Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Carwala/Archive

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Persistent disruptive editing to Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani and close to a hundred other articles flooded with wikilinks to the Hamadani article. In fact, Carwala is older but seems less used recently. Master edits from dynamic IPv6 pointing to a specific mobile operator, as well as some IPv4s. Above is only a sample taken from the edit history of the above article. Other articles affected by this user's disruptive editing include List of Sufi saints, Sufism, Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, Ahmad Sirhindi, Nizamuddin Auliya, Ashraf Jahangir Semnani, Bayazid Bastami, List of sufi saints, and many others.

Repeated requests to stop, both in edit summaries and on the editor's Talk page, failed (including a warning on editing while logged out).

What also links the editors and the IPs, apart from edit chronology, is apparent inability to use the Prevew button, resulting in overloaded edit history.

Temporary extended protection to master article Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani has been requested.

Apart from userblock, a rangeblock is requested.

— kashmiri  TALK  23:49, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * Moved the case. Please note also the account Said-Ul-Auliya created on May 10, . GABgab 18:11, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Carwala is (it was stale at the time of the report), and so are the listed IPs. I semi-protected the Mir Hamadani article for one month. Closing. Katietalk 13:16, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Another quacking incarnation of User:Carwala and User:Said-Ul-Auliya (potentially also User:Said-Ul-Auliya Sayyid Ali Hamadani). Obsession with the person of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani is his/her sure giveaway, as are saving edits after each word and logged-out editing from a dynamic IPV6 address of an Indian mobile operator. The previous two accounts are somewhat stale (both 2017), but do we want to have new accounts being created every few months? BTW, I will request temp semi of affected articles. — kashmīrī  TALK  23:56, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * - After looking at everything, I'm on the fence here. On the one hand, they all have a disproportionate interest in Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, which is an article that got only 2296 pageviews in the last month. On the other, I'm not totally convinced – there's no smoking gun that I can see. Plus, I'm not sure that this would be WP:ILLEGIT at this point – even if it was the same person, they might have just forgotten their password or something. Is there anything further you'd like me to consider before making my final determination? Any additional diffs that illustrate your strong conviction better than a random sampling of contribs? Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 18:28, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
 * After HS's recent edits I am also not sure whether this is the same person. HS's grasp of English is notably better than the other accounts'. Let's close it with no action for the time being. I will keep in mind to revisit the case if disruption continues. Thanks. — kashmīrī  TALK  08:05, 19 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Closing per above. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 14:23, 19 June 2018 (UTC)