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22 November 2013

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Between 2006 and 2011, User:Ruminet modified three articles: Rumi, Shahram Shiva, and Talk:Ziryab. By byte count, most of the changes were to Shahram Shiva, who is a translator/performer. The additions to Rumi also promote Shahram Shiva. One of the suspected sockpuppets, 72.227.130.70, made to Jonathan Schwartz (radio). Jonathan Schwartz is a radio personality on WNYC, a radio station in New York. According to the detailed history of radio appearances documented on Shahram Shiva, 72.227.130.70 added (and immediately reverted) the slur a few months after Shahram Shiva's final guest appearance on WNYC radio.

On 6 March 2011, I a welcome-but-hold-the-spam message on User talk:Ruminet. On 10 March, User:Ruminet to Shahram Shiva. The same day, I the addition and posted a  to Ruminet's talk page. Activity from User:Ruminet ceased.

On 14 March 2011, a new account, User:Shahram Shiva added by User:Ruminet. This single-purpose account resumed promotional editing of Shahram Shiva, and to the Rumi article. User:علی ویکی promptly deleted the addition with comment "advertisement". Three hours later, User:Shahram Shiva the deletion, then  to Shahram Shiva to a higher position in the (otherwise alphabetical) "See also" list. Activity on this account then ceased (23 October 2011).

Later that day (23 October 2011), a new account, User:Fair WikiReports, was created, which resumed edited of the Shahram Shiva ‎article. This is another single-purpose account which, to date, has only modified Shahram Shiva, with the exception of a promotional external link to Rumi (which remains). The additions made by User:Fair WikiReports and by the listed IP addresses are consistent with the activity of the other user accounts: Persistent addition of promotional material about Shahram Shiva, and subversion of the intervention of other editors. The three IP addresses listed above are all in Brooklyn. Ringbang (talk) 18:07, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * - All accounts except one are > Rschen7754 21:44, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's enough evidence to justify a duck block here, particularly since the master isn't blocked. You may wish to independently pursue sanctions for promotional editing though. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:29, 24 November 2013 (UTC)