User:Gorthian/Mughal empire

Muhammad d Aurang c Zeb s Mughal is the probable perpetrator of a large amount of refspam on Wikipedia, citing his own work in hundreds of articles (usually without adding any other text). He has edited from IP accounts exclusively (as far as anyone knows). According to my records, he made a total of 711 edits, on 43 different dates, over a period of 3 years and 2 months, using 50 different IPs, on 288 different articles. I did not count edits that did not involve citations to his work.

From about May 6 to May 20, 2016, several editors made a concerted effort to delete his self-citations from almost all articles (exceptions listed below), and I believe we succeeded.

I created this page to make a centralized area for tracking his inevitable return to spamming activities. Please post any new comments or observations on the talk page.

Articles "whitelist"
These are articles that have cited Mughal's work, but the citations were legitimately added by other editors.


 * Burjor Avari (cited in page creation, May 14, 2015)]
 * History of India (first cite, March 10, 2015; removed May 20, 2016)
 * Punjabi calendar (first cite, November 1, 2014; removed May 14, 2016)
 * Tunisian Arabic (first cite, July 30, 2015; removed May 19, 2016)
 * Bikrami calendar (added by user 1738details) Not sure about this one. This article was cleaned of refspam in May. A cite to Mughal's work was added June 8, 2016 by this new user. Their other contributions did not add Mughal, but they all had to do with adding refs. Removed the ref because the subject looked unlikely to support the content. — Gorthian (talk)

Discussions
Many editors have encountered him over the years, and brought up the problems of his spamming in various venues. Reading through these can provide details and an overall "feel" for his editing habits. (Dates are when the discussion was initiated.)


 * User talk:Blue Mist 1/Archive 1 (28 May 2013)
 * User talk:Blue Mist 1/Archive 1 (6 June 2013)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Dec 1 (29 December 2013)
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive922 (6 May 2016)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/129.234.0.13/Archive (11 May 2016)
 * User talk:Tawker (11 May 2016)
 * User talk:Oshwah (11 May 2016)
 * User talk:SpacemanSpiff (14 May 2016)
 * Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (17 May 2016)