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User Rupiah968 originally created Draft:Writer Shaunak Chakraborty, which was refused at AFC, they then went onto create Shaunak Chakraborty, which has been subsequently tagged for AfD. Their last edit being 0:37, 27 September 2018. A new user Johnubh has almost immediately started editing the same article at 1:52, 27 September 2018. Based on the type and nature of their respective edits they would appear to be one and the same editor. Dan arndt (talk) 03:54, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


 * An anonymous user,, has added similar styled edits to Shaunak Chakraborty but more of an issue also made almost identical keep comments in AfD, presumably to add weight to sockmaster’s arguement by implying there is more support for its retention. No other edits apart from this topic. Dan arndt (talk) 13:54, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Another potential sockpuppet,, has been created effectively to add numbers to the sockmaster’s arguments in the AfD discussion. Dan arndt (talk) 22:57, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Looks like another case of undisclosed paid editing (see also Draft:Mr. Majumdar's Mysteries Weekends and Draft:RHA Jodhpur). for the named accounts only. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:54, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ + . . Please move case to Annoimot.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:55, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. The IPs have not edited in several days. Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:26, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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. Urdu version Gyaanipedia (ur:جیانپیڈیا) was created by and English version by Kumar Nadim. — Bukhari    (Talk!)   12:36, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ plus User:Rupa Banerjee. All four are now blocked. Can a clerk figure out which of the four is oldest, and move the case if needed? Thanks in advance.  Courcelles (talk) 20:07, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Shaunak Chakraborty is the oldest, no need to move. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:38, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

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New account whose only edit outside of its user space was to vote at Articles for deletion/Gyaanipedia, and the account used the same words "Hello friends" on its user page intro as confirmed sockpuppet User:रकसीत. I'd say this is a case of WP:DUCK. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 15:12, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * Quack, quack. No sleepers.  Blocked. Courcelles (talk) 15:59, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed Courcelles (talk) 16:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

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Editing in same area as of master. Also created page about Shaunak Chakraborty on hi.wikiquote and gomwiki. &#8208;&#8208;1997kB (talk) 09:05, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

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 * ✅ plus . Both ., blocked locally if you want to lock them both. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:27, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

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The sockmaster previously created an article, Shaunak Chakraborty, then when it was AfD created Draft:Shaunak Chakraborty, then moved it into the mainspace without any independent review. When a new AfD was lodged the sockpuppet has been defending the notability of the article. It should be noted that on the sockmaster’s user page it states “Hello friends, this is a user of a team, may be login from various IP addresses.” The only articles the sockmaster and puppet edit relate to Shaunak Chakraborty, in an attempt to bolster the article’s notability. Dan arndt (talk) 14:56, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment Yes, it's a team account that's why I am doing this weekend but I am requesting please don't block my IP address. I promise that I will not do it again. Thinking you Vijay Nirvijay (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:54, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * Master is already blocked, and the IP addresses are too old to block. If more show up, we can deal with them. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:08, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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This is related to Articles for deletion/New Theatre Calcutta and Articles for deletion/Shaunak Chakraborty (2nd nomination). The IP created the page Shaunak Chakraborty (as a draft) while the user actually published the draft. The userpage of the page also says "Hello friends, this is a user of a team, may be login from various IP addresses. Thank you Wikipedia." I think the IP and user could be the same person trying to create the article again. They could also be related to the previous users described above. Could someone please check if this is the case? Thank you.--DreamLinker (talk) 04:47, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


