Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr. Egalitarian/Archive

16 April 2012

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Appears to be a sock with primary interest in two articles Haseeb Ammar and Seraj Ahmad Salim and some embassy/consulate articles. Evidence: Seraj Ahmad Salim is clearly related by name to the Seraj Ahmad Salim article which was created by Franklin.Scott77 here. Franklin.Scott77 was warned automatically for removing the speedy on it here. This was quickly followed with Dr. Egalitarian removing the same speedy multiple times here, , and. 193.227.11.116 removed an AfD template and added peacock/unsourced content here, and. Franklin.Scott77 added much of the same peacock/uncited content here. 193.227.11.116 also removed maintenance templates without addressing the underlying issue here. The series of anon IPs all in the 197.132 range have been fine tuning the article with minor edits including removing maintenance tags without addressing the underlying issue, and adding uncited BLP gossip. Seraj Ahmad Salim created the Haseeb Ammar article here:. Dr. Egalitarian has been active on it including adding non-neutral language:. It appears this series of accounts and anon IP are operating in conjunction with each other as either a sock or a meat focused on a very specific set of articles and content, and have removed speedy notices after multiple warnings, added peacock/uncited language, removed maintenance templates, etc. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 16:31, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

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 * Per comment. NativeForeigner Talk 03:13, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The IP range is too large to effectively block. I do see reasonable connection between the users. I just want a CU to try to relate the three named accounts. (Would be difficult to stop IP) NativeForeigner Talk 03:13, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Seraj Ahmad Salim is so that will have to be considered behaviourally, but Dr. Egalitarian and Franklin.Scott77  are ✅. If a rangeblock isn't feasible, semi-protection is the way to go. WilliamH (talk) 12:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Seraj Ahmad Salim is undoubtedly related to the subject, but not necessarily to the other two users. It is possible that these users were editing in tandem, but I doubt they were the same individual, and due to his inactivity, I did not take any action on that front. Their editing behavior is somewhat dissimilar. All the IPs listed definitely are socks, but I'm not going to bother blocking on the grounds that semiprotection until the end of the AfD will yield an equivalent result. NativeForeigner Talk 22:24, 17 April 2012 (UTC)