Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/פארוק/Archive

29 November 2012

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Best to look at edit history rather than any given diff. All of the IP's edits are to articles previously edited by blocked user פארוק.

79.179.154.235 contribs vs פארוק's contribs. The writing style is pretty recognisable-- by 79.179.154.235 vs by פארוק Pepper Beast   (talk)  20:42, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * T. Canens (talk) 00:00, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the IP for a week. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:20, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

21 March 2013

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These are all pretty obvious socks. פארוק was banned from English Wikipedia a while ago, but has continued active over at Simple English Wikipedia. The edits made here are on all the same topics as פארוק is editing in Simple English.


 * פארוק's contribs on English Wikipedia
 * פארוק's contribs on Simple English Wikipedia
 * MisterOliveMan's contribs
 * AlmondsTree's contribs
 * FoxyMan's contribs

The writing style is also pretty distinctive.
 * Article written by פארוק
 * Some photo captions from פארוק


 * Edit to Tel Aviv by FoxyMan
 * Page created by AlmondsTree
 * MisterOlivesMan is slightly less obvious, but he uses the same kind of wording as פארוק in editing this photo caption. Pepper Beast   (talk)  22:04, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * - FoxyMan, Farooq. So FoxyMan is obviously a block-evading sock. Requesting CU to see if the others are as well, and to see if there are even more that have not been uncovered. If possible, a CU on the simple english account may be enlightening. Someguy1221 (talk) 02:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * to each other. Master is . -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  07:53, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * All 3 blocked as likely socks, tagged as such. NativeForeigner Talk 19:33, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * - According to a CU on simple.wikipedia, FoxyMan is likely to פארוק. Someguy1221 (talk) 01:01, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

02 April 2013

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Much the same as this user's other socks. Pepper Beast  (talk)  09:30, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Farooq's contribs
 * FighteFox's contribs
 * Example of Farooq's writing
 * and an example from FighteFox
 * and some from שחר1979.

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 * I'm sorry, but I am not seeing convincing evidence of anything except you have found several editors with similarly bad english. In any event, these accounts are terribly stale and unlikely to edit again. Someguy1221 (talk) 00:33, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

11 July 2013

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Same pattern and style, including a low proficiency of English. Contributions focus on monuments and memorials in Israel, especially those of Mount Herzl -- matching the master's continuing edits to simplewiki. Identical page moves within hours of each other here on enwiki and here on simplewiki Osiris (talk) 06:39, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * - - for confirm and sleeper check, however as master is  this will have to be sent crosswiki.  and  show similar styles of communication. Rschen7754 06:53, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ - autoblock is doing its job. No sleepers. WilliamH (talk) 07:41, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing. Rschen7754 07:45, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

19 July 2013

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Same concentration on Israeli memorials. Same bad/machine translated English. Essentially the same edits as on Simple English Wikipedia.
 * Edits to Gan HaNe'edarim on Simple English Wikipedia and on English Wikipedia Pepper Beast   (talk)  23:00, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've gone ahead and nominated the four pages he created for G5 speedy. — PinkAmpers  &#38;  ( Je vous invite à me parler )  22:42, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Deleted by  — PinkAmpers  &#38;  ( Je vous invite à me parler )  03:25, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Identical edits to simple and en, combined with identically terrible English and for comparison,, makes this a duck case. Since Farooq has previously had more than one sock going at a time, requesting CU to see if this is the only one. Someguy1221 (talk) 02:53, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing to report; autoblock doing its job. WilliamH (talk) 04:25, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Simple has been notified, now closing. Rschen7754 04:29, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

