Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ajaykumar465/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Copyvio socking. The master created Draft:Battle of Bijapur with clear copyright violations and this new account has come along a few days later to violate copyright in the exact same way at the same location. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:20, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

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Since the author (Jadunath Sarkar) died in 58' and copyright in India is normally life + 60 years (taken from List of countries' copyright lengths), it should have entered public domain on 01 January 2019. Nobody ( talk ) 10:56, 24 November 2023 (UTC)


 * The second edition is up at the Internet Archive and shows a publication date of 1920. Worldcat shows an original publication date of 1919. It was published in London and New York. The Commons:Hirtle chart tells us that the book is therefore in the public domain, as it was published before 1928. Looking at the website where the matching content was found, it's not obvious that it came from this book. But yeah, the draft was not copyvio. but rather unattributed copying from a public domain source. — Diannaa (talk) 20:45, 24 November 2023 (UTC)


 * It looks as if the user violate policy with unattributed copying and by creating a sockpuppet account, whether or not the deletion was justified. Tricky though, happy to leaave this to the SPI experts Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:04, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
While this seems like an obvious case of sockpuppetry, I question the deletions - the book that is being copied was apparently published in 1919-1920 and thus copyrights have lapsed. Granted copying a book and using it as a reference isn't ideal writing nor is challenging a deletion by making a sockpuppet and recreating the deleted text, I am not sure if we meet WP:ILLEGIT. Procedure question - if an SPI depends on a policy question that is not within its remit, how do we proceed? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:18, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Copyvio or not, creating new account to re-add contested text is not allowed. Indeffing the sock and giving strong warning to the master. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:35, 27 November 2023 (UTC)