 * I realize these are probably pretty stale at this point but for the sake of G5ing it... see here and here. Praxidicae (talk) 12:35, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * The IPs are stale. Vijay Nirvijay and  —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:45, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * This is related to Sockpuppet investigations/Annoimot and Sockpuppet investigations/Vijay Nirvijay. I think those cases should be merged here. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:45, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:21, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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Likewise promotion as evident at commons:Special:Log/Shaunak_Chakraborty and elsewhere, this user came to seek undeletion of commons:Shaunak Chakraborty - and it also led me to commons:Special:Log/Naraaz - who also appeared to promote Shaunak's Gyaanipedia and stuff. More at commons:Special:Log/Pokai, and their interest with its promotion on wiki, see for instance, this request for interwiki link. Articles such as World Model United Nations. Elsewhere on Commons: commons: Category:Shaunak Chakraborty. Noting that commons:Shaunak Chakraborty was deleted several years ago, and was created twice by User:Shaunakchak and User:Shaunak Chakraborty (the master) ─ Aafī   (talk)  19:04, 25 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Also noting that, steward advised that filing a CU would be a good step in this case. ─  Aafī   (talk)  19:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Their username is also quite similar to another blocked sock: . ─ Aafī   (talk)  19:21, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * , this is what I was fearing for and why I didn't start an SPI straight forwardly (given an old advise of one active Commons CU at: commons:Special:Permalink/842822672). I personally believe the behavioral evidence makes the connection obvious and a CU check might be unwarranted in my own opinion. However, a stewards call and I initiated the SPI but I don't think we have any recent data to which we can technically match the new users or find more sleepers, but the behavioral check makes it a clear Duck case. The master had a self-promotion job and these acccounts haven't been caught so far, and have however been engaged in the same task. My interest in this sockfarm is just a result of commons:Special:Permalink/863453701. ─ Aafī   (talk)  06:16, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * affirms that they are Shaunak, so that should be also a confirmed sock, rather than a suspected one. The new Pokai's edit here (added my image) - commons:File:User Kitaab Ka Kida.jpg is also a selfie of Shaunak. ─ Aafī   (talk)  16:51, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I was going through your remarks which is completely based on suspicion, by these words which I can understand that according to your logic anybody who will add any form of content related to Shaunak Chakraborty will be sock puppet of him. I saw you have again and again mentioned Pokai Shubho, please think logically can someone could be so foolish that he/she can create(in my case it's renamed) an account which is very closed to a banned account, if I would have aware about this earlier, I would have never renamed to Pokai. You also mentioned about Gyaanipedia stuffs, let me clear I'm somehow close to it, if it's required to prove myself innocent I will also declare what kind of closeness I have in future. User:Naraaz is my secondary account, actually when I created an account here via mobile, as I remember after a fews months I was trying to login my account in one of my PC, but don't know why I couldn't able to, then I created a separate account but my intentions were not at all to violate any policy of this platform as I respect it a lot, if any admin would have just drop a message to my talk page I would have stop using the Naraaz account but it was just 2 days ago when you suddenly woke up with multiple allegations, deletions, and so on. Now as I came to know I will stop using that account and will logout from my PC. I am again telling I am not the sock puppet of Shaunak Chakraborty, this allegation is absolutely false and I truly believe this investigation will be resulted in my favour. Lastly I want to say I have no personal issues with you, I hope your misunderstandings will be clear soon. Pokai (talk) 18:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Using multiple accounts per policy and disclosing them is not wrong. I myself have a separate mobile account but that's openly dislosed. You have used both of your accounts to the the same job that other socks of Shaunak Chakraborty did. Promote him and his Gyaanipedia and other stuff. The most weird you did was, you uploaded commons:File:User Kitaab Ka Kida.jpg as own work (selfie) and called it your own image, as I indicated in the diff above. My main concern is really less related to your username and more to your activity pattern. ─ Aafī   (talk)  19:06, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * The earlier reports are from 2019 - we won't have data on those accounts. Do you have something more recent that it can be compared to? -- Amanda (she/her)  02:29, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I've declined checkuser on this as the last archived case is from 2019 and beyond . Behavioural evidence will need to be reviewed.-- Ponyo bons mots 21:14, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Ponyo: This is the reason why I was hesitant in starting an SPI straightaway but initiated it after a steward asked to do so. However, I see the accounts have ceased to make any contributions afterwards this SPI report and the block on Commons. This case may be archived now in my opinion. ─ Aafī   (talk)  14:24, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * To reiterate, I had issued the blocks on Commons given the overlaps of behavior in these accounts. ─ Aafī   (talk)  14:25, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Given the number of edits and age of the account, I don't think there's any harm in having a Clerk review the evidence and make the call as to whether to close or not.-- Ponyo bons mots 20:05, 28 May 2024 (UTC)


 * The behavioral evidence is strong; this account's entire cross-wiki contributions seem dedicated to promotion of Shaunak Chakraborty with a few other promotional articles tossed in on enwiki. The Wordsmith Talk to me 23:53, 12 June 2024 (UTC)