06 August 2013

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Same obsession with Mount Herzl and monuments and memorials in Israel, same lousy English.
 * Farook's edit to Yitzak Rabin on Simple English and MisterGrapesMan here.
 * Edit to Theodore Herzl and his article on the same at Simple English.
 * Contributions from 109.65.205.216 - all articles recently edited by Farook on Simple English.
 * 109.65.223.139, ditto.
 * Edit by Farook to Mt Herzl on Simple English and by 109.65.205.216 here.
 * Farook on Simple English and 109.65.223.139. Pepper Beast   (talk)  09:10, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Found another one Tropit78. Pepper Beast  (talk)  22:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Found a fresh one Farouk on Simple English, new article on the International Planning History Society and the same article created here by Faly49.  Pepper Beast   (talk)  11:10, 12 August 2013 (UTC)


 * is almost definitely Faroukh, once again adding his new articles on both enwiki and simplewiki on the same day (links by Pepperbeast directly above). Osiris (talk) 23:40, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:29, 10 August 2013 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:45, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * - Good evidence for named user. It may be crosswiki but edits such as by Grapes are highly congruent. NativeForeigner Talk 21:41, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Definitely . I can not get more determinative than that due to the nature of the networks. . -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  23:26, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Tropit78 is stale. I'm not able to discern if this is the same user or different people editing. The evidence so far does not make this case clear. I would lean towards closing this as inconclusive.
 * Indeffing Faly49 & MisterGrapesMan. Closing.

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Master פארוק (Farouk) was blocked in 2012, but is still active on many other-language Wikipedia sites (global accounts). They're blocked on about ten other sites, often for adding poor-quality machine-translated content; see User talk:פארוק and User talk:פארוק

Garagarage1979 has also edited on a large number of other Wikipedia sites (global accounts), and both accounts were created on Hebrew Wikipedia. There's not much crossover on English Wikipedia, but it's obvious from their global contributions, Farouk: and Garagarage1979:. They use the Garagarage1979 account to edit on sites where Farouk has been blocked.

See their edits about "kadaif are Turkish noodles, and are not kanafeh", on 13 October (maybe easiest to look at their global contributions pages, though it doesn't show all their edits). At 12:17–12:36 Garagarage1979 edited Commons and Wikidata. Then between 13:31–13:53, Farouk edited the same Wikidata:, and then Commons:. From 14:00–14:08, Farouk added their new "kadaif" commons category to several different Wikipedias:, , , , , ,. A few minutes later, between 14:22–14:38, Garagarage1979 did the same thing to articles on Wikipedia sites where Farouk is blocked: English:, Esperanto , Czech , Hebrew , etc. In most cases, Farouk had created those articles, and created many nearly-identical articles in November 2017 or earlier, that appear to be machine-translated, see e.g. all the articles that link to File:CAM00479-1.jpg. Garagarage1979 created the same thing at Kadaif noodles:.

There are similar crossovers, e.g. with "National Memorial Hall For Israel's Fallen" and "Mount Herzl" 17–27 May 2018, with a large number of edits by Farouk to various other-language Wikipedia sites, and with Garagarage1979 making the same edits to the sites where Farouk is blocked.

The older sock (actually older than the present master) has a similar username to Garagarage1979, (Dawn1979). It was indeffed on Hebrew Wikipedia on 27 January 2010 for making personal attacks. Farouk was created there about three weeks later. Dawn1979 stopped editing here on 7 April 2010, and Farouk began on 3 May, with significant crossover on topics about mastic/gum ice cream. Dawn1979 was reported here in 2013 but not blocked because the evidence was not well-presented, however it was blocked as a sock on Dutch Wikipedia, (apparently with checkuser evidence):. See also the user interaction:, and compare for example edits like these: , , and these saying "look in this link ==>>": , , , ; ,. They have also added machine translations to many other Wikipedia sites, see their global accounts and the complaints about it at: Talk:Mastic (plant resin) and User talk:שחר1979.

-- IamNotU (talk) 02:52, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Enwiki is not the global wiki-police and enwiki checkusers don't have insight on other wikis. This report needs to be made at m:SRCU where the Stewards can look at all the wikis. Cabayi (talk) 10:05, 16 November 2020 (UTC)