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Sakthi swaroop

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22 May 2016

Suspected sockpuppets

This is again part of the Civil Services Examination promo series, but it also involves self promo from the master (name account). Ira Singhal, Swathi Lakra, Benhur Mahesh Dutt Ekka are all creations from the master, when they are prodded or AfDed, the listed sock account shows up to deprod and wax at the AfDs ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In addition, the named account has spammed themselves into various articles and the sock account comes by to make it more presentable or give it some additional bling. For context, this self-promotion was covered (along with out prestigious Teahouse) by the New Indian Express. I think I've only touched the tip of this and I'm sure there's context and accounts that I haven't come to yet, so a CU would be beneficial IMO. —SpacemanSpiff 14:01, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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05 July 2016

Suspected sockpuppets

Both accounts were made within a half hour of each other and have just gone around PRODding articles about Indian civil servants. The rationales used are what were used by others in deletion discussions of articles created by this farm. There's no doubt that the two new accounts are socks of each other based on [5] and [6], the question is if they are linked to the old farm and also how many more there are right now. —SpacemanSpiff 08:03, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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14 February 2019

Suspected sockpuppets


I just blocked Maverickindian as a sock of Sakthi swaroop; the evidence is not on-wiki and thus cannot be presented in full due to privacy reasons, but the OTRS ticket associated with commons:File:Confirmtktlogo.png which Maverickindian uploaded is worth a look. Huon (talk) 16:44, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Filing merely for recordkeeping purposes. Huon (talk) 16:44, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]