Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/XARyz/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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 * Several areas of intersection between XARyz and Nafiszami as detailed here, but what's most important, is that most of those articles related to Indian composer A. R. Rahman in one way or another. 99 Songs was conceived and produced by Rahman. Dil Bechara was scored by Rahman. Shikara was scored by Rahman. These are two accounts that are heavily interested in A. R. Rahman. XARyx's user name contains the "AR" initials.
 * Both seem to rely on mobile editing and often use the Visual Editor.
 * Almost immediately upon being blocked for copyright violations, XARyz created another account, AR Rahman123456. I block this as being a clear duck.
 * In these edits, the duck writes A.R. Rahman listen first sufi song from his peer sahab and includes a link to an article from The Hindu.
 * I removed this content and a couple of IPv6 editors restored it. This content was later expanded upon here by Nafiszami, although "expanded on" is a bit kind, since they basically just repeated what was already there.
 * Neither appears to write English well.
 * At some point Nafiszami edited XARyz's user page, here. That's odd.

I'm not 100% that these are the same person, but it seems like either sock/meatpuppetry. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:33, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

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XARyz and AR Rahman123456 are between and. Nafiszami is ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:11, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Fans often look like socks, and with Bbb23's findings, I'm not seeing enough for a sock block here. That being said, if there's disruption, they can be blocked for that regardless of the socking issue. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:36, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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I think this is highly suggestive that these two accounts are related, are highly indicative of undisclosed paid editing. They have demostrated a very low level of competence despite their ability to construct an entire article. I'm requesting a CU not only for confirmation that they are related, but to see if there is another known master. I've seen some intersections with Bothiman here and Satish Raman Nair here (if we assume the IPs are the same user.) Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:53, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Six intersections.
 * XARyz was heavily focused on the works of Indian film composer AR Rahman. The "AR" in the middle of their name is testament to this.
 * The edit history at A. R. Rahman illustrates this, as does the user's edit history, where most of their edits were to films that Rahman scored, albums that he composed for, etc.
 * I blocked XARyz for copyright violations in January 2020. They never appealed, which is odd.
 * Pikachoo29 was created in March 2020.
 * Pikachoo's first edits were to 99 Songs (soundtrack), an article created by XARyz.
 * Pikachoo has created three articles, Humnawaa, The Oracle (song), Dil Bechara (soundtrack), all of which relate to AR Rahman.
 * Although they are creating articles from top to bottom, Pikachoo29 apparently has no comprehension of notability guidelines for songs, and they have a poor understanding of how to deliver prose content to articles. At The Oracle (song), the user adds the ridiculous phrasing: "...Rahman played a melody that was echoing between them. After it revealed that the delicate melody was now a thunderous entity..." This was clearly copied indiscriminately from the cited tweets. Demonstrates competency issues.
 * Similarly here, XARyz added copied phrasing "Years later, when Khalid Mohammed asked him to do a qawwali for Fiza, he felt blessed to do something which he cherished." This was copied from here, again without any understand or effort to convert obvious hyperbole into normal English speech.
 * In that same XARyz edit, you'll notice that they created a section on Sufi music, along with and a description of that article ending with a quote. This is similar to this edit by Pikachoo29, where we see the addition of a section for a soundtrack, with main templates at top, followed by a description that ends with a blockquote.
 * Just to have it on record, there appears to be a cadre of IPs that edit the same areas as these users. 122.178.54.103, 122.174.44.75, 122.164.228.95, 122.178.68.94, 122.178.66.219, 122.174.43.178, 122.164.21.125, etc.

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)