Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/A2004b/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This guy is probably paid (or maybe just has personal interests) to create articles about every single member of Iran Shooting team. most of them are not notable enough. the problem is he is using at least 3 accounts to do that. once he was warned to not remove deletion tags on one of his accounts, he continued doing it with the other one. I assume he has more accounts but these 3 are very obvious. the last one came from nowhere to be active here Articles for deletion/Mohammad Hossein Sharifzadeh, this new guy is either himself or a friend of him. Sports2021 (talk) 19:33, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

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Hello. I also report him here. he creates articles in fawiki too with 4 accounts. they are all about sport shooters--Miha2020 (talk) 22:43, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * 2 of his accounts blocked in fawiki too (ali2004b and a2004bb)--Miha2020 (talk) 22:47, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - the username pattern and formatting at AfD is pretty telling. Considering the number of accounts, please check for others. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 08:20, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 15:04, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * All 4 are ✅.  -- RoySmith (talk) 15:31, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 23:54, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
I think he is back with another account removing deletion tags from those articles. still doesn't learn that removing tags doesn't stop the deletion process. Sports2021 (talk) 22:28, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * - account was created today and went straight to removing deletion tags from A2004b's articles . Looks like a duck, please indef the sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:10, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * firefly ( t · c ) 15:12, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 00:28, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Very obvious, doing the same thing. Sports2021 (talk) 15:21, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 15:50, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 00:28, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * pro-forma. Ponyo bons mots 17:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * ✅ blocked and tagged. Noting for the record.-- Ponyo bons mots 17:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
First action was to submit a bizarre unblock request, which mentions being able to translate, so reminds me of the one at User talk:Edittall, which also mentions translating. This editor is also solely interested in Iranian shooting. Vahid Golkhandan and Sajjad Pourhosseini are both old favourites of this sock farm. Since the most recent blocks were applied in Oct 2022 and this account started editing in Dec 2022, I believe that this user might have another account that they were using in the interim - CU requested. Please also globally lock as with all previous socks. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 13:20, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * I have to add that this is most probably the same person and I don't think his interest on "Iran shooting team" is based on his own passion about the sport, there are reasons to make me believe he is somehow hired to do that. Sports2021 (talk) 09:54, 19 March 2023 (UTC)


 * An editor at FA WP noticed Ali.Blue.Star's edit pattern there on 10 December (the day after the unblock request was made here), and warned them about sockpuppetry. The reply was "Hello, I have no use of other accounts and unfortunately my access is blocked in English Wikipedia, I request you to unblock my access in English Wikipedia". At FA WP they ignored the warning, and went on to recreate many of the Iranian shooter articles deleted there and here.


 * Editor interaction is strong, and there's name overlap. 2A01:4C8:49:B2A2:24B2:C0FF:FE90:5410 (talk) 00:47, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Most of the pages he created before is now deleted which makes it harder to show similarity between his edits, no doubt he is the same person, just one example of doing exactly the same edit here and here. Sports2021 (talk) 14:07, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - no clear matches within the 90-day CU window and no obvious connection to logged checks of previous socks. ST47 (talk) 06:45, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged as proven based on comparison with the data on CU wiki. Same geolocation, same mix of UAs and there was a failed login by Ali.Blue.Star to the unregistered account "Ali2004bb".-- Ponyo bons mots 19:59, 20 March 2023 (UTC)