On August 1, Richa101091 created a draft article Draft:Prime Focus Technologies. On August 11, it was moved into mainspace by Kdzrules [1]. It was moved to the odd title, " Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), a title Richa101091 has previously created it at and had it speedy deleted at. This was doen to avoid page protection at Prime Focus Technologies, but I find it unlikely two independent users would pick such a title on their own - they are either socks or meatpuppets. Note, that the Prime Focus Technologies was locked down to do recreation by socks of Eli786 (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Eli786/Archive) - I don't see any actual evidence these two are socks of Eli, although it is not impossible.
In addition to PFT, Richa101091 and Kdzrules have overlapped editing on Prime Focus Limited - parent company of PFT; Namit Malhotra - an important PF person; Merzin Tavaria - another PF person; and Daler Mehndi - an unrelated singer. No way that is coincidence with so few edits by each. Either they are the same person, or are working for the same PR firm.
Request CU to confirm if these two are actual socks, or just meatpuppets, & possibly also to determine if they are related to Eli786. ThaddeusB ( talk) 17:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
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User:Rupali Lohiya created page Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures LLP yesterday, it was deleted under CSD A7. Next day User:VidhiJ recreated the same page. After I tagged it for CSD again, the user repeatedly removed the speedy tag until receiving final warning. As soon as final warning was received sockpuppeteer User:Richa101091 suddenly started editing the article. This caused me to check the talk page and contribs of Richa101091, talk page was full of CSD notices for film companies, and contribs were only to film company articles. Requesting check user to find any sleeper accounts and confirm accounts are related. - War wizard90 ( talk) 07:03, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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Recreated Emmay entertainment article. @ DeltaQuad:Since this one account is a WP:DUCK of the other's I didn't request CheckUser, but since you were heavily involved in the last case, I wanted to notify you in case you wanted to do anything on the CU side. - War wizard90 ( talk) 06:18, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
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Clerk note: All his edits are deleted, so I can't see them, but if he really recreated Emmay entertainment article, than Looks like a duck to me. Vanjagenije (talk) 19:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Reposted the Emmay Entertainment article at Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures LLP - See Special:Diff/653897814 - War wizard90 ( talk) 01:32, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
All of these accounts edited the same article
Emraan Hashmi:
More notes: ZmeuraCapsuni also edited on
Mr. X (film) on March 28th, and that same day Shahzebali798 added Mr. X to the filmography section of the Emraan Hashmi articles as seen here:
Special:Diff/653994914.
More possible linked socks that have edited
Mr. X (film):
Users DB135 and Golden5220 have both edited Mr. X (film), Roy (film), Dolly Ki Doli, and Badlapur (film), more socks editing on Badlapur (film):
I randomly picked 1 name from each group and put it into the Editor Interaction Analyzer for these results:
[1] to further link all these accounts. This led me to check the page history of
Bang Bang! which Prithviraj2002, Shwayze, and
Samyamoy (note username similar to above "Jay Samyamoy") have all edited, and brings into question the following accounts:
Here is another Editor Interaction analysis to link the Sockmaster (Richa101091) which shows Samyamoy and Richa101091 have 10 similar pages edited, Samyamoy and Golden5220 have edited 3 pages in common, and all 3 of those accounts have edited on
Kick (2014 film):
[2] Suspicious accounts editing on
Kick (2014 film) include:
A 3rd Editor Interaction analysis to further link these accounts:
[3]
Here we go again, I am adding the following user to the investigation:
Unfortunately, if I keep going through more contributions, I undoubtedly could find many more. Hopefully CU can dredge up some more sleepers from this, also check out the User Compare report, which is very telling and shows just how far-reaching this sock farm may be, 142 distinct pages have been edited by at least two of the above accounts. -
War wizard90 (
talk)
02:54, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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Recreated Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures LLP Special:Diff/668462037 - War wizard90 ( talk) 22:22, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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obvious sock of Richa101091 the Prime Focus fan, started editing Prime Focus Limited a few days after master was notified SPI was underway [3] Brianhe ( talk) 23:15, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
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Comment: It would be great if we could get a sleeper check against this account as well. - War wizard90 ( talk) 01:10, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
WP:DUCK attempting to get Prime Focus Technologies article reintroduced.
Two users edited now-deleted Prime Focus drafts with evasive caps and punct variations. User:Shrutikedia is obvious sock of blocked sock User:Pratkipedia.
