Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KIIFF/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The master created Kurdistan International Independent Film Festival, which was CSDed by, and later deleted by. The account was also blocked by because the username was of a organization about which the person had also written in the article. The master also created Abdolrahman Sarraei, which was CSDed by, and deleted again by. The suspected sockpuppet, came and recreated "Kurdistan International Independent Film Festival" again in that promotional tone, and also "Abdolrahman Sarrae", both of which has been CSDed by me. Based on these evidences, I request for a checkuser to be performed on the accounts. Sincerely, Itcouldbepossible Talk 07:31, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Just to note, has blocked the accounts stating it as sockpuppetry. The rest is for you to handle. Thanks. Itcouldbepossible Talk 05:13, 1 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I've reopened this, sorry if this is out-of-order. But could also be checked? They keep recreating the same articles as other sockpuppets and even have a promotional username.. Liz Read! Talk! 02:26, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The master was soft-blocked, meaning they are allowed to create a new account with a different username. Issues with promotional editing can be dealt with at WP:COIN or ANI, but this isn't sockpuppetry. Closing. Spicy (talk) 13:50, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 03:31, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * per, should we have blocked one of these accounts? Soft blocks are designed to allow them to create a second account and those second accounts therefore aren't considered socking. -- The SandDoctor Talk 16:03, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I misunderstood the template used on the soft block; it's not a template I'm used to seeing. I was also unaware of this SPI, so I hadn't seen Spicy's comment. I didn't become aware of any of this until posted on my Talk page, at which point the issue became moot with the third account.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:47, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, just wanted to check in. -- The SandDoctor Talk 16:51, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I had noticed the original block but wasn't concerned since IMO, it would be within discretion to block them for spamming regardless of whether or not it's sockpuppetry. Spicy (talk) 18:14, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Sockmaster showed some interest in Mojo Mona at Commons in the past by uploading file File:Mojo Mona.jpg. It was a deleted and file with the same name uploaded by the new user account. Sock group has particular interest in Abdolrahman Sarraei who seems to work a lot together with Mojo Mona according to their public social media. Note also the unusual edit summary when creating User:MojoMona/sandbox: "Itcoldbepossible". User Itcouldbepossible had been nominating a lot of articles for CSD that one of the socks created, see User talk:کردستان دایلی.

The IP created Draft:Mojo Mona and Draft:Mojo mona. It is within a range of IPs (130.193.224.0/19) of which multiple IPs have been suspected as KIIFF socks before (see Requests for checkuser/Case/KIIFF), and one of them got blocked recently on enwiki (130.193.248.52). – NJD-DE (talk) 23:30, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - to compare to previous accounts and check for others. Several additional accounts were found on Wikidata, although they aren't attached here, so a sleeper check seems reasonable. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 09:11, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The account is ✅ - blocking, requesting global lock in-line with the master and other socks. I observe that the person behind these accounts does edit while logged out, but make no comment about the specific IP mentioned. I'll leave it for someone else to assess whether there would be any benefit to blocking IPs.   Girth Summit  (blether)  10:08, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. - please block  for one week (anon-only, account creation blocked) - pretty obvious as they are spamming the same stuff. There appears to be too much collateral for a rangeblock at this time.  Spicy (talk) 19:21, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * . Draft deleted. Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 05:44, 2 July 2022 (UTC)