Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abdiaziizho/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Master and first two socks have created the self-promotional Draft:Abdiaziz Ali three times. The second creation was done by the master, then AbdiazizAliM moved it to the mainspace. I have included Abdiaziz Ali Mohamed even though it has no edit history because of the near-identical name match and also because it was created mere hours before Abdiaziz Ali 1. Requesting CU to find others that may be yet undetected. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:16, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * I blocked Abdiaziz Ali 1 already for self promotion only account.--  Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:49, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * Abdiaziz Ali Mohamed is . The rest are all ✅. Courcelles (talk) 17:11, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Adding three confirmed sleepers. Courcelles (talk) 17:14, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * UtherSRG (talk) 16:11, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * ( original case name)

I'm not 100% whether this is sock/meat or a UPE farm, but there is significant overlap between these three, especially Dalmarahlil and Somali Editor. Very close to blocking Somali Editor as UPE/disruption, but I don't remotely think they're new. You can't say anything about the IPs so not mentioning them, but I note blocked sock is in the history of Bushra Business Bank, although I don't think they're tied in here. Thoughts? Star  Mississippi  03:30, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * These are ✅:


 * is ; sharing a busy range and a somewhat uncommon device with the above. There's an additional aspect of the data that suggests that they could be related.
 * is - shares a different busy range with the confirmed group, but is consistently on a different device.
 * Blocking the confirmed group, for the rest. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:57, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm going to move this to Abdiaziizho, block Salah, and leave Dalmartahlil alone for now. Spicy (talk) 15:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Please note Haramad Special Police Force and quick edit succession, or furthermore creation of Draft:Institute of Good Manufacturing Practices India (IGMPI), Draft:Institute of Good Manufacturing Practices India by both accounts. Suspicious overlap in edits seem like socking.  A09  | (talk)  17:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Random Wikishow has created Draft:Abdiaziz Ali, the original page created by the sock master. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 17:27, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I've added Abdiaziz Somali to this request, a user with a similar name and editing style, and another editor of Haramad Special Police Force. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 19:45, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The Draft:Institute of Good Manufacturing Practices India (IGMPI) was created by . The day after that account was blocked, the Random Wikishow account was set up and continued to edit that draft. Just mentioning that in case it helps to establish a connection. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:39, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * I just IAR re-draftified the article. I'd move protect it, but it's a good sock catcher. Star   Mississippi  01:28, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Leave unprotected so we can catch socks.  A09  | (talk)  21:16, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The Wordsmith Talk to me 17:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
User moved Draft:Abdiaziz Ali to Abdiaziz Ali Mohamed (Abdiaziz Mohamed being protected already, which they clearly knew), and when I requested speedy on it, moved it back again. I'm pretty sure this is from the same farm as, who created that draft. DoubleGrazing (talk) 16:03, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:13, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 04:00, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Recreation of, a page previously made by the evading account. Recreation of, a page previously made by another evading account  , recreation of  , a page previously made by  , which while not explicitly marked as such is likely another related account given other overlaps, for example on Som Production. Also compare the "helpful" grammatical edits made by these accounts to disguise their true purpose for example and  with  and.

overlaps with the master on multiple different pages, making similar edits, , ; same for see for example  and.

I don't really see the need for the checkuser tool here since by conducting their logged out editing in such a transparent fashion they have already made their IP ranges obvious and no other accounts are currently involved on those pages. However I won't object to someone changing that to make a request if they believe other ranges or accounts might be involved based on past behavior. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:EC19:3E42:BAD1:1BDD (talk) 19:32, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * My thanks to the editor who created this report. I already had my suspicions about both the account and some of the IP addresses, but the editor has made a much more thorough investigation than I had found time to do, and made the sock-puppetry unambiguously clear. I have blocked the account and deleted some of the pages created by it. I am in the process of checking IP editing to determine exactly what ranges should be blocked; my impression so far is that that will not include the whole of the ranges listed above by the editor who created this report, but will include some other IP addresses not covered by those ranges. JBW (talk) 18:49, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


 * All of the editing has now been reverted or deleted, apart from a couple of minor things such as an edit to the sockpuppet account's talk page. As far as I can see, all of the relevant editing in the IP ranges mentioned are actually from the smaller ranges 102.38.51.128/25 & 102.38.51.64/26, so I have blocked those. There were also a couple of edits from the isolated IP address 192.145.174.252, which I have also blocked. That IP address has previously been blocked multiple times as a proxy, but its close connection to the other IP addresses used makes me think it's very likely not being used as a proxy this time. I've also blocked 192.145.174.224/27 for a shorter time. I have tagged the account, and I think that wraps it all up. JBW (talk) 19:28, 23 June 2024 (UTC)