At 08:10, on 23 September 2016, User Michaellko created this draft about an obscure local wrestler who was supposedly active in 1930s. At 08:26, they blanked the page. At 08:38, user Yavarai's account got created. And at 08:47, Yavarai recreated the wrestler's draft by copy-pasting it from User Michaellko's page.
With this edit, Michaellko removed the notability tag from an article, which was created by user Yavarai. And two minutes later, Yavarai logged in & edited the article. Here also Michaellko removed a tag from an article, which was created by user Yavarai. And two minutes later, Yavarai logged in & edited it. In fact, there are also other instances when Michaellko removed tags from those articles which were created by Yavarai, e.g. [1], [2], & [3]. And I guess, leaving behind Yavarai's creations, he never bothered to remove tags from any other page.
Yavarai also created Upendra Rai. Interestingly, this article was first created by Michaellko, but it got speedy deleted. - NitinMlk ( talk) 20:10, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
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@ Yavarai: Do you have anything to say here?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:56, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
कलमकार was registered 2 days after Yavarai was blocked but started editing on the English Wikipedia some time in November. कलमकार's style of creating articles is very similar to Yavarai. If you look at his userpage on the Hindi Wikipedia ( link). Information in his infobox is exactly the same as Yavarai’s userpage on the English Wikipedia. FITINDIA 17:56, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
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Possibly related to Michaellko. Similar editing style and re-creation of articles that were previously mass deleted. Mohd.Faheem stands out as it even duplicates the same error in the title. Working off the same "database" at least. Duck... pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 09:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
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User:Pirate dzns was blocked for disruptive editing, mainly at village article Kaimla, and its district Karnal district. One of their frequent unsourced additions to Kaimla was about a local athlete, Draft:Samarth Ror.
Today LOUTSOCK 106.204.227.6 began with edits to Kaimla [4], then added a redlink to Maratha Virender Verma (Karnal district politician) at Ekta Shakti: [5], with a misleading edit summary. Six minutes later, new account SamarthRor was created, then immediately created Draft:Maratha Virender Verma. SamarthRor's next edit was to undo my reversion of LOUTSOCK at Balraj Panwar: [6].
I was originally going to open this as a new SPI for block evasion by User:Pirate dzns. However, LOUTSOCK also re-added infobox to Balraj Panwar: [7] previously added by blocked sock of User: Michaellko User:Meetupinfo [8], again using the photo added by User:Pirate dzns. So I suspect that User:Pirate dzns is actually a sock of User:Michaellko, along with new account SamarthRor. Wikishovel ( talk) 07:07, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
SamarthRor has just created Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Michaellko. Wikishovel ( talk) 07:15, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Same MO as blocked sock User:Pirate dzns's edits at Kaimla: promotion of someone non-notable from the village, with addition of unsourced WP:OR, and attempted description of the village as a city. Pirate dzns' edit-warring focused on unsourced addition of Samarth Ror, for whom we never did find a single reference.
First, 106.204.227.6 tries to change Kaimla from a village to city, a few days after semi-protection expired [9]. This is reverted, and IP blocked for a month for socking.
SandeepKaimliya (created 22 May) then adds Samarth Kaimliya to Kaimla, Baalveer 4 Dhindora and Gaami, sourced only by an IMDB reference claiming that he appears in the films: [10], [11], [12]. They then try to change Kaimla to a city again, contradicting the sources cited: [13]. They then add the same unsourced claims about tourist attractions that Pirate dzns did, with slightly improved formatting: [14].
While these edits are going on at Kaimla on the 25th, KaimlaCity is created, makes overlapping edits with SandeepKaimliya at Kaimla and Balraj Panwar, and uploads copyrighted image File:Kaimla.jpg to Commons.
106.204.226.75 then adds File:Kaimla.jpg to Kaimla [15], minutes after upload to Commons by KaimlaCity. Same anon then creates Draft:Kohand (note redlinked Kohand in Kaimla), and Draft:Samarth Kaimliya.
User:Star Mississippi noticed the pattern at about the same time I did, and has semi-protected Kaimla (with a courteous note at my user talk), to avoid a repeat of the sockpuppet edit-warring grief. SandeepKaimliya hasn't replied at their user talk yet to my warning about SP/MP with KaimlaCity. Wikishovel ( talk) 00:03, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
Adding Pacific World, created 18 May. On a spree of submitting drafts created by other new editors, including Draft:Dinger Majra created today by KaimlaCity above, which was moved to draft as an unsourced stub about an obscure village. Requesting checkuser for further sleepers. Wikishovel ( talk) 19:25, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
User:Star Mississippi had to reapply EC protection to Kaimla on 25 May. Today KaimlaCity made the same unprotect request at its talk page as master made on 10 April. Current: [16], previous: [17]. On a lighter note, here's Pirate dzn's LinkedIn. Wikishovel ( talk) 08:53, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Obvious block evasion. SamarthKaimla created 3 June, and second edit was to add Samarth Kaimliya to Balraj Panwar: [18]. Wikishovel ( talk) 09:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
At 08:10, on 23 September 2016, User Michaellko created this draft about an obscure local wrestler who was supposedly active in 1930s. At 08:26, they blanked the page. At 08:38, user Yavarai's account got created. And at 08:47, Yavarai recreated the wrestler's draft by copy-pasting it from User Michaellko's page.
