Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Indianbiographer/Archive

18 January 2011

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These three editors have something in common: the articles Environment of Delhi, Ethnic groups in Delhi, and Sanjay Yadav (author). What they have in common, I suspect, is Sanjay Yadav. All these articles cite Yadav and his self-published books (see also links and discussion on Talk:Ethnic groups in Delhi). They overlap, see Environmentalist (creator of "Environment") and Biographer (creator of "Sanjay Yadav") at the Yadav article.

My contention is that these accounts, which have no edits outside of the three mentioned articles and Delhi (where Biographer added a link to Yadav's book), were intended from the beginning to have separate editor names for separate articles, all to promote an author's book and persona. But that's beside the point: CU will hopefully prove whether socking is going on here.

I believe that there are some IPs at work here also--I've listed one, there may be more. Drmies (talk) 16:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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All of the named accounts are stale. TN X Man 16:22, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm closing this for now. If none of these editors have edited in some time, a few edits by an IP isn't really enough to draw connections between all of them. If anything new should happen, feel free to relist. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)