Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vibhas Kashyap/Archive

13 July 2012

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The suspected sockmaster Vibhas Kashyap was blocked for his disruptive editing on Indian TV show related articles, especially Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli, on 10th and 16th May 2012. The suspected sock Viraj Kashyap started editing on 19th May 2012 on the same article. He has also received many warnings for his disruptive editings on the same article. Common last name, similar editing patter and account opening just after the first account was blocked make me suspicious. Also both editors are SPAs and have been editing only articles related to Zee TV i.e. the shows on them and the actors who are known only through these shows. (How do i show this fact? Can we get a list of articles edited by them from some tool somewhere?) §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 07:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * Articles edited look similar from user contributions - Also wikichecker shows a similar editing pattern -, . Mdann52 (talk) 16:32, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - - 24 intersects in a short time plus other coincidences seem to justify a CU. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  15:34, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Declining this, as I don't see the need for a check at all. These accounts share the same last name (which probably indicates meatpuppetry), edit the same/similar articles in the same ways, edit during the same times of the day, don't edit during the same times of the day, neither use edit summaries... in short, they're very obvious ducks and I'm blocking them as such. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 03:58, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing.
 * Wait! Found another sock. Reporting soon. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 13:58, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:33, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Reopening per request.
 * Blocked and tagged so closing.

17 July 2012

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After the master and previous sock  were blocked on 15th July 2012, this new user started editing from 16th on their hobby horse Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli. The sock's edits so far have been on articles Fear Files: Darr Ki Sacchi Tasvirein (which was addition of copyvio material), Rab Se Sohna Isshq, Hitler Didi, Zee Gold Awards; all related to Zee TV; just like the previous master and sock. The user also insists on adding same stuff again & again 1, 2, 3 even if it is present in the article and is being reverted for that reason. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 14:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:24, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Question: Is it possible that this named master is actually User:Noormohammed satya (who is also User:Noor119848)? There is a good deal of overlap and repeated copyvios.
 * The behavioral evidence is compelling, but not completely convincing; the User:Noormohammed satya sockpuppets never write on talk or project pages, whereas these ones seem to be quite chatty. —Psychonaut (talk) 14:50, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think that Kashyaps are same as Noors. Kashyaps are dedicated Zee TV editors whereas Noors have been editing mostly on TV awards and other various TV actors and show articles. (Noors might also have some target articles; but i haven't yet figured out that. Will scratch my head for some time.) The scene is that there are many vandals and illerate SPAs on Indian TV articles. Its difficult to notice commonality other than that they all are idiots. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk)  14:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Psychonaut, its the other way round. One Noor has been on talk pages, but none of the Kashyaps have been there. This new Kashyap however has started a dialogue with me. But none of the groups ever write edit summaries and from behavior i guess they never even read. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 15:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you sure? Noormohammed satya has 0 talk-space contributions, and Noor119848 also has 0 apart from page moves or templates.  Likewise both accounts have 0 User talk contributions, except to blank the dozens of warnings they have received. —Psychonaut (talk) 15:57, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh! Those are page moves. I checked it here & commented. My mistake then. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 16:51, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * The suspected user is now blocked by User:Future Perfect at Sunrise. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 12:17, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

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Already blocked so closing. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

02 August 2012

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The user came back with a new login id and left me a lovely note. But he signed himself as User:Vishal Deshraj, who is already blocked as a sock on 18th July. Note: The first two users never talked much. But now i suppose they have started talking. In case any admin wants to try to discuss with them how they can use their original account by requesting unblock or whatever the solution for this is (I dont know all ways of unblocking oneself.), i am ok with that. I personally don't want to do all that headbanging because if this user is allowed to edit, i will mostly have to invest time and energy trying to get him edit properly. I don't have patience to take him through the whole tour. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 07:57, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:21, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Block evasion. This account lacks the competence to edit.

19 August 2012

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Exactly one day after the previous sock User:Vishal Deshraj was blocked, this account was created and resumed editing the same set of articles as the master and previous socks: Fear Files: Darr Ki Sacchi Tasvirein, Rab Se Sohna Isshq, Hitler Didi, Zee Gold Awards, etc. These are all related to Zee TV. — Psychonaut (talk) 08:59, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * - - There is at least one other name that has an interesting number of intersects and think that CU can confirm this older account. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 13:46, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * . Tiptoety  talk 18:02, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged this one rather obvious sock. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 19:13, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

27 August 2012

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Two days after the previous sock User:Amoli Dave was blocked, this account was created. Its first actions were to remove copyvio templates from User:Amoli Dave's articles, and to recreate, an article of User:Amoli Dave's which has already been deleted three times. The article created by User:Twinkle Gupta seems to be exactly the same as the deleted article; it's unlikely a genuinely new user would have had access to the wikitext source. Psychonaut (talk) 16:24, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * Tagged as a suspected sockpuppet. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 16:27, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

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Marking for close. Elockid  ( Talk ) 16:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Corrected the sock's tag. Nothing left to do here, so I'll archive. AGK  [•] 12:51, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

