Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Loubnan/Archive

24 May 2013

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These users and IP's have repeatedly and inappropriately removed deletion templates from articles created by, resulting in him/her being blocked, and the semi-protection of Rabih Ataya and Hussein Awada. There may be further socks that I was not able to identify since I can no longer access the history for Hussein Awada.. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:33, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Declined, there's only one user who can be checked with CU, and they can be dealt with using traditional methods. ( X! ·  talk )  · @951  · 21:48, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked the named account. IPs are obviously dynamic so blocking will do no good here. Closing. Rschen7754 06:58, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

07 August 2013

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He/she follows Loubnan's regular M.O. of creating unsourced, and usually non-notable articles on Lebanese footballers. In particular, Mohamad Kdouh was an article Loubnan originally created. The other article he/she created, Munier Raychouni, was created by, who has already been blocked for other activities, but who I suspect of being a Loubnan sock as well. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:49, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * This may be Lelosejean. Please look over that archive and offer opinions. Also I note from the Mohamad Kdouh article history the users, Rabbakiki and Bibokdo had both previously created that article.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  04:05, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe you may need to bolster the checkuser request with diffs that show more evidence. If it is Lelosejean then it would be worth the effort as they previously hosted a sock farm and if it can be proven a check would be prudent to see if they are doing so now.
 * I'm not sure about the connection to Loubnan, but it looks very much like they are a sock of who was in turn blocked as a sock of Loubnan but that link does not appear to have come through SPI. For the connection between Fabol-lebnen and Abou-alGhadab, see the identical creations of Munier Raychouni, right down the hyphenation of "Lebanese-German", deleted contrib 1 deleted contrib 2 and the recreation of Mohamad Kdouh, deleted contrib 3 recreation albeit in a slightly less identical form, but still with the lack of sources that got the prior version deleted.  Monty  845  13:10, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Let me start by clearing up something about Fabol-lebnen. He/she was not blocked for being a sockpuppet of Loubnan, but for disruptive editing. A lot of his/her disruptive behaviour (creating unsourced BLP's on Lebanese footballers, inappropriately removing BLPPROD and speedy deletion tags, using unregistered accounts to remove said tags, etc.) is consistent with a Loubnan-sock, but the suspicion of sockpuppetry, as far as I am aware, arose after he/she was already blocked. I apologise if I have caused any undue confusion. Regarding specific diff's as requested by Berean Hunter, most of these are unfortunately not available to me, since most of the relevant ones are to articles which have since been deleted. However, for anyone with admin privileges, if you look at any of the articles created by Loubnan, you'll see the same basic structure as Mohamad Kdouh, of an infobox, one or two sentences identifying the person in question as a Lebanese footballer and no sources. Compare these versions of Rabih Ataya, Alexis Khazzaka, Hassan Daher, Mahmoud Kojok, and Khaled Takaji to the current version of Mohamad Kdouh. Loubnan also repeatedly used IP's to remove deletion tags from articles he/she created. Compare edits by IP's suspected in the last SPI to Hassan Daher, Alexis Khazzaka and Khaled Takaji with this edit to Mohamad Kdouh. Furthermore, WHOIS puts that IP in Beirut, which is the location of all the other IP's used by Loubnan, and it is in the same range as, another Loubnan IP. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Based purely on WP:DUCK, I'd place money on and  being the same; note that I blocked Fabol-lebnen long before I was ever aware of the existence of Loubnan. We need a CU to confirm and then we can tidy up with the blocked & sock cats/tags. GiantSnowman 19:25, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:50, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Based on the current technical information available, I'd call Fabol-lebnen and Abou-alGhadab as very bordering on confirmed. Tracing back to Loubnan on technical evidence isn't possible, as it is . Courcelles 23:49, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeffing Abou-alGhadab and closing.

27 August 2013

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Like previous socks, this user created two unsourced articles on Lebanese footballers, Gazi Siala and Omar Arnaout, both of which have been PROD'ed. An IP in the same range as those used by previous socks to inappropriately remove deletion tags from articles they created removed the BLPPROD from Gazi Siala in this edit. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:05, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * Pictogram resolved.svg One sock blocked and tagged. Closing case. NativeForeigner Talk 22:02, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

03 November 2013

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He/she recreated an article on Hussein Awada, which was previously created by Loubnan, and both that article and his other creation, Hamze Salame, follow the basic form of Loubnan articles being unsourced articles on Lebanese footballers consisting of an infobox and one or two sentences. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:17, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * . Also ran Special:Nuke on him under WP:CSD Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 21:57, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

10 December 2013

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The combined interests in FC Barcelona and Lebanese football is consistent with past sockpuppets. Perhaps more importantly, he/she has created an article on Hussein Awada, which Loubnan has done twice in past few months. The general format, in particular the lack of sources, matches the format of almost every article Loubnan has created. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:05, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock blocked indef per duck test. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:00, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

19 December 2013

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He/she has recreated an article on Mohammed Kdouh which was repeatedly recreated by previous socks under the title Mohamad Kdouh. The article is also an unsourced microstub, he/she has removed the BLPPROD from the article without adding sources, and he/she has blanked his/her own talk page all of which is consistent with the behaviour of previous socks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:20, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock blocked indef per the duck test. Page deleted and salted. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:43, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

02 January 2014

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He/she created an article on Mohamed Kdouh, which is more or less identical to previous articles on the same subject (under titles Mohammed Kdouh and Mohamad Kdouh, both of which have been salted due to sockpuppetry. He/she has also removed the BLPPROD tag from the article, which also consistent with previous socks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:56, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock blocked indef per duck test, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)