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14 April 2014

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has been previously identified as a sock or meat puppet of the now-blocked user, who engaged in edit warring on Brahma Chellaney, an article user Chellaney created. See checkuser report.

Recently, Harshray began editing the article Neville Maxwell in a way that blatantly violates the WP:BLP policy. For example, this edit labels Maxwell as "controversial" and having a "pro-China slant", neither of which can be found in the cited source (and recent update), which on the contrary calls his book "authoritative". His other edits added more attacking material, citing several "sources" that have nothing to do with Maxwell, and an unabashedly biased opinion by the aforementioned Indian nationalist and Maxwell critic Brahma Chellaney (diff: ).

After I reverted most of his edits, a new single-purpose account was created, which copied much of Harshray's edits to the related article Henderson Brooks–Bhagat Report (diff: ), and repeatedly reverted attempts by myself and user  to remove the BLP-violating content (diffs:  ). See Talk:Neville Maxwell and User talk:Mona.SHEPHERD for more detailed analyses of their malicious edits, which are characterized by an otherwise uninvolved editor as "an attempt to make Maxwell look as bad as possible".

Upon further investigation, Mona.SHEPHERD appears to be just the latest reincarnation of a series of single-purpose accounts whose sole purpose is to add promotional material to the article Brahma Chellaney or advance Chellaney's views. These include Motheruniverse, Unclethai, Norblogger, and Natas Mon. They almost all share the highly distinctive habit of beginning their edit comments with verbs in the single third-person present tense, e.g. "Adds update" and "Inserts reference", instead of the usual "add" or "inserted". I haven't added all of them to the list of possible socks as some have been dormant. Zanhe (talk) 18:12, 14 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I've now added to the list as the once dormant account has been reactivated to remove the peacock and COI tags on Brahma Chellaney. -Zanhe (talk) 19:04, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * I just saw this. I vigorously deny any link with . Mona.SHEPHERD (talk) 08:05, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Checkuser comments:
 * is ❌ to the other accounts.
 * is
 * and are  socks.
 * Neither Mona.SHEPHERD nor Natas Mon can be linked back to Chellaney directly; apparently editing from a different continent. Risker (talk) 05:42, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged (in a sec) and moved here from Sockpuppet investigations/Chellaney. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:58, 20 April 2014 (UTC)