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BalPakna2021

04 October 2021

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Obvious sockfarm trying to publish a hoax article - SobuJ Ahmed. All these accounts have been editing that article, all use near identical edit summaries (i.e. variations on "Fixed"). Sobuj boyati uploaded a photo of the article subject to commons, tagging it as own work, [1] SanzidWi then showed up to add a caption [2]. Sobuj boyati has been repeatedley removing the AFD templates from the article, e.g. [3] following which BalPakna2021 went to request page protection [4]. BalPakna2021 adds fake acting credits to articles, [5] SanzidWi shows up to add wikilinks to the article [6].

Based on editing overlap at Iftakar Uddin Emon (repeatedly blanking deletion templates) this might be related to an older sock farm (Xdbhaiii/Yourwiki007), but I'm not certain, hence the request for checkuser. 192.76.8.74 (talk) 04:03, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Rajneeti (2017 film) is an example of where all these accounts PLUS User:Sourav ahmed Khan interact. Sourav not yet Warned or Blocked, but has been many times Reverted for adding own name ("Sourav Ahmed") to cast lists of movies. David notMD (talk) 10:19, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sourav is now blocked and subject to his own SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sourav ahmed Khan Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 18:42, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Rolled back/reverted every contribution by User:BhongChong, another obvious sock. InvalidOStalk 12:36, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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This case is being reviewed by Spicy as part of the clerk training process. Please allow him to process the entire case without interference, and pose any questions or concerns either on his talk page or on this page if more appropriate.

  •  Clerk endorsed - that's a lot of accounts, all being similarly disruptive. Please CU to confirm that we've got them all, investigate potential connections to other sockfarms as noted in the filing, and perhaps see if a rangeblock is possible given the persistent disruption. (n.b.: Donnumberonemoviesauthor is the oldest account, but I'll wait to move the case until CU results are in). Thanks, Spicy (talk) 13:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I blocked BhongChong for disruption regardless of whether it's sock/meat. Star Mississippi 14:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  In progress - ~TNT (she/her • talk) 20:50, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Confusing results, feel free to query if I've not explained it well.

05 October 2021

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Blatant sockpuppetry. All accounts overlap heavily at Sourav Chowdhury and have no interest other than promoting him. All remove the AfD tag repeatedly and all have the same edit summaries as each other (e.g. 'Fixed', 'Added') Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 08:08, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Added another one. I'll try to keep adding them as they pop up. Not sure if sleepers might be hiding in wait as well?

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26 October 2021

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More spam related to SobuJ Ahmed, see the contents of their sandbox → User:Hipo Chowdhury/sandbox. requesting checkuser because this editor has used huge numbers of sockpuppets in the past and they were caught socking again recently as DAZayedKha. 192.76.8.77 (talk) 23:39, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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@Girth Summit: Their sandbox seems to be a duplicate of the infobox from deleted article - this diff [7] even has the articles for deletion notice copy pasted from the article in it. 192.76.8.77 (talk) 16:58, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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09 November 2021

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WP:DUCK David Biddulph (talk) 11:47, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This case is being reviewed by Spicy as part of the clerk training process. Please allow him to process the entire case without interference, and pose any questions or concerns either on his talk page or on this page if more appropriate.

  •  Clerk endorsed - Yep, same promotion of SobuJ Ahmed and vandalizing the talk page of the admin who's been blocking their socks. Already blocked, but probably worth a sleeper check considering the tendency to operate multiple accounts at once. I find it especially curious that LalMalMax created a userpage for BdH1H2, though that account isn't clearly behaviourally related. Spicy (talk) 05:50, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  In progress - -- RoySmith (talk) 14:19, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • LalMalMax is  Confirmed. I also found (confirmed):
In addition, I found a few more that look like good technical matches, but I'll leave to a clerk to evaluate the editing history:
There was a lot of data to grovel over, so I wouldn't be surprised if I missed some. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:58, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

08 December 2021

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Draft:SobuJ Ahmed. Blocked as DUCK, but sleeper check please? We know there are more. Haven't yet semi'ed the draft since it catches flies, err, socks, but open to doing so Star Mississippi 14:31, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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