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Obvious WP:DUCK; recreating 4x deleted article Nasir Ranjhy Wala created by the already-blocked master Drm310 🍁 (talk) 07:21, 29 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Update - for completeness, adding recently-created, another obvious sock. Already blocked by . --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:25, 29 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Update #2 - New sock recreating the draft Draft:Nasir Ranjhy Wala, . --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:41, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Yep. The bits caught in the filter logs show substantial similarities between the articles created – though the names alone are evidence enough. Sock is already blocked for promo, now as proven. Closing.  Blablubbs&#124;talk 15:16, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Also tagged. Blablubbs&#124;talk 17:16, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh joy, more whack-a-mole. – please indef this one too.  Blablubbs&#124;talk 05:51, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. I can also add a few more accounts from CU:
 * (see filter log)
 * I also found the account with similar technical details, but they're promoting a different Indian musician. Their writing style looks like a WP:DUCK to me, though: compare . All accounts, closing. Mz7 (talk) 06:35, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I also found the account with similar technical details, but they're promoting a different Indian musician. Their writing style looks like a WP:DUCK to me, though: compare . All accounts, closing. Mz7 (talk) 06:35, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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Recreating a protected draft article. Same names as the other socks. AngusW🐶🐶F ( bark  •  sniff ) 19:47, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Blocked, and will tag. No need for CU to catch this one, but in view of the history of multiple socks a clerk or CU may perhaps think it's worth it in case of further accounts lurking. JBW (talk) 20:48, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * A sleeper check turned up -- RoySmith (talk) 01:50, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:39, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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Iam was blocked 1 September for his extensive attempt to derail AfDs on his pet articles and his copypasta'd machine-translated arguments. Earlier today Alibaba crawls out of the woodwork, again on an AfD Iam has targeted and whips out a doozy of an argument that's about as coherent as Iam's has been but along similar lines (i.e. "He's famous so he deserves an article"), and given the complete logical disconnect the argument proposes I suspect it's a barely-modified argument from a different AfD about a different topic, which fits in with Iam's inability to read/understand English. —Jéské Couriano v^&lowbar;^v  a little blue Bori 17:42, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


 * And this may be moot due to him being blocked for removing AfD notices, same as Iam. —Jéské Couriano  v^&lowbar;^v  a little blue Bori 20:50, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * ✅ and already blocked by, along with his other sockpuppets. Closing Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:17, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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Re-created article Muqadas Farooq Awan. Username similarities ("Nasir"). Also shared edit interest in "Nasir Chaudhry" visible on simplewiki: simple:Special:Contributions/IamNasirZaman, simple:Special:Contributions/Nasir Chaudhry. – NJD-DE (talk) 21:58, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

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I would like to note as a member of the account creation team that we have received several account requests from IamNasirZaman for a "Nasir Choudhary" (see ACC requests #322122, #322535, #322729, and #322910). In fact, just a couple weeks ago we denied this exact username on the basis that this was likely IaNZ (#323379). Speaking as a general observer, I noticed is that on both Nasir Chaudhry's userpage and IamNasirZaman's userpage that they both have infoboxes listing their occupation as "Editor [and] article creator". SkyWarrior 02:04, 17 October 2022 (UTC)


 * From the looks of it they cut the knot by creating the account at simple.wp and then just using SUL to log in here with it. (This would explain their simple.wp edit history as well.) —Jéské Couriano  v^&lowbar;^v  a little blue Bori 22:17, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 17:28, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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Created Nasir Chaudhry in the mainspace along with a number of other drafts. The English is relatively poor in these articles which seems to go in line with previously observed behavior. Uhai (talk) 20:02, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * CU blocked by Ponyo. Requested lock, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:26, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

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Their edits at Nasir Chaudhry would make me think WP:DUCK but there are a couple of odd facts here. This 'new' account has edits dating back to July 2021, albeit not many. I also note that User:Deepfriedokra blocked the account briefly for sockpuppetry, see here. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the previous Nasir Chaudhry articles looked like so am not sure if the content is identical or not. I think that there is definitely something going on here, either it's a sock accessing an old sleeper account or it's WP:MEAT. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 09:53, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * is a sock of this case. The block of 31 hours was likely(?) a mistake when selecting the block length. In any case, the block should now be indef. Also ✅ is . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:15, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * On further review of edits, I'm going to be blocking both as socks. . Tagged. Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:18, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * After performing more checks, I can update some of the tags to confirmed to the master. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:24, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * From the further checks I've found that the following accounts are directly confirmed to :
 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:26, 26 November 2022 (UTC)


 * - please merge this case with Sockpuppet investigations/NasirRanjhyWala as appropriate. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:27, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Case moved. Retagged. Close. Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:45, 26 November 2022 (UTC)