Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mtheory1/Archive

10 May 2016

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I already was just waiting for this user to make another sock account. He stopped editing in 2012, but had such an obvious agenda here, that anyone could pick him out in the blink of an eye. Same ungrounded nonsensical obsession and fixation with "Indianizing/South Asianizing/Central Asianizing" Iran, same target articles,- (etc) same occasional usage of Perso-Arabic script in edits,- same vandalistic type of edits (take a further look at the revision history of both if needed). I'm 100% sure its a sock of this user. In all these years I'm active on this place, I've never seen any account so obsessed with Indianizing this nation, other than Mtheory. And I virtually monitor all Middle East-articles. Like the sockmaster, his purpose is being here with a single reason; and that is trying to put Iran (Middle East per definition), through various means and on various topics, into a totally different category than it is always put, and trying to align it more with other regions, based on pure self-written and self-formulated nonsense.

His (AryaIran's) very first edit was to Indianize the article about Iranian Cuisine (an article that was heavily targeted by sockmaster Mtheory as well as I have already pointed out above, who made the exact same type of edits), by removing the existing sources, and changing for example the redirecting link that links to Azerbaijani cuisine to Indian cuisine.

Some more evidence;


 * "Preparing" his comments/writing to himself on his talk page/sandbox, fully in line with the sockmaster;,


 * AryaIran; "turkey ( ... which has a totally different (mediterranean) food culture, while Iranian food is very close to its Indo-Iranian cousins in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan"
 * Mtheory1; changed it to " shares history and culinary ingredients with nations throughout Asia, such as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan"


 * Often placing comments meant for other users on other talk pages, in a typical odd fashion, on his own talk page/sandbox, just like Mtheory1 always did.--. After all the time that has passed, he's still doing the same, but now figured out how to activate the sandbox.


 * More South Asianizing/Indianizing policy, typical of both the sock and the sockmaster; ,,, ,, ,, ,.


 * Denying the huge overlap between Iranian Cuisine and Mediterranean Cuisine; Mtheory; (...) Iran has nothing to do with Mediterranean!! We don't eat (...), AryaIran; (...) show us a common dish between Iran and turkey ( which has a totally different (mediterranean) food culture (...)


 * Making WP:CANVAS/WP:FORUM comments to other users,-- exactly like the sockmaster Mtheory used to do.-. Can post many more of such revisions if needed. Notice furthermore that he often copy-pasts the same nonsensical forum-like commentary to the users/places he wants to reach,, this in a completely similar way as Mtheory1 always did.--.


 * Indianizing the history of the usage of rice in Iran, self-formulated;-


 * Very first comment of both accounts was to South Asianize Iran;,.


 * Both claiming to be "new users" in their edits;-


 * Keep in mind that it has been a pretty long time since the sockmaster has made edits, so obviously and naturally the style of writing is gonna deviate a tiny bit. However, both still have virtually the exact same proficiency in English as well. The posted evidence and the extremely odd single purpose reason as for why both were/active on this place, should easily link them together. Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 18:41, 10 May 2016 (UTC)


 * , hello, even if Mtheory1 wasn't subject to any sanctions/penalties, this is still a pure violation of WP:SOCK, I quote; Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts: Editors may not use more than one account to contribute to the same page or discussion in a way that suggests they are multiple people. And then I'm not even hinting on the WP:CANVAS violation (as demonstrated above), on top of the blatant sockpuppetry, amongst others. - LouisAragon (talk) 19:42, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

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I also monitor almost all Iran-Middle East related articles, and this "AryaIran" guy actually seems to have the very same weird single purpose reason as Mtheory1 had back then, which is very distinctive, with the same usage of English, and the same very disruptive/pov-style of editing. Combined with the evidence that LouisAragon has posted, I'm also pretty sure that this must be another account of said user. There are minor editorial differences between them, which one would naturally expect in a time span of a few years between the newest sock and the sockmaster. --HistoryofIran (talk) 18:25, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I've declined the CU request. As already noted by LouisAragon, the master is .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:19, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Although I agree the behavioral evidence is compelling, is this actually a violation of policy? Mtheory1 wasn't subject to sanctions or anything when they stopped editing, right? I'm inclined to close this without action, but I'll ping someone on IRC for a second opinion. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 19:07, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Abandoning one account and creating new one 4 years later is not really sockpuppetry. Maybe just forgotten password. I'm closing this.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:44, 8 June 2016 (UTC)