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08 December 2015

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AuthorRk recently contributed to the Arakh article, which had seen very little activity this year until that point. Since then, the alleged sockpuppets have made repeated attempts to more or less reinstate AuthorRk's utterly useless large chunk of text, eg: here and here. There is an obvious naming connection (Rk) between the master and Ravindra kumar Arkavanshi, and Slok999 has turned up during that user's 48 hour block. It could be coincidence or meatpuppetry but my gut and long experience of behaviour on caste articles says otherwise. Sitush (talk) 10:18, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Please also note this query made of Ravindra kumar Arkavanshi on 3 December. If it does turn out that Slok999 is a sock then there really is no excuse for it. - Sitush (talk) 14:01, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

The two alleged socks have now both left Wikilove messages on my talk page, both in what I think is Hindi and both using the same "trophy" template - see this and this. Is that the default template for Wikilove? - Sitush (talk) 10:52, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Addition: I have just added Arya987 to the above list. They've just appeared after the block by RegentsPark and have done exactly the same thing. I think we'll need to protect Arakh and the redirects to that article. - Sitush (talk) 16:32, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare those three accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:56, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Behavioral evidence is as strong as it gets (the wikilove messages are a dead giveaway) and I've blocked . Still, a checkuser will be useful because sleepers are very likely. --regentspark (comment) 13:42, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ,, and all belong to AuthorRk. - Mailer Diablo 16:53, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * All blocked. --regentspark (comment) 17:03, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Nothing left to do here, closing case. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC)