Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Menj/Archive

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 * has been systematically abusing Wikipedia by planting spamlinks of his various unreliable blogs in myriad of articles Since 2007 (at least). Other examples include:2008, 2009,2017 and 2018.


 * As expected to every spammer, Menj will always fight and revert when his spamlink is reverted. Example, reverting ClueBot NG after he added spamlink as IP. Adding the link again in another article 3 minutes after. Note that: the IP only added the links to two articles and Menj log on shortly after to polish them. [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/796653149 here] and [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/796653009 here]


 * Menj created another account at 11:40 (UTC), on September 2017 to help him continue his systemic abusing. The account first edit was to the article created by Menj, he did so at 11:42, two minutes after account creation. But the clear evidence here is that, the supposed new user soon find flare in restoring spamlinks of Menj which were removed by others [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/805270938 diff 1][//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/805309631 diff2]. [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/811966658 diff3]. Not only reverting, [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/807333295 but also adding the link].


 * Recent addition [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/835823855 in middle of prose]. I reverted them [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/835849150 here]. Then the master account [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/835884682 reverted me]. When I reverted again, they re-reverted, Then instead of continuous reverts, [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/835885073 I left a message on their talkpage]. I earlier left another message at the [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/835852775 newer account's talkpage]. Neither responded, and will likely never do. Both accounts don't use edit summary most of the time.


 * Userpage of Menj was deleted in 2017 for misusing Wikipedia as webhost, so I don't know what it contained But this revision described Menj as "...an active blogger maintaining various niche blogs and the owner of an SEO and Internet Marketing company in Malaysia..


 * All the articles edited by the new account (65 total edits) were also edited by Menj. Specifically, the add the following links. 1. https://bismikaallahuma.org; 2. https://menj.net; and 3. loanstreetdotcom.my. (now blacklisted). Note the name of the second website and sockmasters name.


 * Both accounts received various spamlink warnings, they normally don't respond but simply blank the talkpage. [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/835694330 Menj], Johndoe10001.


 * Pinging who once [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/797297523 posted this]. And pinging  who was repeatedly reverted by both.  may say something too. –Ammarpad (talk) 18:23, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * Personally I cannot definitively say whether these said users are connected or the same person, but the activity is indeed suspicious. One can see on this discussion how Menj and Johndoe10001 !voted the same viewpoint literally within a minute of each other. The most irritating activity that connects these users is their constant insertion of sources relating to the Islamic apologetic website Bismika Allahuma into articles. Personally I do not consider Bismika Allahuma a reliable source, and any attempts at discussion I had with Johndoe10001 were ignored. I brought up this issue here a couple months ago but there was no clear agreement, although to be fair I think I mishandled it a bit. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 18:33, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * Indeffed both master and puppet. MER-C 18:53, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

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New account, shortly after creation their only edit is to revert me and restore spamlink of Menj that I removed [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nabeel_Qureshi_(author)&oldid=prev&diff=835984469 1]. And did nothing later. –Ammarpad (talk) 03:24, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * - not necessary. . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:42, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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User has been re-adding the Bismika Allahuma reference to the Nabeel Qureshi (author) article, (see here) much like the sock-master Menji 1 and confirmed sock Johndoe10001 2. Much like Menji and the confirmed sockpuppets Ibn Juferi has also reverted edits to the said article by User: Anupam 1 much like Menji had 2. Aside from that Ibn Juferi and sock Johndoe10001 both removed mentions of Nabeel_Qureshi_(author) being Muslim in the article (see here for Ibn Juferi's edit and here for Johndoe10001's edit for comparisons).
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The edit similarities on Nabeel_Qureshi_(author) is the main piece of evidence tying Menj,Johndoe10001, and Ibn Juferi together. While there are few edits on other specific articles when comparing Ibn Juferi to Menj and Johndoe10001, all three seem to have a general interest in Islam (and to a less extent Malaysia) related articles as well as replacing the citations (see here for an edit by Ibn Juferi, and here for a diff by Menj) on said articles.

As well Ibn Juferi started editing on 12 April, and interesting date as that is coincidentally a day after 11 April when Menj and Johndoe10001 were blocked.

My sincere apologies to Ibn Juferi if the editor is not affiliated with Menj. I strongly encourage Ibn Juferi to explain his/her edits bellow. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 22:39, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Ibn Juferi has also added links (see edit here) of menj.net, something Menj was warned about. Coincedenly both edits occurred on the same article George Town, Penang. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 00:49, 17 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Sorry to keep adding text here, but taking a look through menj.net (which seems to be the blog site of the user Menj) the author notes that they had to restart their brand as "Ibn Juferi" after they lost domain of their original site. This can be viewed here. Thanks Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 02:08, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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This is going nowhere. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:46, 7 December 2018 (UTC)