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Bunch of recently created/long dormant accounts that showed up to vote keep at Articles for deletion/Sunil Agrawal with suspiciously similar rationales. The three created user pages are also uncannily similar. The article was originally created by Ramendra.singh. MER-C 11:06, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * The remaining three accounts are ❌. However, it's about as obvious as it can be that they are affiliated with each other.
 * Blocked and tagged the confirmed accounts. I have no objection to the other accounts being blocked as meat.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:35, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * - What he said. Please block the unblocked SPAs. Thanks, GABgab 15:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. I'll mark as closed. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:19, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The remaining three accounts are ❌. However, it's about as obvious as it can be that they are affiliated with each other.
 * Blocked and tagged the confirmed accounts. I have no objection to the other accounts being blocked as meat.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:35, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * - What he said. Please block the unblocked SPAs. Thanks, GABgab 15:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. I'll mark as closed. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:19, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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has been previously confirmed and indef'd for being a sock of Vkdutta4u. Recently, while checking on possible non-free use criterion #9 violations, I came across User:Mcseladana/sandbox which is basically Vaibhav Global copied and pasted into a user sandbox. This article it turns out was created back in October 2015 by Gauravsinghgehlot and was also edited multiple times by Vkdutta4u. The article stayed pretty much unedited since Vkdutta4u and Gauravsinghgehlot were blocked back in Janaury 2017 except for some bot/maintenance edits, and edits made by in January 2018 and by Mcseladana within the past few days. It seems a little unusual that a new editor would decide that their very first edit ever on Wikipedia would be to copy-and-paste a fairly obscure article about a company into their user sandbox like Msceladana did here basically for the sole purpose of updating some financial information in the article unless there was a connection between Msceladana and the company or Msceladana is just a new account created to WP:EVADE a previous block. The Vaibhav Global is being discussed at WP:AN and it appears a consensus is forming to delete per WP:G5; so, if there's really socking be done here, maybe it will stop once the article has been deleted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:39, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:45, 27 September 2018 (UTC)