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21 October 2013

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Both the suspected puppet and the master have concentrated almost exclusively on creation of multiple instances of articles relating to Rashmi Singh (author) and then argued tenaciously (but so far unsuccessfully) for their retention when the things have been taken to AfD. The accounts are clear SPAs and the various articles have been (a) remarkably similar and (b) typical fancruft. I'd provide diffs but they would basically be the article creations and the comments found at Articles for deletion/Rashmi Singh (author) (2nd nomination) and Articles for deletion/Rashmi Singh (author). Sitush (talk) 10:54, 21 October 2013 (UTC)


 * @Green Cardamom, the author is from Bihar and writes in English. The primary languages in Bihar are Hindi, Urdu and Bhojpuri - how on earth is an English-language writer published in Delhi a "regional author"? Ananyaprasad has argued tenaciously and has been trying by various means over many months to get this article into Wikipedia. Vasundhrasharma has edited nothing but the article, and soon after that they went quiet and Ananyaprasad returned to editing after quite a hiatus. Sure, the CU may not be sufficient but this was a good-faith query and I still have my suspicions. One oddity that I've only just spotted is that she posted this days after Vasundhrasharma's AfC submission was declined. Shivamsetu then acceded to Ananyaprasad's request, using Ananyaprasad's draft (which was itself userfied after the previous AfD deletion). You then edited the recreated article despite your knowledge from the prior AfD that this was basically a copy of the previous article (see CSD #G5). I'm not suggesting that you are a sock (you aren't!) but the sequence of events is very odd. - Sitush (talk) 11:26, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * @Green Cardamom, it was not my intention to suggest that your involvement was "odd". That was just an unfortunate juxtaposition of phrases. I went out of my way to make it clear that you are not socking, after all. The rest (the timings etc) are documented ... and Ananyaprasad is effectively an SPA (she operated only on articles where Rashmi Singh has a bearing - eg: Love's Journey(deleted), Bihari Literature) until around the timing of this report when she created an article that was deleted for copyvio reasons. I'm not the only one who spotted the SPA nature of her efforts, as per the AfDs.- Sitush (talk) 15:15, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Socks are usually created to give an advantage. Vasundhrasharma never participated in the AfD of the article it created. The socks don't team up anywhere (other than an interest in the same topic). Vasundhrasharma has not "argued tenaciously" as the nom unkindly charges, Vasundhrasharma has not argued at all, see the edit history. Unlike Ananyaprasad who does in fact debate vigorously (though not "tenaciously"). As context, this is a regional author with a fan base. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 08:32, 29 October 2013 (UTC)


 * @Sitush: Vasundhrasharma's edit history does not show arguing, unless you can produce a diff that shows it please stop that accusation. Your conjecture that my involvement is "odd" is another bad faith accusation, a typical pattern. Finally, Ananyaprasad has indeed attempted to create other articles of a similar kind to this one, for a different female author from Bihar. Why you neglected to mention this I don't know since you were the one who prod' it for deletion just two days ago in conjunction with User:SpacemanSpiff, who made the actual deletion soon after (who is also a participant in the AfD). -- Green Cardamom (talk) 15:06, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * , geolocate to same region, and same ISP. AGK  [•] 12:57, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm going to say that they're more likely friends or fans than sockpuppets. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:45, 2 November 2013 (UTC)