Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/RajivLal (2nd)

User:RajivLal (2nd)

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Paul B (talk) 09:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Tag team editing on Bhavishya Purana and Mahound. All have identical stylistic quirks, which are also identical to the banned user DWhiskaZ see Requests for checkuser/Case/DWhiskaZ, who is obsessed with this particular page and makes identical edits repeatedly in numerous socks. Note the unique use of the word "an", also shared by DWhiskaZ. He will continue to get away with this, as he has done for months, because the effort of making official complaints and dealing with incessant reverting is simply too great. He (in two personas) is now using Huggle to revert. Various forms of the Padan name have already been confirmed as sockpuppets, as can be seen in the above link to checkuser/Case/DWhiskaZ. All adopt the same tactic of making meaningless edits to other pages in order to appear to have a different edit history (mostly adding and removing blank lines).
 * Evidence
 * Comments
 * User Paul Barlow accusing me of being a Sock Puppet of RajivLal and sending users/puppets to my page and reverting edits. It clearly shows that RajivLal is concentrated on other articles that differ from mine. --Padan (talk) 16:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * please also check a possible connection to User:Thileepanmathivanan's sock army. imho, the naive insistence on "we have a different edit history" based on obvious dummy edits is probably obvious enough to even warrant a block without actually running checkuser. See also ANI, FTN, user talk dab (𒁳) 09:15, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I am convinced that the three named accounts here are sockpuppets based on evidence presented by Paul B and the observation that on several recent days, any two of the three accounts have edited within minutes of each other. It's probably best to RFCU to double check, but I prefer not to do that myself. Yechiel (Shalom) 23:48, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No comment on the possible link to DWhiskaZ, but if these three guys are the same person they should be blocked regardless. Yechiel (Shalom) 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The DwhiskaZ-Padan link seems probable based on the similar edit/contrib history, the similarity of topics and pages and dates of contribs, the similar MO, similar language style (curious use of the word "an" as Paul B notes above), identical "sources" used (linking exclusively to Abdul Haq's fringe theory about Mohamad and the Bhavishya Purana, for instance see "footnote" 25 here which both users referenced in various pages), and similar overall agenda (linking Mohamad to the Bhavishya Purana in every relevant wikipedia article on hindu historical texts), all seem identical based on DwhiskaZ's contribs page entries as compared with Padan's. The contrib page comparison seems to indicate that where DWishkaZ approached this "project" by focusing on the Muhammad,Mahamad, and Mahamada pages (but linking from there to the Bhavishya Purana page), Padan did it by focusing on the Bhavishya Purana page (and linking back to "muhammad"). However regardless of puppetry/teamwork between them, it seems to me Padan's activities on their own, the insistence on inserting fringe material with undue weight and no scholarly backing, and his attempts to cover his tracks using 'dummy edits' on other pages, edit wars and strong evidence of puppetry, all require some response. The link with User:Jookti is another question and may be probable on similar grounds. Jak68 (talk) 02:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It's worth noting that if DWhiskaZ was posting from the University of Toronto two months ago. It is likely that he will not still be posting from there. If he is a student at that institution, he will be on summer vacation. Paul B (talk) 12:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd like to point out "the team" remains active. Rajivlal continues to make dummy edits, no doubt biding his time until we lose interest. He's had a long career on this issue precisely because there hasnt been decisive enough action taken. Jak68 (talk) 01:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Since editors have speculated that DWhiskaZ is involved, I added his name above in the 'sockpuppetteer' group. Revert my change if you disagree. EdJohnston (talk) 18:30, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Blocked and tagged, the edit quirks are clinching. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 23:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Rajivlal is continuing to edit the Bhavishya Purana page. Can we close this case out please?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jak68 (talk • contribs) 05:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * How could i be an Sock Puppet of my own ? The case is on RajivLal and everybody is suspecting all these Users as my puppets. You shold check the contributions these users made and compare the difference between them. Somebody was vandalising the article Bhavishya Purana so i was watching out for it. There is nothing wrong with reverting vandalisim. --RajivLal (talk) 14:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Note the master is User:Thileepanmathivanan — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 23:30, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * PS. I ran a checkuser on and it uncovered about 100 socks, which overlapped with Padan among others. After seeing that Padan was already blocked and cross-checking with this case and the IP data already posted on Thileep, all these Mujahideen socks are him as well.  Blnguyen '  ( bananabucket '') 01:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your contribution Blnguyen you made such big difference on Wikipedia. You deserve one round of applause and some sharab with sutu and some kuri. Enjoy your stay on Wikipedia. --DBabaG (talk) 03:01, 3 August 2008 (UTC)