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Umais Bin Sajjad was a paid editor who added a large amount of copyright infringed images to Wikipedia and is now currently blocked. We now have a new account re adding some of those images to Commons. Could of course now be the singer herself who is adding the images but we should check. But if it was the singer she would not have been the person who took the pictures and thus would not own them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:42, 5 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Added two accounts which showed up inexplicably at Draft:Nino Ruef, one of the paid advocacy articles -- the first claiming that there is no COI, the second adding references. Both of these accounts are involved in spamming: . There's also the common interest in films between Umais Bin Sajjad and Syed Hassan Ali Shah, see e.g. File:Dobara Phir Se.jpg. Not sure if this is sockpuppetry, but there is definitely something fishy going on. MER-C 00:53, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Please, check those accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:23, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and very to the master:
 * is to the master.
 * I've blocked the two unblocked accounts. I'll leave tagging to the clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:09, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the two unblocked accounts. I'll leave tagging to the clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:09, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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One article Umais was working on was (later moved to) Draft:Bette Stuy. The day after he was blocked, Sarita1126 was created and immediately began to edit the draft. The history is complicated, but it appears that when Sarita began to edit it, it was still in Umais' sandbox. This seems to me highly suspicious: Checkuser requested to see whether this is another sock. If not, it seems likely that this is another Fiverr editor picking up the job that Umais was not able to finish. I have invited Sarita to declare whether s/he is a paid editor.

I have deleted the draft, which had copyright problems at two levels. First, it was suspected that Umais copied it unattributed from another AfC submission into his sandbox, and this suspicion is borne out by the presence in the text of numbers in brackets, such as reference links in the text would give if it were copied and pasted from the reading screen rather than the edit screen. Second, many sentences in the draft were copied from here.

Pinging for comment, , who all had some part in this tangled history. JohnCD (talk) 21:21, 22 October 2016 (UTC) JohnCD (talk) 21:21, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Likely the company that was buying that article is trying to pay someone else to recreate it. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:26, 22 October 2016 (UTC)


 * At 05:55, 11 September 2016 (UTC) I routinely obeyed a request to history-merge Draft:Bette Stuy to User:Umais Bin Sajjad/sandbox3 (asked for by ) . Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:43, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:43, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, let's see what Sarita1126 says in reply to my question about paid editing. JohnCD (talk) 10:09, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Sarita1126 responded here. Is that disclosure satisfactory? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:30, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Not really, but at least Sarita has come clean, and I will advise about proper disclosure and how to proceed. Evidently not a sock, so marking this for close. JohnCD (talk) 09:29, 8 November 2016 (UTC)