Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Pakhtun Tanoli

User:Pakhtun Tanoli

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by Enric Naval (talk) 14:57, 31 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
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User:Pakhtun Tanoli is a recurrent sockmaster. He has created several throw-away accouns, but mostly uses dynamic IPs from Telefonica Spain to spam his personal theory that Tanoli are Pashtun.
 * introduction to sock master

Specifically, he argues that Tanoli: a)are Pashtun (they are not) b)are not from Tanawal (they are) c)speak Pashto (they didn't, although modern Tanoli have are now adopting Pashto) d)Tanoli were the richest/strongest (out-of-context mild exaggeration)

has been semi-protected 8 times since January because he re-surfaced after every protection expired, and is indef semi-protected since June.
 * results of activity

On Spanish wikipedia, es:Tanoli has been deleted fourteen times and semi-protected four times. Its discussion page has been deleted five times.


 * link from User:Pakhtun Tanoli to User:Sahilkhan

On 30 October User:Sahilkhan made a comment on Talk:Tanoli that is almost identical to edits made by socks of Pakhtun Tanoli. He was able to do so because it's autoconfirmed acconut. He also blanked his talk page without a single comment, including the Sockpuppet tag, which is the same behaviour as Pakhtun Tanoli.

He spammed his personal page sahilkhan.onesite.com, which is hosted on the same free provider as tanoli.onesite.com, see accepted blacklisting request at meta.

Now he is going around the semi-protection at Talk:Tanoli/Comments, inserting a text very similar to the text inserted during months by Pakhtun Tanoli's socks.


 * further connections on-wiki and off-wiki (you can skip this)

One of Pakhtun Tanoli socks was called User:Sahil4ubest, one of the contact mails that Sahilkhan put on his page was "sahil4ubest@xxxxxxxxx.com" (domain removed for privacy reasons). He also calls himself "sahiL Khan" on his user page, and his user page gets updated from Telefonica IPs. This use copy/pasted the text written originally by Pakhtn Tanoli on several pages including wikipedia space pages, including replacing the sock tags and warnings on his talk page just like socks of Pakhtun Tanoli have done many times. On Internet one user-uploaded video relates "sahil4ubest" with "www.sahilkhan.tk" with "Tanoli" and with "Jadoon" (Jadoon is a Pashtun tribe, and Pakhtun Tanoli has tried several time to list it together with Tanoli)


 * link from User:Sahilkhan on enwiki to Usuario:Sahilkhan on eswiki

es:Usuario:Sahilkhan on eswiki has been indef-blocked from eswiki after I complained that he was spamming his personal page and vandalizing Tanoli.

User:Sahilkhan on enwiki has been spamming his personal page, see Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Sahilkhan and. They had the same name and personal details (you can compare the deleted versions with the info removed here). He created one of his copies on es:Usuario:Usuario:Tanoli.king, which follows the naming convention used by Pakhtun Tanoli, see the names at Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Pakhtun_Tanoli like "Tanoli.tribe", "Tanoli.khan" or "Pashtan.tribes"


 * Request


 * (This is already ✅) indef-block User:Sahilkhan as a self-promotional WP:SPA and a block-evading autoconfirmed sock


 * change the sockmaster tag on User:Pakhtun Tanoli to "confirmed". (he has already a confirmed socks category due to having such a recognizable behaviour)


 * Comments

Sahilkhan is indeed already blocked. Per my understanding, adding a confirmed tag is ordinarily reserved for checkuser confirmation so feel free to add that if a checkuser agrees. —Wknight94 (talk) 23:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions