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User:Avineshjose[edit]

Suspected sock puppeteer

Avineshjose (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)

Suspected sock puppets

• Googlean (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)

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• vi5in^[talk] 20:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

• This is Avinesh's third SSP case. Please look at this WP:AN case and this WP:ANI case for background and evidence (it pretty much establishes that Avinesh == Harjk, and Harjk == Googlean, and therefore Avinesh == Googlean) on this case.
• All of Avinesh's socks use the same override template for their user pages:

• Avinesh's userpage source (template override with Monotype Corsiva)
• Googlean's userpage source (template override with Monotype Corsiva)
• Harj's userpage source (template override with Century Gothic)

• The Googlean account was created on August 7th, 2008. The first edit is in an AfD, and the next edit puts an article up for AfD. It's interesting that the first action of a new account would immediately be an AfD.
• Googlean's edits fall within a very narrow range and deals with POV pushing on articles related to religious violence in India (especially religious violence dealing with Christians in India), and on articles related to Hindu Nationalist parties and groups in India (BJP, VHP, and so on).

Comments

Avinesh was previously (see this case) accused of having two sockpuppets. He was blocked for 48 hours and the sockpuppets were indef-blocked and tagged appropriately. Avinesh then tried to remove the sockpuppet templates from these pages. These actions caused me to launch the first WP:AN case (I mistakenly placed it on WP:AN when it should have been on WP:ANI). Avinesh denied that Harjk was his sockpuppet using his oft-quoted alibi of "it was someone from my office, and they created it for fun etc." For being a "fun" account, these accounts seem to have a good knowledge of Wikipedia terms and policies and were also pushing Avinesh's POV on a lot of articles. Their editing styles and languages were virtually similar. After Avinesh stopped removing the templates, it was found that Googlean is also a sockpuppet of Avinesh's. In complaining about a block, Avinesh sent emails from Googlean, but signed it as Avinesh.

I then launched a second case in WP:ANI since it was obvious that Avinesh was operating in a "good hand"/"bad hand" fashion. He was using his primary account to edit less controversial pages, while using the Googlean account to edit controversial pages and push his POV. It seemed to me like a clear case of using a separate account to edit a small range of battleground articles. I requested an admin's opinion as to whether this was accepted behavior. As I suspected, it was not. It seems rather obvious to me that Googlean is a sockpuppet of Avinesh, and must be indef-blocked. I'm not sure what action should be taken against Avinesh (I think the admins are in a better position to decide), but this is his third offense.

Comment by avinesh

Per WP:SOCK#LEGIT & Does the above evidence shown that avinesh/googlean violated/co-edited/ WP policy? Could you give any evidence of sock/co-editing by avinesh & googlean in any articles?. I dont think that the given evidence is sufficent enough and my further explantions in this case is in this thread and I have nothing more to comment in this issue. Thanks. --Avinesh  T  02:48, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Per [this, you're in violation of WP:SOCK. Furthermore, there is sufficient evidence since you emailed an admin from "Googlean", but it was signed as "Avinesh". --vi5in^[talk] 01:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Googlean account is being used as an attack dog. Its interesting how the account has only one realm of editing, and thats basically anti-Hindu pro-Christian editing. Then when Bharatveer calls him out on it, he calls Bharatveer a POV-pusher. That BV may be, but the fact Googlean does little to nothing productive and goes around Wiki whining about "POV-pushing" makes me very suspicious.Pectore^talk 01:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Tznkai blocked Googlean indef and Avinesh for one week.--chaser - t 06:25, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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