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12 July 2019

Suspected sockpuppets

TimesGerman tried for years to censor the Chamar article. And while doing so, they came in disagreement with Sitush, and later on with me. Some of their problematic edits were discussed by me at here. Their main targets were to delete a particular section and a particular term (untouchable) from the lead of Chamar: their discussion with me regarding the removal of the aforementioned section can be found here. When they couldn't achieve their target, they apparently left this project on 7 May of this year: [1]. They were actually very close to being topic-banned from the caste-related area at that point in time.

On 29 May, NitiMalk (an apparent impersonator of mine) registered, and they right away started to achieve the target of TimesGerman at Chamar article. Their very first edit on this project was to replace the untouchable term: [2]. Note that they were following me to different articles till they read my this comment today, which seem to have promoted them to make a lot of frivolous edits. And on 4 June, Silush (an apparent impersonator of Sitush) registered. As you will notice below, both of them are created to cause disruption & confusion at the Chamar article.

Here is the summary of practically all edits of NitiMalk at Chamar, and they are bascially repeat of what TimesGerman did earlier:

  • Odd edit summaries by both accounts which match word for word: "Reverting back to last version which has references and sources". They are odd in the sense that the versions reverted by them already had "references and sources". Here are the examples:
    TimesGerman: [3] & [4]
    NitiMalk: [5]
  • Repeated attempts (with misleading edit summaries) to delete the aforementioned section from the lead, just like TimesGerman did earlier, e.g.:
    TimesGerman: [6] & [7]
    NitiMalk: [8], [9], & [10]
    Silush: [11] & [12]
  • Replacing the term untouchable with dalit in the lead:
    TimesGerman: [13] & [14]
    NitiMalk: [15]
  • They both moved the same line into the table:
    TimesGerman: [16]
    NitiMalk: [17]
  • They both added practically same subcastes of Haryana in the table, along with a source which don't support their additions:
    TimesGerman: [18]
    NitiMalk: [19]
Actually, this addtion of subcastes was earlier objected by me: [20]

Their edits outside Chamar article are also similar, e.g. TimesGerman added this content regarding Ravidassia in April, and NitiMlk added similar content today with this edit. Noe that the following portion of their edits matches word for word: and is based on the teachings of the 14th century Indian guru Ravidas, revered as a satguru.

NitiMalk has also been making some edits in which they are separating the content into different paragraphs, e.g. [21], [22], & [23]: TimesGerman also used to make similar edits with same edit summary, e.g. [24]. Both of them also used the term verbiage in edit summaries, which is not that commonly used by editors, e.g. [25], [26], [27], [28].

Note that TimesGerman has edited this project for over 11 years, which includes edits with a different account. So they are more than familiar with socking etc. And looking at the disruption at Chamar article, there might be other sleeper accounts as well. So a CheckUser is requested, even if the above accounts look like WP:DUCK. Thanks. NitinMlk (talk) 01:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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