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All single purpose accounts came in light after I nominated their article Varun Sardesai for deletion which was started by Harryrockerz in draft space under Draft:Varun Satish Sardesai and then created in mainspace by a week old user Riblitoje who first made some random edits and then posted Varun Sardesai in mainspace. Half an hour after I proposed "Varun Sardesai" for deletion Act345 who was registered today came in and removed the prod and then soon after I nominated this article for deletion Harryrockerz whose last edit was in April logged in and added at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Varun Sardesai and surprisingly just after his comment the master logged in after a month and. GSS (talk |c|em ) 18:26, 9 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Adding Heshiv who joined Act345 to add keep vote at Articles for deletion/Varun Sardesai and as per some strong behaviour match while signing comments almost everywhere e.g. and  (and more). GSS  (talk |c|em ) 14:01, 10 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Update: Riblitoje the creator of Varun Sardesai added at the same AfD as above and I notice that his English is very similar to Act345. There are some more similarities that connect them but I don't want to spill the beans publicly. Thank you. GSS  (talk |c|em ) 15:21, 12 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Update: After Riblitoje posted regarding my article on Teahouse now Act345 repeating the same thing, he posted  at 's talk page and asked about my article in the same way as Rilitoje. GSS  (talk |c|em ) 18:45, 12 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you for looking at this, I doubt they might be using different devices to edit because none of them editing at the same time and their English, the use of interlink as an external link in comments, their way of signing comments, the use of i rather than I, the use of ampersand (&) and then explaining something in brackets e.g. "work (action)" and "work (contribution)" all this is exactly same. Please see diff . GSS (talk |c|em ) 18:56, 12 July 2018 (UTC)


 * It must be noted that Act345 was registered the same day Riblitoje created Varun Sardesai and he logged in just 10 minutes after and he first added some sources which was his second edit after login and then   and after I nominated the article for deletion late night that day, his first edit the very next morning was to add  on the same AfD. Thank you. GSS  (talk |c|em ) 05:36, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * and are ✅.  and  are  to those two and each other. I decline to check  directly because I don't find the behavioral evidence convincing there, but I will note they didn't come up when checking any of the other editors. ~ Rob 13 Talk 18:45, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind that a lot of that can be explained by being non-native English speakers. ~ Rob 13 Talk 19:00, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The confirmed master and sock are . I'm declining to block the other two: while I do see the similarities, given the CU evidence and the likely ESL nature of the accounts, I think this is more likely to be people who came across the article or heard about the deletion discussion than it is to be socking. The question of if it is MEAT comes up, but I'm not entirely convinced there is enough evidence to block on those grounds. The closing admin at an AfD will weigh the value of the arguments and likely consider the potential of offline canvassing or other activity, so the potential for disruption in this particular case is somewhat low and I don't think blocks are needed for the other accounts at this time. If they become more disruptive on other articles, we can open another AfD. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:16, 14 July 2018 (UTC)