Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shirkan654/Archive

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Both Shirkan654 and Abhisheek4268 users have no edits outside confusing and misleading the film’s plot on Son of Kashmir Burhan. Shirkan654 started by making small edits on 26 April when the article was created. 1.187.216.34 edits on the page were reverted and Abhisheek4268 account made similar edits on same day 23 May 2018. Abisheek4268 edits were also reverted for “nonconstructive edits” and was eventually blocked on 27 May 2018.

Please note that the user Shikran654 did not make any edits during this period of Abhisheek4268 edits until 2 days after the account was blocked. All these three users made about same arguments and Shirkan654 is currently making same edits repeatedly. Which made me wonder if they are socks of each others. Abbas45Abdul (talk) 21:17, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

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, I note you have done a CU block on Abbas45Abdul, the originator of this SPI case. On this basis, I'm declining this user's CU request and closing the SPI. Please feel free to intervene if you disagree with what I'm doing here. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:12, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd rather you evaluate the report. It wouldn't be the first time a sock has filed a report that has merit. I've changed the status back to open.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:48, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, I've examined what's been going on with Son of Kashmir: Burhan, and it's not at all clear to me that this is a case of sockpuppetry. It could just as easily be an example of multiple editors from India who, by virtue of being part of the same ethnic / political community, not surprisingly hold similar views on a deeply divisive topic (the Kashmir conflict).  The nature of the two editors' work is very different:  whereas Abhisheek4268 limited his efforts to vandalizing the title of the movie (repeatedly changing "Son of Kashmir" to "Terrorist of Kashmir"), Shirkan654 has repeatedly tried to insert a lengthy rewrite of the article (focussing on a strongly pro-India perspective of the real-life subject of the film, rather than on the film itself).  So I'm not willing to call this sockpuppetry.  I do recognize, at this point, that since Shirkan654's current antagonist (Abbas45Abdul) is now indef-blocked, Shirkan654 may very possibly consider himself vindicated and may try to reinstate his rewrite of the article; some sort of action to prevent this may be appropriate — just not the current SPI case.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 17:06, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Closing without action, as explained above. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 17:07, 30 June 2018 (UTC)