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Crated the same article Hazhar Saleh multiple times. They might be a sockpuppet. Owlf (talk) 12:24, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * , did you mean to link the account User:Hazhar_saleh? I saw the comment below and thought I would bring it up (since they would also have been in the draft's/article's history, since they started the original draft). - Whisperjanes (talk) 08:52, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Owlf - You entered the article as the master account in this SPI report instead of the user. Who do you believe that is a sockpuppet of?  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   13:05, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Please look carefully I didn't entered article as sockpuppet. it's user User:Hazhar_Saleh. Owlf (talk) 13:08, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , does not exist on enwiki or anywhere else; see m:Special:CentralAuth/Hazhar_Saleh. Blablubbs&#124;talk 13:10, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry I think I made a mistake here while looking at the history of the article. I copied and pasted article instead of User:Aliasghar ghorbandokht. Owlf (talk) 13:19, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Owlf - No big deal. I'll fix the SPI report for you. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   13:21, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thankyou. : ) Owlf (talk) 13:24, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Owlf - No problem! :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   13:25, 24 March 2021 (UTC)


 * The accounts appear ❌ as far as checkuser evidence goes...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   13:25, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm seeing enough differences to take this assertion at face value - they could easily be friends trying to write an article about a musician they're both interested in. Closing with no action.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:14, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

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Per WP:DUCK. Caught via CheckUser on Wikimedia GPL93 (talk) 20:41, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Comment pinging because the situation appears to have evolved since the last SPI was closed. Best, GPL93 (talk) 02:52, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment pinging, , , - what do you think about these diffs? All within a few minutes of each other at Articles for deletion/Behrad Shahriari. It looks like a massive attempt at gaming the AfD system: , , . This has to be socking surely?  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 17:12, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Taking this to ANI and including the SPI along with the case of promo editing might be a quicker course of action at this point. Best, GPL93 (talk) 14:42, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * We'll see how this SPI concludes first. This main account seems to be choosing to ignore a lot of messages regarding COI and UPE as well. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:28, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Blocking sock indef. Blocking master 3 weeks for sockpuppetry due to the simultaneous use of accounts to vote in AfDs (i.e. isn't a clean start / lost password). Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:57, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Also noting the use of IPs to vote in the same AfD (Articles for deletion/Behrad Shahriari). IP which is likely not them anymore is . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:00, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

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Created Roozbeh Moeini with identical content to the previous version.

Calls deletion notices 'tags' see:



and

Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:22, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * and are ✅ to each other and extremely  to, even without the WP:DUCK behaviour. Lots of wide ranges at play here, so I expect we'll see more of these pop up.--  Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:44, 3 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Re-blocking master indef for block evasion. Although Nima nimosh is a day older, I see no need to move the case to the account just a day older. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:13, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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Blatantly the same person. Username almost identical. Bludgeoning behaviour at AfD is also exactly the same as before. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:11, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 18:30, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

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Recreated the Parsa Khaef article five days after being deleted at AfD, which that version in turn was created by a previous sock. ToThAc (talk) 20:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This is plain WP:DUCK.--- Possibly (talk) 22:17, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:57, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

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There is enough overlap as far as I can see. Also has created Roozbeh Moeini which was created by a number of socks in this farm including the master and User:Nima nimosh previously. Also the username similarity is there with the user, again, taking a common Iranian name and using lower case for the surname. None of the socks thus far have strayed outside this naming pattern. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:31, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Concur with the above. There is a lot of overlap here, and many of the same issues seem to be present between the two. TomStar81 (Talk) 15:25, 29 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Further concur. After this request of, which he rightfully declined, he created Shohre Ghamar since Shohreh Ghamar is salted. Star   Mississippi  15:56, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Know you can't confirm or deny the IP, but if it's helpful for finding sleepers:, per this logged out edit on my Talk and  per contested deletion at Talk:Mehrdad_Sedighian.  Star   Mississippi  16:02, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Following that little stunt with the left out letter to dodge the lockdown on the page I've level a two week block for disruptive editing. That should clear the AFD and give the checkusers enough time to look into this, and if necessary, act on it. TomStar81 (Talk) 16:20, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked and tagged based on behavior. I'm leaving the CU request in place to confirm and look for any other accounts, although based on the CU notes in the archives, checks can be a bit messy. Bbb23 (talk) 17:26, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * - per the above comments. Sleeper check if possible as well, please. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:09, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * . . Closing. Mz7 (talk) 07:34, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

