Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/حمید میرزایی/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Master has created multiple articles that have been deleted, or are currently at AfD, for being promotional and non-notable. Some of these articles were developed in the other accounts' sandboxes, e.g. Bijan Zamani was developed in Parsa13700's sandbox but created by the master account in mainspace, likewise Reza Bahram was developed in Frank30050's sandbox (including edits by the master)  but created by the master account in mainspace.

All three accounts have participated in Articles for deletion/Reza Bahram, in which participants have noted their suspicions of sock activity. Parsa13700 and Frank30050 seem like straightforward socks created to evade scrutiny on what looks like COI/UPE editing, particularly given their nearly identical language/punctuation quirks in AfD. Behavioral evidence seems sufficient to connect these accounts, but requesting CheckUser to flush out other sock accounts created to support these apparent COI/UPE efforts.

Blake44, on the other hand, was created recently and has participated in multiple AfDs, but their second edit as a new editor was to Bijan Zamani, and they have participated extensively in the related AfD, ostensibly in an effort to improve that article. The language level and Wikipedia knowledge (e.g. appeal to users on talk pages) is higher than the others, so maybe this is a huge coincidence, or maybe the case number at COI/UPE Central was escalated to level 2 support. Bakazaka (talk) 02:08, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Update: I also note that the new article Christopher C. Lee matches a version saved in the sandbox of, who was blocked in February for abusing multiple accounts. Bakazaka (talk) 02:19, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Update 2: I also note that the new article Shahram Jafarinejad matches a version saved in the sandbox of , an apparent SPA account. Bakazaka (talk) 03:44, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Update 3: Adding, whose activity is limited to creating and editing versions of Reza Bahram, including creating/editing a draft that the master account copy/pasted into mainspace. Note that this user predates the master, which complicates the filing. Bakazaka (talk) 05:51, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

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 * Group 1 – the following accounts are ✅:
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are, both to each other and to Group 1. Behaviorally, they are obvious.
 * Blake44 is ❌.
 * Blocked and tagged the Group 1 accounts. Blocked without tags the Group 2 accounts. Please move case to حمید میرزایی.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * moved to حمید میرزایی. closing.. --1997kB (talk) 16:09, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are, both to each other and to Group 1. Behaviorally, they are obvious.
 * Blake44 is ❌.
 * Blocked and tagged the Group 1 accounts. Blocked without tags the Group 2 accounts. Please move case to حمید میرزایی.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * moved to حمید میرزایی. closing.. --1997kB (talk) 16:09, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Blake44 is ❌.
 * Blocked and tagged the Group 1 accounts. Blocked without tags the Group 2 accounts. Please move case to حمید میرزایی.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * moved to حمید میرزایی. closing.. --1997kB (talk) 16:09, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the Group 1 accounts. Blocked without tags the Group 2 accounts. Please move case to حمید میرزایی.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * moved to حمید میرزایی. closing.. --1997kB (talk) 16:09, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * moved to حمید میرزایی. closing.. --1997kB (talk) 16:09, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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A "Tell" here is the quirk "He presented his single track "Az Eshg Bego" in milad tower" and "pen name of Reza Bahram began to study in the majoring Financial Management". Shirt58 (talk) 13:15, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Based on Special:Undelete/Reza Bahram, I'm willing to say this seems WP:DUCKy. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 13:05, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * - actually, although this account does seem ducky, this account was sleeping (at the time when the previous account was run). Although all socks in the archive are stale, it might be worth running a sleeper check against this account. For evidence linking this account to this case, look at Special:Undelete/Reza Bahram. The content is similar and has stylistic / technical similarities (email me if you want to have a indepth list of similarities, but I think they are relatively clear when looking in the edit window/the preview). I don't think this is a copy and paste from a mirror, but even if it was, its copying without attribution. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 13:22, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Amirreza360 is ✅ with a fairly high level of confidence to . The latter user is an established enwiki user but is more active globally – a former administrator on the Persian Wikipedia (desysopped by their ArbCom-equivalent body for cause and repeatedly blocked). The user was also the subject of an AN thread describing possible UPE violations in September 2019.
 * The following users are also technically at least :
 * Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 22:47, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * As the fawiki CU on this from before, I'll leave this open for you to take any necessary action on your end – please keep me appraised of any updates or actions you'd like me to take, by email if privacy is needed. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 22:53, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I left some information for you on the CU wiki. huji— TALK 02:15, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * It'd be great if you could email me the behavioral similarities between Amirreza360 and حمید میرزایی (or socks thereof) – it'd be really helpful for comparison. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 23:03, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Emailed you. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:28, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Is there anything you need to action on this on fawiki? Or should this case be closed? Should any other global action be taken in your view? See also my latest edit on cuwiki. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 22:52, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The evidence you shared on CU wiki is convincing. I will take action on fawiki huji— TALK 00:13, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Any updates here? Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 03:04, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what kinds of updates you are looking for. Action has been taken on enwiki given the data you have there. As for fawiki, I have gotten an email from the user but haven't had a chance to fully comprehend it. Our ArbCom-equivalent elections are going on and CUs are busy with that. This is not urgent, in comparison. huji— TALK 12:55, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Alright, I didn't mean to rush you. I didn't know if you wanted to keep this open, but since it seems like you've got it handled I'm going to close this SPI. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 01:57, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Any updates here? Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 03:04, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what kinds of updates you are looking for. Action has been taken on enwiki given the data you have there. As for fawiki, I have gotten an email from the user but haven't had a chance to fully comprehend it. Our ArbCom-equivalent elections are going on and CUs are busy with that. This is not urgent, in comparison. huji— TALK 12:55, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Alright, I didn't mean to rush you. I didn't know if you wanted to keep this open, but since it seems like you've got it handled I'm going to close this SPI. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 01:57, 8 November 2020 (UTC)