Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mriraq/Archive

23 August 2015

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"Nimrod1980" was banned by Kuru and Mr._Stradivarius for violating Wikipedia standards by legally threatening another editor and posting misinformation on the page "Miss Iraq". The user's unblock request was declined again by Kuru and was barred from editing his/her own talk page.

Then minutes later the banned user created another account "missiraq1947" to make similar changes to Miss Iraq page.

In one of the posts on Mr._Stradivarius page, the banned user signed with the IP address "186.9.135.85"

Wikipedia defines sockpuppeting as "to circumvent a suspension or ban from a website" Pageantscambuster (talk) 16:05, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Missiraq1947 looks like a sock of Nimrod1980 to me, but I'm requesting CheckUser just to make sure. I haven't checked Nimrod1976 or Mriraq in detail, but they were editing back in 2007, so I don't imagine CheckUser would tell us anything of use. The use of "Nimrod" is suggestive, at any rate. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 16:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * It's true that the two 2007 accounts can't be checked, but can you take a bit of a closer look at the behavior? The listed master is obviously not the oldest account (Mriraq is), and I'd prefer to get the master straight before I post any findings. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:30, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I found that Nimrod1976 admitted to being a sockpuppet of Mriraq here. It looks likely that they are the same person as Nimrod1980 and Missiraq1947, as they share the same subject interests and point of view, and the same tendency towards erratic capitalisation. However, I'm not 100% sure. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:22, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Also in this edit Nimrod1976 admits to owning the Manpreet1976 account. Actually, looking at the edit in more detail, the language used is a little ambiguous: "mriraq is blocked and so is mine manpreet1976". So it would seem that Mriraq purportedly wasn't Nimrod1976's account, but that it was under his/her control. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:31, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * and are ✅. Blocked and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:19, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * and are betweeen  and . They are editing from the same location, but one is always using their phone, whereas the other never does.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:00, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking. With the timing of the account creation, the location, and the similarities in commenting style, I'm pretty sure that Missiraq1947 is a sockpuppet of Nimrod1980. I've blocked and tagged Missiraq1947 based on WP:DUCK. I've also tagged Nimrod1980 as a suspected sockpuppet of Mriraq. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 06:01, 24 August 2015 (UTC)