Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Royan journals/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Royan International*1693 was blocked a few days ago. They have a stated but not formally disclosed COI with regards to the articles they were working on, Draft:International WANA Congress and by extension Royan Institute. Earlier today, a new SPA Knowledge is power*3247947 was registered and resubmitted the WANA Congress draft (their only edit so far). The usernames seem kind of similar in style.

(I'm also including here Masoud minavand kamrani, another SPA with interest only in the WANA Congress draft, as a possible puppet of one type or another. That said, they only edited briefly a couple of weeks ago, and nothing since.) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:19, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The following are ✅ (I'll move to the oldest account & block and tag momentarily - just noting things down first to make my life easier... Checkusers are lazy! :) )
 * "Masoud minavand kamrani" appears technically unlikely, but on behaviour I think there is meatpuppetry afoot there. firefly  ( t · c ) 12:07, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked the lot, tagged accordingly ("Masoud minavand kamrani" as suspected, the rest as confirmed), closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 12:13, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
A couple of weeks after a bunch of socks from this farm were blocked, Katrina masbin was registered. For the first week or so, the editing seems innocent enough, but soon their interest turns to the Royan Institute; they created a draft Draft:Royan Institute on it, and since then this seems to be their sole focus. I queried their COI, but they said they have none, they're "just an iranian person that [...] know about this institute a lot". Okay, so far so good, but then yesterday at the AfC help desk someone posted using Katrina masbin's account and stating they are "faculty member of Royan Institute". So either the poster is Katrina masbin, or they have access to Katrina masbin's account, but either way it seems likely that Katrina masbin is connected to the institute, which then suggests a connection with this whole farm.

I'm including also Katrina safei here, because they were editing the now deleted Royan Institute (their COI was also queried, but they denied having any), and the user names both have 'Katrina'.

Thanks, --DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:33, 9 November 2023 (UTC) DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:33, 9 November 2023 (UTC)


 * PS: I've added brand new user AR Alizadeh, whose very first (and so far only) edit was to Draft:Royan Institute. (Wonder how they found it?) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:00, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'd say and  are ✅.  is  and, but given that behavior I'd probably recommend a block. I've marked the two as suspected to the master. Izno (talk) 18:34, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't usually block stale accounts but I suppose the username and editing history makes it clear enough. Blocked, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 10:51, 18 November 2023 (UTC)