Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ankit Krs Pandey/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This is most unfortunate. There would appear to a number of persons of the name "Ankit Kumar Pandey" who might pass WP:ANYBIO. This matter concerns a young man who is apparently a participant in the Fit India Movement.
 * Brief history of mainspace article
 * Ankit Kumar Pandey was initially created on 10 May 2020 by Ankit Krs Pandey
 * It was deleted on 19:44 15 September 2020 by Stwalkerster
 * On 19:47 15 September 2020 Nishee22 moved moved page Draft:Ankit Kumar Pandey to User:Ankit Kumar Pandey and then to Ankit Kumar Pandey with the edit summary "Edited complete with genuine details"
 * On 21:12 15 September 2020 Justlettersandnumbers deleted the article
 * On 05:16 28 May 2021 The Fact Explorer re-created Ankit Kumar Pandey
 * As of 21 May 2023, re-creation has been WP:SALT-d

Draft:Ankit Kumar Pandey is similarly problematic.
 * Brief history of draftspace article
 * initially created by Ankit Krs Pandey in May 2020
 * edited by Nishee22, and The Fact Explorer Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 11:47, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for comment can you please helping me to know whats similarly problematic is in this article so i can practice on it G20norms (talk) 12:17, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
 * Note: Oh, dash and bother. If the "Early life and background" section were either sourced or deleted, the subject actually looks like he'd now probably pass notability.  Esowteric +  Talk  +  Breadcrumbs   12:11, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * So overall are you trying to say if we include family members name we have to provide References or if Don't have sources better to delete whole Early Life and Background section right? G20norms (talk) 12:16, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Your open thread at The Teahouse is the place for such discussions, G20norms. Have deleted that unsourced section.  Esowteric +  Talk  +  Breadcrumbs   12:32, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * So now its ready for review or it seems good according to provided sources and alls your opinion as an editor? G20norms (talk) 12:35, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Further addition? Perhaps, a newly-registered, single-issue, non-editing advocate, should be added so that they may clear their name? Thanks.  Esowteric +  Talk  +  Breadcrumbs   16:42, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * They just made a post over on the talk page which seems to be... admitting to sockpuppetry? I'm not sure. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 17:14, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for laying this out so clearly, . I've taken the liberty of adding a check-user request, as it seems that would be helpful in sorting this out. The behavioural evidence is certainly persuasive, but it's not clear (to me, at least) whether this is socking or meating, or some sort of a good-faith fan-club effort. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:06, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reminding me that the assumption of good faith is a core conduct guideline. I remind @everyone else here of that. Putting myself in shoes of an independent third-party observer, I would agree that it may well appear that I have been unduly heavy-handed in terms of both article content creation assessment and assertions of sock puppetry here. The responsibility for both these two issues lies entirely with me, and I accept whatever consequences may come from them.   --Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 11:44, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
 * The declaration from 2021 at User:The Fact Explorer for paid editing shows concerns around UPE on this article are warranted. I get the AGF around these being fans of this person, but sorry, I just can't support there isn't some UPE/COI editing happening here.  I think it's more WP:MEAT than sockpuppets.  The subject of the article was just announced as an "ambassador" to the Fit India Movement (joining over 200 other people), which seems to have generated the sudden interest in the article.  Without that, there's zero notability for this person.  The SPA's involved here have all had issues with communication and fairly relentless in trying to get the article published.  Ravensfire  (talk) 20:47, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I don't see anything to do here. Except for, none of these accounts have edited in the past year.  Not to mention nto looks like it applies, so even if these were the same person, it wouldn't be socking.  Closing with no action taken. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:55, 7 June 2023 (UTC)