Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Faizanalivarya/Archive

21 November 2011

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Faizanalivarya was pushing hard for a clearly non-notable pet article that was quickly an unanimously recommended for deletion at AfD, Faizanalivarya is the only person to ever have edit it before this. Faizanalivarya removed the AfD template once before and now magically this IP has removed it two more times: diff1, diff2. &mdash;Manicjedi (talk) (contribs) (templates) 11:21, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

The IP 182.178.37.164 also removed 4 tags from 4 articles also exclusively authored by Faizanalivarya. It's also a Pakistani IP.

Dear Friends, our respected friend User:Manicjedi reported my self as Sock puppet as you can see my profile I have created good articles as well such as Halifax Community collage and few others as well and you may see my edit counts too and I honestly respect all the rules and principles of Wikipedia and we all are here to promote and make Wikipedia good place and useful for everyone around the world, but making it personal and reporting something which I have not done its not true, and its not appreciated as well, you all my friends here justify that, Is it correct as he gave the reason which was same IP so let me tell my brother sometimes I do editing from Internet Cafe, It might possible that some one edit it, anyways IN NUT SHELL reporting me as Sock puppet is not true therefore I would request you all to be cooperative please because its not about one individual its all about our own beloved WIKIPEDIA.--Faizanalivarya (talk) 07:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * IP blocked 3 days. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:40, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Faizanalivarya has a track record of COI and perhaps paid editing as well. Outside of WP, he operates what appears to be a PR agency & promotes himself as a senior Wikipedia editor, potentially seeking financial benefits.

On 18 February 2024, he had a meeting with an Indian actor Sahil Khan (evidence provided via email). On the same day, a newbie SPA removed controversial content from Sahil's page as well of his ex wife Negar Khan. This raises suspicions of sockpuppetry by Faizanwalivarya. — Saqib ( talk  |  contribs ) 12:22, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Additionally, Faizanalivarya is blocked on Commons due copyvio and they're doing the same here on EN WP as well. --— Saqib ( talk  |  contribs ) 12:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Are you referring to technical evidence such as identical IP ranges? If so, combined with the behavioral evidence I've provided above, wouldn't that be sufficient grounds to block the sock puppets? — Saqib  ( talk  |  contribs ) 17:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Technical evidence refers to data which is available through the checkuser tool. IP addresses are certainly part of that, but there's other data as well.  In my judgement, the technical evidence considered in conjunction with the behavioral evidence you provided was insufficient to justify a block. RoySmith (talk) 18:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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you are trying to manuplate administrators' here, @Saqib you are the one who requested for deletion and requested for blocking my account on Wiki Commons, evidence, as requested were initiated by saqib and now admin has unblock me on commons  Faizan Munawar Varyachat contributions 10:06, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Dear Concern Editor,
 * Saqib is lying without any grounds and trying to add with with some random Id btw thats so nice to see that you are following me on social media, and what you are trying to prove here which is totally invalid, yes, I write Editor Wikipedia because I am editing Wikipedia since 2010. I was not active for past year because I was busy, and I am a digital influencer with millions of views I don't need to money for writing articles on Wikipedia, as far as my meeting is concern yes I do meet with many celebrities if they request me to make any changes for them and I think as editor its our moral responsibility to change it after conducting research. Faizan Munawar Varyachat contributions 10:48, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * So it's been admitted that there is involvement in editing BLPs on behalf of subjects. — Saqib ( talk  |  contribs ) 11:28, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Noting for the record that ticket:2024041210006786 is the ticket in question. Primefac (talk) 13:09, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Based on technical evidence, it's, but there's not enough here to take any action. RoySmith (talk) 16:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC)