Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mahir6219/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
User has publicly disclosed his identity as Professor Mahir Khalifa-Zadeh. The master, sock and IPs seem devoted to citespamming his own papers, which have been repeatedly reverted from several articles including Juansher, Adurbadagan and Maiden Tower (Baku) among others. Obviously CU is unable to publicly link the accounts to IPs, but both have taken the same actions and geolocate to Toronto, where Khalifa-Zadeh lives so I'm including them for context. I'm going to block and tag, but given how long has been active I'm requesting a CU to see if there are other long-term socks. The Wordsmith Talk to me 20:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Ran a check but did not find any currently-active socks. We should consider any requests for article protection due to possible logged-out editing. Two of the ranges used by Mahir6219 are already anon-blocked so that should help. EdJohnston (talk) 21:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I've applied semiprotection to the most commonly edited articles. The Wordsmith Talk to me 21:35, 1 March 2024 (UTC)