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* {{noping|Hatchens}} was CUblocked by @[[User:Joe Roe|Joe Roe]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=131664902] and {{noping|RPSkokie}} was CUblocked by @[[User:Firefly|Firefly]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=151343141]. I can’t touch those or see the VRT tickets linked, but perhaps Joe, Firefly, or another CU can help. ”'[[User:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>Toadspike</span>]] [[User talk:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>[Talk]</span>]]”’ 11:39, 16 October 2025 (UTC) |
* {{noping|Hatchens}} was CUblocked by @[[User:Joe Roe|Joe Roe]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=131664902] and {{noping|RPSkokie}} was CUblocked by @[[User:Firefly|Firefly]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=151343141]. I can’t touch those or see the VRT tickets linked, but perhaps Joe, Firefly, or another CU can help. ”'[[User:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>Toadspike</span>]] [[User talk:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>[Talk]</span>]]”’ 11:39, 16 October 2025 (UTC) |
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*:Hatchens also commented on this very SPI back in 2020 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Kbs987/Archive#c-Hatchens-2020-05-28T04:29:00.000Z-Suspected_sockpuppets_5]. ”'[[User:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>Toadspike</span>]] [[User talk:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>[Talk]</span>]]”’ 11:40, 16 October 2025 (UTC) |
*:Hatchens also commented on this very SPI back in 2020 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Kbs987/Archive#c-Hatchens-2020-05-28T04:29:00.000Z-Suspected_sockpuppets_5]. ”'[[User:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>Toadspike</span>]] [[User talk:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>[Talk]</span>]]”’ 11:40, 16 October 2025 (UTC) |
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*{{CURequest}} – Though the report is convincing, I’m not sure if I’m comfortable blocking based on it alone, and in any case there’s some private evidence involved. ”'[[User:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>Toadspike</span>]] [[User talk:Toadspike|<span style=”color:#21a81e;font-variant:small-caps”>[Talk]</span>]]”’ 12:40, 16 October 2025 (UTC) |
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Latest revision as of 12:40, 16 October 2025
For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kbs987/Archive.
– A user has requested CheckUser. An SPI clerk will shortly look at the case and endorse or decline the request.
Suspected sockpuppets
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All 6 accounts are spammers of indrastra.com links like Kbs987. Example diffs below:
- RPSkokie (blocked in 2023): [8]
- Hatchens (blocked in 2022): [9]
- Kbs987 (blocked in 2020): [10]
As a quick side note, pages related to IndraStra and its co-founder Amrita Jash were created by UPEs on several Wikimedia sites, and some of these are still live on other language Wikipedias and Wikidata. On English Wikipedia, they were deleted as a result of these AFDs: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IndraStra Global, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IndraStra Global Open Repository, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amrita Jash, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amrita Jash (2nd nomination).
TCBT1CSI signed up on August 29th 2023, only three days after RPSkokie was blocked for UPE. The TCBT1CSI account is used to nominate multiple AFDs at a time using the same statement [11]. CharlieMehta used to follow this exact same behavior until last year [12] and since then TCBT1CSI replaced CharlieMehta in this role. The AFD nomination statements and target pages of TCBT1CSI and CharlieMehta are very similar to each other — focusing mainly on company, businessperson and university pages.
There is only one AFD where TCBT1CSI !voted keep till date and that is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cashfree. In this AFD, CharlieMehta also made a rare keep !vote, as did Silkroadster who actually created this page.
Py5chari0 signed up on March 9th 2020, seven days after Hatchens signed up. In March 2020, Py5chari0 created the page Blockchain-based database and this page was edited by Hatchens in April-May 2020. In 2023, Py5chari0 submitted the AFC draft for Astral (company) which was accepted by RPSkokie.
These accounts spammed links to the works of Rahul Guhathakurta, who is the other co-founder of IndraStra:
These accounts even created promo UPE pages on other language Wikipedias:
- TCBT1CSI created the Progcap page on Indonesian Wikipedia.
- RPSkokie created the Nikhil Kamath page on Japanese Wikipedia, even after this page was deleted on English Wikipedia multiple times.
- Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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