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We have a huge set of paid coi sock farms operating in the construction business area of India, especially around Raheja Builders and their ancillary companies. I'm pinging to shed some additional light. This is very likely a part of some old sock farm as the account was created in September 2015 but made the first (spam) edit in July 2016 to create Raheja Productions which was soon deleted via prod. The new account was created around the same time. Subsequently that account has been carrying out this promo activity across various Raheja related articles. The old account just came back to add to it (the new one stopped after I gave a COI warning). I'm sure there's more and probably a linkage to another farm, so bringing here. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:55, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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In response to SpacemanSpiff's ping. Talk:Raheja Developers has a long roster of COI editors on the article. It's up to 15 names now in multiple waves. I think every one of them was undisclosed COI, and many were socks. The editing is clearly geared to PR style reputation management and promotion. This admission of a connection by one of the problem editors on Raheja Developers, only when confronted with massive evidence and even then grudgingly, was the best compliance with the community norms around this article, and it's not pretty. The likelihood that another account comes along, starts adding promotional or adoring content for any Raheja entity, and is not part of the team of folks directed by the company, is approaching zero. - Brianhe (talk) 16:05, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:34, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Technical evidence is negative, and there is no behavioral evidence provided at all, so I'm closing this.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:26, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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This is either WP:SOCK or WP:MEATPUPPET spam/COI/PAID ring, I assume there must be some relation to previous rings, but anyhow:
 * Sqrrl Fintech attempts to create what I assume to be a spammy article on Sqrrl Fintech in their sandbox; see spam blacklist on September 7. A few days earlier they uploaded images on commons of the company logo
 * On September 11 Vedantrusty creates a page in their sandbox on the company using the logo provided by Sqrrl Fintech
 * On September 28 Pavan Kumar also creates a spammy article on Sqrrl Fintech in their sandbox; gets deleted an hour later after I G11 it
 * Then on October 1 Vedantrusty adds the exact same material that Pavan Kumar had in his spammy sandbox to his draft Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:56, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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✅ + . Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:23, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

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Recreation of similarly promotional article on Draft:Sqrrl Fintech; see and  Galobtter (pingó mió) 18:49, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * Account blocked weeks ago. In the future, please explain why you're requesting a CU. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:30, 28 December 2018 (UTC)