This is to do with a theatre group called Abhivyakti Natya Manch. There are a few more accounts involved that I know of but they are mostly stale so I'm not listing here. They have been spamming multiple biographies and plays of their group on here. All edits are linked to that, except Chitransh25 who was kind enough to invite me to take a look at the hinky stuff going on in this area, albeit unintentionally. Cyphoidbomb has been trying to deal with this mess longer than I have and may likely want to add more to it.
Some of the currently undeleted articles that are part of this are Krishna Kumar Srivastava, Shamim Azad (actor).
While the account names indicate that they are different people within the group, the behavior suggests that it's one person operating accounts under the different names. I'm sure there are other group member names that haven't been unearthed yet, and a CU will be helpful. — Spaceman Spiff 18:09, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims. Thanks to SS for slugging through this pile of crap. Although we've already resolved most of the issues, here are my notes:
The above is mostly just stuff I've logged in my private notes. I think Bbb23 has found all the main problem accounts, at least the ones I was aware of. Thanks all.
Shamim Azad ANM Hira Thind
Duck: sole edits have been to re-create Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav (created by puppeteer) at new spelling Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsava after the former was redirected twice: [14] Same refs were used as recently blocked sock User:Piku pk: [15]. Note that admin User:Anthony Appleyard has just history-merged the new fork to old: [16], and I've just moved the article back to Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav. Wikishovel ( talk) 17:00, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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This is a huge sock and meat farm that involves promotion of a local drama troupe. This one is no different as the only edits are adding an image to their main article Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav. As it's been a while, I'm bringing here to see if there are any more (there usually are). — Spaceman Spiff 10:50, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
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Recreation of previously blocked user Shubha3039's article Ishteyak Khan and definitely not a new user. Pront Pine was registered in April this year and created his first article Shamim Azaad in May which included some templates which are not possible to use for a brand new user e.g. DEFAULTSORT, Use Indian English, the sources are very well formatted, sections are on their places per MOS, the use of categories and infobox. Pront Pine also recreated deleted article Alok Pandey earlier created by Abhyudaya bharat as Alok pandey. Smells like undisclosed paid editing. Thank you – GSS ( talk| c| em) 16:24, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with the history of this farm so pinging SpacemanSpiff who blocked Shubha3039 and deleted Ishteyak Khan to take a look at this if he can find any similarities. Thank you – GSS ( talk| c| em) 16:48, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
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Very similar username to Hira Thind ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Nihal Thind ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), editing in the same area (Indian film and theatre actors mostly Punjabi) and creating the same kind of promotional articles. The account was registered in 2019 and their first creation was Alok Pandey previously created by one of Shamimanm socks and then linked it at Shahjahanpur district ( diff) and Shahjahanpur ( diff) exactly like their previous sock Pront Pine ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) at the same place under actor Rajpal Yadav ( diff, diff). A week after creating "Alok Pandey" they uploaded File:Alok Pandey in 2018.jpg using a sock account Rising Artists ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). SpacemanSpiff is inactive since last month so pinging Cyphoidbomb. GSS 💬 07:54, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
At first I thought that an article by the name of "Alok Pandey" already exists, so I created a page with the name of "Alok Pandey (film actor)".But I have now searched that there is no page with this name, so I think that this page should be moved to the name of "Alok Pandey", he repeated the same trick with The Game of Votes (book) which they created just three days after The Game of Votes was draftified by user The Mirror Cracked and then a week after they moved it back to the original title with the same comment which is not possible because they were notified that their page was moved to draftspace. GSS 💬 05:45, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
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Draft:Rahul Jain (singer) exists with a large UPE notice at the top of it thanks to edits from Shamimanm sock Virenderthind2019. Index Crin created Rahul Jain (singer). I think they tried to be surreptitious by not exactly doing a copy-paste move (see this first edit, but when you look at the totality of the current version of the article vs. the current version of the draft, it's pretty obvious they copied all the discography content and references, down to the bad grammar and erroneous formatting. I only see one other area of intersection at Sunanda Sharma, so that's not particularly helpful. I also note that the two editors' edit summaries are not exactly formatted the same, so there is *some* room for question as to whether these are related, hence my CU. The style of this new user's (Index Crin's) edits though, feel like undisclosed paid editing to me, especially when you read some of the content at another article this newbie created, Sudhanshu Mani.
