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23 February 2013

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Newly created account Ritiks has uploaded a couple of photos on Commons and immediately nominated them at WP:FPC; they are Featured picture candidates/Coral reef at Andaman and Featured picture candidates/Sunrise at the Havelock Islands. Within 90 minutes of the first nomination another newly created account, Rajan (Rajansshah) appeared at FPC and Supported both nominations. Within 10 hours yet another brand new account, Shilpa (Shilparshah) arrived to also support one of the nominations. Rajan and Shilpa are both clearly interested only in Ritiks' nominations, not participating in any other noms. In a particularly sloppy piece of work, Shilpa's first edit was to add a new paragraph to the Andaman Islands article to increase the Encylopaedic Value of one of Ritiks' images, then struck another user's Oppose vote and commented that EV had been added, within a few minutes asked another user to withdraw their Oppose, and then tried to edit their own signature to that of Ritiks. This piece of work by Shilpa indicates that they are Sockpuppets, not just meatpuppets. FWIW the text added to the article is a copyvio from this site and I will delete it. It is possible this is an older user of WP as they know about FPC, uploading to Commons, etc, however the sloppiness of the work outlined would indicate they are not very experienced. jjron (talk) 13:59, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Since creating this I have now added an IP address to the sock list - this IP deleted the votes of Rajan and Shilpa after I tagged the FPC nom with a note regarding this sockpuppet investigation. --jjron (talk) 15:57, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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it was done mistakenly. I agree that we are not experienced about this, and are not aware of the norms. Pls excuse. I would not repeat such mistake again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajansshah (talk • contribs) 16:43, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Self-admitted. Blocked master 1 week, socks indef, IP 1 week. Closing. Rschen7754 09:24, 24 February 2013 (UTC)