Discussed at WP:COIN, opened SPI at request of FreeRangeFrog Brianhe ( talk) 23:04, 29 June 2015 (UTC) Brianhe ( talk) 23:04, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
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Group 4 – The following are Confirmed to each other, and although technically confirmed to one or more puppets, Behavioural evidence needs evaluation to determine if they’re related to Groups 1, 2 or 3:
Administrator note This is a horrendously complex case, with numerous accounts listed at several SPI pages, and CheckUser connecting together several groups of accounts, but leaving open the question of whether the groups are connected to one another. The filer says "User:Shrutikedia is obvious sock of blocked sock User:Pratkipedia." Those two accounts were clearly either the same person or else two people working for the same company, but Shrutikedia had not edited for almost five years when Pratkipedia first edited, so it is scarcely sockpuppetry, and in any case Shrutikedia has not edited for over six years now, so there's no point pursuing that one. All the other accounts listed here have clearly been used by editors who have been abusing multiple accounts, so I have blocked those that were not already blocked. At present, I don't have time to put in the work needed to decide whether all the groups are one sockpuppeteer or several, so I am leaving the case open. I may come back to it when I have more time, or someone else may be kind enough to do the job. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 10:59, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
My involvement started when I removed an obvious copyrighted image from Shraddha Kapoor page[ [9]], User:SpacemanSpiff filled me in that the originator is a known sock. On the now deleted commons it was claimed it was the persons own work on this (File:Shraddha Kapoor for Noblesse.jpg)[ [10]] it was given to us by the owner which would be suggestive that they are connected. The sceond photo is more telling about their good faith or lack there of "Because it is been given to us by Shraddha Kapoor her-self" Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 12:36, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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These accounts exist for no other purpose than recreating the salted Prime Focus Technologies as Prime focus technologies and associated Patrick Macdonald-King.
Additional behavioral evidence at WP:COIN#Patrick Macdonald-King ( permlink). Brianhe ( talk) 13:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
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All listed accounts are Confirmed matches to each other. At best, speaking in technical terms, this batch appears to be Possible. I'd probably just go with behavioral evidence to link the accounts with the accounts in the archive. No sleepers/other accounts found this time. Elockid( Boo!) 15:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
WP:DUCK per editing history. All SPAs for an Indian film company and/or executive. One of them "disclosed" paid editing in a hard-to-find location [11]. Note habitual reference to subject by first name alone in edit summary [12] and in edits like [13]. ☆ Bri ( talk) 20:13, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
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Filmfanatic500 is Stale. HenryWilkinson94 and VeryRealEditor are Likely to each other and Unrelated to Kabir Vaghela. Blocked the two non-stale puppets without tags. Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:33, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
On August 1, Richa101091 created a draft article Draft:Prime Focus Technologies. On August 11, it was moved into mainspace by Kdzrules [1]. It was moved to the odd title, " Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), a title Richa101091 has previously created it at and had it speedy deleted at. This was doen to avoid page protection at Prime Focus Technologies, but I find it unlikely two independent users would pick such a title on their own - they are either socks or meatpuppets. Note, that the Prime Focus Technologies was locked down to do recreation by socks of Eli786 (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Eli786/Archive) - I don't see any actual evidence these two are socks of Eli, although it is not impossible.
In addition to PFT, Richa101091 and Kdzrules have overlapped editing on Prime Focus Limited - parent company of PFT; Namit Malhotra - an important PF person; Merzin Tavaria - another PF person; and Daler Mehndi - an unrelated singer. No way that is coincidence with so few edits by each. Either they are the same person, or are working for the same PR firm.
Request CU to confirm if these two are actual socks, or just meatpuppets, & possibly also to determine if they are related to Eli786. ThaddeusB ( talk) 17:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
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User:Rupali Lohiya created page Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures LLP yesterday, it was deleted under CSD A7. Next day User:VidhiJ recreated the same page. After I tagged it for CSD again, the user repeatedly removed the speedy tag until receiving final warning. As soon as final warning was received sockpuppeteer User:Richa101091 suddenly started editing the article. This caused me to check the talk page and contribs of Richa101091, talk page was full of CSD notices for film companies, and contribs were only to film company articles. Requesting check user to find any sleeper accounts and confirm accounts are related. - War wizard90 ( talk) 07:03, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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Recreated Emmay entertainment article. @ DeltaQuad:Since this one account is a WP:DUCK of the other's I didn't request CheckUser, but since you were heavily involved in the last case, I wanted to notify you in case you wanted to do anything on the CU side. - War wizard90 ( talk) 06:18, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
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Clerk note: All his edits are deleted, so I can't see them, but if he really recreated Emmay entertainment article, than Looks like a duck to me. Vanjagenije (talk) 19:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Reposted the Emmay Entertainment article at Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures LLP - See Special:Diff/653897814 - War wizard90 ( talk) 01:32, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
All of these accounts edited the same article
Emraan Hashmi:
More notes: ZmeuraCapsuni also edited on
Mr. X (film) on March 28th, and that same day Shahzebali798 added Mr. X to the filmography section of the Emraan Hashmi articles as seen here:
Special:Diff/653994914.
More possible linked socks that have edited
Mr. X (film):
Users DB135 and Golden5220 have both edited Mr. X (film), Roy (film), Dolly Ki Doli, and Badlapur (film), more socks editing on Badlapur (film):
I randomly picked 1 name from each group and put it into the Editor Interaction Analyzer for these results:
[1] to further link all these accounts. This led me to check the page history of
Bang Bang! which Prithviraj2002, Shwayze, and
Samyamoy (note username similar to above "Jay Samyamoy") have all edited, and brings into question the following accounts:
Here is another Editor Interaction analysis to link the Sockmaster (Richa101091) which shows Samyamoy and Richa101091 have 10 similar pages edited, Samyamoy and Golden5220 have edited 3 pages in common, and all 3 of those accounts have edited on
Kick (2014 film):
[2] Suspicious accounts editing on
Kick (2014 film) include:
A 3rd Editor Interaction analysis to further link these accounts:
[3]
Here we go again, I am adding the following user to the investigation:
Unfortunately, if I keep going through more contributions, I undoubtedly could find many more. Hopefully CU can dredge up some more sleepers from this, also check out the User Compare report, which is very telling and shows just how far-reaching this sock farm may be, 142 distinct pages have been edited by at least two of the above accounts. -
War wizard90 (
talk)
02:54, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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Recreated Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures LLP Special:Diff/668462037 - War wizard90 ( talk) 22:22, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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obvious sock of Richa101091 the Prime Focus fan, started editing Prime Focus Limited a few days after master was notified SPI was underway [3] Brianhe ( talk) 23:15, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
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Comment: It would be great if we could get a sleeper check against this account as well. - War wizard90 ( talk) 01:10, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
WP:DUCK attempting to get Prime Focus Technologies article reintroduced.
Two users edited now-deleted Prime Focus drafts with evasive caps and punct variations. User:Shrutikedia is obvious sock of blocked sock User:Pratkipedia.
Discussed at WP:COIN, opened SPI at request of FreeRangeFrog Brianhe ( talk) 23:04, 29 June 2015 (UTC) Brianhe ( talk) 23:04, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
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Group 4 – The following are Confirmed to each other, and although technically confirmed to one or more puppets, Behavioural evidence needs evaluation to determine if they’re related to Groups 1, 2 or 3:
Administrator note This is a horrendously complex case, with numerous accounts listed at several SPI pages, and CheckUser connecting together several groups of accounts, but leaving open the question of whether the groups are connected to one another. The filer says "User:Shrutikedia is obvious sock of blocked sock User:Pratkipedia." Those two accounts were clearly either the same person or else two people working for the same company, but Shrutikedia had not edited for almost five years when Pratkipedia first edited, so it is scarcely sockpuppetry, and in any case Shrutikedia has not edited for over six years now, so there's no point pursuing that one. All the other accounts listed here have clearly been used by editors who have been abusing multiple accounts, so I have blocked those that were not already blocked. At present, I don't have time to put in the work needed to decide whether all the groups are one sockpuppeteer or several, so I am leaving the case open. I may come back to it when I have more time, or someone else may be kind enough to do the job. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 10:59, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
My involvement started when I removed an obvious copyrighted image from Shraddha Kapoor page[ [9]], User:SpacemanSpiff filled me in that the originator is a known sock. On the now deleted commons it was claimed it was the persons own work on this (File:Shraddha Kapoor for Noblesse.jpg)[ [10]] it was given to us by the owner which would be suggestive that they are connected. The sceond photo is more telling about their good faith or lack there of "Because it is been given to us by Shraddha Kapoor her-self" Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 12:36, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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These accounts exist for no other purpose than recreating the salted Prime Focus Technologies as Prime focus technologies and associated Patrick Macdonald-King.
Additional behavioral evidence at WP:COIN#Patrick Macdonald-King ( permlink). Brianhe ( talk) 13:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
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All listed accounts are Confirmed matches to each other. At best, speaking in technical terms, this batch appears to be Possible. I'd probably just go with behavioral evidence to link the accounts with the accounts in the archive. No sleepers/other accounts found this time. Elockid( Boo!) 15:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
WP:DUCK per editing history. All SPAs for an Indian film company and/or executive. One of them "disclosed" paid editing in a hard-to-find location [11]. Note habitual reference to subject by first name alone in edit summary [12] and in edits like [13]. ☆ Bri ( talk) 20:13, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
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Filmfanatic500 is Stale. HenryWilkinson94 and VeryRealEditor are Likely to each other and Unrelated to Kabir Vaghela. Blocked the two non-stale puppets without tags. Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:33, 3 September 2019 (UTC)