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I got suspicious when investigating the connection between Leylapr2 and Mohammadghpr2 - based on their edits to Talk:Mohammad Ghorbanpour the connection was obvious, but I wanted to see if they had any more accounts so ran a CU. This led me to a clear connection with Chyah and a whole host of other socks. The ones I've listed here are all confirmed by CU investigation (same IP, same device), although there are a number of other accounts on these ranges which I haven't listed, as I cannot be certain they are connected. Yunshui 雲 水 09:34, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

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All of the listed accounts are ✅. Yunshui 雲 水 09:34, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

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Created same article Mohammad Ghorbanpour, which was created by Chyah's another sock, — usernamekiran (talk)   23:20, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * ,, article deleted and salted. GABgab 23:54, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

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Linked to Mohammad Ghorbanpour, a now salted article this sockmaster kept recreating. See also User:Ghpour77/sandbox

Consider a sleeper check given the half dozen accounts found in the first SPI  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 09:34, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * -, but a sleeper check is a good idea. Thanks, GABgab 17:49, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * . ~ Rob 13 Talk 19:01, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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Re-creation of Chyah's favourite Mohammad Ghorbanpour as Mohammad ghorbanpour. Sock is new since sleeper check in December. Quack! Cabayi (talk) 16:51, 6 February 2018 (UTC)


 * blocked faster than I reported - thanks! Report is now just for the record. Cabayi (talk) 17:10, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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Obvious duck but the additional xwiki sock blocks should remove any doubts... CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  00:21, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * , . GABgab 14:21, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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quack Praxidicae (talk) 10:41, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 14:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

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re-creation of Draft:Mohammad Ghorbanpour, the master's giveaway obsession from previous SPIs. Cabayi (talk) 22:28, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:43, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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Yet another SPA creating Mohammad Ghorbanpour/Draft:Mohammad Ghorbanpour Praxidicae (talk) 14:09, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * Blocked without tags. Closing/Archiving. Courcelles (talk) 15:31, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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quack Praxidicae (talk) 17:45, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * Account globally locked. I deleted the draft and tagged the sock. GABgab 01:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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Similarity in username to one of the other socks. Creation of Draft:Mohammad Ghorbanpour, the version deleted 14 May 2018. Cabayi (talk) 13:28, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * No point in filing. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:25, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Aliramnik3 popped up - . GABgab 21:42, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

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This is a complex case, because it's cross-Wiki.

Sharp-eyed editor identified Battle of Turkmen Sahra as a possible WP:HOAX, and put it up for WP:AFD; where it was deleted. Koopinator subsequently identified Rasa Salim Tehrani as another possible hoax, and raised the issue at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. That article has been WP:PRODded (by another editor) as a possible hoax. Both those articles were created by.

Rasa Salim Tehrani links to Mohammad Qoli Salim Tehrani, another article created by Amirhosein Izadi. I have serious doubts about its veracity: the citations look impossible to find, and the English article contains more information than its Persian equivalent. That Persian equivalent, fa:محمدقلی سلیم تهرانی, was created by fa:کاربر:Rafic.Mufid. Unfortunately, I haven't worked out how to decipher dates in Persian WP edit histories to establish the timeline. Rafic.Mufik has been WP:INDEFfed on Persian WP as a WP:SOCK. The sockmaster is known on Persian WP as Sonia Sevilla; main investigation fa:ویکی‌پدیا:درخواست بازرسی کاربر/Sonia Sevilla; known socks in category fa:رده:سوءاستفاده‌کنندگان از حساب‌های کاربری زاپاس/Sonia Sevilla. The equivalent in English WP of that category is Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Chyah. This raises the question: is or is not Amirhosein Izadi a member of that sockfarm? (Around four, but not all, of the names in it are common to both languages.)

I know no Farsi at all, and am aware of Google Translate's deficiencies; but its translation of a line of classical Persian verse in the Persian article on MQST as "Oh by the sky's kiddie dolly wow we are all the time" strikes me as potentially problematic.

Counter-evidence, I have seen no sign in Amirhosein Izadi's activities of Chyah's obsession with Mohammad Ghorbanpour, so that WP:DUCK test fails.

Circumstantial evidence. (1) Amirhosein Izadi's User Page has a commendably professional look for an editor with just over a thousand edits. (2) Another contributor to the WP:ANI discussion raised the question of possible WP:COPYVIO issues in Amirhosein Izadi's edits.

I haven't notified the editor in question, because I don't know what the procedure is in these cases. Narky Blert (talk) 22:18, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


 * TY for your response. I suggest close with no action taken. I have set out all the evidence I have, both for and against. We seem to be done here. Narky Blert (talk) 20:21, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * This case is . CU declined. Notification is optional.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:09, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing anything here that makes me think sock. As far as I can tell, Chyah and Amirhosein Izadi have no articles that both of them edited.  The stuff about creating hoaxes may be true, but hoax does not imply sock.  If you have some specific evidence of socking, please present it here, otherwise this will need to be closed with no action taken.  -- RoySmith (talk) 02:18, 1 January 2020 (UTC)