Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ifaz Ali Khan/Archive

12 January 2016

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Appears to be a case of attempted block evasion. Master Ifaz Ali Khan was blocked 28 December 2015 for "Persistent addition of unsourced content: WP:Competence issues". IfazEditor began editing 4 January 2016 and was blocked 5 January 2016 as sockpuppet of Ifaz Ali Khan. Wikipedian Ifaz began editing 8 January 2016, making similar unsourced or poorly sourced edits to the same articles. For example: Also the three account names are similar. Worldbruce (talk) 00:30, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Chinese people in Bangladesh: master, sock1, sock2.
 * Religion in Bangladesh: master, sock1, sock2.

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 * The three accounts are ✅. Blocked the unblocked account and tagged all. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:23, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

19 January 2016

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Wikipedian Ifaz was blocked 12 January. BangladeshPatriot Ifaz began editing two days later, making similar unsourced or poorly sourced edits, including to one of the same articles: And as before, the account names are similar. Worldbruce (talk) 09:10, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Chinese people in Bangladesh: master sock IfazEditor sock Wikipedian Ifaz new sock example 1 new sock example 2 new sock example 3

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 * . Blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:54, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

25 January 2016

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, a sock of Ifaz Ali Khan, was blocked 21 January. began editing less than two hours later, editing the same portions of the same articles: Ifaz Patriot of Bangladesh stopped editing after a uw-agf-sock warning was placed on their talk page later that day. After that, editing of the same portions of the same articles began by various IP addresses in the 103.230.104.x - 103.230.106.x range: In addition to their preoccupation with a few Bangladesh-related articles, suspect activity is characterized by changing figures without citing sources, citing fictitious sources (especially www.govt.bd.com), and malforming any citations added (" " is typical).
 * Bangladesh–Japan relations: sock BangladeshPatriot Ifaz sock suspect Ifaz Patriot of Bangladesh
 * Chinese people in Bangladesh: sock BangladeshPatriot Ifaz sock suspect Ifaz Patriot of Bangladesh
 * Chinese people in Bangladesh:
 * Religion in Bangladesh: sock BangladeshPatriot Ifaz
 * Freedom of religion in Bangladesh:

Ifaz Patriot of Bangladesh's editing history is so short that there may be limited technical evidence to connect them to the IP addresses, but note that in the archives are three previous socks of the same master, all from the past two weeks: BangladeshPatriot Ifaz, Wikipedian Ifaz, and IfazEditor.

Because their block evasion seems to have shifted from creating new accounts to IP-hopping, some degree of at least temporary page protection for the above articles would be welcome. Worldbruce (talk) 18:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * Account is ✅ to all accounts in the archive. --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 09:13, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I indeffed the sock account. IP ranges used are too large, not possible to block. I semi-protected Religion in Bangladesh which is the main target. Closing now.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:51, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, the range isn't that big. I've anon-only blocked 103.230.104.0/22 for 2 weeks. At most, it will affect 1024 IP addresses, which is relatively small. Mike V • Talk 23:25, 28 January 2016 (UTC)