Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Folantin/Archive

Evidence submitted by PanjshirPashtun
We're dealing with a disruptive user, who admitted to be a sockpuppet of Aligudarz1.

Hamidrafi23: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nader_Shah&diff=prev&oldid=388118130 ''Im Aligudarz, i couldnt remember my password this morning lol. Reverted'']

Folantin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Folantin&diff=prev&oldid=388124409 ''What the hell are you on about? You don't have a clue, do you?'']

Hamidrafi23: That is all Folantin and i were asserting.

Hamidrafi23: My son you say this thing because you have only read the english sources...


 * Under Hamidrafi23, he is making totally false claims, changing prominent people's ethnicity and religions from true to false. In here he included 4 book refs which don't even say what he claims. I could understand if a month or longer has passed, but he just logged yesterday and it's very unlikely that he forgot the password. He created the new account to edit-war with and to avoid violating 3rr, and I don't see why such users should be excused from punishment. I think Hamidrafis23 is trying to change his method of typing to avoid detection, I'm very sure it's the same person. Folantin claims to be on Wikipedia for a long time and that's not an excuse for him to remove valid scholarly sources from pages. I still suggest that this be checked to see if I'm right or wrong. I'm just trying to help Wikipedia stay free from disruptive users who are fighting with everyone and removing any information that goes against their POV. Thanks.--PanjshirPashtun (talk) 22:19, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Please discount this fishing expedition by a POV-warrior who has repeatedly violated 3RR today. The guy hasn't even had the courtesy to tell me he had launched this investigation. I am a long-established editor (four years, 17,000+ edits; user rights = autopatrolled, reviewer, rollbacker). has already admitted to being a new account of, having lost his password. I have no association with either. It's obvious from Hamidrafi23's contribution history that, while we both disagree with PanjshirPashtun, we have very different ideas about how Battle of Damghan should be edited. There is no conspiracy behind the fact multiple users have disagreed with PanjshirPashtun because his edits are hopelessly inaccurate. I have massively reduced my contributions to Wikipedia over the past year because I'm sick of dealing with the kind of tendentious ignorance displayed by my accuser. --Folantin (talk) 17:27, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi, i am Hamidrafi and Aligudarz1, i made my Aligudarz1 account yesterday but i couldnt find the password this morning so i first made an IP post and then i made a new account. I admitted to all of this and i never hid the fact that i am Aligudarz1. PanjshirPashtun appears to harbor certain biases and he has been editing a wide range of articles to match his POV and its sad that this sort of abuse of what is meant to be a encyclopedia can happen. I registered yesterday in order to confront this form of behavior and i am glad that there are users like Fonaltin who uphold the truth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamidrafi23 (talk • contribs) 17:51, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
has quite clearly stated that they used to edit under the account, but that they lost their password for that account. Creating a new account and using that constitutes no violation of WP:SOCK (Hamidrafi23: I've taken the liberty of marking User:Aligudarz1 with FormerAccount, please let me know if there's a problem with this). I find any evidence for a link between Hamidrafi23 and Folantin lacking. Hamidrafi23 saying "Folantin and I" is not sufficient evidence for a check, and taking a brief look through the contributions here I don't see anything that justifies a check or indicates a connection between the accounts. Leaving the case open for an admin or another clerk to assess. SpitfireTally-ho! 18:43, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Per spitfire. Further evidence lacking. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 22:46, 3 October 2010 (UTC)