Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shwethahc/Archive

02 November 2015

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All three accounts are focused around the production of Teen Kaminay (where all three are active) and creating articles for caste members (Yasmin Pathan where master and Shwethahc are active). There was also Anil Chorasiya deleted by. Shwethahc has also uploaded promo images at Commons. There's COI for sure, whether it's paid COI or simple self promotion is the question. The accounts are all linked to promoting MFA motion pictures. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:23, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * I'm somewhat unsure about Shwethahc, but I think that they're definitely related. They did make an article about a seemingly unrelated actress but I do note that Directoratul came and edited the page for Yasmin Pathan within the same day it was created, about five hours after Shwethahc finished their first round of edits. I also note that their way of writing is somewhat similar, per their requests for the articles to be kept. Shwethahc used the phrase " I request you to remove the tag and help to not delete the page." at Talk:Yasmin_Pathan and Directoratul wrote "I request you for undeletion of this page" at Requests_for_undeletion. The phrasing is just similar enough to where it kind of makes me suspect that they're related somehow. They also justify the articles' inclusion at REFUND with a similar promotional tone. If it's not sockpuppetry then it's very likely meatpuppetry, possibly paid COI. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * I'm confident in connecting Directoratul and Teenkaminay. Shwethahc appears to be behaviorally possible to likely, but there's a difference in that the account hasn't edited the film articles directly, just focused on the actors. Pinging for a second opinion. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:05, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * On further look and per the diffs from Tokyogirl, I've blocked all three accounts referencing this SPI. I have not tagged the accounts as socks but have just linked the SPI. I'll leave the decision on whether they should be tagged to the archiving clerk/CU. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:22, 3 November 2015 (UTC)