Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/VH Ezhil Oviya/Archive

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Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:24, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * VH Ezhil Oviya is the older of the two, but under-used. The account was created 21 June 2020, but wasn't used until 29 January 2021. I checked deleted contributions as well. Weird, no?
 * VH has about 24 live edits to 5 total articles. All five articles have intersections with JamesBond001177.
 * Jamesbond001177 previously created Abhishek Nigam, which was recently AFDed successfully.
 * VH recreated the article. While there is some new content, portions of the deleted article were recreated, like the phrasing "His father passed away when he was very young. His mother, Vibha Nigam, runs a beauty parlour and an NGO." It would be unlikely that an unrelated editor would have replicated this exact wording.
 * The other thing that strikes me as very odd, is that VH, who has very little in the way of edits, seems to have almost frantically created a newer, larger Abhishek Nigam article, as if making it bigger would make it more likely to be kept. It's like he knew that it was deleted for being problematic, so he fluffed it up with crap like "Nigam is known for his amazing looks, and enjoys a huge fan following on social media platforms."
 * The various filmography/work tables are formatted slightly differently, but contain essentially the same information in the same order. Needless colum "co-star", actors ordered the same in both tables, notes that contain the same phrasing. VH must have been looking at a saved draft or an archived version of this article.
 * One thing I notice is that VH relies heavily on flagging edits as minor, wheras James does not. There are also capitalisation inconsistencies between the two, and they don't exactly use the same references, so it's possible this is meat, but it definitely has the shape of UPE, and if VH were brought in to restore the deleted article and try to vote-stack on the article's talk page (the article is up for speedy delete) then that would be violating community policy.
 * Also, note at Talk:Abhishek Nigam how they both oddly put their responses inside parentheses. They seem to share a common incompetence.

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 * . Same country, different geolocations and user agents.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:47, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hey there, can you be slightly more specific about geolocation? Same state, adjacent states, or further apart as to suggest meat-ier? If you can't be more specific, I understand. I also noticed that JamesBond created the other editor's user page, which raises the stink factor. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Cyphoidbomb! They were across the country, but the country isn't a large one and it's typical for geolocations to be off or somewhat-inaccurate there. Hope this information helps.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   20:00, 3 February 2021 (UTC)


 * They cross into the same state at one point - which used with behavior can be a heavy indicator for this place, so take that as you will. Also one is strictly PC use, the other is complete mobile use. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 12:11, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * If that's the case, then I'm inclined to consider this coordinated editing with an effort to engage in disruptive behaviour, and likely UPE. I will, however wait for another admin to give it a look. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:27, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined to believe UPE - one of them also intersects Draft:Hero_–_Gayab_Mode_On, whose deleted history is downright infested with socks. Blocked both as UPE, no tags. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:07, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

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DevianDevian created Abhishek nigam which were created by the master and a previous sock (see archive) Minorax (talk) 11:15, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Might wanna delete Draft:Abhishek Nigam as a G4 as well (see Articles for deletion/Abhishek Nigam). --Minorax (talk) 11:17, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

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Blocked without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:11, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * /. Same country, but different geolocations and ranges.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:34, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Already blocked. As before, I'm inclined to believe this is multiple people chasing the same paid job. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:56, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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All accounts have been involved with the repeated recreation of articles and drafts about non-notable actor Abhishek Nigam (now salted), along with the previously-reported JamesBond001177 archived here. See also Abhishek nigam (also salted), Draft:Abhishek Nigam, Draft:Abhishek nigam, Abhishek Nigam ( actor ), Abhishek Nigam (Actor) plus sandboxes and possible other detritus. There have already been at least two AfDs (Articles for deletion/Abhishek Nigam, Articles for deletion/Abhishek Nigam (Actor)) and two ANI reports (here and here) on the subject. All involved accounts except for the most recent Wikikushal123 have been already been blocked separately for promotional editing/UPE, but I'm submitting the report to try and tie it all together for future reference and anticipated future socking. --Finngall talk 16:09, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Same country and ISP, different geolocation and user agent. – bradv 🍁  02:11, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * . As before, suspect multiple UPEs here. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:27, 19 August 2021 (UTC)