Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Snehilsharma/Archive

05 January 2012

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Snehilsharma keeps making an article that was non notable after it was speedy deleted multiple times. He removed the speedy delete templates twice and when he was warned by the bot not to do it again, he made Sureshthakru to get around that. They also have close usernames (long with an s starting the username) Thebirdlover (talk) 06:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * Per WP:DUCK I've blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:40, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

17 April 2016

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 * added at 05:15, 18 April 2016 (UTC) after removal of speedy.
 * added at 02:04, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * added at 02:04, 20 April 2016 (UTC)


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The master has had socks before (blocked). Heavy promotional activity around a lot of subjects, but the link to the sock account is Snehil Sharma (director) which is seemingly about the master account. This page has been deleted twice at AfD under the title Snehil Sharma, and that's where the socking and heavy disruption in the past was. Tanishrao2015 was used to re-create the same article after it was deleted and master account blocked for disruption around that. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  23:36, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * There's also a likely link to Sockpuppet investigations/AshokaChadha as the promo subjects overlap. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  23:37, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The IP is in the same range as that of the above SPI. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  05:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The Markstephens2014 account pops up when the other accounts have been warned (hence it was not noticed when I brought this in earlier), the activity has been on TemplateToaster, Adi Parashakti, Snehil Sharma, Snehil Sharma (director) which are all common among this PR group.
 * As the accounts are all sporadic and difficult to come across, a sleeper check would be very beneficial. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  02:04, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * For some reason your ping didn't come across. See this edit by Snehilsharma and compare (especially the solar sections) to AshokaChadha and one of the confirmed socks; there are similar diffs from other socks too.
 * Also, came up during my relook now. I had warned this user before about COI editing (self-confessed social media catalyst on user page) but couldn't link to any sockfarm early on so did not bring it here. But now I see this diff which links him to these two groups. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:27, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare those two accounts to the master. Please, explain behavioral link to AshokaChadha.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  17:11, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to . is .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  20:24, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Update: Other than a a vague geolcation overlap, is  to be directly related to .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Confirmed sock indeffed. Master blocked for a month. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:06, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

20 May 2016

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Right after the socks were blocked and master short term blocked this account came back to create Saksham everyone is capable which was initially deleted at AfD -- Articles for deletion/Saksham - everyone is capable. THere were more socks the last time so I think a check for others is needed. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  10:56, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Letting know. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  10:57, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked and tagged. I see no other active accounts. Master's block increased to indefinite. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:51, 20 May 2016 (UTC)