Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ravi.oja


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User:Ravi.oja

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Vianello (talk) 20:18, 28 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
 * The suspected sock master submits Ravi Agrawal, a page of dubious notability on a real person. Mysteriously, when it is nominated for speedy deletion, the suspected sock puppet, with no listed prior edits (and created about ten minutes ago as of this report's submission) swoops in and begins fervently removing any speedy deletion templates posted, with no provided justification. It's undeniably suspicious (and magically delicious). It's flimsier, but that the names are capitalized and spaced in identical fashions is also conspicuous, as is their apparent identical nationality.
 * Another mysterious benefactor appears, in the form of a benevolent IP, whose only edits covered in the IP's contribution log are the removal of another speedy deletion template from the above page. Again, without comment or justification. The resemblances are a bit uncanny to call a coincidence. However, perhaps most telling would be a whois lookup on the IP, which traces it to a user in India, the same presumed country as the suspected sockmaster and other sock puppet (and, interestingly, the subject of the disputed article). Narrowing it down to the same country is a little broad, I acknowledge, but it's more damning than if the IP traced to, say, Paris.


 * Comments
 * Pretty much what I had concluded above; I just hadn't gotten around to documenting it :D --Blowdart | talk 23:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Closing this way past its due date but the case was pretty obvious and puppets have been blocked.


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