Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kendite/Archive

29 January 2014

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During his first Wikipedia edit in April, يوسف حسين accidentally signed a post as Kendite in the midst of a heated exchange with another user on the Sheba talk page. He changed the signature two minutes later to point to Kendite. The other editor in the dispute then sock-tagged يوسف حسين's userpage. Kendite promptly removed this tag, claiming that يوسف حسين was “just the account i use on another wiki project” and that he “edited one page using this account without realizing it”. This wasn't particularly convincing since another editor re-added the tag a few days later. The يوسف حسين account then attempted again to remove the tag a few months later in July, only to be summarily reverted by the original disputant. Months later in December, the يوسف حسين account again removed the sock tag, this time replacing it with the cryptic phrase “My Name is Yousef..”. At no point has he/Kendite publicly disclosed that that is an alternate account; instead, the user has edit-warred with various users to conceal this fact. From this, it would appear that Kendite/يوسف حسين does not want the general wiki public to know that he operates both accounts, despite the fact that both accounts have been used almost exclusively to edit (and in an often disruptive manner) the same set of Yemen-related pages. Middayexpress (talk) 17:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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I warned يوسف_حسين for abusing multiple accounts, but I don't see a compelling case for blocking Kendite as it looks to be abandoned. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

30 January 2014

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The YemenWarriorBoy account posted a rant on ANI a few hours ago that strongly suggests he is a sock of Kendite. Evidence: The YemenWarriorBoy account was registered earlier today, has a non-existent prior contribution history, posted on the administrator noticeboard as his very first Wikipedia edit, has a self-professed familiarity with the details of the ongoing content dispute with the Yemeni user Kendite's alternate account, has a personal animus toward and self-professed familiarity with veteran Wikipedians involved in that content dispute, has a Yemeni username, and is familiar with Wikipedia policies and Wikilawyering. Per WP:DUCK, this altogether suggests that the user is no newcomer. Middayexpress (talk) 19:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * YemenWarriorBoy blocked indef as a sock puppet of Kendite. Kendite (semi-)soft blocked as a previous account. يوسف حسين blocked for 3 days. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:04, 31 January 2014 (UTC)