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There are signs on social media of a conspiracy theory implicating this Wikipedia article. The same thing happened in the case of another Indian actor who was also recently found hanging from the ceiling in his home: Sushant Singh Rajput. Conspiracy peddlers have sought to exploit the differential between UTC and Indian time to suggest that Wikipedia knew about the death before it became public, and was therefore secretly involved with whoever (they claim) murdered the actor. The following table is offered to clarify the timing of our first edit mentioning the death of Samir Sharma.
Timetable – 6 August 2020
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time
IST = India Standard Time
WP = Wikipedia
UTC | IST | Event |
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06:46 | 12:16 p.m. | First independent tweet re death |
06:58 | 12:28 p.m. | New Delhi-based outlet Newsd first tweet re death |
07:03 | 12:33 p.m. | Newsd second tweet re death |
07:05 | 12:35 p.m. | First WP edit re death |
This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the
Top 25 Report. The week in which this happened:
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There are signs on social media of a conspiracy theory implicating this Wikipedia article. The same thing happened in the case of another Indian actor who was also recently found hanging from the ceiling in his home: Sushant Singh Rajput. Conspiracy peddlers have sought to exploit the differential between UTC and Indian time to suggest that Wikipedia knew about the death before it became public, and was therefore secretly involved with whoever (they claim) murdered the actor. The following table is offered to clarify the timing of our first edit mentioning the death of Samir Sharma.
Timetable – 6 August 2020
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time
IST = India Standard Time
WP = Wikipedia
UTC | IST | Event |
---|---|---|
06:46 | 12:16 p.m. | First independent tweet re death |
06:58 | 12:28 p.m. | New Delhi-based outlet Newsd first tweet re death |
07:03 | 12:33 p.m. | Newsd second tweet re death |
07:05 | 12:35 p.m. | First WP edit re death |