Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Molvi333/Archive

08 January 2013

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Mr. Birotviavle placed the same picture on the userpage of Molvi333 as he keep on his Urdu-userpage, that can be reached through his Commons account. Both editors worked on the article Birote on the same day, giving the impression that there are more people working on the article than there really are. Both write in the same cripple style (example of Molvi and Birotvialvi) and share an interest in the region around Birote in Pakistan. The Banner talk 06:00, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the sock indefinitely and the master for a week for socking. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:02, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

17 January 2013

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At first, it was IP 182.188.228.60 that took my attention with the removal of an AfD-template. Checking further, I came across the article Dhund Abbasi, where he made a very strange addition, that fits in the pattern of Birotvialvi, an already blocked sock. Remarkably, an IP in the same series (182.188.217.232) removed all POV-templates and added text in the same cripple style as Molvi333. Before that, 182.188.184.226 with a cripple edit. There are quite a few more IPs in the 182.188-series, working on the article, that was started by Molvi333. Very interesting, is that on Talk:Dhund Abbasi a few people are complaining about factual inaccuracies and severe neutrality problems. Everytime those complaints are addressed (was done by several different editors), an IP of the 182.188-series shows up restores this. It happened already three times this year.

To my opinion Molvi333 and sockpuppets have stopped making named accounts, and now just use frequent changing IPs to avoids the blocks. To solve this, something has to be done against this IP-range. And just to be sure:: mr. Qureshiam, although showing up at several pages where Molvi c.s. were involved, is definitely NOT a sockpuppet. His English is too good for that. The Banner talk 21:47, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * . --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 22:58, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * What Deskana is trying to say with a single template response is that CheckUser is not going to tell you anything more than you already know. CheckUser is a technical tool that links named accounts to one another by identifying the IP address they are editing from. Seeing as you already have three IP addresses, there is not much more we can offer here. Best, Tiptoety  talk 17:49, 19 January 2013 (UTC)


 * There's been no editing from those IPs in nearly a week, so closing. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:04, 23 January 2013 (UTC)