Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Ararat arev

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Ararat arev a.k.a. is an Armenian nationalist permabanned for revert-warring and sockpuppetry. His main focus is articles concerning Armenian antiquity, which he attempts to distort in accordance with certain nationalist fringe theories, mostly attributed to the www.armenianhighland.com/ website.

The user first appeared in December 2006, and showed extreme activity for about three months. He was community-banned in March 2007 for his continual edit-warring, misrepresentation of sources and POV-pushing.

He had begun using sockpuppets even before the ban, but beginning April 2007, he invested heavy activity in the creation of hundreds of sockpuppets, both new accounts and IPs, to circumvent his ban: see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ararat arev and Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ararat arev.

Frequent reference to the armenianhighland.com website suggests association or identity with the website owner, one Gevork Nazaryan (www.armenianhighland.com/menk/index.html) (a Gevork Nazaryan article was created by one of the user's socks in August 2007, citing a dailybruin.ucla.edu article according to which Nazaryan was a graduate student of Near Eastern languages and cultures at UCLA in 2003.

To be distinguished from Ararat arev is, a.k.a. , who was active in Armenian topics in the same period, and who was also a prolific sockpuppeteer, but whose contributions were in better faith and of superior quality than Ararat arev's (Artaxiad was banned over using abusive sockpuppets, not because of extensive edit warring). Nevertheless, "Nareklm" is responsible for the "Gevork Nazaryan" article at "armeniapedia.org".

Targeted areas, pages, themes
The following is a list of articles that have been affected by the activities of Ararat arev, or may be affected in future. Please consider adding these to your watchlist.
 * Aratta, Armenia, Armenia (name), Armenian Highlands, Armenian hypothesis, Armenian nationalism, Armenians, Hayk, Military history of Armenia, Prehistoric Armenia, Proto-Armenian language
 * Hayasa-Azzi, Hurrians, The origins of the Hyksos, Mitanni, Nairi, Turkey, Urartu
 * Template:Armenia topics, Template:History of Armenia, Template:Armenian language
 * Orion (constellation), Osiris, Ra, Osorkon II, and any page related to them
 * Giza Plateau, Imhotep, Akhenaten

Confirmed and suspected accounts

 * As of 12 April 2008:, , , , . Ararat arev is currently using IPs provided by AT&T Internet Services, Texas. See here for a sample WHOIS report.
 * recently seen again at Mitanni, Proto-Armenian language and other articles, again using Richardson, TX IPs ( among others).
 * A possible re-activation was noted on 3 June 2010. This was from a California IP, not Richardson, TX. It is possible that this user was User:Artaxiad (a.k.a Nareklm), not Ararat arev.
 * On the 15 August 2010 was blocked as an Ararat arev sock, the IP  was also established to have been operated by Ararat arev. See Sockpuppet investigations/Ararat arev/Archive for details.
 * Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of
 * Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of
 * November 2010: return of the anon from August 2010, as, ,
 * November 2012: return of Ararat arev as:, , and.
 * May 2014: as
 * November 2014: return of Ararat arev at Orion (constellation) as, on the talk page as ,
 * on Hayk as ,
 * and on other pages as and


 * February 2015:, , ON Hemhem crown, Rosetta Stone
 * March 2015: Listing all the IPs used by this character is probably futile, but the range 166.137.246.0/24 has been very busy and has now been blocked for the second time.
 * November 2015: resurgence of IPs such as, , , and.
 * December 2016: for the past year adding "Osiris-Orion son of Ra (Christ the Logos)" to articles. Various IPs, in the last 2 days, ,

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 * January 2018: See above. Blocked, , , , , , , , , , , , , User:Ramhorbronc, , ,
 * February 2018: See above. Blocked.
 * June 2018: Some ranges of interest: 107.77.228.0/22, 2602:304:cc93:cb80::/64
 * August 2018: New IP using Ararat arev's schtick; Special:Contributions/2602:304:CC93:CB80:F0B7:1A3E:6C7F:3D7A
 * December 2018: IPs from range Special:Contributions/2602:304:CC93:CB80::/64 (such as the above) continue antagonism until range blocked by Favonian.
 * March-April 2019: Special:Contributions/2600:1700:D570:B380::/64 emerges with same patterns as previous. Geolocates to Redmond, WA (same with 2602:304:CC93:CB80::/64). Rangeblocked swiftly.
 * 25 June 2019: 107.77.228.65 blocked after AIV report.
 * March 23, 2021: 107.77.224.0/21 blocked (again) for a year following an outbreak of Egyptian Orion rash.
 * October 12, 2022: User:Power Hacks, in addition to the usual stellar stuff, was kind enough to visit this page.
 * ... and User:Powervision2011.
 * 9 February 2024: Currently continuing their edit warring and ethno-nationalistic mission through this range Special:Contribs/2600:6C50:0:0:0:0:0:0/32. Notice many of the disrupted articles have been disrupted by other IP ranges (likely Ararat arev too) in the past (eg Osorkon II).