Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nralhan/Archive

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Both new editors created and edited new article for a non-notable person Nischay Ralhan, and also starting the same article on their own sandboxes, while the master also does it on his main user page. WP:DUCK, per number 6 on the sockpuppetry policy. See history and deletion logs of pages User:Nralhan, User:Nralhan/sandbox, User:Hema03/sandbox, and Nischay ralhan, right now some have been already deleted. Also, see this message by Hema03 sent to Melcous, and its reply. theinstantmatrix (talk) 12:20, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * I don't have a dog in this fight, but I saw Nischay Ralhan tagged for A7, decided that a whole bunch of self-published videos and media didn't indicate a likelihood of anyone with no COI saving the article, and a complete blank on news sources cemented my view. While I give some grace on the grounds that Indian topics have generally less online source coverage than Western ones, I can't really say that applies to people who are alleged to have become notable recently. If this isn't sockpuppetry, it's meatpuppetry. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  13:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Update : I have indeffed Hema03 for repeatedly creating Nischay Rallan's article under a variety of different names. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  14:48, 21 March 2018 (UTC)


 * No doubt about it, in view of the very close relationship between the two editing histories. A classic case of someone who comes to Wikipedia in order to create a self-promotional article, is told that creating an autobiography is discouraged, and creates a new account under a different name to give the impression that it isn't an autobiography, because of course we are all too stupid to see through that. There is also the account Harry0304, which has re-created the same article. There are some differences between Harry0304's version of the page and earlier versions, which could well mean this is meatpuppetry, whereas Nralhan and Hema03 look very much like the same person. On the other hand it could just mean that the same editor is trying a different approach in the hope that it will avoid deletion, whereas. Either way, it makes no difference, and I have blocked both Nralhan and Harry0304. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:44, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * CU/Archiving note, two sleepers found and blocked. Courcelles (talk) 17:43, 22 March 2018 (UTC)