With this edit, Michaellko removed the notability tag from an article, which was created by user Yavarai. And two minutes later, Yavarai logged in & edited the article. Here also Michaellko removed a tag from an article, which was created by user Yavarai. And two minutes later, Yavarai logged in & edited it. In fact, there are also other instances when Michaellko removed tags from those articles which were created by Yavarai, e.g. [1], [2], & [3]. And I guess, leaving behind Yavarai's creations, he never bothered to remove tags from any other page.
Yavarai also created Upendra Rai. Interestingly, this article was first created by Michaellko, but it got speedy deleted. - NitinMlk ( talk) 20:10, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
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@ Yavarai: Do you have anything to say here?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:56, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
कलमकार was registered 2 days after Yavarai was blocked but started editing on the English Wikipedia some time in November. कलमकार's style of creating articles is very similar to Yavarai. If you look at his userpage on the Hindi Wikipedia ( link). Information in his infobox is exactly the same as Yavarai’s userpage on the English Wikipedia. FITINDIA 17:56, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
Possibly related to Michaellko. Similar editing style and re-creation of articles that were previously mass deleted. Mohd.Faheem stands out as it even duplicates the same error in the title. Working off the same "database" at least. Duck... pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 09:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
User:Pirate dzns was blocked for disruptive editing, mainly at village article Kaimla, and its district Karnal district. One of their frequent unsourced additions to Kaimla was about a local athlete, Draft:Samarth Ror.
Today LOUTSOCK 106.204.227.6 began with edits to Kaimla [4], then added a redlink to Maratha Virender Verma (Karnal district politician) at Ekta Shakti: [5], with a misleading edit summary. Six minutes later, new account SamarthRor was created, then immediately created Draft:Maratha Virender Verma. SamarthRor's next edit was to undo my reversion of LOUTSOCK at Balraj Panwar: [6].
I was originally going to open this as a new SPI for block evasion by User:Pirate dzns. However, LOUTSOCK also re-added infobox to Balraj Panwar: [7] previously added by blocked sock of User: Michaellko User:Meetupinfo [8], again using the photo added by User:Pirate dzns. So I suspect that User:Pirate dzns is actually a sock of User:Michaellko, along with new account SamarthRor. Wikishovel ( talk) 07:07, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
SamarthRor has just created Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Michaellko. Wikishovel ( talk) 07:15, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Same MO as blocked sock User:Pirate dzns's edits at Kaimla: promotion of someone non-notable from the village, with addition of unsourced WP:OR, and attempted description of the village as a city. Pirate dzns' edit-warring focused on unsourced addition of Samarth Ror, for whom we never did find a single reference.
First, 106.204.227.6 tries to change Kaimla from a village to city, a few days after semi-protection expired [9]. This is reverted, and IP blocked for a month for socking.
SandeepKaimliya (created 22 May) then adds Samarth Kaimliya to Kaimla, Baalveer 4 Dhindora and Gaami, sourced only by an IMDB reference claiming that he appears in the films: [10], [11], [12]. They then try to change Kaimla to a city again, contradicting the sources cited: [13]. They then add the same unsourced claims about tourist attractions that Pirate dzns did, with slightly improved formatting: [14].
While these edits are going on at Kaimla on the 25th, KaimlaCity is created, makes overlapping edits with SandeepKaimliya at Kaimla and Balraj Panwar, and uploads copyrighted image File:Kaimla.jpg to Commons.
106.204.226.75 then adds File:Kaimla.jpg to Kaimla [15], minutes after upload to Commons by KaimlaCity. Same anon then creates Draft:Kohand (note redlinked Kohand in Kaimla), and Draft:Samarth Kaimliya.
User:Star Mississippi noticed the pattern at about the same time I did, and has semi-protected Kaimla (with a courteous note at my user talk), to avoid a repeat of the sockpuppet edit-warring grief. SandeepKaimliya hasn't replied at their user talk yet to my warning about SP/MP with KaimlaCity. Wikishovel ( talk) 00:03, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
Adding Pacific World, created 18 May. On a spree of submitting drafts created by other new editors, including Draft:Dinger Majra created today by KaimlaCity above, which was moved to draft as an unsourced stub about an obscure village. Requesting checkuser for further sleepers. Wikishovel ( talk) 19:25, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
User:Star Mississippi had to reapply EC protection to Kaimla on 25 May. Today KaimlaCity made the same unprotect request at its talk page as master made on 10 April. Current: [16], previous: [17]. On a lighter note, here's Pirate dzn's LinkedIn. Wikishovel ( talk) 08:53, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Obvious block evasion. SamarthKaimla created 3 June, and second edit was to add Samarth Kaimliya to Balraj Panwar: [18]. Wikishovel ( talk) 09:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)