"His leadership as the General Manager of Indian Railways’ Integral Coach Factory ... resulted in Indian railways breaking the barrier of import of rolling stocks and a modern train set was developed indigenously from concept to design to engineering to manufacture and delivery all in a short period of eighteen months."I mean, that's straight off of someone's CV intro letter, right?
"His experience in the field of Rolling stock engineering and technology is exceptional and unmatched."
"This train caught the imagination of the country..."
Etc. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:23, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
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Virenderthind2019 was blocked on July 19, 2020 after a sockpuppet investigation led by GSS. The pattern is uncanningly similar, especially in the creation of pages of not so notable actors, film-makers and what not - Sudhanshu Rai (the director), Detective Boomrah (the fictional character/web-series by the same director), Aakanksha Sareen, Kruti Mahesh (choreographer) (this one is similar to Alok Pandey page, created to bypass the block at Kruti Mahesh and to get rid of the detection), Pushpdeep Bhardwaj, Ranjish He Sahi (this one is created to challenge the AfD of its director; Pushpdeep Bhardwaj - admitted by IndaneLove), etc. Besides that, to outsmart us, as soon as the ID was created, as a first thing first, they intentionally nominated a number of pages created by Virenderthind2019 for AfD discussions... just to make sure, in case, in future if there is any SPI investigation happens - they can easily counter us. But, if we look at the Editor Interaction Tool - we can easily see a trail which reveals a number of common interest shared by these IDs at certain pages such as Jass Manak (& more). This is a classic well-coordinated sockpuppetry at two different timelines.- Hatchens ( talk) 02:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
This is to do with a theatre group called Abhivyakti Natya Manch. There are a few more accounts involved that I know of but they are mostly stale so I'm not listing here. They have been spamming multiple biographies and plays of their group on here. All edits are linked to that, except Chitransh25 who was kind enough to invite me to take a look at the hinky stuff going on in this area, albeit unintentionally. Cyphoidbomb has been trying to deal with this mess longer than I have and may likely want to add more to it.
Some of the currently undeleted articles that are part of this are Krishna Kumar Srivastava, Shamim Azad (actor).
While the account names indicate that they are different people within the group, the behavior suggests that it's one person operating accounts under the different names. I'm sure there are other group member names that haven't been unearthed yet, and a CU will be helpful. — Spaceman Spiff 18:09, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims. Thanks to SS for slugging through this pile of crap. Although we've already resolved most of the issues, here are my notes:
The above is mostly just stuff I've logged in my private notes. I think Bbb23 has found all the main problem accounts, at least the ones I was aware of. Thanks all.
