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03 February 2016

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WillShowU was blocked for a week on 23 January for disruptive editing, and then indeffed on 25 January, and NamasteBali was created on 24 January, that is during the first block. Both accounts have been very interested in Dilwale (2015 film) (page history), Kolkata Knight Riders (page history), a cricket team in Calcutta/Kolkata, and cricketers who have played for them, and also show remarkable similarities in their editing, from insulting edit summaries to the edits they make. Such as both having tried to add a lower world-wide gross for Dilwale (WillShowU:, NamasteBali: , , ) Thomas.W talk 16:50, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts are ✅. Blocked and tagged. As an aside, see Sockpuppet investigations/Ambeinghari, where the master here is noted. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:13, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

18 February 2016

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New account making the same tell-tale type of edit on Dilwale (2015 film) as WillShowU and confirmed sock NamasteBali have made, adding a lower box-office gross for the film: MitziNovae, WillShowU , NamasteBali , , ,. Also shows interest in Kolkata Knight Riders, just like both of the others. Thomas.W talk 16:58, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * is also a common element at Bengal cricket team, where Mitzi edited. Swastik also edited at Kolkata Knight Riders. Swastik tended to be into football articles, not films, so this may not prove a fruitful avenue to explore, however, he was indeffed for socking. I will also note that, a suspected sock of AniceMathew, has a ton of edits at Kolkata Knight Riders, and was very active in cinema editing. He would be a more fruitful avenue of exploration. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:03, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I've already looked at connections to AniceMathew (see this from two weeks ago), but feel it doesn't really matter whose sock WillShowU is. But there's no doubt in my mind that he's someone's sock... Thomas.W talk 19:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked, tagged, along with:
 * Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:16, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:16, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

13 May 2016

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Three areas of intersection between WillShowU and KootharaCountry with two articles spaced 110 and 111 days from WillShowU.

One of these articles is Kolkata Knight Riders, which contains edits by NamasteBali, a CU confirmed sock of WillShowU, and by MitziNovae, a CU-confirmed sock. If we go further back, we see edits from RameshNambiath, a suspected sock of AniceMathew. That might actually be our master, although I know that Kailash brought that up at AniceMathew's SPI page, but the CU data was stale. Anice had a tendency to be snippy and abusive in edit summaries, which Koothara also seems capable of.

I also see intersections between Koothara and WillShowU socks at Massu Engira Masilamani a 2015 film. Koothara: NamasteBali:

On WillShowU's talk page, there were a string of notes and warnings, and the user failed to respond to any of them until he was blocked, despite having a decent command of English. Similarly, Koothara is growing a list of warnings, despite having a decent command of English.

Also, with only 127 edits under his belt, Koothara is using efn templates (I've been editing here for years and still haven't used one of those) and seems proficient with citation templates and such.

WillShowU was also known for making unilateral decisions for articles like here where he proclaims worldwide gross is added after full run and here where he writes worldwide gross can be added at the end. Please. and here where he writes For God's Sake, listen to me. I dont have the time to take a silly thing to the talk page. We will add gross at the end, otherwise different people will come with different sources, vandalize the page or start an edit war. Please use your brain. This is identical in substance to this edit by Koothara, where he writes For Indian films, box office figures are not updated everyday like Hollywood films. So how does that policy apply here? It leads to confusions and disruptive edits from multiple users. I think its better to enter the final gross only.

I think this warrants a CU and any additional sleuthing into other possible sockmasters or unidentified accounts would be appreciated. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:41, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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✅. . Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:02, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

19 May 2016

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The last WillShowU sock, KootharaCountry, was indeffed about a week ago. AnnieAlabaster is a new account, created on 15 May 2016, but oddly not used until 4 days later, today. Well, perhaps not so oddly, since it coincides with how we autoconfirm accounts. A number of the previous socks combined two words with caps on each word, like KootharaCountry, MitziNovae, NamasteBali, and so forth. AnnieAlabaster is consistent with this.

KootharaCountry in this edit removed a reference from the cinematography parameter of the infobox at 24 (2016 film). AnnieAlabaster did the same.

Koothara made mostly mobile edits, as has AnnieAlabaster.

AnnieAlabaster has also edited Spadikam George, as has AniceMathew and one of Anice's socks, MegaPowerStar. I believe AniceMathew to be the correct sockmaster of this account, but prior attempts to link them were unsuccessful because of stale CU data.

CU requested, please, and since he's been a pain in the past, a sleeper check might be prudent. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:00, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked and tagged. I ran a deep check the last time. Time-consuming and came up with zilch. I ain't doing it again so soon. I slept through the check; does that count? Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:41, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Thanks . Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:58, 19 May 2016 (UTC)