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02 August 2015

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Making hoax articles (mostly deleted now) with the string "Selim Belmaachi" or "Selim Belmaach" in the title. (No need for diffs here. Just check the names of the articles they have created.) All made grandiose claims which were copied from articles about other, real and notable, people. Tends to use each account only a few times. Also, adding the name "Selim Belmaachi" into existing articles about other people as if to try to usurp their articles: e.g. and. Some socks already blocked by Tokyogirl79 (included above just for comparison). Checkuser requested in case there are sleepers or any I have missed. Also suggest to blacklist articles with the string "Belmaach" in the title, provided that is not going to cause any problems for any legitimate articles. I have not found any that match that string that are not hoaxes. Note: I may have got the sockmaster wrong. This is all very confusing and I had a headache even before I started looking at this. ;-) DanielRigal (talk) 15:45, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * All blocked as ducks along with . -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:56, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Nothing more to do. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:14, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

08 August 2015

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For the record -- these two accounts have recreated hoax articles on "Selim Belmaachi" (see their deleted contributions) — Cactus Writer (talk) 17:49, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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I have blocked both accounts, and deleted/salted the hoax articles. However, there are currently numerous hoax photos currently titled Selim Belmaachi at Commons. I'll leave a request there for administrators to delete them. — Cactus Writer (talk) 17:49, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * And we're done here. Courcelles (talk) 22:48, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

08 August 2015

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Making hoax articles about "Selim Belmaachi", in this case: Selim Belmaachi Conspiracy. DanielRigal (talk) 19:50, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added 4 more socks found through searches for Belmaachi. — Cactus Writer (talk) 21:09, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * And a couple more which I found when looking for drafts. I guess all 47 found on Commons are also suspects here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sockpuppets_of_Aliases_Zahir --DanielRigal (talk) 21:23, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I included 7 more usernames who added the name "Selim Belmaachi" to other articles about Moroccans. (Note: Each of the articles vandalized so far seem to have been created by User:Tachfin.) I also added several IPs which should begin to provide a range in case a range block is necessary. —  Cactus Writer (talk) 02:30, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * This link might be of interest http://www.demainonline.com/2015/07/20/selim-belmaachi-ou-comment-mounir-majidi-essaye-de-soigner-son-image-sur-le-net/ - if you don't read French, it's worth a Google Translate. Peridon (talk) 20:07, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * If it is possible to put belmaachi on a filter, I'd suggest it would be a good idea. Frwiki seem to have had quite a bit of trouble with this already - maybe they've blocked it out and it's moved here. Peridon (talk) 20:13, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * That link is interesting but I still don't see the point of all this. Somebody is going to quite a lot of effort for no obvious purpose other than to be annoying. Is there maybe some political motive here or is it an obscure joke that only a few people in Morocco understand? --DanielRigal (talk) 20:52, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * As I understand it, it's a rather weird SEO exercise boosting mentions of Mounir Majidi, and thus his Google rating. Or, it's someone trying to make it look as though that's what is going on. Either way, seeing as frwiki got rid of them (or maybe are still knocking them down when they appear - I haven't read the admin bulletin linked to in that article yet), and we are taking them down as fast as they pop up, it's mainly proving that Wikipedia ain't here to be messed with... Peridon (talk) 21:40, 8 August 2015 (UTC) (correction added) Peridon (talk) 16:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * To look for potential sleepers.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've also blocked the following sleepers:


 * Everything else I saw was already blocked.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:20, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

02 November 2015

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After getting chased off first French and then English Wikipedia, the "Belmaachi spammer" has racked up 74 short-lived sockpuppets over on the Wikimedia Commons. Now he is back here, tentatively trying to see if we have forgotten about him. I haven't. Any mention of the name "Selim Belmaachi" is enough to set off alarm bells. He has made a draft of a hoax article, Draft:Mohamed Najib bin Abdul Razak, which I have put up for Speedy Deletion as hoax. It ticks all the same boxes as before: Mention of "Selim Belmaachi" (which may or may not be a real person), mention of Mounir Majidi (who is a real person), the alleged birth date of January 19, 1965 and so on. It seems to be an attempt to make a fictionalised biography of Najib Razak, who is a real and living person unconnected to Majidi as far as I can tell. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:30, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare this account to previous socks and check for sleepers.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:39, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Only two accounts in the archives were not stale, both having edited in August.
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Many of the socks that had already been blocked above were apparently discovered because they tripped the following edit filter: Long-term pattern abuse. Is that correct, ?
 * Correct, Bbb. Thanks for letting me know! NawlinWiki (talk) 17:29, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:50, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Many of the socks that had already been blocked above were apparently discovered because they tripped the following edit filter: Long-term pattern abuse. Is that correct, ?
 * Correct, Bbb. Thanks for letting me know! NawlinWiki (talk) 17:29, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:50, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Many of the socks that had already been blocked above were apparently discovered because they tripped the following edit filter: Long-term pattern abuse. Is that correct, ?
 * Correct, Bbb. Thanks for letting me know! NawlinWiki (talk) 17:29, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:50, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:50, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

04 November 2015

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Tried to sneak spurious mention of "Selim Belmaachi" into Articles for creation/Redirects‎. Got rejected, obviously. The rest of what was added was the same hoax biographical content as the previous socks used just with a new name on it. DanielRigal (talk) 22:39, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:40, 5 November 2015 (UTC)