Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kbr144/Archive

20 December 2011

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Although the suspected sockmaster and the sock Ips have been editing in different articles, i have reasons to believe that they are one and the same, as they've been making the same type of edits. These accounts are mostly seen editing in articles relating to "Kannada People". They either, add a kannada transliteration to a person's name in the lead of an article, or remove the transliterations of other languages and replace them with kannada names. Inspite of adequate sources on the non-kannada ancestry of the "person", these users simply make vandalising edits by removing names in other languages, and replacing them with kannada names. The users also made similar abusive accusations on me, in the talk pages of other users and in discussion forums. I'm providing the evidence below.

The suspected sockmaster "user:kbr144" made these accusations on me in another user's talk page. See this:. He made false accusations on me and called me a "language fanatic & vandal". Again the "sock ip:82.83.101.164" made similar accusations about me, in my own talk page, using the same set of words/comments. See this:.

The suspected sockmaster "user:kbr144" made these edits in the Ramesh Aravind page -. Although the tamil origin of that celebrity was well sourced, this user removed it and replaced it with a kannada script. Earlier the second "sock ip:203.91.201.56" made a similar edit in the Jairam Ramesh page. See this:. The Ip replaced a tamil transliteration of the name with a kannada script, inspite of Jairam Ramesh's tamil origin was supported with sources. The users removed the sources too.

I suspect that the same user has been abusively using multiple accounts/Ips for vandalising/removing sourced contents in wikipedia. Hari7478 (talk) 22:03, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Sorry, something isn't adding up here. First, those IPs geolocate very far away from each other: the first to Germany, the second to India. Next, the first IP has only made two edits, so I don't really think there's much reason to act there right now. I don't really see a knowledge of Kannada as evidence that they're the same - 38 million people speak Kannada. These accounts have no overlap in articles, so I'd like to see more evidence before we act. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ...or not, whatever. Closing with no action taken. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:44, 23 December 2011 (UTC)