Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The idiot/Archive

13 April 2012

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 * Puppeteer created Dhruv Sharma in 2006, which was speedy deleted A7. User:Sharmduk89 has now re-created it, and puppeteer and anonymous sock 158.143.173.125, minutes later both attempted removal of the speedy tag on the new version.
 * Puppeteer and 158.143.173.125 have also attempted complete blanking of User:Economist.sharma:, which identifies the editor as Dhruv Sharma. Puppeteer also identified himself as Dhruv Sharma on user page, prior to blanking in.
 * 158.143.173.125 adds Dhruv Sharma's name and economics blog link to to "notable pupils" section of Calday Grange Grammar School in, followed by puppeteer moving this addition up the list an hour later in ,.
 * Note similarity of names Sharmduk89 and Economist.sharma to "Dhruv Sharma".
 * Puppeteer signed this comment to Talk:Dhruv Sharma as "Dhruv Sharma". A few minutes later, Sharmduk89 attempts to correct the error. Scopecreep (talk) 14:56, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Sharmduk89 resumed linkspamming for Dhruv Sharma's blog at and, following warning on puppeteer's page against linkspamming. Scopecreep (talk) 06:44, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment The domain is now listed as linkspam at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist, following continued linkspamming by 158.143.173.125 (which is an address at LSE, Dhruv Sharma's university). Scopecreep (talk) 06:42, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Added User:DhruvSharma2012: apologised at my talk page and promised constructive future edits, but was blocked by an admin when a few minutes later he appealed against the spam block on his website using the new account, at . Scopecreep (talk) 09:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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 * ✅ is .  Tiptoety  talk 03:58, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked Sharmduk as a sock, indefinitely, and blocked The idiot indefinitely as a spam-only account. IPs will have to be blocked as they walk by. My apologies if I am not filing the paperwork properly; I'm trying to close out the easy ones. Drmies (talk) 02:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

30 June 2015

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Well I sure wasn't familiar with this guy, but I guess he was socking a few years ago. I found him at Moradabad, where he added himself as a notable person from the region. When I checked the article on Dhruv Sharma to see if it had been created before, and to add the article to my watchlist in case the editor was itching for a vanity article, I noticed "The idiot" in the page log. Bada-boom, bada-bing, it's clearly a sock based on the Dhruv Sharma similarities. Not gonna bother with CU request, since the data probably went stale a long time ago. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:02, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

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Yes this is a duck. Compare vs /. User:The idiot signed their posts as "Dhruv Sharma" and admitted that this was their name here.

User:Dsharma14 is also likely related due to their similar contributions. It might also be revealing to look at the deleted edits of Dhruv Sharma to see who had recreated it before it was redeleted in 2012. TDL (talk) 01:01, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged Dhruv sharma ds 0611. No point in blocking Dsharma14 as that account hasn't edited since 2013. Nothing worth doing based on the deleted article - one account besides The idiot and that account is already blocked. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:33, 2 July 2015 (UTC)