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Ahmed maher saddam made articles Aledany Media ‎, Qasim Media and Hussein Mohammed Qassim‎. These get put up for deletion and newly registered account Samirsaeedalijasiim pops up to remove the deletion templates. Other similarities:
 * Both accounts have one line user pages in which they announce their purported names and nationalities only.
 * Both accounts remove deletion tags.
 * Both accounts seem willing to mislead. In this edit Samirsaeedalijasiim claims in the edit summary to be adding a reference when that is not the case. In fact he is removing the speedy deletion tag. In these articles, the content submitted by Ahmed maher saddam has some references which, unless Google Translate is performing far worse than normal, bear little or no relevance to the content they purport to reference.

I guess they could be meatpuppets but the similar user pages make my first guess that it is the same person. DanielRigal (talk) 22:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Updated to add Jackadams2920. This recently registered account has picked up removing the deletion templates from Aledany Media ‎ and Qasim Media seemingly from where Samirsaeedalijasiim left off. --DanielRigal (talk) 00:12, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * Ahmed maher saddam has placed a denial of sockpuppetry on my talk page: User talk:DanielRigal. I thought it only fair to mention that here so it can be considered. --DanielRigal (talk) 22:58, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Can you please add to this investigation?

The article Ihsan Daadouch was created by User:Ahmed maher saddam on 12 August 2016, PRODed a week ago on 22 April 2017, and on 28 April by. This IP user has eight total edits, the earliest of which was 21:08, 28 April 2017. Could this be an IP account of Ahmed maher saddam? I would like to know, because per WP:DEPROD, templates removed by banned socks can be restored, and I would like to restore the PROD template on this article. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:14, 29 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you Richwales for your response (section below). Can we get other admin attention to this? Mathglot (talk) 02:40, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * This case is almost strong enough to handle on behavioural evidence alone, but I'll still endorse it for CU attention (including a sleeper check). —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:17, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The following socks are ✅. All are blocked.
 * Risker (talk) 05:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Risker (talk) 05:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Risker (talk) 05:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Risker (talk) 05:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC)


 * , you say that all these accounts have been blocked. Could you please check again. According to my information only Kadhemalisaed129 is blocked. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:57, 11 September 2016 (UTC)


 * They were not blocked (except Kadhemalisaed129), but I blocked and tagged them. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry, I really thought I'd hit them all at once. My error, and thanks  for fixing it.  Risker (talk) 00:44, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * , I'll have to leave any investigation of the IP you named to or someone else.  I was appointed to the Ombudsman Commission a few months ago, and as a result, I need to recuse myself from any SPI case that involves CU activity.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 02:43, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

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Created article Qassim Abdulkarem ‎about the same subject as deleted article Qassim Abdulkareem Qassim which I think I remember being made by Ahmed maher saddam or one of his socks. I also remember that the article had the same strange mention of the subject's Astrological Sign in the lead which makes me strongly suspect the same author. Also, a shared interest in Article Hussein Mohammed Qassim. DanielRigal (talk) 00:05, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
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Dear I am you create articles and you've also amending the articles of famous people ... Why do you suspect this thing --Malanaeem923 (talk • contribs)  —Preceding undated comment added 00:40, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅, plus . Mike V • Talk 22:03, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

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Another newly registered user pops up and takes the deletion tag off Qassim Abdulkarem. Claims to be from Ecuador this time and sports a set of userboxes on their user page which look like they were probably copied from somebody else's. Last two sock reports were checkusered and both found sleepers so requesting checkuser again. (Also there is another account I have vague suspicions about, although I won't name it as they have not done anything wrong yet. Lets see if that one turns up in the checkuser or not.) DanielRigal (talk) 22:46, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * It is that  is a sock, particularly based on behaviour; however, I am noticing the same somewhat unusual UA on other accounts in the /22 that are definitely good users, so I am less certain than I may have been otherwise.  Indeed, it looks like a sock was blocked in the archives using a slightly different /22 from the same internet host that may not, in fact, have been a sock for the same reason, since there are good users with the same unusual UA on that /22. I don't think we'll be able to reliably predict sleepers because of this unusual situation. (Some of these comments are directed to other checkusers, who may wish to peruse my log.)  Might be worth semi-protecting the article, though, because of its abnormal attraction for new accounts.  Risker (talk) 00:27, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and blocked the account. Behavioural evidence at Qassim Abdulkarem is quite strong and even a possible CU only strengthens that determination. Marking as closed. Mkdw talk 03:26, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

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Continued attempts to create page for Qassim Abdulkarem. Previously deleted: Qassim abdulkareem, QASSIM ABDALKAREEM and Qassim Abdulkareem Qassim. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:04, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Courcelles (talk) 18:14, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Admin action requested: Please block the socks. Thanks, GABgab 19:50, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:44, 22 September 2016 (UTC)