Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kurmaa/Archive

29 August 2012

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Kurmaa is an old account and has recently become active especially with regards to issues relating to Kamrupi. He has recently violated the 2RR rule for which he was warned. It appears Kurmaa created the sock puppet subsequent to the warning, probably to avoid the 3RR rule. Both Kurmaa and pranjitb claim "Lower Assam" is derogatory, but provide no evidence. On the other hand, "Lower Assam" is widely used in the media and it has no negative connotation. "Western Assam" is used synonymously. The creator of the Lower Assam page, User:Bhaskarbhagawati, was unaware this was derogatory till Kurmaa mentioned it. The POV that "Lower Assam" is derogatory is unique to Kurmaa. Chaipau (talk) 17:08, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Pranjitb shows sensitivity to the name "Lower Assam" and talks about women and Mughals . Kurmaa too mentions Mughal and women .  The language, grammatical quirks etc are almost identical.
 * Kurmaa reverts changes to Lower Assam claiming "Lower Assam -> derogatory term for Kamrupi, it exhibits A" Subsequently Pranjitb reverts the changes claiming "Term "lower Assam" is derogatory for Kamrupi; it exhibits Ahom-ethnocentrism and Ahom-supremacy over Kamrup/Kamrupi ; user Chaipau is Ahom"  It looks like the pranjitb account is being used to avoid 3RR.
 * The phrase "Ahom-ethnocentrism and Ahom-supremacy over Kamrup/Kamrupi" used by pranjitb above is something that Kurmaa uses very often

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 * Compliments for the clear report. The account is a ✅ sock. WilliamH (talk) 14:06, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  15:03, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

12 September 2012

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All blocked already as obvious socks. user does not appeal blocks, just creates new socks and dives back in as if nothing happened. their target page has been protected but that also failed to stop them. Hoping a CU might be able to formulate a rangeblock. (Note there is also another very recent SPI) Beeblebrox (talk) 02:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:04, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * - to look into the possibility for rangeblocking. Sock edits follow the master's edits.
 * I have just imposed a small rangeblock; I hope it's enough. Salvio  Let's talk about it! 17:04, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:26, 12 September 2012 (UTC)