Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Surjendranil/Archive

02 January 2014

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Name of account is a variation on several mentioned at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Surjendranil Eg. User:Editor Anirban Sen Gupta. Recreating pages that are slight name variations, like the account name, on self promotional pages that have been deleted. 220  of  Borg 10:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * See here for example re-creation of autobigraphical page. 220  of  Borg 11:29, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I am the one who made the WP:COI so I just dropped here. Wanted to mention, that I am the one who wanted the CU check. The edits are promotional and keeps coming back to the same Anirban Sen Gupta. But, we being mere users, couldn't obviously check the deleted diffs. However, we suspect it's the same. So, CU is the only way to verify. --  Ankit Maity  §  (chatter)

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 * It may be moot now as User:Alexf has deleted all the crap promotional pages, and blocked the 'Mr.' Sengupta account plus several other old and new ones. 220  of  Borg 16:37, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * Master and suspected socks blocked indef per behavior and spam deleted. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

19 January 2014

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More promotional pages for Anirban Sengupta a.k.a. Nirbaan Nei Jaar JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged per DUCK, reporting for the record. JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

04 February 2014

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Comparing User:ABSGOFC to other socks' userpages  shows many similarities (including the photo). Also note the first three letters of the username compare to "Anirban Sengupta" infobox heading "Anirban Sengupta Official Fans Club & Official Website". Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:27, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock blocked indef per duck test, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:06, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

06 February 2014

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Same instance as of the previous reports. E Wing (talk) 08:32, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock blocked indef per the duck test, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:56, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

16 February 2014

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Per WP:DUCK, this account is almost identically named to the previous socks User:Anirban Sengupta (Artist), User:Anirban Sengupta (Investigator), User:Anirban Sengupta (Writer) and User:Anirban Sengupta (Editor). -- Drm310 (talk) 21:08, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock blocked indef per the duck test, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:44, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

4 March 2014

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Could be blocked per WP:DUCK i think. see userpage histories and their deleted revisions. Signature edits are fake comments, fake India-related templates in user talk page, and fake peer review template, talk page copied from other users). jni (delete)...just not interested 07:49, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * - - Can a CU please confirm and run a quick sleeper check before I start G5ing things. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:39, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The named accounts are ✅ matches to and several other socks in the archive. Also ✅ are, ,  and a number of duck-blocked and tagged socks. T. Canens (talk) 14:55, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. Closing now. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:34, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

24 May 2015

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User:Jni and I, and another admin or two just spent a large amount of time whack-a-moleing this guy. Simply looking for sleepers and/or possibility of a rangeblock.

Some of these may be stale. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 20:56, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * A range block is not possible here. Mike V • Talk 01:17, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

21 August 2015

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It seems that the sockmaster has moved to simple.wiki as well - Rajveerabhimanyu Jayadrathindraniladitya Devegowdankur Sengupta on simple.wiki created Anirban Sengupta and Raja Sir. While I was looking around, a quick web search reveals duplicates of the article content, contained in user pages above, and where Rajveerabhimanyu Jayadrathindraniladitya Devegowdankur Sengupta on en.wiki is also confirmed (by CentralAuth) to be active and the same person as simple.wiki. Requesting for CU to root out socks and if possible, apply range block(s). Chenzw   Talk   14:19, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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Sockmaster blocked indef, the first 2 sock puppets were confirmed and blocked indef as well.  RMS52  Talk to me  18:09, 31 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I've blocked the other accounts also per WP:DUCK. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 04:50, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * - to look for sleepers.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:53, 1 September 2015 (UTC)






 * The ranges are much too large and busy to determine if there are additional accounts at this moment. Looking through the checkuser archives, the accounts are related to the master. Mike V • Talk 19:21, 1 September 2015 (UTC)