Gubara90 creates his account on August 16, he starts off making edits to Indian movies/entertainment/actors-actresses related pages. This however was a ruse so he could evade scrutiny in order to recreate deleted pages made by his SPA Javerine-[1]. On August 21 16:50, the account is blocked as a DUCK of HB. Exactly one hour later RR creates his account on August 21 17:50-[2]. "Incidentally", RR also predominantly edits Indian movie/entertainment/actors-actresses pages which serves as a ruse to evade scrutiny for his DUCK edits to history and religion related pages. HaughtonBrit himself used to sporadically edit movie articles as a tactic after his prior account WorldWikiAuthorOriginal was blocked-[3]
Close proximity editing to HaughtonBrit's blocked IP on the page Sikhism in the United States: IP inflates various census figures; changes 200,000 American Sikhs to 500,000. Inflates low end estimates from 78,000 to 200,000 etc. + [4]. In the middle of these edits, the IP removes the block evasion notice from its talk page. RangersRus, a mere 6 day old account at this time, jumps in 2 hours after the IP's edits, making the same type of edits + [5]. The page was extensively edited by other HB sock accounts like Javerine-[6]. Edits to Sikhism in X country has been a common feature among HB socks-Elifanta23 and Finmas
HaughtonBrit's MO includes militantly aggrandizing the Sikh side and vitiating pan Indian groups, in particular the Marathas. Marathas and Afghans are particularly anathema to HB. Usually, when a user shares the same Maratha-Sikh overlap, it's HB or his SPA. I will list 5 diffs highlighting this (to save space) but please understand there are 100x more such examples- Unlike Marathas who made an ignominious exit from the Punjab, the Sikhs did not allow Abdali to take on Lahore without a fight, Removes Maratha Victory from infobox, replaces it with a treaty, Adds content stating a Maratha figure acted treacherously against the Sikhs, Removes content claiming a Maratha figure ruling Punjab, Accentuates Maratha defeat in infobox
In fact, when MehmoodS was blocked, he was brazenly block evading to continue his campaign against Marathas. See the contributions for the IP that resubmitted MehmoodS' unblock request after his t/p access was revoked + [7]; campaign against Marathas- [8], [9], [10]. He even edited Maratha pages from airports believe it or not -edit from his home state's airport, exact same MO and geolocation as his 50* IP, Calgary Airport edit a few days after, numerous edits from Toronto Airport. This really goes to show just how unhinged this sockmaster's actions are.
RangersRus continues this same MO-removing content claiming Marathas took over the Rohtas fort and the Sikhs being defeated as a 10 day old account. HB's SPA Javerine made two articles about Rohtas-[11]
My first AFD nom of 2024 was in January 14 20:34. RangersRus, up until that point had 1000 edits+ and had been on Wikipedia for 5 months; he had zero activity in AFDs whatsoever, not one vote, not one nomination. 3 hours after my nom on January 14 23:51, he votes in his first AFD. Now let's look at his first 3 AFD votes:
1) RangersRus's first AFD vote ever is to delete an article in which the Marathas were victorious. See Wikipedia mirror of the article
2) His second AFD vote is also to delete an article in which the Marathas were victorious. See Wikipedia mirror of the article
3) His 3rd vote is to Delete an article in which the Sikhs were defeated. That article had been extensively targeted by HB socks in the past- with 8 edits by HB's SPA Ralx888 and 1 logged out edit in the very same day of its creation-[12], 5 edits on the t/p within 2 days of its creation leading admin Abecedare to sock strike and then 9 edits in Jan 2024-[13]. HaughtonBrit also made 4 delete votes (!) logged out to the AFD.
It's a clear case of following and sly hounding, which as we've more than thoroughly established years ago, HB employs SPAs, logged out editing, and proxies to counter my edits non stop. Immediately after January 14th, RangersRus goes on a mass AFD voting spree, making 65-70 votes in a span of two months from Jan-March, according to his own words. The obvious conclusion to draw from that is that he knew he messed up and the numerous votes help to disguise himself; making DUCK-like AFD votes more legitimate at face value.
Since then, RangersRus has been sabotaging my AFDs, consistently voting to Keep extremely poorly written and sourced articles which promote religious heroism, making terrible, IDHT arguments to litigate. See [14], [15], This one in particular really highlights how RR is following me, he timed his vote right after another user, Jttrs, expressed his intention of changing his vote from Keep to Delete; the AFD had been listed for almost 20 days at that point. While RR seems to consistently vote to defend Sikh interests, conversely, he consistently votes to undermine Marathas and other pan Indian groups-[16], [17], [18], [19], [20].
On April 21, RangersRus took a Wikibreak, making zero edits to Wikipedia whatsoever, when does he return? Hours after I return to voting at AFDs, voting to delete poorly written/sourced articles promoting Sikh heroism on 28 April 3:39 and 4:01. RangersRus comes back immediately, votes in a bunch of irrelevant AFDs, and 2 days later votes to Keep the Battle of Kalnaur; an obvious counter to my vote
RangersRus also votes in line with another obvious HB sock/burner account, Festivalfalcon873, who out of vindictiveness, nominated various articles in which the Sikhs were defeated for deletion: Votes to Delete an article which an HB sock nominated in quick succession.
RangersRus also somehow found about the SPI filed against him in March a mere 9 hours after it was filed, despite not being pinged, which also very strongly suggests following me around. He claims that he found about it because of my response to him on the Rohilla AFD, despite it being 3 days before and he wasn't pinged there either; he also voted in 7 different AFDs between Feb 29 and March 2.If RR was indeed a legitimate user, why would he be following the creator of an AFD, 4 days after his vote there, 9 hours after he filed an SPI, when RR votes in numerous AFDs, making 7 votes in between the Rohilla vote and the creation of the SPI. It would logically follow that I would have zero significance to him, just another blip in the radar, just one out of the 70 AFDs he voted in up until that point. The obvious conclusion is that he was shaken and wanted to undermine my report, calling it bogus and insulting me there. As you'll see later, HB socks somehow consistently finding out about my SPIs, and desperately proclaiming their innocence here is an extremely common theme.
HB sabotaging my AFDs is not something new; we have at least one blocked sock Elifanta23 whose actions strongly resemble RR's actions. HB sock voting to undermine my AFD in 2023 and then desperately proclaiming his innocence on HB's SPI, minutes after it was filed
Lastly Abecedare, an admin involved in South Asian topics, who has extensively dealt with HB's nonsense before, also agrees with me that RR is a SPA. "The behaviorual evidence is indeed suspicious & further noting that RangersRus and HB's POV is aligned and that RR has stylistic overlaps with HB which is something I've noticed as well. RangersRus and HB talk and argue the exact same way, their behaviour in religion/history topics is a 1:1 match.