Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sina javadi74/Archive

02 July 2015

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I can't remember exactly how I came across this, but I've noticed that there is a bit of similarity between these accounts and this was eventually brought up at ANI. Many of the accounts tend to title articles in an awkward style like The first Muslim doctor and most will post articles that are copyvio from somewhere.

On June 26 Ali qahremani created Oncogene virus, which was copyvio from here. He also created a lot of articles that were machine translations from the Persian Wikipedia and while that's not copyvio since it's from Wikipedia, that can be problematic because machine translations are frequently incorrect and/or unclear.

I believe that this is sockpuppetry because Ehsanghandchi1375 created The first Muslim doctor, which tries to use an article by Ali qahremani as a source: Medicine_in_the_Islamic_world. Some of Ehsanghandchi1375's work also comes across as somewhat machine translated. There is somewhat of a difference in editing styles here, but the article themes look to be the same. I'd asked Ali if he was editing with this account or was this account, but received no reply.

Alidezh1559 is a little less obvious and not one that I'd immediately suspected, but he was brought up in the ANI thread. I do notice that his writing style seems to be similar to Ehsanghandchi1375's and he shares a similarity in how he posts references (usually as bare links under a reference heading). They also have a tendency to create awkward titles like Table manners In Iran.

Mahdi moallemi seems possibly related because he's a recent account that has created articles like Qhsareh, which use the Persian Wikipedia as a source. This is something that Ali has done with his articles like Medicine in the Islamic world.

Now Alidezhpasand is brought in to all of this in that he recently created this userspace article and according to the ANI thread, it's a copy of an article in the Persian WP. The username is also nearly identical to Alidezh1559's name and the article is one that he tried to create at Ave (hill) and The Historic hill of Ave. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:52, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

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What Tokyogirl79 said. Machine translation is not what normally pops up in Iran-related articles, certainly not several times within the span of the same day or so. For the sake of completeness, it should also be noted that the four accounts listed under "Suspected sockpuppets" were all registered within hours of each other on June 29-30, while "Ali qahremani" was registered on June 26.--Anders Feder (talk) 16:19, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * User:Mehdi keivan has also been creating redundant medical articles on existing subjects in a similar style, and joined Wikipedia on June 28. --McGeddon (talk) 22:32, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed, seems similar to the others.--Anders Feder (talk) 22:38, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing and will block/tag after.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

05 July 2015

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User:Sina javadi74 recently had a load of sockpuppets blocked for creating machine-translated articles about Iranian scientists and duplicating some about medical subjects, largely sourced to Iranian wikis, and all accounts being registered between the 26th and 29th of June. User:Mehdi keivan was registered on the 28th and has been creating machine-translated articles about Iranian scientists and medical subjects, sourced to Iranian wikis. McGeddon (talk) 08:01, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

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While we're at it, these show similar signs:

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 * Group 1 - The following accounts are ✅:
 * Group 2 - The following accounts are ✅ but ❌ to the master:
 * "Group" 3 - is ✅ from Group 2..
 * "Group" 4 - is between  and barely  to the master..
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 11:19, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I blocked and tagged the accounts in Group 1. I blocked without tagging the accounts in Group 2. I'm leaving the tagging, if any, for the accounts in Group 2 and the accounts in Groups 3 and 4 for a clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:33, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Group 2 - The following accounts are ✅ but ❌ to the master:
 * "Group" 3 - is ✅ from Group 2..
 * "Group" 4 - is between  and barely  to the master..
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 11:19, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I blocked and tagged the accounts in Group 1. I blocked without tagging the accounts in Group 2. I'm leaving the tagging, if any, for the accounts in Group 2 and the accounts in Groups 3 and 4 for a clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:33, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Group 2 - The following accounts are ✅ but ❌ to the master:
 * "Group" 3 - is ✅ from Group 2..
 * "Group" 4 - is between  and barely  to the master..
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 11:19, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I blocked and tagged the accounts in Group 1. I blocked without tagging the accounts in Group 2. I'm leaving the tagging, if any, for the accounts in Group 2 and the accounts in Groups 3 and 4 for a clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:33, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * "Group" 3 - is ✅ from Group 2..
 * "Group" 4 - is between  and barely  to the master..
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 11:19, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I blocked and tagged the accounts in Group 1. I blocked without tagging the accounts in Group 2. I'm leaving the tagging, if any, for the accounts in Group 2 and the accounts in Groups 3 and 4 for a clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:33, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I blocked and tagged the accounts in Group 1. I blocked without tagging the accounts in Group 2. I'm leaving the tagging, if any, for the accounts in Group 2 and the accounts in Groups 3 and 4 for a clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:33, 5 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Admin action needed - I recommend blocking Reza 858 too. He exibits similar interest like thosr in group 3: ancient Muslim physicians (see: vs. .  Vanjagenije   (talk)  22:34, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked per 's comments above.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:31, 28 July 2015 (UTC)