Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dimpletisha

Dimpletisha

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dimpletisha/Archive.

10 February 2021

– A checkuser has completed a check on relevant users in this case, and it is now awaiting administration and close.

Suspected sockpuppets

• Dramionex (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• AhilyaRai (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Gbhgcvvb (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Rivusa (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Harshad Chopda is a frequent target for promotional content, i.e. non-notable awards and other fluff. Based on some off-wiki info, I suspect there is a fan element at work here, but it's also possible it's paid editing.

• AhilyaRai was blocked as a suspected sock. Here we see them inserting fluffy content about the Indian Television Academy Award for "GR8! Performer Of The Year" sourced to Pinkvilla. We also see the addition of numerous Chopda quotes talking about himself. "Sahir is a very complex one. He has a lot of shades. He is more than what meets the eye." There's other stuff too--pointing out the Lions Gold Award and noting that he was on Eastern Eye's 50 Sexiest Asian Men list. They also point out that he won a Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival Award, erroneously linking to Dada Saheb Phalke Award, which is TOTALLY unrelated. (See WP:DADASAHEB.) This "mistake" seems like an attempt to legitimise a non-notable award mill accolade.
• In these edits we see Rivusa make the same changes, reinstating the same flimsy awards: Lions Gold, Eastern Eye, Dada Saheb Film Festival Award, etc. Same quotes are there, and so forth. If we look at the last edit AhilyaRai made and the most recent edit that Rivusa made, the difference between the two pages is minimal, yet all the prior suspects had been reverted in between. So Rivusa basically took AhilyaRai's content and cleaned it up a bit. This is very ducky.
• Here we see Gbhgcvvb (an obvious throw-away account) injecting content about some Times of India clickbait list of desirable men and Gold Awards, sourced to Pinkvilla, and here they add the "GR8! Performer Of The Year".

Since this editor has abused multiple accounts, hoping we can check for sleepers. And even if we can't link to the actual master, if we could see whether Rivusa is evading the Dramionex block, that would be helpful. It looks like AhilyaRai might be stale. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:34, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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• Agree, looks like obvious sockpuppetry adding the exact same promotional information as previous sockpuppets, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 00:14, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• I could only run the accounts that were not stale. The accounts I could run are  Possible to one another. Same country, but different geolocations and user agents. This will need a behavioral investigation. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 06:48, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

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