Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Christinemyers17/Archive

21 August 2014

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All these accounts are used to edit Venod Sharma (politician), and his son Manu Sharma (convicted murderer) and Kartikeya Sharma (businessman) articles. Despite their interests to edit identical articles, there's a huge similarity in their edits, as such, changes made by Ravindaran Shastri, and changes made by Ayoe.pihl are exactly same.

The master User:Rameshkohli123 and others mentioned above have made multiple edit-requests on Manu Sharma talk page. In their edit requests, there are much more than just similarity, edit-request by Rameshkohli123, and edit-request by Ayoe.pihl are very much similar. Similar edit-requests were made by 5.134.112.203. At one instance, one autoconfirmed account, User:Christinemyers17 --make the changes they wanted to be made -[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venod_Sharma&diff=620747453&oldid=620372782 diff. link].

Ravindaran shastri places, --a deletion request of Manu Sharma on article'talk page (diff. link)--It was supported by the next moment by Rameshkohli123.

On Kartikeya_Sharma article, similar instances were observed, --as edit-request by Rameshkohli123, and edit-request by Ravindaran Shastri are very much similar, and changes requested in edit-requests were directly made to the article by Ayoe.pihl. However, User:Christinemyers17 comes in very less often but these three accounts, on behavior evidences, are definitely socks or at-least meats per WP:DUCK.

There are a good number of IPs as well making similar edits to these three articles. I guess them all these three users when not logged in. changes made by 42.104.26.231, changes made by 103.18.72.93, and changes made by 182.64.181.60 more than just similar.

I feel that, there are many more than above listed Wikipedia accounts and IPs. They want to remove the father's name Venod Sharma, from Manu Sharma aticle, because on Google search of Venod Sharma, --Manu Sharma Wikipedia page appears in the search results. They want to remove this basic biographical information to not make it appear on Google search, because they claim, -it somehow affects Venod Sharma personality, which is about to contest the upcoming assembly election. Recently, Venod Sharma page protection was expired and they were involved adding promotional contents to his article. There's an election campaign on here? A sleeper check may be very helpful in this case. Anupmehra - Let's talk!  07:13, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Note to reviewing SPI clerks and admins: Please ping me in case, if it requires some more information or diff. links. Thank you, Anupmehra  - Let's talk!  07:51, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Update - Rameshkohli123 has been blocked from editing for using Wikipedia for promotion (for his edits on Venod Sharma). And, a new sock has been created, -User:Akash_Nathan, which at his very first edit, recommends deletion of the Manu Sharma -diff. link, very much similar to Rameshkohli123 edits, -diff. link. Anupmehra  - Let's talk!  23:15, 22 August 2014 (UTC)


 * New IP made the similar edit-request on Kartikeya Sharma talk page, -diff. link.
 * Added one more IP -121.242.226.160, whose very first edit was to place "delete" tag on Venod Sharma talk page (diff link). Very similar to the attempt made by User:Ravindaran Shastri on Manu Sharma on talk page. Anupmehra  - Let's talk!  09:02, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Sharma family (Kartikeya Sharma, Venod Sharma and Manu Sharma) have hired a PR firm to manage there personal and business social media accounts, promote positive news and to suppress any negative information. I feel that the Ramesh Kohli is from the PR agency and thru his various avatars/sock-puppets is just trying to do his job.24.125.121.9 (talk)
 * That would be a gross violation of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policies then. Cannolis (talk) 09:29, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Please add User:333766rs as well. Created today to support User:Ayoe.pihl's recent Sharma related Afd nominations (Articles for deletion/Venod Sharma). If that didn't make it obvious enough he then made a bizarre edit to the article Hyatt, just after Ayoe.phil had done so as well (diff) Jevansen (talk) 10:14, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * All the accounts write with a similar degree of broken English, but it could just be the same foreign language being machine translated. The whole paid editing PR firm theory sounds legitimate. A checkuser may find the accounts are editing from similar IPs, but maybe all the different editors work in the same office. Sounds like a clear case of meatpuppetry to me &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 05:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The account was blocked, requested an unblock, and I went ahead and checkusered the account, which is ✅ as a sock. PhilKnight (talk) 16:33, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The following are in some way, shape, or form related to each other enough to say they are the same person (because some proxies are involved, behaviour is included):
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I've blocked the sock accounts indefinitely and the master account for 1 month. Most of the IPs haven't edited since early August and have been sporadic, not to mention that some of them are on cellular networks. I'll leave them be for now. Mike V  •  Talk  16:38, 13 September 2014 (UTC)