Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Khazen48/Archive

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Short story:

Khazen48 is here for a while. He edited articles related to Palestinian politics, mainly political parties. As you can see from his contributions, he has less than 500 edits which means he is not allowed to edit under WP:ARBPIA3. I warned him several times and he did not respond and so I reported him and he was User talk:Khazen48 blocked. Now user Birim48 made an edit and it is pretty obvious. Here are proofs:


 * Both users are called "somthing48" (48 is a reference to the Nakba, an event in Palestinian history)
 * Both users edit in articles related to Palestine, spesifically politcal parties (I"ll give diffs below)
 * Both users use their mobile phones to edit
 * Bilin48 made his last edit after Khazen was blocked and before that he had one edit in 6 July and the rest were in 2014.

Proofs in Diffs:
 * The last edit by both users was the same: Birim48, Khazen48
 * Both editors made changes to the infobox of Fatah: Birim48, Khazen48

A new IP user arrived minutes after I started this SPI. Here is his contributions. Unsurprisingly, edited the same article Khazen48 and Bilin48 have edited.

I think this is enough, a simple look here is also enough.-- Bolter21 (talk to me) 23:29, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * There's not much to go on, but the warring over technical details, the usernames (name with number appended, like, , ), the nature of the edit summaries and the location of the IP makes me suspect that these could be socks of PalestineRemembered.
 * It's interesting to note that the IP resolves to TalkTalk in Greenford in west London, the location of a notable motorcycle museum; according to old sock reports, PalestineRemembered also has an interest in motorcycles. Of course, that could just be a coincidence.
 * This sockpuppeteer is a bit before my time, so maybe someone like User:Brewcrewer (ping, even though he's not edited for several days) who filed a couple of the old sock reports might be able to take a look. Or a Checkuser might reveal other accounts editing motorcycle-related articles, in which case it's a WP:DUCK. AnotherNewAccount (talk) 18:55, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Just saw this now. I'm not as involved as I used to be, as you can see, so I probably wouldn't have been able to help, though it looks like you did just fine. Thanks. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 22:36, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Khazen48 is ✅ to Birim48. . I've blocked the sock indefinitely and the master for 1 week. KrakatoaKatie has helped and put the appropriate protection on the related articles. Mike V • Talk 15:58, 21 August 2016 (UTC)