Talk:Sameer Sharma

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Beware conspiracy theory[edit]

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

NedFausa (talk) 17:11, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]