Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prathambhu/Archive

Report date March 9 2009, 15:34 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Rajith Mohan (Talk to me..)

The user Prathambhu, who recently started editing the Kochi, India related articles is suspected as a sock puppet of BANNED user Alniko (|Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Alniko) All the sock puppets of the user is banned from wikipedia.

The nature of the edits are similar, and the user concentrate only on Kochi, India and related articles. The user engage in edit wars with the other users, while trying to overtone the city which he represent. With a new user id, the user is trying to evade the bans issued by the arbitration committee. The user usually engage in edit war mainly in Kochi, India(overtoning the city he loves) Trivandrum(de-grading his rival city) and Kerala (the state which holds both the city). The nature of edits and the language of all the 3 blocked users are similar.

Recent reverts:
 * ONE
 * TWO
 * THREE
 * FOUR
 * FIVE
 * SIX
 * SEVEN
 * EIGHT
 * NINE
 * TEN
 * ELEVEN

Too many reverts within short span violating the 3R rule:
 * 1) 07:44 1 March 2009
 * 2) 19:02,  1 March 2009
 * 3) 19:11,  1 March 2009
 * 4) 13:10,  2 March 2009
 * 5) 01:37,  3 March 2009
 * 6) 10:03,  3 March 2009
 * 7) 12:50,  3 March 2009
 * 8) 16:30, 3 March 2009

The user charged other users of vandalism, without understanding what WP:VAN is.    

The original user Alniko also used to issue Vandalism warnings to other users.  

-- Rajith Mohan (Talk to me..) 15:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Rajith Mohan (Talk to me..) 15:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Contrary to the assertion made in evidence, Alniko does not seem to be banned by Arbcom, and there is no evidence presented that multiple accounts have been used to get round WP:3RR
 * CheckUser requests
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

None of the evidence presented shows abusive socking, and on several key points the evidence has proved to be untrue. If there is a WP:3RR issue, take it to the appropriate noticeboard. WP:SPI cannot help. Mayalld (talk) 11:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 11:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions