Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nawab Afridi/Archive

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Nawab_Afridi uploaded several copyright images on Commons and did copyvio on WP as well. Many of thee photos on Common were deleted (commons:User_talk:Nawab_Afridi). Nawab_Afridi also uploaded several photos of him for self promotion purpose and also tried creating a bio on him at Draft:Farhan Wilayat Butt.

Later a new account was created, User:Kamalthakurbscit - editing pattern and behavior is very similar to master account. Uploading copyright photo on Commons. (commons:Special:ListFiles/Kamalthakurbscit) and editing similar articles here on WP. Saqib (talk) 09:50, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You said you've blocked and tagged the first group, but I don't see that. On diffs, Both Nawab Afridi and Kamalthakurbscit have interest in contributing to articles related to Hindu temples. Now if the IPs of both accounts originating from Pakistan, then its very interesting because Pakistan is not Hindu majority country. Specifically, if you look at the history of Valmiki Mandir, you will get some idea. Nawab Afridi inserted images in March 2020 and also added some copyright material. The content was later removed by an admin.. An image was re-inserted again by Kamalthakurbscit. In between the edits by these two account, there's an edit by . This IP contribute to articles List of Pakistani Peace Laureates and List of Hindu temples outside India. Nawab Afridi contributed to List of Pakistani Peace Laureates and User:Kamalthakurbscit is regular contributor to List of Hindu temples in Pakistan. I hope this helps. --Saqib (talk) 19:51, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * Following the whole affair from the start on Commons IMO I doubt Nawab Afridi is Farhan Wilayat Butt (read the mess around the deletion of this draft) but I'm almost sure Afridi was commissionned by Butt for writing an article on him and that the latter was finally not satisfied with the result hence the request for the deletion of the draft. Apart from that I believe no word from this user regarding copyvio can be trusted and he always manages to cloud the issue by evoking a scope issue though he's mainly to blame for high suspicion of copyvio (his refusal to reupload his files at full resolution directly from his camera or to go through OTRS). As a side note I've found an old photo by Butt (File:Alamgiri Gate at Lahore Fort.jpeg from the defunct website World66.com) and Afridi's phone seems to be a Redmi Note 7. --Patrick Rogel (talk) 13:20, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * The following two accounts are ✅ to each other and bordering on  to the above but Symbol rename vote.svg Behavioural evidence needs evaluation for a UPE/meat connection:
 * I've blocked and tagged the first group, but I'll leave the behavioural connection between the two groups to someone else. It might be helpful if you could give some diffs that show a behavioural connection between the two groups since you know what to look for. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:24, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The following two accounts are ✅ to each other and bordering on  to the above but Symbol rename vote.svg Behavioural evidence needs evaluation for a UPE/meat connection:
 * I've blocked and tagged the first group, but I'll leave the behavioural connection between the two groups to someone else. It might be helpful if you could give some diffs that show a behavioural connection between the two groups since you know what to look for. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:24, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The following two accounts are ✅ to each other and bordering on  to the above but Symbol rename vote.svg Behavioural evidence needs evaluation for a UPE/meat connection:
 * I've blocked and tagged the first group, but I'll leave the behavioural connection between the two groups to someone else. It might be helpful if you could give some diffs that show a behavioural connection between the two groups since you know what to look for. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:24, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The following two accounts are ✅ to each other and bordering on  to the above but Symbol rename vote.svg Behavioural evidence needs evaluation for a UPE/meat connection:
 * I've blocked and tagged the first group, but I'll leave the behavioural connection between the two groups to someone else. It might be helpful if you could give some diffs that show a behavioural connection between the two groups since you know what to look for. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:24, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the first group, but I'll leave the behavioural connection between the two groups to someone else. It might be helpful if you could give some diffs that show a behavioural connection between the two groups since you know what to look for. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:24, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the first group, but I'll leave the behavioural connection between the two groups to someone else. It might be helpful if you could give some diffs that show a behavioural connection between the two groups since you know what to look for. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:24, 14 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I've now blocked and tagged Nawab Afridi and their socks. I'm not convinced that Nawab Afridi is connected to Mumbaipsytrance/Kamalthakurbscit based on the evidence above and, looking at it again, the CU result is probably more to ❌. See also Sockpuppet investigations/Mumbaipsytrance. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:47, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

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Newly created accounts whose first edits are to List of Pakistani Peace Laureates and Kentucky Colonel and Pakistan–United States relations which seem to be a continuation of the efforts of the sock master and previously blocked socks to add content about Farhan Wilayat Butt to various Wikipedia pages as well as uploaded files of Butt to Commons (File:A Pakistani Philanthropist with Kentucky Colonel Commission Certificate.jpg. The accounts are fairly new so simply looking at Special:Contributions/Zeruiah Michael and Special:Contributions/Shazi WP will suffice to providing diffs for specific edits since basically all of the edits to articles are suspect. Marchjuly (talk) 01:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * I believe the additional account Stephen JS fits the same pattern, with edits promoting Mr. Butt at Gusi Peace Prize and Pakistan–Philippines relations. There are also several IPs involved. I found mentions of Mr. Butt that had recently been added to about 20 articles, and they all seemed to have been added by Nawab Afridi or these other discussed accounts or by IPs, with dubious sourcing (no source, a WP:USERGENERATED source or a promotional/affiliated source) and WP:UNDUE relevance. See also Articles for deletion/Farhan Wilayat Butt and Articles for deletion/Pakistan Peacekeeping Mission. Some of the promotion in the apparently related edits has been relatively subtle, e.g. adding photos of Mr. Butt without explicitly mentioning him by name in the caption. There were also some places that referred to him as Farhan Wilayat (without the "Butt"). I have removed most of them, except in Gusi Peace Prize (which has other problems and is generally a topic of dubious reputation) and List of Pakistani Peace Laureates (where my removal was reverted twice). There may have also been some other topics promoted by these socks; I've only focused on Mr. Butt. —BarrelProof (talk) 02:33, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Shame on you. You removed the details of various international awards won by that Pakistani from the List of Pakistani Peace Laureates. No editor/ moderator is allowed to remove the award but yes, they can make editions in the descriptions. Anyways, your poor attitude to target Pakistani people shows your jealousy with Pakistani people who are much better than you. You removed many of his achievements from that page, though there were many other unknown winners were listed on that page but you targeted only one person because you personally failed to achieve any award like him. So, I am not surprised at all. You guys are only jealous creatures and you will keep doing the shit everywhere. Zeruiah Michael (talk) 20:03, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * All three ✅. . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:21, 19 July 2020 (UTC)