Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dileepvee/Archive

23 November 2012

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Most of Dileepvee's contributions have included links to wisdenindia.com. On articles about cricket tours and tournaments scorecard links are usually to http://www.cricinfo.com/ but at times Dileepvee has been changing cricinfo.com scorecard links to wisdenindia.com links, without prior discussion. Considering this behaviour of replacing links, along with the fact that Dileepvee mostly cites wisdenindia.com as a source when adding content to articles, this might be an attempt to spam or otherwise promote the site. However, he himself admitted that he is not promotiong any site, as you can see at User_talk:Dileepvee and User_talk:Dileepvee where he said that "Hello Qantasplanes I changed scorecard of Cricinfo as other sites notably Cricbuzz, Wisden India are 1-2 balls faster than them" and "Just that I find the articles written on WisdenIndia more timely and of good quality".

The last time Dileepvee replaced cricinfo.com scorecards with wisdenindia.com scorecards was this edit made on 2012-11-19T05:23:33Z. About two days later a new account, Sportsfreak555, added a wisdenindia.com link and on 2012-11-23, Sportsfreak made two edits, &amp;, where scorecard links to cricinfo.com were replaced with wisdenindia.com links, just like how Dileepvee did.

jfd34 ( talk ) 10:39, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

As I said earlier I'm not promoting any site. I have also been doing few Football updates as well, but haven't had time. Regarding the new a/c I have no clue. Since that day haven't gone and changed any scorecard. Only cite links now.

User talk:Dileepvee—Preceding undated comment added 10:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * - - Based on the evidence provided, it looks like the user created the account to clandestinely insert more links. I'd like a checkuser to confirm or deny the connection. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:29, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * - Courcelles 16:43, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Courcelles 16:48, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked the socks indefinitely and the master for two weeks. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:13, 27 November 2012 (UTC)