Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zimmarod/Archive

31 December 2014

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User:Zimmarod was constantly busy some days ago removing my sourced additions on the Nagorno-Karabakh article despite that they were completely well sourced and good additions in general with reliable sources. He/she started using arguments such as "rv anon; dubious sources" to disregard entire large edits, or, now even more interestingly putting in his edit description "Rv per WP:BATTLEGROUND, in reference to "This is insane" remark"., because I told that removing entire sourced additions easily like that, is insane. He/she was obviously reverting and acting there with an agenda per WP:JDL, as it's quite a politically active topic. He also again started switching between his two accounts (Zimmarod and Hablabar) who edit on the exact same articles, write the exact same edit summaries [], [], and have the exact same usage of language.[][]

You can't just disregard sourced edits like that I think. Especially if you happen to use two accounts to hide behind this. I had brought this issue to ANI ([]) firstly hoping this could be settled just there, but there we found out that there was clearly more going on between Zimmarod and Hablabar. The interaction analyzer showed this clearly. The interaction timing goes back over a year for editors who intersect like this and it extends to Georgian scripts and more importantly the talk page which shows both editors interacting and not using edit summaries at all..

Looking at the editing histories of both his accounts, it shows they are both maintaing, apart from similar usage of language and similar edit summaries (if using any), the exact same pro-Armenian stance on articles focused on the Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Some more diffs of both: (Hablabar) [], [], [], [], []. (Zimmarod) [], [], [], [], [], [], []. And here were he uses both accounts on the same article to push his agenda. [], []

It is so obvious as what, that Zimmarod and Hablabar are the same user, and apart from violating Wiki's policy per sockpuppetry, he's also being extremely disuptive by deleting and removing well sourced additions. 94.210.203.230 (talk) 01:33, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * The accounts both made similar revisions in the past to the same, arbitration enforced article 1, 2, 3 I dug a little deeper and found some interesting findings. Both accounts made similar appeals to the same administrator for AE. 4 5 and they both removed the same tag from the same article 6 7. The editing timeframe is similar, but that could be chalked up to a geographical similarity. I think there's enough evidence to support a check. It would be most helpful in determining if it's the same individual or just two people with similar interests. Mike V • Talk 19:55, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Checkuser comment: Result is - significantly different geolocation that is consistent throughout most of the editing time.  Risker (talk) 03:15, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm going to close this case then with no action taken. Mike V • Talk 03:18, 2 January 2015 (UTC)