Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alifriend7/Archive

04 December 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * Clerk note: Originally filed under this username


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Besides having similar usernames, both the users restored the article (Ghoganwali) back to similar version (Alihussain2014, Alihussain1994). S M S  Talk 18:01, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * - Blatant sockpuppetry does not need checkuser. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:04, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the sock and warned the master. Closed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:04, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

10 December 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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All of these accounts seem to have one and only one purpose: to create an article about the alleged village Ghoganwali. This article went to AfD, the result of which was Redirect because no one could find any reliable sources to verify it's existence as a discrete entity. The page eventually had to be salted, so instead the user has switched to posting edit requests on the redirect's talk page. There you can see edits by 1999 and the IPs. In the history of Ghoganwali, you can see the edits by Alihussain2014; and to see Alifriend7's, you have to look into the deleted contributions (the article had to be deleted several times). The user has also disrupted Phalia, which is the target of the redirect (allegedly the city which Ghoganwali is a part of). Because of the similarity in usernames, it didn't register with me until today (when Reaper Eternal blocked Alihussain1994) that these were actually different accounts.

I've already indef'd all of the named accounts; the IPs appear dynamic, so unless the editor starts going crazy with them such that a range block is necessary, I'm going to leave them. Why, then, have I opened this SPI? First, I want a place to track the socks, since it's complicated, and second, because I want to a checkuser to see if there are any more sleeper accounts we don't know about yet. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:38, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Smsarmad, I just realized that myself. Alihussain2014's first edit was on November 24, while Alifriend7's first edit was on 22 November (look at his deleted contributions for the first one), making Alifriend7 the "master"; however, if the user wants to shape up, and keep editing, it doesn't matter which username they choose. Qwyrxian (talk) 13:09, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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Would like to note here that there is already a case page (Sockpuppet investigations/Alihussain2014) for this user. Now that we probably have a new master, the other page needs to be merged here. -- S M S  Talk 12:56, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Merged cases. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 13:42, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * - Declining as CU isn't needed, all named accounts are already blocked. Tagged as contrib connected.  IPs are telephone, nothing to be gained by blocking.  Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 13:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC)