Non-notable bit part actor trying to use Wikipedia to boost his career, repeatedly adds his name to film articles

Creates, unreferenced, self-promotional, drafts

Will also add his name in random, totally unassociated, places - e.g. the SD of a Norwegian textile artist[1]

Numerous edits deleted before I started this log

PageGaurav Dewasi has been deleted 5 times - including afterWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaurav Dewasi

Also see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Btw Santhosh and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Btw Santhosh/Archive which provedUser:Gaurav Dewasi Official as a sock (delinked due to excessive false positives)

AsUser:Malwarevoc was globally locked for undisclosed paid editing, assume Gaurav Dewasi has been payingUser:Btw Santhosh to use his socks to try and add the page.

• Same sockmaster,User:Btw Santhosh resumed, this time asUser:Markeste02 createdGaurav Dewasi (actor)

Is aware of this page, as one of the socks,User:Markeste02, has vandalized it

• Shamimanm (talk ·contribs) created 05/10/2014 indeffed 20/06/2016
• Gauravdewasi (talk ·contribs) created 13/09/2015 indeffed 17/01/2019
• Gauravdewasiactor (talk ·contribs) created 19/09/2022 indeffed 14/10/2022
• Kala9090 (talk ·contribs) created 27/10/2022 indeffed 30/10/2022
• Gaurav Dewasi Official (talk ·contribs) created 30/11/2022 indeffed 01/12/2022
• Grsdk (talk ·contribs) created 15/12/2022 indeffed 16/12/2022
• Malwarevoc (talk ·contribs) created 20/07/2023 - globally locked 22/07/2023 for "undisclosed paid editing"
  Created article within 29 hours and 2 other articles in first 7 hours
• Amansharma111 (talk ·contribs) created 26/09/2020 deleted 19/09/2023 IP sock created Dec 2023 draft
• Markeste02 (talk ·contribs) - created 01/05/2025 - sleeper until 08/06/2025 - Indeffed 08/06/2025 as sock ofUser:Btw Santhosh

• 103.254.56.125 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) Bharatpur - Rajasthan - KNGD Infosys Pvt Ltd 27 Sept + 18 Oct - blocked 19 Oct for 3 days + 31 Oct for 1 month
• 223.189.135.123 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) Jodhpur - Rajasthan - Bharti Airtel Ltd - 26 May 2022
• 106.79.193.40 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) Kota - Rajasthan - Ideal cellular ltd - 06 Nov 2022
• 150.242.255.29 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) Udaipur - Rajasthan - Multinet (Udaipur) Private limited - blocked 24 Nov + 01 Dec 2022
• 2405:201:5C0B:11DF:A0DF:D2C6:9A:52E8 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Mumbai - Maharashtra - Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited - 16 December 2022
• 2405:201:5C0B:11DF:1147:91E:38F9:2976 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Mumbai - Maharashtra - Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited - 21 December 2022
• 182.68.236.44 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Jaipur - Rajasthan - abts-north-dynamic-044.236.68.182.airtelbroadband - 22 July 2023
• 110.227.157.255 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Sri Ganganagar - Rajasthan - Bharti Airtel Ltd - 11 November 2023 - ASN:24560
• 182.64.182.198 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Jodhpur - Rajasthan - Bharti Airtel Ltd - ASN:24560 - 16 January 2023
• 182.68.196.117 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Bikaner - Rajasthan - Bharti Airtel Ltd - ASN:24560 - 30 January 2024
• 182.68.187.112 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Jaipur - Rajasthan - Bharti Airtel Ltd - ASN:24560 - 27 February 2024
• 103.162.178.238 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Ateli - Haryana - Kamakshi Digital Networks Pvt. Ltd - ASN:134041 - IP locator varies location (see next entry)
• 103.162.178.238 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Jodhpur - Rajasthan - Kamakshi Digital Networks Pvt. Ltd - ASN:134041 - 27 February 2024 + 16, 29 March + 11 April + 9 Sept + 23, 26, 30 Oct
• 223.189.93.106 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Jaipur - Rajasthan - Bharti Airtel Ltd - ASN:45609 - 06 November 2024
• 103.170.46.228 (talk ·contribs ·IP contribs ·WHOIS) - Obra - Uttar Pradesh - Vanshika Itlam India Pvt Ltd - ASN:142068 - 18 Sept - 16 Oct 2025 - blocked 2 weeks on 17 October -User:Amansharma111 sock

• Gaurav Dewasi - created 5 times - deleted 4 times for lack of notability, 1 for sockpuppet creation last deletion asWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaurav Dewasi
• Gauravdewasi - created 3 times
• Gaurav Dewasi (actor) - created byUser:Markeste02 a sock (see above)

• User:Gauravdewasi - created 3 times

• Talk:Gaurav Dewasi - deleted 3 times - 27 Feb + 18 March 2024 deletions were stand-alone pages, without an article - can create talk page despite article page being salted
• Talk:Gaurav dewasi - created once even though the corresponding base page never existed

• Draft:Gaurav Dewasi - 4 times - Extended Confirmed create protected 16/12/2022 - indefinite

Spelling mistakes added to get around create protection:-

• Draft:Gourav Dewasi - with an O instead of an A
• Draft:Gaurav Devasi - with a V instead of a W
• Draft:Actor Gaurav - once
• Draft:Actor Gaurav Dewasi - 2 times
• Draft:Ganesh Gaurav Dewas
• Draft:Ganesh Gaurav D
• Draft:Gauravdewasi

Also created

• Draft:Riti Riwaj
• Draft:Gora Badal (film) - created by 103.170.46.228 - 15 Oct 2025

Other links

• Image at [File:Gaurav-devasi.jpg][2] - Deleted on 01 April 2023 as "Personal photo by non-contributors (F10)"

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaurav Dewasi - led to deletion on 28 July 2023

• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2023/07 - confused - seems to be arguing article should not be deleted on the RPP page

Directly relevant

• 67th National Film Awards‎
• List of Rajasthani-language films
• Cinema of Rajasthan
• Gadar 2
• Junglee (2019 film)
• Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Gaurav Dewasi ‎ edited 6 months after it was closed

Others

• Japan Punch
• Bente Sætrang
• 2020 Serbia men's OQT basketball team
• Maithili Thakur

• Talk:Gadar 2

TP pestering

• User talk:Explicit - delinked to reduce related changes
• User talk:Oaktree b - delinked to reduce related changes