Talk:Pravakar Maharana

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (As mentioned in the official announcement by the Indian government, Pravakar Maharana received India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri. There is wide press coverage too. However, another editor, namely, Laxmi Narayan Maharana has vandalised his articles on multiple Wikipedias from Laxmi Narayan's own user account and from IP addresses, and has changed the name to Laxmi Narayan Maharana, which is very unfortunate. That said, the article able Pravakar Maharana is still notable and should stay on Wikipedia. I am trying to revert all such vandalism both on English Wikipedia and Odia Wikipedia, apart from fixing the same on Wikidata.) --Psubhashish (talk) 13:57, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

I agree that someone named Pravakar Maharana won the award, but not Laxmi Narayan Maharana. The pics showing the winner clearly show a more middle-aged person. This is deceptive and dishonest to take credit for someone else's lifetime of work. Ravensfire (talk) 14:32, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

We are being asked to believe that these are the same person

File:Pravakar Maharana artist (Laxmi Narayan Maharana).jpg

Pravakar Maharana artist (Laxmi Narayan Maharana)

and here [1]. Something VERY fishy going on here! Theroadislong (talk) 18:11, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

There have been multiple articles created by a very persistent fleet of socks on this person. See: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tinkubhoi. Netherzone (talk) 18:31, 24 November 2023 (UTC)