Shonali2000

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Shonali2000 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

User states that the connection to user:Vr is te result of sharing a campus proxy. OTRS ticket#2008030610004287 refers. Editors familiar with the accounts and behaviour are requested to review this block and double-check. Guy (Help!) 11:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Based on evidence below, he is either a sock of a formerly blocked user, or part of a group of users who are editing together to be disruptive. Either way, the block seems valid based on the evidence below. — Jayron32.talk.contribs 17:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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I think there is more: both users participated in the same AfD discussion. He is also not the first user of the sock pool whose first edits was to his userpage (in the minute) and similar in style. Can someone with an OTRS access (to read his explanations) review the block? -- lucasbfr ^talk (using User:Lucasbfr2) 13:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Vr. This was one of a number of brand new acounts which turned up on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Top 1000 Scientists: From the Beginning of Time to 2000 AD (second nomination). In addition to this, and the checkuser, Shonali2000's typing has the same distinctive quirks as the other accounts, such as missing or transposed letters; "aht", "woudl", "teh" "thsi" and "whre", numerous empty lines before comments [1] and lack of spaces between punctuation and the next word (most of the preceding diffs). Iain99^{Balderdash and piffle} 15:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I find her emails to OTRS rather difficult to follow but she says that she is female and Vr is male and that Vr edits from a place miles away from her school and so he can't be her. There isn't really a credible explanation that I can tell. If checkuser has confirmed her as editing from the same IP then her explanations make no sense at all. Sarah 08:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Request for tallying my IP with that of the offending Vr in the discussions

I would like to place this request again-I am certain no man could have edited from Lady Shri Ram College computer!Besides only 3 of my edits tally with Vr!I woudl like my edits and Vr edits to be presented with respective Ip numbers!

(Shonali Bose (talk) 06:37, 13 April 2008 (UTC))