Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sharma.ind/Archive

20 January 2012

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Continued reinstatement of poorly sourced or unsourced material to articles relating to Indian castes/communities. When warned, another one turns up. I suppose that they could be meatpuppets but the way in which they alternate makes me doubt that - hence CU request. Sitush (talk) 18:20, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * User:Sharma.ind, User:Beindian.ind and User:Nickk.writer indef'd by User:Ohnoitsjamie per WP:DUCK. I think that a check of the drawer might be useful. - Sitush (talk) 18:49, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Re: note from Tnxman below, I've spotted this, where PassionApple is reverting Nick.passion. Good hand/bad hand, or what? Maratha Empire is not as far away from Jat/Rajput/36 Royal Races etc as some might think. - Sitush (talk) 19:45, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Good catch. PassionApple is ✅ as . Nick.passion, Nickk.writer, Beindian.ind, Sharma.ind and Induss.writer are matches to each other. There is no straight-line, technical connection between PassionApple and the others. They're in the same geographic area, but that's it. Perhaps two sockfarms bumped into each other?  TN X Man  19:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you spot if this lot leaves the drawer(s) clean? - Sitush (talk) 19:58, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Mostly -there were no other matches with accounts that have an editing history. It's a very active range, so there are some technical matches with accounts that have not edited yet. I'd prefer to leave those alone as they may be innocent bystanders. TN X Man  20:03, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks very much for your help. I'll not wait so long if the pattern repeats in future. - Sitush (talk) 20:14, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

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Interesting. It appears that is the same as, who is blocked as a sock of Mrpontiac1. All of the other accounts are matches to each other. Given the username similarities, I'd say PassionApple is connected to the others and therefore, these are all Mrpontiac1. However, they do not demonstrate the typical editing interests of Mrpontiac1's socks (chiefly Maratha Empire). Further behavioral review is welcome. TN X Man 19:39, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Except for Nick.passion, everyone here is already blocked. I think it's possible that this group is connected to Mrpontiac, but it could be any number of other sockmasters (Dewan357, e.g.) So who knows. Anyway, I've blocked Nick.passion per the findings, so we're done. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:18, 21 January 2012 (UTC)