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A BLP Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari created by User:DebashisM on a non-notable person was deleted via AfD on 24 January. A few days later an account with few edits User:Nukout created the page on same person with different title at Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari. And when the page was deleted, User:Nukout made a request to overturn deletion at Requests_for_undeletion and then at User_talk:MelanieN - which made me curious how a user with only a few edits would know where to make requests for undeletion.

Then I came across this "keep" commment with strange rational by User:DebashisM in which xe addressing the User:Ominictionary (the one who initated the AfD)... User:Nukout in his comments said something similar to what User:DebashisM said...  "It was nominated for deletion by a user who sympathizes with an opposing political party and that user created a page for a member of the said party which was deleted".. This made more curious how User:MelanieN (who was not contributing to AfD) would know that initiator of the AfD (User:Ominictionary) has created page on a member (Aseefa Bhutto Zardari), affiliated with a political party, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari is part of.

At first I was hesitant to file this SPI because I had not enough evidence, but given that User:DebashisM has contributed to some BLPs with COI in the past such as S. K. Majumdar (IAF officer) and Samir Roychoudhury, I decided to go ahead. Saqib (talk) 13:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

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What is a sock puppet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nukout (talk • contribs) 16:01, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I have doubts, but the two users do seem to have a specific political conspiracy in common, enough to warrant checking (to be certain one way or the other). Note that Nukout is the older account by years.


 * Some notes:
 * a sockpuppet on Wikipedia is a person who edits with more than one account, which is usually not allowed.
 * is the administrator who closed the more recent AFD discussion, that's how she would be aware of it. I think you didn't mean to put her name in your comments anyway.
 * No comment on potential COI issues.
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:15, 12 February 2018 (UTC)


 * ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:50, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I thought as much. Everyone please remember that dispute resolution is available and still free to use. Closing this case with no action. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:09, 12 February 2018 (UTC)