Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Manchester boy/Archive

Report date February 11 2009, 21:37 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Suspected sock of blocked user INAYAT KARIM with similar promotional edit patterns fro a medical centre in Pakistan. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:37, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Fiddle Faddle (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Obvious. Blueboy96 21:50, 11 February 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 10:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * all accounts indef blocked. Mayalld (talk) 10:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Report date February 12 2009, 21:08 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Mhkarim shares the presumed surname Karim, and has started to add back the Inayat Karim Medical Centre spam links etc to Jhelum (City) that INAYAT KARIM and Manchester boy put there. When I reported this IK/MB pair yesterday I regrettably misfiled it under Mb instead of IK, for which my apologies. It seems to be very determined attempt at inserting spam. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:08, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Fiddle Faddle (talk)


 * I have just been emailed thus by Mhkarim using wikipedia email:

Dear sir,

i am the owner of Inayat Karim Medical Center, Rathian, Jhelum. We are the only well equiped diagnostic center which provide with MRI, C.T Scan, mamography and cardiac investigation with emergency help and recovery. The diagnostic center is under my father's name Inayat Karim(late) who was also a first muslim engineer before the partition in bridge workshop jhelum. I am in Manchester, Uk. Inayat Karim Medical Center which pride of Jhelum and only center with these facilities in region and i am proud of Jhelum and my roots are Jhelum and this is the reason i have invested huge amount of money to help people of Jhelum. We have sevral times edited our Diagnostic center's page on Wikipedia but it has been deleted every time for some reason, please let us know how rectify this problem.

Thanking in Advance,

MH Karim.


 * This seems to prove sock puppetry. Also look at the further edit history of Jhelum (city) Fiddle Faddle (talk) 18:02, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * It appears, if that email is genuine, that they are socks with WP:COI. Foxy Loxy  Pounce! 01:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have retained the email and can provide it to the correct place, but have no idea what that place is. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 09:39, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Just keep a copy somewhere safe just in case a clerk or CU wants to look at it. Foxy Loxy  Pounce! 09:41, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * To save me some time, can you give me some diffs that demonstrate why you think these guys are socks? ——  nix eagle email me 22:48, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It might be quicker to talk to Mayalld who handled the first pair. But try, ,  etc. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 23:27, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It would be appreciated if you could clarify the sockpuppetry situation yourself. Foxy Loxy  Pounce! 12:16, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * What else do you need? I thought I had done so above and further above.  Fiddle Faddle (talk) 13:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

-- Kanonkas : Talk  09:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * blocked under the duck clause. -- Kanonkas : Talk  09:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * All of the other accounts are already blocked. -- Kanonkas : Talk  09:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date April 9 2009, 18:12 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Som3boy follows the same edit style and patterns as Manchester Boy and INAYAT KARIM in the insistent addition to Jhelum (City) of spam links together with the weird creation of Jhelum, Punjab. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 18:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Fiddle Faddle (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Obvious - Blocked & tagged. Tiptoety  talk 18:27, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Report date April 13 2009, 23:33 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

These IP addresses have added very similar contributions for Jhelum (city) spamming the Inayat Karim Medical Centre that Manchester Boy and the other socks have. This guy is determined at spamming this stuff. I have no real idea if there is any point in reporting an IP sock, nor whether I ought to request Checkuser evidence. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 23:33, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Fiddle Faddle (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Good call, Timtrent. I actually noticed another similar IP address doing similar editing. They are all on the same network. I propose a temporary range block but I request checkuser for the range 149.254.216.0 - 149.254.219.255 to see if I am going to create any undesired collateral blocks by blocking.Valley2 city ‽ 18:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC) }} Request from patrolling admin for Checkuser. Though it definitely quacks like a WP:DUCK and based on previously closed cases we now have the IP culprit(s), but has been editing on a range. I want to know if there are any constructive users who might be collaterally affected by a range block. Please check range 149.254.216.0 - 149.254.219.255. I'm still learning SPI but I think this is warranted to avoid the situations detailed in WP:RANGE. Thanks, Valley2 city ‽ 18:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC) for collateral damage check. Mayalld (talk) 18:50, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

I've temporarilly blocked the two listed IPs, as well as 149.254.218.46. No range block though any other suspected sockpuppet or ip may be blocked on sight Valley2 city ‽ 21:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * IPs are based on technical data, but your best bet is through contrib evidence. With regards to a rangeblock, there's far too much collateral damage. In the /22 range, there are about a few hundred edits from a few dozen editors in the last two weeks alone. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Report date April 14 2009, 23:28 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Same edit patterns in Jhelum (city). I suspect too much collateral damage will be caused by a range block, so this is more for amassing evidence than any other purpose. Broadly this guy just spams his medical centre again and again and again into the article and waits to see if anyone notices. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 23:28, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Fiddle Faddle (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * IP blocked and as always, reopen if he persists.  Syn  ergy 12:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

 Syn  ergy 12:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date April 17 2009, 10:30 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

This appears more subtle than prior suspected socks of this user. Nonetheless there is substantial activity in Jhelum (city) to give rise to suspicions about similarity. The main area is the insistence on spam adding the Inayat Karim Medical Centre. At present it feels as if it passes the duck test, but is a subtly mutated duck Fiddle Faddle (talk) 10:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Fiddle Faddle (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions


 * Adding the same information on the 'Inayat Karim Medical Center' on Jhelum (city), appears pretty obvious sock. Blocked indef. ~ fl 03:24, 20 April 2009 (UTC)