Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sky Groove/Archive

01 November 2015
The following have been added at 05:54, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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Both accounts were created around the same time and have a deep focus on beauty contest performers and minor contests in India, the overlap is minimal e.g on Audrey D'Silva and so on, but the language and style are very similar so there's probably a standard script from which this is happening, likely a PR agency at work and there are possibly others that I haven't come across yet. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  18:55, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * , somehow your ping didn't go through. I've added a few more, if you look at the history of Sushrii Shreya Mishraa, you'll see the different accounts finishing each other's sentences, one of them marking the creation of the other as reviewed. All of them are active on similar articles of Indian beauty contests and contestants and only that, stepping in only to do maintenance work on the creations of each other. Compare the language and style on Sushrii Shreya Mishraa and Bhavyata Sharma to see the extensive similarity between the unique contributions of the two. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  05:54, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  20:21, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * - I was only able to find diffs to connect ZekeMiguel and GrooverSky (see and,  and ). I am endorsing the CU to compare those two accounts.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  08:04, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * The following accounts are to each other and to the master:
 * I've blocked and tagged the confirmed accounts and will leave the rest to the clerk's and 's discretion.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:00, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I think Fernandesterru061996 is quacking sufficiently but would like a second opinion on Plabz and prefer to wait for that before I block either; anyone else is free to go ahead with blocks though. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  15:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Fernandesterru061996. I'm leaving Plabz unblocked. Closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:30, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are to each other and to the master:
 * I've blocked and tagged the confirmed accounts and will leave the rest to the clerk's and 's discretion.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:00, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I think Fernandesterru061996 is quacking sufficiently but would like a second opinion on Plabz and prefer to wait for that before I block either; anyone else is free to go ahead with blocks though. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  15:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Fernandesterru061996. I'm leaving Plabz unblocked. Closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:30, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the confirmed accounts and will leave the rest to the clerk's and 's discretion.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:00, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I think Fernandesterru061996 is quacking sufficiently but would like a second opinion on Plabz and prefer to wait for that before I block either; anyone else is free to go ahead with blocks though. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  15:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Fernandesterru061996. I'm leaving Plabz unblocked. Closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:30, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Fernandesterru061996. I'm leaving Plabz unblocked. Closing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:30, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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This is another of the long lasting fashion show socks. I understand that the master and older socks are stale so comparison can't be made with them except behaviorally (which I'm ready to do), but we've always had multiple socks of these so I'm bringing for CU attention to get the rest out. A historical favorite of the group has been the Glamanand Supermodel India Beauty Pageant and their contestants. Rammya Singh was created by Zack Martin then deleted at AfD and immediately recreated by Aayat. Iamnikhilanand is obviously a reference to Nikhil Anand who seems to be the one runnign this group of shows &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:27, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

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 * Zack Martin 2000 is ✅, blocked and tagged.
 * Aayat1993 and Iamnikhilanand are ❌ to the master and to each other.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:52, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm ready to block Aayat1993 and Iamnikhilanand based on behavioral evidence of sock or at the least meat puppetry related to this set of fashion shows. I'll hold off for a day to see if anyone else has a differing opinion (of course if someone else thinks that the blocks can happen now, then that's fine by me). &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  14:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked the above two for sock/meat puppetry referring this SPI. Also, sky Groove has confirmed some accounts as theirs. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  05:06, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

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Same Indian fashion show edits but the main thing is Prateek Baid which was originally from User:Zack Martin 2000 and the new article is almost identical to the deleted one. Since this wasn't caught in 's CU last month, I wasn't comfortable with WP:DUCK and bringing it here instead, also as we have more than one sock usually, I hope we can get those out too. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  15:25, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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❌. Sorry, .--Bbb23 (talk) 17:36, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing as there's nothing to do here. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:50, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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I came to this now because of Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents. I'd seen the other SPI earlier and at that time I knew that this was part of one of these beauty contest farms, only now have I come to the idea it belongs ot this one because of the focus on the India related models and shows. There's a large overlap between the different draws but CyberBrinda is closer to ZekeMiguel in terms of contributions. See this vs this set of edits (has some other editors intermediate). THere's usually more than one sock, so I think a CU is necessary. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  10:47, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * I ran a check on July 14 regarding CyberBrinda in Sockpuppet investigations/Alberto flood. I found the account ❌ to that master. The account appears to be also ❌ to Sky Groove.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:09, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing per Bbb23. Katietalk 15:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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Strong behavioral evidence with the two blocked accounts above. First, all edits of this new account are exclusively to pages that  earlier edited. Helper V1's favorite script is AutoEd and so the new account installed it as their 16th edit. Blocked Helper V1 earlier created Template:Indian Beauty Pageant Representatives and the new account is now now polishing it despite it having very low transclusions count. Hence not easily seen.

was blocked on 29 October, was created on 31 October, i.e two days later. The new account request at NPR after 34 edits has intriguing similitude with the request of the blocked sock. The contributions of the three accounts show clear behavioral evidence as they virtually edit same pages but  CheckUser evidence will reveal more if endorsed by clerk. &thinsp;&mdash; Ammarpad (talk) 15:56, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * Comment - Powerful stupidity. Yes I agreed to what I did or done on the Beauty pageant related articles notably on Indian articles. It doesn't make any sense that this could be a copy-cat of what a blocked user did before. If this could be the issue then, each and every accounts relating or working on those topic must be removed as sockpuppets of each others. It could be a co-incidence too. And about the AutoEd tool using by me, it also turn upto the same matter where a lot of users use the same tool on the same articles several times on any days. Users mentioned above are not only working on the Beauty pageant related articles but also has created a lot of articles on other topics and today vectored one of the great victory of Indian at Miss World. So updating on that is so necessary as it has an article staying alone. I personally disagree with this investigation and request that it needed to be closed soon. Thank You --Arsh 18 (talk) 17:08, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

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.&#32;In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format: --Deskana (talk) 11:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.
 * No response to Deskana's request for evidence. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:11, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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SPA gaming ACPERM and creating the same kind of promotional articles about Indian beauty pageant titleholders including Vijaya Sharma that was last created by user LucasSpencer. GSS (talk |c|em ) 13:21, 30 September 2019 (UTC)


 * +Kabirjaiswal another SPA removed speedy deletion tag from . GSS (talk |c|em ) 13:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * In this diff, Thakur is openly soliciting other socks. Blocked and tagged.  -- RoySmith (talk) 16:29, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Three instances of removing tags   is sufficient behavioral evidence of socking.  Blocked and tagged.  -- RoySmith (talk) 16:34, 20 October 2019 (UTC)