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Creates Ziba Karamali in whose history you'll find, a sock of this farm. The deleted history of Mehran_Ghafourian also shows overlap with this confirmed sock. This is a relatively old account, so CU for sleepers please if confirmed. Star  Mississippi  01:02, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Also courtesy who is more familiar with these articles/editors than I am for any other insight.  Star   Mississippi  01:03, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Comment - CU results will be interesting. This user seems to have been active when Azim kami was editing so I suppose it's within the realms of possibility that the overlap is purely coincidental. It will be interesting to see how this Ziba Karamali compares to the deleted one. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 05:29, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Cantsayhellotoyou and Azim kami are in the same country, and sometimes share the same (busy) network, but overall I see this as from a technical perspective.   Girth Summit  (blether)  09:25, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you ., it has the claim of notability to avoid an A7, but I'm not sure whether she's actually notable. Same issue with the articles these editors work on. Almost glad for a clean SPI to let it run because it will be re-created again if it's deleted. Star   Mississippi  13:09, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing with no action.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:46, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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Overlaps on Ragheb (singer) and Mary Hm with previous sock User:Azim kami and, as far as I can remember, the content is similar. As you can see from the previous socks, this account is notorious for very bad grammar, poor standard of English and poor formatting of references. Because all of the previous socks' work has been removed, I can't show any diffs from the previous socks but there is plenty of poor grammar and misgendering here and the way that this user formats the references is, if memory serves me, the exact way that the previous socks did. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:07, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * I'm not going to run CU - the confirmed socks are likely stale now. However, the verbatim recreation of articles previously created by an earlier sock is enough for me to block this based on behaviour. Will apply some G5. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:41, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

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Procedural filing per CU results at Sockpuppet investigations/M86r. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:58, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * آرمین۲۰۲۳ is CU confirmed to . . Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:00, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

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Amir has recreated several of this masters creations, including Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ghafourian and Draft:Majid Mozaffari/Majid Mozaffari, add to that the account was created shortly after hte last set of blocks. CUPIDICAE💕 19:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Also see which is a similar name A+ghpro/ghpo.  CUPIDICAE💕  20:02, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Comment - the referencing style at Mehrdad Sedighian is extremely similar to previous socks. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:30, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * ., closing. Mz7 (talk) 19:23, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

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First @Maliner raised concern about Khtibkiarash on this AfD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Amin_Ghafari Then Alirezajamshidimajd popped out to vote Keep. I checked both users' cross-wiki edits and pretty sure both belong to this sock farm. Lots of intersection on both here and fawiki edits, obviously accounts were created to vote keep on deletion discussions of their paid spams. Tehonk (talk) 04:31, 14 October 2023 (UTC)


 * This, this and this action by Khtibkiarash should make this pretty obvious. That article was created by Kiava, one of the blocked socks of this case. Also see this from Alirezajamshidimajd (as IP) Tehonk (talk) 18:35, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Added CU request because the sock continues disruption in AfDs. These disruptive decoy votes of him should not be counted by admins: Articles for deletion/Rachel Korine, Articles for deletion/Siddharth Batra (2nd nomination) (decoy votes before he votes keep on actually interested AfD) Tehonk (talk) 18:45, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Admins: Why the disruption by obvious socks are allowed to continue? Not only the sock continues disruption in AfDs, he started personal attacks against me as well. Tehonk (talk) 23:06, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * He's also trying to canvass good-willing users against me in discussions. You will notice that he's trying to protect the articles created by blocked socks of this case. What more evidence do you need to see the socking and prevent the disruption and personal attacks? Tehonk (talk) 23:10, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Pinging @Mz7 who last handled this case. The fact that he can continue to do these things is becoming frustrating. Tehonk (talk) 23:19, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * Khtibkiarash claims Kiavi, but denies Aliasghar ghorbandokht on their talk page.-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:04, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * Khtibkiarash and Alirezajamshidimajd are ✅ to each other and to the following account, which was recently blocked in July 2023 by Bbb23 as a sockpuppet of Aliasghar ghorbandokht:
 * Although I am 100% sure that Kiava is the person behind both Khtibkiarash and Alirezajamshidimajd, I am not 100% sure whether Kiava actually is a sockpuppet of this old master Aliasghar ghorbandokht. The Kiava account was created in 2018, several months before Aliasghar ghorbandokht was first created, but interestingly, Kiava only started editing the English Wikipedia after the last Aliasghar ghorbandokht sock was blocked in April 2022. I have some historical data saved from my check of Aliasghar ghorbandokht's socks back in 2021, and the current data for Kiava is not consistent with that data. However, my previous check in this case was more than two years ago, and a lot can happen in two years, so the lack of a technical match is not conclusive of anything. I have posted the data for CUs to review on our private wiki: . Regardless, it is clear to me that these accounts have been misusing multiple accounts by (1) evading the block under Kiava, and (2) voting multiple times at Articles for deletion/Amin Ghafari. For these reasons, I will be blocking both accounts indefinitely.  Mz7 (talk) 02:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Although I am 100% sure that Kiava is the person behind both Khtibkiarash and Alirezajamshidimajd, I am not 100% sure whether Kiava actually is a sockpuppet of this old master Aliasghar ghorbandokht. The Kiava account was created in 2018, several months before Aliasghar ghorbandokht was first created, but interestingly, Kiava only started editing the English Wikipedia after the last Aliasghar ghorbandokht sock was blocked in April 2022. I have some historical data saved from my check of Aliasghar ghorbandokht's socks back in 2021, and the current data for Kiava is not consistent with that data. However, my previous check in this case was more than two years ago, and a lot can happen in two years, so the lack of a technical match is not conclusive of anything. I have posted the data for CUs to review on our private wiki: . Regardless, it is clear to me that these accounts have been misusing multiple accounts by (1) evading the block under Kiava, and (2) voting multiple times at Articles for deletion/Amin Ghafari. For these reasons, I will be blocking both accounts indefinitely.  Mz7 (talk) 02:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)