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09 April 2014

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The page Indian_general_election,_2014 is suspected to have Sockpuppet activities by User:Shriram and User:Lihaas. The page mainly details on the General Election 2014 in India that is currently going on. There are intentional steps being taken to highlight specific parties and their leaders and Wikipedia made to use as a media for campaigning for selected parties. The approach followed is that a group is formed to make sure that the specific party information are highlighted and updated while keeping the other party information narrowed by using Wiki Policies against their update. User:Shriram and User:Lihaas is found to be most active in reverting articles about other parties which they are uninterested. As wiki policies take time to discuss and come to a conclusion, they keep discussing and reverting contents about articles of other parties which finally result in a incomplete information about other parties. As the article is on current General election in India, the manipulation causes an adverse impact on the impression that people have on various parties.

A few Items that was done by the Users:


 * 1. Highlighting only the party leaders of their interest in the UserBox. This was repeatedly done even after multiple discussions with the two users to either delete the all users from Info Box or include other Party Leaders too in the UserBox. Many users had requested the same at different occasions but they were strategically handled as a group by the two users.

Even after a dispute resolution was started for this, the UserBox was kept with with the leaders of their interest prolonging the discussion.

Dispute resolution Link- Dispute_resolution_noticeboard I can see that there were many other Users who were placing similar requests in talk page of India General Election Indian general election, 2014. Mentioning them below for their inputs.

Talk Page-Talk:Indian_general_election,_2014/Archive_1 &  Talk:Indian_general_election,_2014

Users involved in the two talk pages where- Janmejai, Soman, RaviC, GKCH, 25_Cents_FC, Logical1004, Bill_william_compton, Royroydeb

A excerpt from the India General Election 2014 talk page showing how Shriram handled certain arguments-

Sorry but you are trying to dictate the page,you haven't read what I said.The problem isn't with Infobox,The problem are the leaders mentioned in the infobox and you reverted my edits without answering them.No one have yet answered them, why only these two leaders are mentioned in infobox? and what are the basis on which these two leaders were selected to be shown in the infobox? How and When Rahul Gandhi became the Leader? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janmejai (talk • contribs) 12:31, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

You can say what ever you want, this is a free country. I am not dictating any page. Not just you, some other guy drew me to dispute resolution, because he wants AAP to be projected here for which I asked him to discuss. You can see the mess he has done in the talk page. About Rahul Gandhi, look at this [2], he was added stating that he was the head of the election campaign. But before that it was Sonia Gandhi [3]. You are free to discuss it. Narendra Modi has been declared as leader by the NDA to lead the 2014 poll campaign, if he is going to be replaced it can be edited later. No other parties have declared any leaders, so they have not been mentioned. Have a look at the previous election pages, the people who lead the election or people who were declared as the pm candidate were added into the info box. I don't see any dispute here. Previously there was third front in the info box, but it was removed because third front had not been officially formed yet, sorry I am unable to provide the link, don't know where it is in the messed up edit history, I think I had mention in the section My last revert, have a look. ShriramTalk 13:31, 4 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 2. Deleting Useful Valuable information from other parties making use of Wiki Policies while allowing similar contents to be available for other parties.

Articles_for_deletion/AAP_2014_Lok_Sabha_Candidates

The above page which detailed the list of names of candidates contesting for Aam Aadmi Party  was supported for deletion by User:Lihaas when other parties which he was interested had similar information in Indian general election, 2014. Those pages listed below are still present in India General Election Page


 * List_of_United_Progressive_Alliance_candidates_in_the_Indian_general_election,_2014
 * List_of_National_Democratic_Alliance_candidates_in_the_Indian_general_election,_2014

The above pages of parties of which User:Lihaas and User:Shriram are interested in are almost the same structure of the deleted page of AAP, but not considered for deletion and still exists in the general Election Page.

User Involved: Utcursch

It looks like a targeted attack towards the AAP for providing biased information to the Wiki Readers. Especially this being a political section which can create wrong impression on readers about a specific party.

There were similar removal of useful data from Party sections like Agenda without proper explanations or by prolonging discussions in one way or other. This is a clear indication of using Wiki's policies of good faith against Wikipedia.

Requesting Wiki to have a thorough check on the two users activities. Soorejmg (talk) 07:22, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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No plausible evidence of sockpuppetry has been presented. This appears to be a matter of "If two editors both agree with one another in their opposition to my editing, they must be sockpuppets". Looking at the history of the two accounts involved, the suggestion of sockpuppetry is nonsense. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:16, 10 April 2014 (UTC)