Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jimpearl/Archive

27 April 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Once the message was made clear that user Asghar Adam needed to stop creating articles about himself in numerous locations, including Asghar Adam, Asghar Adam Ali, Draft:Asghar Adam Ali, Draft:Asghar Adam Ali, and his own user page, this new user Gokull ravi appeared and created Asghar Adam, Asghar Alii, and Asghar khan. —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:36, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Gokull ravi blocked as a duck after finding a third account:
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:06, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:06, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

01 May 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

This looks to be a nest of socks for Asghar Adam. Their main/sole activity was to try to recreate and/or prevent the deletion for the article for Asghar Adam under various different names (Asghar Adam Ali, Asghar Adam Ali (businessman), (Al Attar) Asghar Adam Ali). I've made one into a redirect to the perfume article's page at Nabeel Perfumes, but I've also protected it against any non-admin edits. This looks to be a fairly WP:DUCK situation, but I want to open up an SPI just for record's sake and a checkuser for other sleepers may not be a bad idea. I'll block and tag everyone and I figure if this SPI closes as a duck scenario (which it likely will) the suspected sock tags can be changed to confirmed. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:03, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I found that there are some SPAs at the main perfume article's page, so I'll tag them for this just so they can be investigated. I won't block them since most of the editors aren't as blatant as some of the others, although one or two were fairly promotional in their tone (ie, User:Raaghuu). One of them (User:Wikifornabeel) has already been blocked and he seems to be a pretty blatant duck because of his promotional edits to the article and to his userpage. He was also the creator of the perfume page as a whole. That one will be the only one I'll block and tag since he was already blocked and he looks to be a blatant enough sockpuppet in this case. The others I'll just post a notice on their pages. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:02, 1 May 2015 (UTC)



Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''
 * Just as a note, I've deleted the article content that the user had in his userspace. It seems like he'd been using this as sort of information to recreate the various articles about himself, so I figured that it'd be a good way to deter further recreation attempts. Odds are that they have this info elsewhere, but every little bit could probably help. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:12, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - To check for sleepers because of the large number of socks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:51, 1 May 2015 (UTC)




 * There are other accounts that have been created and are technically indistinguishable from the named accounts. However, it is a busy range and such overlap is not uncommon so I won't name them for now. Mike V • Talk 17:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There are other accounts that have been created and are technically indistinguishable from the named accounts. However, it is a busy range and such overlap is not uncommon so I won't name them for now. Mike V • Talk 17:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There are other accounts that have been created and are technically indistinguishable from the named accounts. However, it is a busy range and such overlap is not uncommon so I won't name them for now. Mike V • Talk 17:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There are other accounts that have been created and are technically indistinguishable from the named accounts. However, it is a busy range and such overlap is not uncommon so I won't name them for now. Mike V • Talk 17:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There are other accounts that have been created and are technically indistinguishable from the named accounts. However, it is a busy range and such overlap is not uncommon so I won't name them for now. <b style="color:#151B54">Mike V</b> • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 17:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There are other accounts that have been created and are technically indistinguishable from the named accounts. However, it is a busy range and such overlap is not uncommon so I won't name them for now. <b style="color:#151B54">Mike V</b> • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 17:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There are other accounts that have been created and are technically indistinguishable from the named accounts. However, it is a busy range and such overlap is not uncommon so I won't name them for now. <b style="color:#151B54">Mike V</b> • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 17:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:22, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing.

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

SPA Cronys' sole edits are recreation of Asghar Adam at Draft:Asghar Adam Ali (Al Attar), then moving it to  Asghar Adam Ali (Al Attar). It was then moved to Asghar Adam Ali by an uninvolved editor. No SPI reports on this since 2015, so this will likely have to go on editing behaviour alone. Donutron (talk) 11:56, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Two more socks:
 * SPA Johnwicky's first edit was to upload a promo image of the subject asserting copyright ownership:, then to link it to the article..
 * SPA ChristianBaldwin's only edit so far was to add this latest dollop of dripping praise, in a similar style to the other socks: . Donutron (talk) 12:03, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Two more socks:
 * Vrepit Sa22, who just added this bizarre attempt at closing this SPI (and several others):, and just now blocked for SP.
 * Musbehgu, another sock blocked with Vrepit Sa22 for fake SPI closures, made an edit to the fake closure here minutes after Vrepit Sa22: . Donutron (talk) 12:40, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I've removed Vrepit Sa22 and Musbehgu from the list of suspected puppets. They are part of an ongoing slew of socks that vandalize SPIs and have nothing to do with the other suspected puppets.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:22, 3 October 2018 (UTC)


 * The accounts, , ,  and  are internally ✅ and blocked.  Can someone figure out where this case should go and tag them?  Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 01:44, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The behaviour is pretty clear cut here. Jimpearl is the oldest account, including those blocked in 2015, so I've moved the page accordingly. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:31, 19 January 2019 (UTC)