioral evidence. I would argue socking on just behavioral evidence, though. –MuZemike 21:25, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, done. TN X Man  00:39, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

29 January 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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This user and the IPs appear to be continuing the persistent effort by Taj Pharmaceuticals to promote itself on Wikipedia. The bio, Ranvir Kumar Singh, created by Ranatalwar is about a person related to this company. The user has made no other contributions except those related to this bio and the AFD Articles for deletion/Ranvir Kumar Singh. The IPs are in the range used by previous confirmed sockpuppets and have only made edits related to Taj. See User:Deli nk/Taj spam campaign for details of this promotional effort. Deli nk (talk) 13:41, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
No comment on the IPs, but the user is a match. If I haven't already, I'd like to thank Deli.nk for keeping an eye out for this. TN X Man 18:06, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've indef'd the account. After a reviewed of the accounts in the archives, I'm pretty sure they're the same person based on behaviour and TNXMan's . The IPs are registered to a large educational institution so I'm inclined to leave them alone for fear of collateral damage. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   18:30, 29 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm with HJ on this. Closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 18:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

22 February 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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This account has contributions only within the space of 40 minutes. It is likely that this user is creating more accounts, like. — This, that, and the other (talk) 09:59, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Contributions of this user to the suspected puppeteer's userfied articles
 * This TfD.

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
This is actually ShantanuSingh198 and should be archived there. The three named accounts above are ✅ socks. TN X Man 15:59, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All have been blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:07, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

24 February 2011

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Re-created the deleted article Priyanka Singh. This is the same type of promotion related to Taj Pharmaceuticals that has been persistent and attributed to the many previous confirmed socks of ShantanuSingh198. See User:Deli nk/Taj spam campaign for details. Deli nk (talk) 13:38, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

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✅, no sleepers. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 14:07, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:24, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

10 August 2011

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Creator of Abhishek Kumar Singh, latest sockpuppet in spam campaign for Taj Pharmaceuticals. See also:
 * WP:Articles for deletion/Priyanka Singh
 * WP:Articles for deletion/Priyanka Singh (2nd nomination)
 * WP:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive635 Gurt Posh (talk) 21:52, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged per WP:DUCK. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:36, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

16 February 2012

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These users have created articles related to Taj Pharmaceuticals in a pattern that is consistent with the long history of promotional activities via prolific sockpuppetry outlined at User:Deli nk/Taj spam campaign. As indicated by the archives of this SPI, this user has a history of creating multiple sockpuppets at the same time, so using checkuser to find additional sleeper accounts might be useful. Deli nk (talk) 22:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * - The master and their socks are stale, but we can see if these accounts are all the same. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ the following are the same:
 * IPs blocked. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  13:51, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. The SPI script was sure useful in this case. NativeForeigner Talk 20:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * IPs blocked. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  13:51, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. The SPI script was sure useful in this case. NativeForeigner Talk 20:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * IPs blocked. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  13:51, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. The SPI script was sure useful in this case. NativeForeigner Talk 20:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * IPs blocked. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  13:51, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. The SPI script was sure useful in this case. NativeForeigner Talk 20:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * IPs blocked. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  13:51, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. The SPI script was sure useful in this case. NativeForeigner Talk 20:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * IPs blocked. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  13:51, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. The SPI script was sure useful in this case. NativeForeigner Talk 20:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. The SPI script was sure useful in this case. NativeForeigner Talk 20:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

12 April 2012

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This user has started editing related to Taj Pharmaceuticals (see User:Gyroonce grocery/Taj Pharma) in a pattern that is consistent with the long history of promotional activities via prolific sockpuppetry outlined at User:Deli nk/Taj spam campaign. As indicated by the archives of this SPI, this user has repeatedly used multiple sockpuppets at the same time, so using checkuser to find additional sleeper accounts might be useful. Deli nk (talk) 18:04, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
No other accounts found. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:26, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Update -this account is the same as accounts in the archive.  TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  19:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:08, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

12 June 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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This user has started editing related to Taj Pharmaceuticals (see User:Ananya bath/Taj pharmaceuticals and User talk:Ananya bath/Taj pharmaceuticals ) in a pattern that is consistent with the long history of promotional activities via prolific sockpuppetry outlined at User:Deli nk/Taj spam campaign. Other editing behavior is the same: the user's first edits to their user pages are essentially the same as previous sockpuppets (, for example). As indicated by the archives of this SPI, this user has repeatedly used multiple sockpuppets at the same time, so using checkuser to find additional sleeper accounts might be useful. Deli nk (talk) 20:44, 12 June 2012 (UTC) Deli nk (talk) 20:44, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I wasn't convinced by the plea here that they were completely neutral regarding this article. <b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b> 23:21, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * - to look for sleeper accounts given the history of socking here. <b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b>  23:13, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I have looked at the editing history of Ananya bath and of several established sockpuppets. It is a complete DUCK, so I have indef-blocked Ananya bath. A CU for sleepers is still needed, though. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:18, 14 June 2012 (UTC)


 * The following are ✅ socks of one another and socks of :


 * . Tiptoety  talk 19:27, 14 June 2012 (UTC)