Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rafi ul haq/Archive

13 September 2012

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This is a case of shutting the door after the horse has bolted, since I've already blocked all of the accounts concerned as blatant sockpuppets. However, the master shows no sign of stopping, so I'd like to open an investigation here just to get all the information in one place for when the inevitable future socks appear.

Rafi ul haq created the page Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi last week, after multiple previous attempts were speedily deleted or declined due to lack of sources and promotional writing. Thanks to the efforts of other editors, the article was rescued and brought up to a reasonable standard. However, this was made more difficult by Rafi ul haq's disruptive approach to editing - after he had removed other editors work, added more promotional material, violated numerous MOS guidelines and refused to discuss any of his editing, I issued him with a short 48 hour block to prevent further disturbance. During this block, Saista zari showed up and immediately began editing the Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi in an identical manner ; I responded by blocking that account as a sock. The following day TrlongJr appeared and continued the same editing pattern - I missed this at the time.

After Rafi ul haq'a block expired, he continued the same behaviour and was promptly blocked for one week by Black Kite. TrlongJr then reappeared on the article continuing the same pattern, and I blocked that account and warned Rafi ul haq on his talkpage. Within a couple of hours new user account Jese Smith made its first edit to Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi in a strikingly familiar way, so I first blocked that account and then increased the block on Rafi ul haq to indefinite, per my earlier warning.

As I posted above, I'm filing this in anticipation of future sockpuppetry, but I'd also appreciate the eyes on an experienced SPI admin on the situation - if such an admin feels that I've overstepped the boundaries in the above, please let me know and lift/reduce the blocks as you see fit. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 10:49, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Yunshui's assesment of the situation is accurate and the blocks appear to be justified. Closing. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)