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05 January 2011

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after sockmaster was warned about creating an autobiography at Mahmoud Reza Maheri, new account was created, then IP joined into the party. Socking to hide the fact this article is an autobiography. Wuh Wuz  Dat  06:53, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

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Whilst my few contributions to Wikipedia so far under the username Karafs may appear similar to those of MrMaheri, I must point out that these two accounts are not sockpuppets and are in fact controlled by two separate people:

I myself am an experienced Wikipedian who has previously edited under different usernames such as User:Ardeshire Babakan and User:Manu kian maheri. I must warn that at no point have I been contributing to Wikipedia using two accounts simultaneously. I am well aware of Wikipedia's NPOV policies and other etiquette as I have been in accounts gone by a contributer to controversial articles such as the Iran page, which has been semi-protected for years.

On the other hand, User:mrmaheri is a new member of Wikipedia, and I have been assisting this new member get to grips with Wikipedia... after teaching him a few tricks in the sandbox of course. I do not have permission to log on to mrmaheri's account and so do not know this editor's password. And so (by definition of a sockpuppet) neither of these accounts are sockpuppets.Karafs (talk) 23:28, 5 January 2011 (UTC)


 * from another case: 3 extremely vocal SPA's all concerned only with Articles for deletion/Mahmoud Reza Maheri Wuh  Wuz  Dat  17:01, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I've merged a case opened at Sockpuppet investigations/Karafs into this one. And I'm endorsing for a checkuser. It's possible the accounts are the same, but CU will tell us if this is meatpuppeting or socking. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:21, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Summary of the data: --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 03:26, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) It looks to me as if Mrmaheri and Karafs know each other in real life, as they've been editing from the same IP. However, I'm inclined to accept the explanation provided by Karafs as true. I question how wise it is to help someone write an article about themselves, but that's outside the scope of this SPI case.
 * 2) The other two accounts, Strongmind25 and Kingfisher48, are unsurprisingly the same person, and they do not seem related to Mrmaheri and Karafs. It's possible that they were meatpuppets, but they appear to be from a completely different country so we don't really have any way of knowing. Strongmind25/Kingfisher48 appears to have used a VPN server to try to obscure the relation between the accounts, but he did a pretty shoddy job of it.
 * Blocked the second set of accounts. No action on the first set.  Nakon  03:27, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Also blocked . Nakon  03:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC)