Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hemant 17/Archive

Report date August 21 2009, 03:50 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by DoriSmith

All of the above solely write about government-affiliated Indian energy programs. Most of the above also have trouble understanding WP's copyright policy (a few examples:, , , , , and ).

In particular, it appears that User:Hemant was active as recently and that User:Hemant 17 was active as far back.

Yesterday, I on User: CactusWriter's talk page. He blocked User:Hemant 17 (the most recently active editor) and, which I have now done. — Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 03:50, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments: User:CactusWriter says below that "User:Exergetic's contribution history doesn't have any edits for EMT. I think it is unrelated." I beg to differ; of the 14 edits I can see:
 * created Energy Conservation Building Code with a link to BEE, an EMT affiliate
 * also added a link to BEE
 * Of the 12 in between, 11 involved adding wikilinks to Energy Conservation Building Code so he could remove the orphan tag
 * was adding a link to bis.org.in
 * Or in other words, I think that there's enough overlap to be suspicious, which is why I included the editor in this report.


 * So far as User:60.254.104.86 goes, looking at his edits, virtually all involve adding links to the EMT website, even on unrelated topics such as, , , and even . And along with the EMT link additions noted below by CactusWriter, to Thermal power station was to add a link to geocities.com/hemant_thermal/.
 * Lastly, I point out that I don't have access to deleted contributions; my belief that User:Hermant was active as of July 2009 was based on his on 31 July regarding Energy Manager Training, a now-deleted article. While I know that doesn't mean the article was new, its listing at WP:Copyright problems/2009 July 27 made me believe it was a recent creation.  Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 19:39, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I concur with DoriSmith in this case with the following possible exceptions: I would treat User:Hemant 17 as the master account because of the lengthy history (2005-present). User:Hemant's last edit was in April 2008 (See deleted contributions). User:60.254.104.86 and User:Exergetic are probably unrelated.
 * Comments by other users

This case arose because of persistent copyright violations by User:Hemant 17 (who I have now indef blocked). This user self-identifies as Hemant Vohra, an admin for Energy Management Training (EMT) and contributes solely to articles about EMT and its affiliate programs.

User:Hemant 17 edited in August 2005, February 2007, Fall 2008 and Summer 2009, exclusively to EMT articles. (Note the Deleted contributions history)

User:Hemant overlaps this period introducing the same deleted articles in July 2007 and April 2008.

User:HemantEMT has made only one edit - it was for BEE, an EMT affiliate.

User:EMT made only two edits - this one for Energy Management Training

User:125.99.191.250 edits on Hemant 17's userpage

Although User:60.254.104.86 edits only to India energy articles and adds some links to EMT, , I am uncertain this account is related.

User:Exergetic's contribution history doesn't have any edits for EMT. I think it is unrelated. — Cactus Writer |   needles  06:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Follow-up:I received an e-mail today through my Wikipedia link from User:Hemant17. The user listed his other accounts as User:Hemant, User:EMT, and User:HemantEMT. He also wrote "Exergetic - not my account" and "60.254.104.86 - ???".

Comment by Rsrikanth05: While I have been registered since 2005, I wasn't very active at that point of time. But after Dorismith informed me of this investigation, I had a look at the edits, and they all seem to be VERY similar to those of Hemant 17. Till, I know what is going on, I will take a slightly neutral side. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 09:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Case moved from /Hemant to /Hemant 17. NW ( Talk ) 06:20, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * is indef blocked and the rest are . Not sure what can be done here. Brandon (talk) 01:30, 22 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions