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alavi has been created massive amounts of spammy, poorly sourced articles about table tennis players, which are being tagged for deletion and appear to have create a sock to remove the csd tags. Praxidicae (talk) 17:04, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

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Even though Mohamad salehi31 denied the allegation, the fact is that both are single-purpose accounts used solely for pushing the questionable table tennis players' articles—moving them from drafts to mainspace, repeatedly removing the speedy deletion templates and defending them in exactly the same words: see vs.. Both are similar in their writing style and poor English (see their nonsensical posts on several user talk pages), disruptive editing patterns and their obvious WP:CIR issues. The Mohamad salehi31 account obviously started editing right after Alavi.hossein started receiving warnings for disruptive editing and removing the speedy deletion templates.—J. M. (talk) 17:59, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * CU-blocked by . Want tags on those? GeneralNotability (talk) 04:11, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:25, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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The user continues his editing after Ali mohamadi22 and Alavi.hossein got blocked from editing. Again, a single-purpose account used solely for defending the table tennis players' articles, using exactly the same words and talk page messages. An obvious WP:DUCK. When you see the page histories, you can see that the user probably uses several IP addresses to keep removing the speedy deletion templates, too. (In my opinion, the pages should be finally deleted, or at least protected.)—J. M. (talk) 20:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC) J. M. (talk) 20:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Comment - See the articles at Navid Shams and Hamid Shams. GoingBatty (talk) 22:33, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Repeated sockpuppetry, block evasion. Indeffed the accounts & blocked the IP 1 week. Tagged. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 22:33, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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A day after the last sock was blocked straight back to removing the CSD on Navid Shams Cabayi (talk) 18:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * - please confirm, this one will earn the 3X bonus prize. Cabayi (talk) 18:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I hope you don't mind but I didn't see the need to wait for CU. Blocked and tagged, and I reverted the A7 tag deletion on Navid Shams.  Closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:23, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, wait, you wanted the CU for WP:3X? No objection if you want to put this back to endorsed. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:25, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm sure they'll be back . Cabayi (talk) 19:27, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * - ✅. SQL Query me!  03:37, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * - Sidenote, to quote WP:3X: Editors who are confirmed by a CheckUser to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block that is active, for any reason, are effectively site banned by the Wikipedia community. (emphasis mine). We're only at one right now since you indef'ed them. SQL Query me!  03:56, 25 December 2020 (UTC)


 * By my count, this isn't eligible for 3X yet - the policy says the master must have two CU findings of sockpuppetry after they were indeffed, and they were only indeffed as of yesteday, so we'd need one more CU finding in order to apply a 3X tag. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:55, 25 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Moved from Alavi.hossein to Arshiya.Arab369, now the oldest account, & retagged all the socks. Cabayi (talk) 11:39, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * And reported for locks, active on fawiki too. Cabayi (talk) 11:55, 25 December 2020 (UTC)