Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pd1 uob/Archive

Report date October 1 2009, 18:55 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Per a report at ANI, Pd1 uob was blocked indefinitely for repeatedly inserting copyvio material in several Pakistan-related articles, under his own account and as 123kasi, which is clearly a sock per a duck test. Given the level of disruption, a sweep is necessary to find any more socks. Blueboy96 18:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Blueboy96


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Blueboy96 18:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests
 * . NW ( Talk ) 15:56, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Really messy ranges (few /24s and a /13) and common user agent. There appears to be a huge amount of public computer usage, which for the country makes sense. CU is useless here. Brandon (talk) 17:38, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Closing per Brandon's comment. NW ( Talk ) 20:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by MuffledThud
MuffledThud (talk) 22:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Same actions as last sockpuppets: original evidence of puppeteer's actions at ANI
 * Identical spamming with same uploaded artworks at by User:Khankasi
 * Identical copyvio postings from this book on Google Books at by User:Khankasi
 * Posting of email address "pd1_uob@yahoo.com" at ] by User:Khankasi
 * Identical copyvio postings at by User:123kassi
 * Identical copyvio postings at by User:119.155.100.202, with email address "pd1_uob@yahoo.com"
 * Close similarity of username between new sockpuppet User:123kassi and older sockpuppet User:123kasi, now blocked

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. IP blocked 12h. MuZemike 01:47, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by MuffledThud

 * Same actions as last sockpuppets: original evidence of puppeteer's actions at ANI
 * Identical copyvio postings from this book on Google Books at, with email address "pd1_uob@yahoo.com"
 * Close similarity of username between new sockpuppet User:Arifkhankasi and older sockpuppets User:123kasi and User:Khankasi, for editor signing himself "Muhammad Arif Kasi" in all cases. MuffledThud (talk) 13:57, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 19:32, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by MuffledThud
Please see Sockpuppet_investigations/Pd1_uob/Archive.


 * User:Yousafkasi: Identical copyvio activity to previous socks at Kasi/Kassi, note identical image gallery and portraits credited variously to "Asif Kasi", "Muhammad Asif Kasi" or "Muhammad Arif Kasi". Note similarity of username to previous socks.  Hijacking of dab link in Kasi to forked article in this edit.


 * Special:Contributions/119.155.99.67: linking latest fork by User:Yousafkasi to Shinwari a few weeks later. Note IP address, like previously-blocked socks Special:Contributions/119.155.100.202 and Special:Contributions/116.71.145.227, is an Islamabad DSL address served by Pakistan Telecomms Co. Ltd. MuffledThud (talk) 16:07, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


 * User:Asifkassi: attempt to create art advertisement page at Asif Kasi: note similarity of username and purpose, though evidence here is not as strong as for previous other two socks. MuffledThud (talk) 16:15, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Accounts blocked and tagged. No purpose in blocking the IP. –MuZemike 20:13, 1 February 2010 (UTC)