Shamim Azad ANM Hira Thind
Duck: sole edits have been to re-create Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav (created by puppeteer) at new spelling Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsava after the former was redirected twice: [14] Same refs were used as recently blocked sock User:Piku pk: [15]. Note that admin User:Anthony Appleyard has just history-merged the new fork to old: [16], and I've just moved the article back to Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav. Wikishovel ( talk) 17:00, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
This is a huge sock and meat farm that involves promotion of a local drama troupe. This one is no different as the only edits are adding an image to their main article Shahjahanpur Rang Mahotsav. As it's been a while, I'm bringing here to see if there are any more (there usually are). — Spaceman Spiff 10:50, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
Recreation of previously blocked user Shubha3039's article Ishteyak Khan and definitely not a new user. Pront Pine was registered in April this year and created his first article Shamim Azaad in May which included some templates which are not possible to use for a brand new user e.g. DEFAULTSORT, Use Indian English, the sources are very well formatted, sections are on their places per MOS, the use of categories and infobox. Pront Pine also recreated deleted article Alok Pandey earlier created by Abhyudaya bharat as Alok pandey. Smells like undisclosed paid editing. Thank you – GSS ( talk| c| em) 16:24, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with the history of this farm so pinging SpacemanSpiff who blocked Shubha3039 and deleted Ishteyak Khan to take a look at this if he can find any similarities. Thank you – GSS ( talk| c| em) 16:48, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
Very similar username to Hira Thind ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Nihal Thind ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), editing in the same area (Indian film and theatre actors mostly Punjabi) and creating the same kind of promotional articles. The account was registered in 2019 and their first creation was Alok Pandey previously created by one of Shamimanm socks and then linked it at Shahjahanpur district ( diff) and Shahjahanpur ( diff) exactly like their previous sock Pront Pine ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) at the same place under actor Rajpal Yadav ( diff, diff). A week after creating "Alok Pandey" they uploaded File:Alok Pandey in 2018.jpg using a sock account Rising Artists ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). SpacemanSpiff is inactive since last month so pinging Cyphoidbomb. GSS 💬 07:54, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
At first I thought that an article by the name of "Alok Pandey" already exists, so I created a page with the name of "Alok Pandey (film actor)".But I have now searched that there is no page with this name, so I think that this page should be moved to the name of "Alok Pandey", he repeated the same trick with The Game of Votes (book) which they created just three days after The Game of Votes was draftified by user The Mirror Cracked and then a week after they moved it back to the original title with the same comment which is not possible because they were notified that their page was moved to draftspace. GSS 💬 05:45, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
Draft:Rahul Jain (singer) exists with a large UPE notice at the top of it thanks to edits from Shamimanm sock Virenderthind2019. Index Crin created Rahul Jain (singer). I think they tried to be surreptitious by not exactly doing a copy-paste move (see this first edit, but when you look at the totality of the current version of the article vs. the current version of the draft, it's pretty obvious they copied all the discography content and references, down to the bad grammar and erroneous formatting. I only see one other area of intersection at Sunanda Sharma, so that's not particularly helpful. I also note that the two editors' edit summaries are not exactly formatted the same, so there is *some* room for question as to whether these are related, hence my CU. The style of this new user's (Index Crin's) edits though, feel like undisclosed paid editing to me, especially when you read some of the content at another article this newbie created, Sudhanshu Mani.
"His leadership as the General Manager of Indian Railways’ Integral Coach Factory ... resulted in Indian railways breaking the barrier of import of rolling stocks and a modern train set was developed indigenously from concept to design to engineering to manufacture and delivery all in a short period of eighteen months."I mean, that's straight off of someone's CV intro letter, right?
"His experience in the field of Rolling stock engineering and technology is exceptional and unmatched."
"This train caught the imagination of the country..."
Etc. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:23, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
Virenderthind2019 was blocked on July 19, 2020 after a sockpuppet investigation led by GSS. The pattern is uncanningly similar, especially in the creation of pages of not so notable actors, film-makers and what not - Sudhanshu Rai (the director), Detective Boomrah (the fictional character/web-series by the same director), Aakanksha Sareen, Kruti Mahesh (choreographer) (this one is similar to Alok Pandey page, created to bypass the block at Kruti Mahesh and to get rid of the detection), Pushpdeep Bhardwaj, Ranjish He Sahi (this one is created to challenge the AfD of its director; Pushpdeep Bhardwaj - admitted by IndaneLove), etc. Besides that, to outsmart us, as soon as the ID was created, as a first thing first, they intentionally nominated a number of pages created by Virenderthind2019 for AfD discussions... just to make sure, in case, in future if there is any SPI investigation happens - they can easily counter us. But, if we look at the Editor Interaction Tool - we can easily see a trail which reveals a number of common interest shared by these IDs at certain pages such as Jass Manak (& more). This is a classic well-coordinated sockpuppetry at two different timelines.- Hatchens ( talk) 02:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.