Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shravani Chatterjee/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * Username similar, same editing place and same name


 * Special:Diff/1095116539
 * Special:Diff/1105537775

Hi, I have little experience with Wikipedia, but I'm trying to learn. Now you can close this case without checking. ( Check the case that you have closed when you get time. If you don't find Sock in it, you can block me on Wikipedia.) PravinGanechari (talk) 22:50, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * An overlap of five articles across a total of six edits, and virtually identical usernames makes this pretty simple I think. Blocked, tagged (please correct me if I've mis-tagged things as I seem to rarely do 'master' tagging), closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 10:05, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Due to evidence raised here by User:Utcursch based on Commons, I feel an SPI is needed. This could be seen as an admission of guilt. Malhotra and Gomati are definitely either the same person or two mates working closely together as the overlap is obvious. Looking at their history, I see quite a lot of overlap with accounts with similar names so I think CU is useful to check for others involved. There is a lot of bad faith unsourced additions and manipulations to Indian articles by both Malhotra and Gomati and they are potentially going to be blocked for behaviour soon anyway but, nevertheless, I think we need to see the extent of sockpuppetry. If you look at Harsha, I count quite a few accounts that could easily be socks of Gomati. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:23, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * According to this discussion, this may be related to Sockpuppet investigations/Kairakairav/Archive. I can see similarities although the usernames are different in this case. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 11:49, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Comments by Utcursch
User:Gomati Sharma has been blocked for addition of unsourced content, but this needs attention across Wikimedia sites as they and their suspected sockpuppets (and rival sockpuppets) have several global contributions (many of which have not been not undone, especially those by IPs). I'm not sure what's their motivation for creating hoaxes: maybe they are editing based on some TV series, or have some kind of agenda to undermine Wikipedia's credibility. They seem to be active on Bharatpedia, another wiki that largely mirrors Wikipedia.

I suspect that these accounts are related in some way (likely two sets of users representing the Bharatpedia users Gomateshwari and 103.216.213.43):


 * User:Gomati Sharma
 * User:Devakanya Joshi
 * User:Shravani Chatterjee
 * User:Shravani Chatterjeee
 * User:Gomateshwari
 * User:Sushmita Shamita
 * IPs 103.216.213.43 and others (103.216.*.* / 103.210.*.*); 2402:8100:3842:BC:7C4F:4EFF:FEF1:4CF7
 * User:Kairakairav and socks

Evidence connecting 103.216.213.43 and Gomati Sharma:


 * 103.216.213.43 is obviously Gomati Sharma, as evident from this message requesting Tarinidevi not to be deleted and stating that the source is Bharatpedia
 * Bharatpedia user 103.216.213.43 and Wikipedia user Gomati Sharma have edited same articles. E.g.
 * Bhanumati (Kushana Empress)
 * Kimveka (Mahabharata)
 * etc.
 * Has also edited as 103.216.213.44, 103.216.213.41, 103.216.213.47, 103.210.202.132, 103.210.202.141, 103.16.34.122 etc. as evident from contributions on Wikipedia and Bharatpedia

Evidence connecting Gomati Sharma/IPs, Shravani Chatterjee, and Sushmita Shamita
 * Top 4 lang wikis for both Shravani Chatterjee and Gomati Sharma are enwiki, idwiki, hiwiki, and mrwiki
 * Special:CentralAuth/Shravani_Chatterjee
 * Special:CentralAuth/Gomati_Sharma
 * Kimveka: This name is not found on Google Books / Scholar, and minus Wikipedia and mirrors, only an unreliable blog post mentions it (presumably sourcing it from Wikipedia)
 * Gomati Sharma created Kimveka (Mahabharata) and updated Babruvahana with a link to that article.
 * On mrwiki, Shravani_Chatterjee made same edits
 * Added Mayuri and removed Bhanumati as a spouse of Lakshmana Kumara: 103.216.213.44 (Gomati Sharma), 103.216.213.47,  Shravani Chatterjee
 * Added Mayuri and removed Bhanumati as a spouse of Duryodhana: Shravani Chatterjee,  103.216.213.44 (Gomati Sharma),  Sushmita Shamita (this account also made opposite edits, suggesting it may be part of the second set of socks)

Evidence connecting 103.216.213.43/Gomati Sharma, Gomateshwari, Devakanya Joshi:


 * Devamala
 * Gomati Sharma created the article Devamala on Simple Wikipedia
 * Gomati Sharma created Devamala (Shunga dynasty) on English Wikipedia
 * Gomateshwari's only edits on Simple Wikipedia are requesting it not to be deleted. On ml and bn, they updated the article Pushyamitra Shunga specifying Devamala as his wife
 * Devakanya Joshi added Devamala to various articles including Pushyamitra Shunga
 * 103.216.213.43 added Devamala to same articles
 * Pushpavati
 * Devakanya Joshi added Pushpavati to Harsha
 * So did 103.216.213.43
 * 103.216.213.43/Gomati Sharma and the Bharatpedia user Gomateshwari appear to be distinct people, as suggested by their conversation. It is possible that the Wikipedia user Gomati Sharma simply copies content added by the Bharatpedia user Gomateshwari (e.g. Tarinidevi)

Evidence connecting these accounts to Kairakairav:


 * The Wikipedia User:Divyakanti is a confirmed sock of Kairakairav
 * Divyakanti created the now-deleted Draft:Adrika; a week after he was blocked, Shravani Chatterjee re-created it
 * Both added article Adrika to Parikshit Divyakanti,  Shravani Chatterjee
 * Bharatpedia user User:Divyakanti added Devamala alias Devamati as the wife of Pushyamitra Shunga/Agnimitra. On Wikipedia, we have the Devamala edits above.
 * The Wikipedia users NairaKairav / NKKKA / Kairakairavkairat are confirmed socks of Kairakairav
 * Added "Indumati" as a spouse of Vikarna: Kairakairavkairat,  NairaKairav,  NKKKA,  103.210.202.132 (Gomati Sharma),  Shravani Chatterjee
 * Bharatpedia user 103.216.213.43 (and Gomateshwari) has edited same articles as other users who have been banned as socks on Wikiepdia
 * Pushyamitra Shunga: 103.216.213.43 and Divyakanti (Bharatpedia)
 * Agnimitra: 103.216.213.43 (Bharatpedia) and Divyakanti (Bharatpedia)
 * Rani Devamala: 103.216.213.43 (Bharatpedia) and Divyakanti (Bharatpedia)

Several deleted files on Commons may provide more evidence, but I don't have access to the deleted history there (I remember that a file uploaded by Shravani Chatterjee mentioned Gomateshwari as author, it was deleted as copyvio)

,, and : This may be of interest to you; while scanning through the history of various articles, I realized that you have dealt with the Mahabharata-related edits of these socks in the past.

Contrary to my earlier suspicion, Malhotra Malhotri is probably not one of these, as 103.216.213.43 undid their edits. utcursch &#124; talk 17:47, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

utcursch &#124; talk 17:47, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * These accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * There is no technical evidence available relating to any older account. These accounts are . Nothing further for CU to do. ST47 (talk) 02:44, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Spicy (talk) 15:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * There is no technical evidence available relating to any older account. These accounts are . Nothing further for CU to do. ST47 (talk) 02:44, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Spicy (talk) 15:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * There is no technical evidence available relating to any older account. These accounts are . Nothing further for CU to do. ST47 (talk) 02:44, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Spicy (talk) 15:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Spicy (talk) 15:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC)