Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/John Francis Templeson/Archive

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Azeri nationalist continuously disrupting the Iraqi Turkmen article. At first, this user was misrepresenting several sources in the language section under the name of "User: John Francis Templeson" (JFT) (see here, for example). Once I pointed out that some of these sources were contradictory to their edits, a "new" user came onto the scene (i.e. User:Ulvimamedov57) who used exactly the same sources as "JFT" but without the sources that I had pointed out as contradictory. They then went to the extreme of describing the Iraqi Turkmen as an Azeri community (see ).

Having looked at their editing history, it is evident that both accounts are interested in similar articles. I would not be surprised if there are many more accounts by this user: "JFT" last edited in May 2017 and Ulvimamedov57 last edited in August 2018. Suddenly both reappear on the same week on the same article, surely a sock puppet? Selçuk Denizli (talk) 12:10, 16 March 2019 (UTC) Selçuk Denizli (talk) 12:10, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * - It's rather suspicious that both accounts activated to edit war, and both refer to the other party's edits as "vandalism". It might be illegitimate socking, or possibly just tag-team editing / off-wiki canvassing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 04:42, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌. See also Sockpuppet investigations/Qara xan.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:25, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing with no action, then, per the unrelated finding. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:46, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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All three accounts are pushing for the same Azeri nationalist agenda on Iraqi Turkmen. As I said in my previous case, it is unusual that User:John Francis Templeson and User:Ulvimamedov57 are editing on the very same article after such a long time off Wikipedia. Both have similar editing patterns After the previous sockpuppet case was closed, a new account was opened "User:Cangevar" which has only edited once and it is on Iraqi Turkmen, pushing for the same Azeri nationalist agenda. I hope this will be taken seriously. Selçuk Denizli (talk) 17:47, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

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Ulvimamedov57 and Cangevar are ✅ to each other. .--Bbb23 (talk) 17:59, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:22, 18 March 2019 (UTC)