Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Safi-iren/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
All those 3 users deleted the same information from the same article.
 * 1) 10 April: A newly registered user (Timb1976) deletes Vardanyan's relation to Putin[1 ][2 ]
 * 2) 26 April: A sleeper account (Safi-iren) deletes Vardanyan's relation to Putin[3 ]
 * 3) 29 April: Another newly registered non-EC user (Shinadamina) deleted lot's of sources[1 ][2 ][3 ]. After 5 minutes, deletes Vardanyan's relation to Putin.[4 ].

Other than content removals, Safi-iren deleted the same sources (Jamestown, IrishTimes, ICIJ), 11 days after Timb1976. Shinadamina did the same thing after 3 days.  Aredoros87  (talk) 21:17, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * After I made a request to make Ruben Vardanyan article to be protected[1 ] and warned Shinadamina on their talk page about AA[2 ], the user started doing random edits to reach 500 edit count. Then immediately made an edit with "Ref bombing cleanup" edit summary. Meanwhile, he/she deleted the phrase ... nicknamed "Putin's wallet..[3 ] The exact same tactic has been used by Timb1976 before[4 ] -- an unrelated edit summary, and secretly deleting the same phrase (... nicknamed "Putin's wallet.). Another similar edit has also being made by Timb1976[5 ]  Aredoros87  (talk) 18:23, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * due to proxy use. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:41, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The edits are suspicious, but there's a plausible explanation that a lot of people care about an imprisoned former politician and some of them are bound to have similar arguments about the same content. I don't see enough behavioral evidence to overcome the simpler explanation that there's simply a content dispute in a politically charged topic. The Wordsmith Talk to me 20:34, 3 July 2024 (UTC)