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14 April 2015

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Identical self promotional edits. Now CSDed, but this guy probably needs putting down (in the nicest possible way)  Velella  Velella Talk 12:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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An admin is needed to compare deleted versions of User:Smoothest Aashu and User:Smoothestaashu007.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:13, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I can confirm that these two userpages were identical. This and the usernames make it obvious that the accounts were set up by either the same user or the same PR company. I have therefore blocked Smoothestaashu007 per WP:DUCK and WP:U. On that note: Smoothestaashu007 was created 4 months earlier than Smoothest Aashu, so I think the former should be registered as the actual sock master. De728631 (talk) 20:21, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I have revoked Smoothestaashu007's talk page access as he was continuing to spam there. JohnCD (talk) 13:37, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I moved the case to the name of Smoothestaashu007.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:21, 15 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:22, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

28 April 2015

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WP:DUCK - only concerned with promoting himself in his user pages. bonadea contributions talk 15:38, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

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A very obvious case of promotional socking. All accounts have been blocked and tagged. De728631 (talk) 20:59, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

02 May 2015

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Per the user name and (deleted) user page - the snippet that was cached by Google is enough to verify that it's the same person. bonadea contributions talk 12:12, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

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Add that one^. Created Draft:The Smoothest Aashu and User:The Smoothest Aashu, obviously promotional and I'm guessing not actually notable. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 08:56, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Also IP 101.222.249.195 per. --bonadea contributions talk 10:02, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. I think we should get an edit filter for this type of nonsense. De728631 (talk) 12:57, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * User:The Smoothest Aashu and IP 101.222.249.195 have also been blocked. De728631 (talk) 18:30, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

31 May 2015

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Logging only (already blocked). Obvious sock, found thanks to User:Samwalton9's new edit filter. —S MALL JIM   15:30, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * Tagged and closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:36, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

27 June 2015

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Persistent re-creation of the same article over many months using various different forms of the same name see [Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Smoothestaashu007/Archive]  Velella  Velella Talk 15:51, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * . An admin is needed to block.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:36, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged per request. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 21:39, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

20 March 2016

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Asking about their autobio Smoothest Aashu here. bonadea contributions talk 14:21, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * . Blocked, tagged. Closing. BethNaught (talk) 15:40, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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User post at my talk asking about creating article is DUCK as so is other behavioral (upon request). (I replied to talk post before figuring out who this was. He replied WP:IDHT.) Also uploaded to commons as Own work descriptions "Smoothest Aashu", so, yes, him. This is for the record as user has not been around since March. Already blocked (talk revoked.) and tagged by me. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:39, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  11:22, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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Duck. A few days after new account creation, Ajaysharma98 created highly promotional Draft:Smoothest Aashu, which was declined 5 Sept after submission of draft. Also created a few lazy copypastes (Jio Phones, Electronics System Design & Manufacturing, Skill Development, Uttar Pradesh Skill Development Mission, Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills), evidently to avoid looking like a WP:SPA. The declined draft was followed by a fork of the draft at Smoothest Aashu (singer), along with the similarly promotional Smoothest Bros, private label of "Smoothest Aashu". Also created Manav Samman Seva Samiti, about a non-notable charity of which "Smoothest Aashu" is the secretary.

Also including User:Chetansharma007, an account which 8 minutes after creation made this edit to Draft:Smoothest Aashu, followed 5 minutes later by this edit to Ghaziabad Metro (also created by Ajaysharma98), and no further edits. Mr. MacTidy (talk) 03:41, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

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I remember this guy all too well, and I think the quacking is rather deafening. He has also advertised the new draft page at Facebook, where his username is aslismoothest, identical to the name of a previous sock. --bonadea contributions talk 10:14, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Both accounts blocked. I'm not 100% certain what's going on with Chetansharma007, but it's clearly connected somehow – if not a sockpuppet, then a meatpuppet. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:31, 27 September 2017 (UTC)