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Recreation of Bombarika under Draft:Bombarika game which the master copied into mainspace under the same title Bombarika game to avoid previous deletion history. ID5984 was registered two days back and his first edit was to create the draft in one go also as per this profile on steamcommunity.com the master definitely has a close connection to the subject but failed to disclose after requested to do so on his talk page. GSS (talk |c|em ) 05:05, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I agree, but recreating a deleted article under a different title to game the system and then blanking talk page and ignoring requests to disclose COI is clearly not a good faith attempt to use multiple accounts. GSS (talk |c|em ) 14:42, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Also creating an autobiography Mahesh Athirala, promoting their business Bombarika and privately from a new account without disclosing their previous account is clearly a violation of WP:NOTHERE and WP:SOCK. Thank you. GSS  (talk |c|em ) 16:54, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * Recreating something as a draft seems like a fairly weak attempt at sockpuppetry. I don't think checkuser is warranted here given the lack of severity; giving the user a warning would probably suffice. --Deskana (talk) 14:30, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * , agreed re: the socking point, but I'm inclined to indef both accounts as spammers. The odds of a warning doing anything other than having them switch to a new account if they haven't already are pretty negligible in my opinion. Also, I've closed the SPI since there seems to be some agreement here that the socking isn't as big an issue in this case. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:55, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure. I leave that up to you. I prefer to stick strictly to checkuser as a sort of separation of powers thing. :-) --Deskana (talk) 18:57, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

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SPA with no edits outside creating Bombarika first under Mahesh Athirala's name in draftspace and then Draft:BOMBARIKA to evade protection. GSS (talk |c|em ) 06:41, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:32, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

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SPA gaming WP:ACPERM and recreated their deleted article Mahesh Athirala and Street Lamp Games founded by Mahesh Athirala. GSS (talk |c|em ) 06:36, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * , closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 06:49, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

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Just after the most recent sock account was blocked this IP appeared and contented deletion at Draft talk:Mahesh Athirala with a comment GSS  (talk |c|em ) 07:17, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 07:25, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

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Possible duck registered last month only to respot Draft:Street Lamp Games previously created by. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 18:30, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * I've compared their version to past Vampirus socks and I'm not convinced - their version of the page is fairly different from OldBoyCame's version. Also, past socks haven't made a COI disclosure. Definitely worth keeping an eye on their edits and they may need to be blocked as an advertising-only account, but I don't think there's enough right now to prove that they're a Vampirus sock. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:50, 25 September 2020 (UTC)