Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mahdyar Sabooni/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Master created March 2021. A grand total of nine edits from August 2021 to October 2022, plus Draft:Zargar tribe (speedied G13 in December 2022). Goes to sleep, then awakens today and creates spammy Draft:Aptel (operator) in a single edit, moves it to Aptel (operator), and then it gets moved to ApTel. Blues their user page. ApTel gets nominated for speedy A7 by an uninvolved editor about 90 minutes later.

was created 16 February. No edits till today: an hour after the speedy nomination of ApTel, account wakes up, zooms through a dozen precocious edits (first one being the customary Bluing Of The User Page), then creates a replica of the original, spammy version of Draft:Aptel (operator) at Aptel (mobile operator). Requesting CU for further sleepers: this might be part of a larger farm. Wikishovel (talk) 17:10, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


 * That's interesting that you found User:Lets make it thrice. They pinged me at their talk page, for no reason that I can fathom, in the middle of a conversation with User:331dot. I told 331dot that that random "help me" pinging was similar behaviour to a sock of User:Bet365aminul, but that investigation went nowhere. Wikishovel (talk) 19:22, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And with proxies being used, I can't add much more to either SPI... Courcelles (talk) 19:42, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
 * This user has the legal right to edit or perform any action under the permission of Wikipedia that has reliable sources, Wikipedia is not limited to English, this user is mostly active in Persian Wikipedia and accesses other Wikipedia language articles. This wrong action, which is deleting the account, makes the newbies feel cold, and the old managers are afraid that they, the newbies, who will insert the facts, will be taken away from them and given to new users. Dariush sho (talk) 13:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * We have a few socks. List incoming. Courcelles (talk) 19:13, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Shimoccas Undi, Crindosia, Ménage à infinité, Lets make it thrice, Biblical sycamore and Asnik Bingok all blocked. Courcelles (talk) 19:13, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd bet money there's more, but with proxy use, that's all I can technically find. Everyone's blocked. Courcelles (talk) 19:16, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The Wordsmith Talk to me 17:07, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
created 20 February, a week before the SPI above. First edit, 29 Feb, was to remove the hatnote and short description templates from ApTel, then complain at my user talk about me restoring them. Then they blue their page, then an edit to an unrelated template, then complain at Talk:ApTel about the hatnote,. Then a complaint at File talk:Aptel 24-02-15 16-21-39-975.jpg about its proposed deletion for copyright. Then a rant about freedom of expression at master's user talk. Requesting checkuser, since account creation was a week before the SPI, and seems to have been missed in the last checkuser. Wikishovel (talk) 13:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * has added another rant to the SPI above about their "legal rights", and created User:Mahdyar_Sabooni with more of the same in the edit summary. Wikishovel (talk) 22:24, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * Looks like a very obvious duck. Tehonk (talk) 21:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ to the master. .  --Blablubbs (talk) 13:39, 7 March 2024 (UTC)