Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vinujadhav/Archive

30 April 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * added by &mdash; Spaceman Spiff
 * Fanofbollywood (talk) 06:31, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Fanofbollywood (talk) 06:31, 2 May 2012 (UTC)


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You'll primarily need to review deleted contributions, especially surrounding Bollywood Xplorer. Behaviourally virtually identical. Both have been blocked as socks, however, unblock request for User:CrazyAboutBollywood claims otherwise. ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 11:44, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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 * I've just added Juliewatson above, came back to carry out the speedy tagging on the article once CrazyAboutBollywood was blocked, all three accounts appear to be promoting bollywood blogs/sites and it appears they don't like that BollywoodHungama has an article. It could also be a case of meatpuppetry. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  12:03, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: User:Juliewatson is blocked 24hrs for edit-warring, and not for socking (yet) ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 12:26, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I started investigating these acounts, and keeping a list of the evidence I found. After a while, I gave up listing the evidence, because there was just too much of it. The evidence also linked all of the accounts listed to another group of accounts, already blocked for sockpuppetry, namely:

Here are a few samples of the evidence connecting the accounts listed for this SPI to one another and to Vinujadhav and his already established sockpuppets. (I am not even attempting to list other evidence which already linked the Vinujadhav socks to one another.)


 * Spamming/linking to/editing related to moviezadda.com:
 * Juliewatson, ,
 * Lisadezzy ,
 * Vinujadhav, , , , ,
 * FilmyGuy, ,
 * Harshal8feb
 * Saddaadda
 * 2Vinja


 * Spamming/linking to/editing related to www.indiandrives.com:
 * Lisadezzy, , etc
 * Harshal8feb
 * Saddaadda
 * Vinujadhav


 * Attempting to get Bollywood Hungama deleted:
 * Harshal8feb  ,
 * Lisadezzy
 * CrazyAboutBollywood 
 * Juliewatson ,
 * Amanrajveer


 * Editing articles created by Vinujadhav:
 * Raghav Juyal has been edited by Lisadezzy, FilmyGuy, and 2Vinja.
 * ABCD: Anybody Can Dance has been edited by Juliewatson and 2Vinja.


 * Both CrazyAboutBollywood and Amanrajveer have made similar contributions to Articles for deletion/Bollywood Hungama, they have made related edits to Bollywood Xplorer, and both filed Requests for undeletion for that article. Both have edited Tezz. Both have similar English, and a generally similar talk page style.

Some of these are unambiguous sockpuppets, while some look as if they may well be meatpuppets, but it doesn't matter: all accounts are blocked indefinitely, and tagged. However, in view of the number of accounts involved, a checkuser for any sleepers might be useful. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:41, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Per JBW -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  14:48, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought myself that the behavioural evidence linking CrazyAboutBollywood and Amanrajveer to the others was weaker than that within the two groups, so if the checkuser evidence points the same way then I am willing to think we have two sockpuppeteers. I will change the tags on those two accounts, and consider whether their blocks should be shortened or not. JamesBWatson (talk) 18:59, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Group 1
 * ✅ Group 2
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Group 2
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Group 1 = Group 2. Whilst the IPs are hundred of miles apart, they are in the same geographic area, the editing times, in general, do not preclude physical travel between the two points. No other sleepers seen. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems likely that the two groups are two users linked by meatpuppetry. However, it is just possible that they are two separate sockpuppeteers, so I have given Amanrajveer the benefit of the doubt and reduced the block length to three days from when it started. All finished, and ready for archiving. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:13, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

30 May 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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More of the same thing .... Tagged and blocked.--Hu12 (talk) 03:23, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Other related stuff; renaming account on hi.wikipedia.org, Picture of spammer and some various cross wiki activity;
 * hi:Special:Contributions/Vinujadhav
 * mr:Special:Contributions/Vinujadhav
 * commons.wikimedia.org/Special:Contributions/Vinujadhav
 * hi:Special:Contributions/Saddaadda
 * mr:Special:Contributions/Saddaadda
 * commons.wikimedia.org/Special:Contributions/Saddaadda]
 * --Hu12 (talk) 18:23, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * Last check was four weeks ago, so let's see which of the two previous groups these are related to and if there are more accounts out there. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:29, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ the following are the same:
 * Tanmaysasvadkar is . TN X Man  13:56, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked/tagged everyone. Nothing left to do but close. Tiptoety  talk 02:38, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Tanmaysasvadkar is . TN X Man  13:56, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked/tagged everyone. Nothing left to do but close. Tiptoety  talk 02:38, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Tanmaysasvadkar is . TN X Man  13:56, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked/tagged everyone. Nothing left to do but close. Tiptoety  talk 02:38, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked/tagged everyone. Nothing left to do but close. Tiptoety  talk 02:38, 1 June 2012 (UTC)