Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Afg96/Archive

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Has taken up the argument as to the oldest university where Afg96 left off (due to their indef for personal attacks, edit warring and socking), similar edit summaries. BRB. —— SerialNumber  54129  10:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Afg96 has been trying to recruit meat puppets (see this edit by an IP claiming to be Afg96). - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 11:03, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Technically ❌. Different UAs a little less than 100 miles apart. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  10:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:11, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked Xycksa and the recent IPv6 based on behavior. I see that the article is already semi'd.

Suspected sockpuppets



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The same edits (claiming that the oldest university in the world is a school in Morocco that didn't become a university until 1961...) on the same articles (primarily University of Bologna), the same edit summaries, and the same personal attacks that got the sockmaster indeffed a while ago...

See this edit on Talk:University of Bologna involving both the master and the sock.

There is one odd thing about this though, this edit on my talk page today, where YILMAZ AHMAD mentions SPI and them possibly being suspected of being a sockpuppet of Afg96, without me having communicated with them, or vented any suspicions about them being a sock anywhere on WP, which could mean either that they're both socks of an older sockmaster, or that it's Evlekis being at it again, impersonating someone else... - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 18:31, 26 June 2019 (UTC)


 * After a further check I would say that Evlekis is a more probable sockmaster than Afg96, since today's edit summaries are far more Evlekis than Afg96. So feel free to move this report to Evlekis. Either way YILMAZ AHMAD is definitely not here to build an encyclopaedia, only to "have fun"... - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 18:52, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I said I was not a sock of Afg96 and I mean I am not a sock of Afg96 and is fully aware of this. --YILMAZ AHMAD (talk) 22:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * One more thing, it was 1963 not 1961 as mentioned above, and to clarify, 1963 was the year it took on the term "university" but otherwise remained the same in function. So it's de facto university status goes back to a century before Bologna. --YILMAZ AHMAD (talk) 22:18, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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The pattern of edits to this group of pages has been seen from a number of different single-purpose accounts, so I hadn't thought in terms of a sock, but I was also very surprised by the edit at Thomas.W's talkpage. Whatever that is it's not the act of a new user. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 20:32, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked and  as ✅ to each other. They were using an open proxy, so I'm not sure who the sockmaster is, nor do I think it matters much. I'll clean up and protect some of the articles.--  Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:38, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sro23 (talk) 17:00, 27 June 2019 (UTC)