Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yousefsw07/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I find it veeeeery odd that a new user suddenly decides to improve a draft created by a sockpuppet as their first edit. 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 21:05, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅. Honestly, Yousefsw07 is so bad at this that it makes it easy to knock these down. --Yamla (talk) 00:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Likely WP:DUCK and WP:BLOCKEVADE. Brand new account created a couple of days after the last sock, Faze TK, was blocked. Restoring material by, and continuing the edit warring of, Faze TK at Libyan civil war (2011): this, comparing with earlier reverted sock edits:,. Other edits include obvious POV edits that appear consistent with sockmaster (e.g. ). R Prazeres (talk) 20:42, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅. Will tag, block, and throw away the contributions. --Yamla (talk) 22:15, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Baqiyah's behaviour is most similar to former sock Faze TK. Baqiyah currently has 83 edits and a suspiciously advanced understanding of Wikipedia (e.g., creating a redirect or using  as seen here). Their actions include further edit warring/reverts on Libyan civil war (2011) (see ), as well as creating three pages previously created by Faze TK (see Misrata Military Council, Operation Volcano of Rage, and Battle of Gharyan (2019)) Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 02:55, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

This account appears to be a restart of Faze TK. Baqiyah has created Misrata Military Council in both draft and article space. That title was previously created by Faze TK but deleted as G5. Both accounts create mainly articles about Libya. Request CheckUser to look for any additional sockpuppets. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:12, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

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Here is more evidence:


 * Edit warring on Libyan civil war (2011) to add imaginary "belligerents" with "sources".
 * Totally restored edit of his blocked sock on Siege of Bani Walid (2012).
 * Totally restored edit of his blocked sock on Battle of Sirte (2016).
 * Adding the same wikilink to "Operation Volcano of Rage" on Western Libya campaign.
 * Maintaining the infobox he added with his sock on 2023 Tripoli clashes.
 * Only person to add any significant text on his sock's creation Siege of Tripoli (1705).

This is case of WP:DUCK and should be blocked right away. Also ping who had blocked Yousefsw07. Abhishek0831996 (talk) 16:11, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This sock is causing a lot disruption for the last few days. Can you block now? Abhishek0831996 (talk) 08:41, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Somewhere between and, but the technical data is leaning toward unlikely. Behavioural evidence needs to be evaluated. --Yamla (talk) 15:15, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * User:Abhishek0831996, already ran CU. I don't feel qualified to dive in and figure out behavior. If you want us to compare diffs, you should give both of them rather than just from the one, and think we can figure out the other from the history. Also, if they are so disruptive, I'd have expected a page full of warnings and a history full of reverts. In the absence of clear CU evidence, and until you can provide a more clear picture, I could treat this I would any other disruptive editor--if there is evidence of disruption. Drmies (talk) 14:18, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * you deleted the first version of Misrata Military Council. I compared--the second version is much more complete, has different phrasing in places and has more citations, but the structure of the article is exactly the same. OK, now I see that the same applies, and even more so, to Operation Volcano of Rage, and there is idiosyncratic evidence as well: just compare the version before other kind editors made the MOS edits; you'll know what I mean. I'm blocking, but do we delete? Other editors have done at least some work, certainly cleanup, and I really have no opinion. Drmies (talk) 14:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Closing as account is blocked. Spicy (talk) 00:42, 17 March 2024 (UTC)