Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mentalist karan/Archive

26 June 2015

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The user pages of the two socks User:Gopal lohani (hy my name is karan shankar) and User:Laptop genius (four links to the puppetmaster's user page). Neither puppet has made any contribution other than their own user pages and interaction with the puppetmaster.

Looks like a schoolkid whose wiki-experiments have led him to try puppeteering. Bazj (talk) 08:53, 26 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Since being notified of the SPI puppetmaster has tried to get rid of the evidence by tidying the puppets' pages, and then taunting that (he/she thought) the evidence was gone. Before this I could have convinced myself he/she was here to learn how wikipedia works and build towards some useful contributions, but this behaviour reeks of WP:NOTHERE. Bazj (talk) 09:53, 26 June 2015 (UTC)


 * - Two violations of WP:ILLEGIT:
 * Posing as a neutral commentator: Using an alternative account in a discussion about another account operated by the same person. - using his sock Gopal lohani to award himself a barnstar.
 * Avoiding scrutiny: Using alternative accounts that are not fully and openly disclosed to split your editing history means that other editors may not be able to detect patterns in your contributions. - Mentalist karan and Laptop genius both edited Dharan, Nepal.
 * Bazj (talk) 07:55, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * Please, explain what WP:ILLEGIT was done by those two accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:43, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * - Hm... Editing same article with different accounts is not legit. This and this should be taken as evidence.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:03, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * I've indeffed the master. Putting aside the socking, the person appears to be generally WP:NOTHERE in terms of competence, outright vandalism, and maturity. All accounts tagged. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:28, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've indeffed the master. Putting aside the socking, the person appears to be generally WP:NOTHERE in terms of competence, outright vandalism, and maturity. All accounts tagged. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:28, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've indeffed the master. Putting aside the socking, the person appears to be generally WP:NOTHERE in terms of competence, outright vandalism, and maturity. All accounts tagged. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:28, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've indeffed the master. Putting aside the socking, the person appears to be generally WP:NOTHERE in terms of competence, outright vandalism, and maturity. All accounts tagged. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:28, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've indeffed the master. Putting aside the socking, the person appears to be generally WP:NOTHERE in terms of competence, outright vandalism, and maturity. All accounts tagged. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:28, 27 June 2015 (UTC)