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Aman.kumar.goel

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06 June 2020

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Suspected sockpuppets

• NavjotSR (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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The two editors show great deal of overlapping editing interest.

NavjotSR makes a revert on 3 November 2019 in Sino-Indian War changing "Decisive Chinese victory" to "Chinese victory". Aman.kumar.goel appears on 4 May 2020 and makes the exact same edit with no prior editing history in the page.

Their editing pattern in other articles looks more suspicious. Aman.kumar.goel on 5 January 2020 rewrites the lead and history section of Sitar, stating, "A modified form of Veena, the instrument was invented in medieval India" and replaces an existing reference in the history section with the book titled "Sitar Music in Calcutta: An Ethnomusicological Study", stating "Sitar is said to have been invented, or rather developed from the Veena by Amir Khusrow, a famous Sufi inventor, poet, and pioneer of Khyal, Tarana and Qawwali, during thirteenth century".

The article went through several changes afterwards and some new references were introduced by other editors. On 24 February 2020, NavjotSR makes their first edit in the article with exactly the same text and replaces two references with the same book ("Sitar Music in Calcutta: An Ethnomusicological Study") that Aman.kumar.goel inserted in the history section.

Note that NavjotSR is not merely reverting the previous edit here rather pretends to rewrite the article with an edit summary "poor coding and misrepresentation", but with, surprisingly, the same exact content that Aman.kumar.goel introduced. NavjotSR then, on 24 May 2020,‎ begins an edit war in the article against some anonymous users to keep this version and continues for two days before the article gets fully protected.

Similar partnerships occured in Money marriage and Caste-based prostitution.

Aman.kumar.goel, on 17 May 2020, redirects the newly-created article Money marriage to Wife selling. When they got reverted by the article creator, NavjotSR appears on 19 May 2020 to redirect the article back to Wife selling.

Again, on 17 May 2020, Aman.kumar.goel redirects the newly-created Caste-based prostitution to Prostitution in India. And again after being reverted, NavjotSR appears and redirects it back to Prostitution in India.

In Child prostitution, NavjotSR deletes the content on India, particularly a reference from The Guardian which states "an estimated 100,000 lower caste women and girls are groomed into prostitution as a family trade...".

Edit warring begins: NavjotSR makes two subsequent reverts (One, Two) against two editors to restore their version and in the process, removes an additional reference from Reuters which states, "thousands of Indian children are trafficked into prostitution each year...", along with the previous content stated above. When they get placed on 3RR, Aman.kumar.goel appears and reverts the article back to NavjotSR's version, again with no prior editing history in the article.

Same thing happened in Child sexual abuse, NavjotSR deletes content on India, reverts other editor, reverts again, gets on 3RR, Aman.kumar.goel apears and reverts it back to NavjotSR's version.

There are numerous such cases which I haven't touched yet. The two editors have no history of interactions with each other, be it their own user talk pages or the talk pages of the articles mentioned above. The editing pattern seems to suggest NavjotSR is used by Aman.kumar.goel to do the dirty works while keeping their main account clean. Considering their contentious topics of interest, the master might have more such puppets playing around. I.Bhardwaj (talk) 18:12, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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