Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alikhezrayi/Archive

08 December 2010

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Please see Articles for deletion/Mani Nouri. Lots of what appears to be sock voting and WP:SPA manipulation. Thank you for your time. -- Cirt (talk) 17:54, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

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 * - Could also be meatpuppetry, but CU will clarify that. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 18:15, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

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DrPhosphorus is ❌. No comment with regard to the IP addresses. –MuZemike 18:23, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Thank you. Blocked master account two weeks. Socks indef. IPs rangeblocked one month. -- Cirt (talk) 18:32, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Respectfully request another admin to make a determination on whether should be blocked based on behavioral evidence. Sole contributions are related to the exact same AFD as the other ✅ socks. Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 18:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * DrP I would say is unlikely as a sockpuppet although I assign a high probability that they are somehow associated, as a wild guess perhaps an Iranian cinema forum. Their behaviour is not as enmeshed as the other parties, although they have obviously come here with the purpose of supporting Alikh (and/or the article). There is an interesting interleaving of edits from 16:35 to 17:35 on 08 Dec where Ehgam and Amahn switch back and forth and add a source 10 mins after DrP posts it at the AFD, but DrP is focussed on proving others inexpert at the time. IP .232 adds another (pseudo)source at 18:27 while DrP is trying to get an AFD nom done right. That is rather unlikely imo. Another point of similarity is the use of Keep* at the first AFD, but if I like the look of something I copy it too, so I can't really give that much weight. The CU note also sways me to think this is not a sock, lack of technical evidence combined with differences in language and approach raise sufficient doubt. DrP is travelling down the road to a block for disruption all by themself (whenever I see a newcomer with their 5th edit challenge someone else as to who is "qualified" to edit Wikipedia, I'm thinking they have a steep learning curve ahead) but I would call them an arms-length-but-related party, not a sock. Future activity will tell, now that the sockfarm has been blocked. Franamax (talk) 23:46, 10 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Franamax said exactly what I was thinking. I'm not entirely convinced that DrPhosphorous is the same either. As such, I'm closing this for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 05:55, 11 December 2010 (UTC)