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11 May 2011

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(cf. An-Najah National University) opened an account on 9 April 2011 and immediately began editing Templates and reporting false positives  in a manner strongly suggesting extensive prior experience contributing to Wikipedia. The user's contribs indicate a preponderance of contributions to articles dealing with Palestinians, particularly Palestinian Christians. As there is little doubt exhibits all the symptoms of a sock- or meatpuppet, the only question is of whom? An-Najah is a Palestinian university in the town of Nablus in the West Bank, which corresponds to all the IP addresses listed above with the prefix 213.6. opened an account on 1 January 2010, editing more-or-less consistently until 23 March 2010. A year then elapsed before the user's next contribution, on 4 April 2011. Here too there is the same clear preponderance of contributions to articles dealing with Palestinian Christians (,, , , ++++++++++++++++). The absence of contributions for one year is as well highly suspect. created an account on 20 June 2009, evidently for the sole purpose of editing Ein 'Arik, contributing a total of 28 edits to the article in a single day with no other registered activity. The evidence is far less compelling in the case of than it is in the case of, but the overlap  still potentially warrants a checkuser. I am convinced that other accounts can be identified as puppets of the ones above, and that the scope of the socks' influence goes beyond the articles mentioned, but haven't the resources for a more thorough inquiry at this time and would appreciate the input of more experienced SPI filers in exposing the full extent of the case. —Biosketch (talk) 08:01, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * @, thanks for looking into the case. Don't interpret what I'm about to say as challenging your analysis; this is my first time filing an SPI, so I'm interested in learning how I can submit improved reports next time. I'm a little puzzled by your comment that there's no overlap in the edit histories of, and the IPs, when at the same time you acknowledge that it's conceivable the two accounts were created by the same user. What, if not the edit histories, suggests to you it may be a single user with two accounts? Furthermore, both accounts made contributions around the same time last month, so I question whether forgetting the login is such a plausible idea. Like I said, though, this can be closed as far as I'm concerned – I'd just appreciate a reply for next time.—Biosketch (talk) 10:42, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * No worries - let me clarify. Although it's possible that the accounts are the same, there's no overlap in edit histories. Sockpuppeting is generally about the abuse of multiple accounts, which manifests itself as multiple accounts/IPs editing at the same time. If none of these accounts have edited at the same time, then there isn't much abuse going on per se. As such, I'm closing for now, but feel free to relist as soon as you see two of these accounts editing at or around the same time. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:56, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

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Note: I have removed from the suspected sockpuppet list because that a  cannot be a sockpuppet of itself. EBE123 talkContribs 19:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

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 * First, Bosstab4 is stale, so we can't tell you anything about that account - and we probably wouldn't act on it anyway, as it hasn't been used since 2009. As to the other accounts: PaliChristianGurl is the older of the two accounts; Naja is newer. I can't help but wonder if maybe the user forgot their login, or maybe just wanted to change accounts altogether. Either way, there's no overlap in edit history. With regards to the IPs, only one has been used in the past two months, so it's a bit stale. Honestly I'm considering just closing this for now and waiting to see how it plays out. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 12:20, 11 May 2011 (UTC)