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This new user ThreeTwentyTwo, who has started editing since 4 November 2017, appears to be a sock puppet. His first edit was reporting me against vandalism. Now why would a new user report anybody for vandalism, unless he has been following the other user's edits from some time. The reason for me suggesting that the puppet Master is ' Maestro 2016', is the selection of pages. In his report, he has mentioned my edits on pages such as; Bollywood, Padmavati (film), Khalji dynasty, Alauddin Khalji and Film industry. On all these pages, I was interacting with Maestro2016, indirectly via edits, whose position was against my edits. It is clear that ThreeTwentyTwo is a sock created by Maestro2016,  just to report me for vandalism(unsuccessfully). Please take action. NineTimes (talk) 06:10, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

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I have no idea who User:ThreeTwentyTwo is, but there is no reason for me to create a new account just to report a user. I could have easily just reported the user with my current account, so it would be silly to create a whole new account just for something so trivial as reporting another user. There have been two previous sockpuppet allegations against me, in March 2016 and August 2017. The conclusion of both investigations is that the allegations were false, and that I was not abusing multiple accounts. Given my previous clean record, that should be strong evidence that I am not abusing multiple accounts. Just like those two previous allegations, this allegation is also false.

I don't know who ThreeTwentyTwo is, but the user's edits, behaviour and style of writing bears no resemblance to my own. For example, I have never before used the word "vandalism" in reference to the opposition in an edit war, not have I ever reported any editors to the admin noticeboard before. Whoever ThreeTwentyTwo may be, it appears the user has an issue with NineTimes' aggressive POV-pushing, which the user may have confused with vandalism. Nowhere in my previous edit history have I ever confused POV-pushing with vandalism. And the way the user writes looks so different to how I write.

It is worth noting that the first sockpuppet allegation against me in March 2016 was from a user who himself turned out to be a sockpuppet and was banned. I suspect something similar is happening here with User:NineTimes, who I have been suspicious of for a while now. I have recently filed a sockpuppet investigation against NineTimes here.

Maestro2016 (talk) 23:11, 5 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I also suspect User:ThreeTwentyTwo may have been created by User:NineTimes, for the reasons I've mentioned here. Maestro2016 (talk) 01:16, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing baseless SPI filed by sock. Sro23 (talk) 23:05, 6 November 2017 (UTC)