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Tag team edits surrounding Asad Qureshi (producer) in main and draft and sandbox space. Each has other edits as well, and this may be a perfectly innocent group of true individuals rather than a small sock farm, but my duck's antennae are triggered.

Supplying diffs feels somewhat pointless, since each follows the other as the article/draft/(etc) history shows from their individual contributions. It is not the similarity of their edits that alerted me, but the particular interest

I don't feel I can justify a CU request on this one, so please use discretion and judgement since I have not made a formal request.

I have chosen not to notify the editors concerned. I am intending that the main space article is returned to Draft:Asad Qureshi (producer) but I am unable, myself, to dispose of the redirect that is in the way, having no admin goggles. Fiddle Timtrent Faddle Talk to me 13:51, 26 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Now successfully draftified. Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 14:04, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Smzainmustafa blocked 2 weeks, socks . Closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 19:03, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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Similar editing habits on the same subjects. Recreated Asad Qureshi (producer) at Asad Amin Qureshi and heavily editing Abdullah Kadwani as confirmed Smzainmustafa sock User:Dramaspakis did. Swabspiece also did not become active until after Smzainmustafa received a block as a result of the first SPI. GPL93 (talk) 14:25, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 15:15, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Both the master and the sock indeffed. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:25, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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There are two strange kinds of quacking from this account. First, its first edits, in December 2021, were popping up to ask Athaenara about the deletion of Haroon Kadwani. Why would an account's first edits be to ask about a deletion, unless it isn't the human's first edits? Second, the account then created Draft:Haroon Kadwani, which was then created in article space by a sock of Lillyput4455, who is a sock of Pakistanpedia. Request examination of the duck feathers. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 00:30, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Everything is stale, CU isn't going to be of any help here. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:49, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Given the accounts identified at Sockpuppet investigations/Lillyput4455 (which should have been filed here) just recently, I checked anyway. Sherlock95 is ✅ to Sockpuppet investigations/Smzainmustafa. They are using a number of IP ranges known to be used by Pakistanpedia, including one very large range in common with the Lillyput4455 accounts, but it is a very large range and also has several other sockfarms active on it according to my notes. At best this result is . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on the above, I'm going to merge this section into Smzainmustafa and block Sherlock95 as confirmed to that case. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:07, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
 * PS, this was originally filed under Sockpuppet investigations/Pakistanpedia -- RoySmith (talk) 16:14, 16 March 2022 (UTC)