Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mostafa Elsherbini/Archive

07 September 2015

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Original user banned for edit wars over images. Many images deleted as fan posters, not official posters. Added alternate poster for NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn and replaced the one originally used on repeated occasions, here, and here, again here. Today user Mohamed Eldakak made this identical edit, being the only "other" editor to add that specific poster. Side note - both talk pages have a ton of image issue posts, leading to it looking like they are engaged in identical behavior related to images.

I hope this is enough to at least look into if this is a sock puppet for ban evasion purposes. Thanks in advance.  MPJ  -US 22:21, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Actually if you ask me, the check-user should be the other way around: User:Mostafa Elsherbini as the master and User:Mohamed Eldakak as the sockpuppet. I had noticed during the last block that Mostafa Elsherbini was under that there was an account created called User:Mostafa Elsherbini 24 which made very similar edits. I didn't block that at the time, but when I issued the second longer block to Mostafa I blocked the Mostafa Elsherbini 24 account as a probable sockpuppet. And when I issued the second block, I was quite clear about the consequences of creating a sockpuppet. Tabercil (talk) 22:41, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * - I also found this suspicious edit - Mostafa Elsherbini removing a talk page comment made by Mohamed Eldakak.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:09, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * is between and  to the above accounts.
 * I've indefinitely blocked Mostafa Elsherbini without a tag (neither confirmed account is tagged). A clerk can decide what to do about Mohamed Eldakak.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:36, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm just closing this case now without tagging.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:58, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've indefinitely blocked Mostafa Elsherbini without a tag (neither confirmed account is tagged). A clerk can decide what to do about Mohamed Eldakak.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:36, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm just closing this case now without tagging.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:58, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

29 September 2015

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Readdition of same image to the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs (2014) article as his confirmed sockpuppet, plus similarity of name. Tabercil (talk) 12:36, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Compare him to previous socks (see diffs: ).  Vanjagenije   (talk)  20:10, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to and  and still between  and  to the master:
 * Just as before I've blocked the two latest puppets but not tagged them.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:23, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The problem is the the wrong account got tagged as the master in the original CU - it should've been User:Mostafa Elsherbini as that was the oldest of the lot. Oh well... Tabercil (talk) 21:37, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Mostafa Elsherbini is not the oldest, not by creation date (the usual way we determine a master) or even by edit date. Mohamad Eldakak is. The only thing we could do if we want to give up on ever technically tying the current master to the puppets is to drop him completely and go with a different master. The other alternative is to find that the master is behaviorally connected, even if the CU doesn't support that; CUs are not all-powerful. Then, we could tag the master as suspected and the puppets as CU-confirmed.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:05, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The problem is the the wrong account got tagged as the master in the original CU - it should've been User:Mostafa Elsherbini as that was the oldest of the lot. Oh well... Tabercil (talk) 21:37, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Mostafa Elsherbini is not the oldest, not by creation date (the usual way we determine a master) or even by edit date. Mohamad Eldakak is. The only thing we could do if we want to give up on ever technically tying the current master to the puppets is to drop him completely and go with a different master. The other alternative is to find that the master is behaviorally connected, even if the CU doesn't support that; CUs are not all-powerful. Then, we could tag the master as suspected and the puppets as CU-confirmed.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:05, 29 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Admin action needed - I can't establish a 100% behavioral connection. I need an admin to move the page back to Sockpuppet investigations/Mostafa Elsherbini.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:17, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I didn't do the move perfectly, but it's done. Back to you, I assume for tagging.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:25, 2 October 2015 (UTC)


 * All tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:40, 2 October 2015 (UTC)