24 October 2012

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Behavioural evidence makes it clear that this is a sockpuppet of Vibhas Kashyap. The user is concerned exclusively with Zee TV-related articles, and has continued the same sort of disruption on Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli that the sockpuppeter was blocked for. The user has made repeated requests to retrieve the text of the sockpuppeter's deleted contributions, and claims to be familiar with their contents despite their account having been created long after the deletions. Other disruptive activity includes creating new versions of articles which already exist (such as Ramayan (2012 TV Series) and Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli) and then redirecting the existing articles to their versions, or else copy-pasting their articles into the existing ones. Psychonaut (talk) 08:15, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Wait! This user is using talk pages, something all the other socks did not do. -- Farah Desai Talk 14:09, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Never mind, close this case I've commented on the block on the user's talk page. -- Farah Desai Talk 14:28, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Of course the other socks edited talk pages. This has been discussed already in the archive.  (Some of the talk page edits may no longer exist because the corresponding page has been deleted.)  Perhaps you are confusing this sockpuppeteer with User:Noormohammed satya, who never used talk pages or edit summaries to communicate. —Psychonaut (talk) 15:41, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * The editing of User:KRISTEEN65 bears sufficient resemblance to that of User:Noormohammed satya, User:Vibhas Kashyap, and their known sockpuppets to leave no reasonable doubt. In addition, KRISTEEN65's editing is highly disruptive in various ways, most seriously repeatedly re-adding substantial copyright infringing content. I have accordingly indefinitely blocked the account. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:14, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

25 October 2012

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This latest sock is reinserting the sockpuppeteer's deleted contributions into the same articles. Psychonaut (talk) 12:50, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:10, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocking and tagging sock and closing. I have protected his editing targets for 1 month...if he keeps coming back this will be increased.

09 November 2012

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Account is reverting Ramayan (2012 TV Series) and Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli to the sockpuppeteer's preferred versions. Looks like Vibhas Kashyap created this account a few days ago and made a few innocuous edits to get around the semi-protection on those pages. Psychonaut (talk) 13:29, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * At Ramayan (2012 TV Series) VICTORIA BROWN9 made an almost identical edit to one KRISTEEN65 had made . That's enough for me to call VICTORIA BROWN9 a sockpuppet per WP:DUCK, and I have blocked the account indefinitely. Psychonaut beat me to adding the tag. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 14:02, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Not much to do here, since you've already blocked and tagged them. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:43, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

18 December 2012

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I received an unblock request (WP:UTRS #5497) from this user, who claims to be unrelated to Vibhas Kashyap. I think there's too much doubt to justify blocking per WP:DUCK, so I'd like to see some CheckUser evidence. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * I feel it is rather likely that this is a sock, but I appreciate the point of view that there is not enough evidence to justify a duck-block. Checkuser evidence would definitely be helpful in this case. This said, should the check come back as unrelated, I strongly urge against viewing this as indisputable evidence that the account in question is unconnected. . SpitfireTally-ho! 13:42, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you're saying, Spitfire. It reads like "If it comes back related then they're related, but if it comes back unrelated then they should be seen as related." which I'm sure is not what you meant. Can you explain? --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 14:52, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * In this case, the UTRS request serves to nullify the requirement for the diffs that are usually required for checkuser cases. Here, the checkuser data indicates that the Priya koonjan account is unrelated to both the VICTORIA BROWN9 and Aarushi Chauhan accounts (who, incidentally, are confirmed as being related to each other). --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 17:51, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Deskana, I've unblocked the account. @Spitfire: Of course it isn't indisputable evidence that the account is unconnected. But the burden of proof is on blocking. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 19:02, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry for being unclear here. What I mean is that the fact that the checkuser has come back as unrelated should not be a "get out of jail free" card. It is still possible that there is a link between Priya koonjan and Vibhas Kashyap, and should evidence surface in the future to demonstrate that, this check should not be used to overrule that evidence. Hopefully that clarifies. Many thanks, SpitfireTally-ho! 20:26, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. I thought you were saying I shouldn't unblock, which left me very confused: if I would decline to unblock even if the CheckUser came back negative, then CheckUser evidence would have no effect on my decision, so why would I be asking for it in the first place? Glad that's cleared up. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 06:24, 19 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Closing this case, since King of Hearts has unblocked the user and checkuser indicates that the accounts are ❌. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:57, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

17 January 2013

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Same modus operandi on their hobby horse Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli—that is, the user creates their own version of the page under a new title or over a redirect (in this case Yahaan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli). The remaining edits tend to focus on other favourite articles such as Pavitra Rishta, List of accolades received by Pavitra Rishta, and Ramayan (2012 TV Series). ‎ Psychonaut (talk) 15:52, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Obviously the same editor. Blocked and tagged. Closing. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 13:32, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

25 February 2013

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Similar username to the previous sock (User:AEBTYAZXCAW990), and making similar edits to Pavitra Rishta. The account is also restoring unusual formatting originally posted by User:AEBTYAZXCAW990 (e.g., compare the non-conforming section header formatting in and ) Psychonaut (talk) 10:25, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Pretty clear, don't think we need CU here. Rschen7754 10:37, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked sock, tagged, closing. Rschen7754 10:37, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

17 May 2013

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Obvious sock already blocked; reporting here for record-keeping purposes. Psychonaut (talk) 13:07, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Short block seems to have done the trick, please re-report if spotted again, thanks. Courcelles 16:01, 18 May 2013 (UTC)