Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tamer Gunner/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Same name style, same Egyptian focus and interests, also branching out into Pink Floyd music. Tamer Gunner edit-warred over genre at certain articles then was followed by Tamermostafa99, including this sequence using the same source to insert the "country" genre. Tamer Gunner's first month of edits focused mainly on Egyptian/Middle Eastern bands, while Tamermostafa99 used URLs from Egypt in some references (books.google.com.eg seen here, for instance, same at the previous insertion by Tamer Gunner.) Checkuser requested to confirm. Binksternet (talk) 07:50, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The named accounts are ✅. No comment on IPs, but it also hasn't edited in two days so blocking it won't do anything. No sleepers seen. . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:57, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Tamer Gunner has been using a lot of IPs from Egypt to evade his block. Yesterday, he started using the newly registered name Marryuam to continue the edit war he had started on two song articles. The first article is Pink Floyd's song "Wish You Were Here" which Tamer Gunner edited in January–February 2020 to add the genres of art rock, folk rock and country. This was reverted and Tamer Gunner re-added two of the three genres. This was reverted and then the sock Tamermostafa99 restored the country genre and added acoustic rock. Egyptian IPs kept trying to get this material to stay in the article,, the most recent adding the genres of pop, folk rock, acoustic rock and country. Finally, newly registered Marryuam restored these same genres while adding a new reference taken from Google Books Egypt (books.google.com.eg). The second song article is Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" in which Egyptian IPs have been genre warring. Marryuam continued the exact same edit war. Binksternet (talk) 18:43, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Checkuser requested to make certain of identification. Binksternet (talk) 18:45, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

The long list of IPs is here only to give an impression of how persistently Tamer Gunner has been evading his block. I am not asking for an investigation of all of these IPs. Binksternet (talk) 18:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Reply to TheSandDoctor: I thought there might be notes that were saved regarding the February activities of Tamer Gunner and the sock Tamermostafa99, something that could be compared to the current activity. If not, then just go by behavior. Binksternet (talk) 06:08, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Everything is stale account wise and the IPs a CU would never link. Not sure what you are hoping to have checked? The SandDoctor  Talk 05:47, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Marryuam is to Tamer Gunner which is the best CU is going to do with what's left over. [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|16px|link=|alt=]] No comment with respect to IP address(es). Moving to open queue for a behavioural investigation. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:15, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm having trouble blocking somebody on two edits, especially when it's a popular area. I've dropped a uw-login warning on Marryuam, but for now, let's just see what happens.  They'll either go away, or generate a stronger collection of evidence and we can block them if/when that happens.  For now, I'd suggest that admins be aggressive with semiprotection on the most affected articles.  Closed with no further action. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:44, 11 June 2020 (UTC)