Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arjun19990012

Arjun19990012

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21 June 2023

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Suspected sockpuppets

• Cinephilekrr (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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The user Cinephilekrr is showing the same characteristics as another account Arjun19990012, which itself was a sock puppet of MovieBuffIndia. The account has only one objective, to try and increase the box office numbers of movies starring Ajith Kumar such as Valimai and Thunivu, just like MovieBuffIndia and Arjun19990012. The latter two accounts did not show any interest in anything other than movies starring Ajith Kumar. This time, the sock has gotten smarter and has tried to hide the fact that it is a sock by acting neutral at first and editing neutral pages like List of highest-grossing Tamil films. But even here, their agenda is to push Ajith Kumar movies to the forefront.

Here is an edit by MovieBuffIndia on the talk page of Valimai

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Valimai#CREDIBILITY_of_Jatinder_Singh%3F

Here is the exact same edit by Arjun19990012 on the same page few months later

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Valimai#Credibility_of_Pinkvilla

This is another edit by Arjun19990012

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1133537935

And an edit with the exact same purpose by MovieBuffIndia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1075750425

These two accounts kept edit warring to remove the lower box office figures from a range of figures for Ajith Kumar movies. And for this, they kept trying to prove that the source (Pinkvilla) is not credible.

Now this discussion given below

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force#Pinkvilla is unreliable for box office figures

should conclusively prove why Cinephilekrr is the exact same person as MovieBuffIndia and Arjun19990012.

Hope you will look into the matter. (BangaloreNorth (talk) 13:29, 21 June 2023 (UTC))

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