Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sudhirkbhargava/Archive

05 September 2013

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Background: On Hemu there has been a long running dispute (and slow edit war) over including his caste, and introduction of POV content. While a couple of editors are discussing the issue on the talk page, the revert cycle is ongoing and is supplemented by anon IP editors and freshly created SPAs. I came into the discussion hoping to provide an "outside voice", and am requesting a checkuser to find if that effort is being wasted, and the process gamed through sock-puppetry.

Evidence
 * Here, Sudhirkbhargava confirms that he was editing from IP (not a violation by itself; seems to have simply been logged out)
 * This latest series of edits by SPA Nilotpalbera1990 included an edit by (which again appears to be be a case of the account being looged out). That IP has the same ISP and location as Sudhikbhargava's IP.
 * The content introduced by Nilotpalbera1990 today, matched content introduced/re-added by the other listed accounts and socks (selected diffs:, , , , , , ... many more available). Abecedare (talk) 20:36, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Update Looking at the finer details of the content added, I am now sufficiently convinced that at least   and  (which was the most recent SPA) are distinct persons. The other IPs and SPAs are still a concern, but I think that situation may be most easily handled by semi-protecting the Hemu page.

Bbb23, can you close this case and, if possible, semi-protect Hemu? Thanks. Abecedare (talk) 00:22, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
. The IPs appear to come from the same city in India. There are connections between the IPs and Sudhirkbhargava and Nilotpalbera1990. The last diffs were hard to sort through because they should been put in pairs for comparison. I relied on this edit by Sudhirkbhargava on May 31, 2013, comparing to this edit by Nilotpalbera1990 on September 5, 2013. Both added identical language about John Clark Marshman and William Erskine.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:16, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * - Checkuser will not publicly connect an account with an IP address per the privacy policy. You've already connected the Sudhirkbhargava and Nilotpalbera1990 with the IPs, so checkuser could tell you little more than what you already know. Furthermore, more diffs showing the sockpuppetry between the accounts would be needed before a check would be run on Vikaskalrakamboj. Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:35, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * . Based on Reaper's comments and the filer's request for withdrawal. Bbb23 (talk) 00:45, 6 September 2013 (UTC)