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20 March 2016

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Brand new editor removing the deletion tag from the suspected master's article and lobbying for it to be kept:. GABHello! 16:26, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Suspected master: . GABHello! 16:29, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Closing per results posted below.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:25, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

21 March 2016

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This morning I noticed that AnomieBOT tagged a talkpage (Talk:Prof Rakesh Sinha) with a notice about earlier deletion discussions. As I could not find any evidence of an undeletion request and the article was highly promotional, I nominated it for speedy deletion. This nomination was quite quickly contested by the suspected sockmaster Mahant2013, the author of the [Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prof Rakesh Sinha earlier removed] article about Prof Rakesh Sinha. So far so good. But then the CSD was contested by Murdikardapoli, just nine minutes after he/she registered an account. The accounts has no edits UNrelated to the subject. He clearly did not like the CSD, as he removed the template, something User:Omni Flames reverted and warned him for. The contesting was done on its second edit in a technically perfect manner.

And then the CSD was contested by Prakharsharan with just its second edit in a technically perfect manner, about half an hour after registration. Interestingly, Prakharsharan also created Prakharsharan01 a few minutes after its own registration. his second account promptly started editing the Sinha article in a technically correct way.

In all I have the idea that there are four accounts working on this article, but that there is in effect just one editor who tries to suggest that there is more support for this article than there is in real lief. The Banner talk 00:54, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

I have added user:Richas 23 and user:Rahul Singh Ind. Both are single purpose accounts. The first one popped in at de deletion-discussion and claimed that the article should be kept "While some of us might not agree with his political views or RSS ideologies, (...)". The same type of reasoning is echoed by Rahul Singh Ind: "Academic Freedom: NO Deletion §- There are voices of biased and ladder based intellectuals on wikipedia and they have always united to protect interest of the group." They only bring emotional arguments, giving me the idea that this are no new users but sockpuppets of the master mentioned above. The Banner talk 21:36, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

And I have added anotherone to the list. SikandarAlex registered about an hour before he started editing, mainly adding promotional external links or superfluous internal links to the text. Has no other edits than on this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SikandarAlex]).

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 * Probably stale but and  are also spas associated with the same article. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:59, 26 March 2016 (UTC)


 * See also the history of Rakesh Sinha (India Policy Foundation) (a new article about the same person, speedy tagged now) where Prakharsharan01 and Murdikardapoli have been active. Murdikardapoli also created Draft:Dr Rakesh Sinha immediately after the AfD for Prof Rakesh Sinha was closed as delete. --bonadea contributions talk 10:46, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * and ✅ to each other:.
 * and ✅ to each other: and
 * are -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  20:24, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Everything has been blocked except for two extremely stale accounts for which it's not possible to draw any conclusions. Closing now.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:48, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * and ✅ to each other: and
 * are -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  20:24, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Everything has been blocked except for two extremely stale accounts for which it's not possible to draw any conclusions. Closing now.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:48, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

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SPA who has created Prof. rakesh sinha, Draft:Rakesh Sinha, and nothing else, circumventing the salting of Prof Rakesh Sinha - see the SPI archives for various title variants of this repeatedly deleted article. It's been a while since I saw one of these articles so I can't say that it's identical but it is definitely about the same person, and with no more notability than it had when the latest AfD was closed as "delete". bonadea contributions talk 17:06, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the sock. Sro23 (talk) 23:38, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 00:05, 18 September 2017 (UTC)