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IMZahidIqbal

06 February 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Editing of related articles involving startups in Pakistan. In the most notable case, IMZahidIqbal removed an AfD template on an article created by Hello.Zahid. It is worth noting that a Mohammed Zahid Iqbal is listed on this Behance poster as having created Navcane: that poster also mentions Plan 9 Startup Incubator, whose article he created, and he also created Techhub Connect, which like Plan 9 was set up by the Punjab Information Technology Board. Raymie (t • c) 05:20, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

04 March 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Recreation of master's work Rubina Ratnakar using new title RUBINA RATNAKAR and user IMZahidIqbal playing a important role there ([1][2]). GSS (talk|c|em) 11:48, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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07 April 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Another promotional account, here and at Commons. Refspamming and creation of doubtful blps. Overlaps with LARZZE (talk · contribs) at Jackie Ibanez, right after LARZZE was blocked as a sock. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:46, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Dingley (talk) 12:15, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(Smn90) More overlaps with the promo biogs Andy Dingley (talk) 08:48, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(Hardol922) More overlaps with the other accounts and the promo biogs Andy Dingley (talk) 08:49, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(E.Zahid) Already blocked, but also active at Commons. Looks as if this could have been one of the original accounts. See Commons:File:Cannon at Fort Siloso, Sentosa, Singapore - 20160630.jpg and User:Macrolancer Andy Dingley (talk) 08:58, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Andy Dingley This Macrolancer is the first time when I joined Wikipedia working. Macrolancer is my company name which I used to create my username here. How you have tagged me as WP:SOCKPUPPET? I participate at Wikipedia about my related topics. If these Topics are being discussed by someone else that what is my fault. You can check the notability of the articles which I posted. It looks Andy Dingley is my personal enemy. Macrolancer (talk) 11:20, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

  • @Andy Dingley: I notice that your three 7 April reports were made within minutes of each other. Rather than using Twinkle on each account that you find, please use Twinkle against the master account, where the form will accept multiple sock accounts, or simply add additional * {{checkuser|1=<sock account>}} lines to the existing case. Thank you. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:43, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If you don't like how Twinkle works, then tell the Twinkle developers. As nothing has been done with this pile of ongoing paid editing, other than to criticise those doing the legwork of identifying them, then I (yet again) wonder what the point is in having SPI at all? Andy Dingley (talk) 14:47, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Believe me, I have raised this point with the twinkle folk before. However, using the tool on the master account does allow multiple socks to be reported at once rather than having it make separate reports for each sock. Anyway, checks are  In progress, but are taking some time to sort out. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:24, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I spent ~10 minutes cleaning up the report before deciding to run checks because cases are tedious to work with when they're needlessly spread over multiple reports. If you want action here, it helps to not make our job more difficult than it needs to be. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:44, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

10 April 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Only edits are to Umar Saif, over nearly a year. This is part of the same likely paid-editing pool, through Idea Croron Ka, where all of the linked BLPs Nabeel A. Qadeer Salim Ghauri, Umar Saif are from the same editor(s). Andy Dingley (talk) 08:37, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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23 April 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Same writing style and grammar, quickly back to Jackie Ibanez / AfD and removing CSDs at RentSeeker, previously AfDed and also at RentSeeker.ca.

The editing pattern is the classic sock run of trivial edits on the 8th April to get the edit count up, then a run from the 21st article to start creating pages like Valcon Design (see [3]) and Six Theta Design, now AfDed. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:53, 23 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(AsmzaSherazi) Another potential sock, recreating RentSeeker Andy Dingley (talk) 09:58, 23 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:38, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]


25 April 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

It chimed in at the Afd Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Six Theta Design just before the speedy delete and close. Same sort of syntax. Glowing praise for the thing. I see the IP also has a final warning for vandalism. Worth a look/block? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:41, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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26 April 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

This is quite funny.

103.255.4.2

Retaliatory AfD at Tox (Python testing wrapper), see User talk:103.255.4.2#re Tox (Python testing wrapper), then AfD stacking at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephanie Braganza, an article that Lubna.Iram (talk · contribs) (a sock here) had been working on.

This is trivial, but it warrants recording here Andy Dingley (talk) 08:36, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

103.255.4.1

Another IP today, going back to Jackie Ibanez and the AfD. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:51, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • It is safe to block individual IP addresses in this range (103.255.4.0/24) for a short time, but a rangeblock will probably cause some collateral damage. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:08, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]


30 April 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Newly registered user, whose first ever Wikipedia contribution was jumping straight into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephanie Braganza — a discussion where all of the other keep rationales to date have come from confirmed socks of this user — with the provision of weak, GNG-failing new sources. Bearcat (talk) 16:14, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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28 May 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


Alerted to activity at Kris Degioia, an article that has historically been repeatedly recreated by promotional socks. The article shared enough similarities to previous versions that I ran a CU. Behavioral evidence was nearly identical to the two accounts listed below. I had another CU provide me with a second opinion and we came to the same conclusion. Mkdw talk 23:44, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • JohnsonClark  Confirmed to:
 Blocked and tagged and marking as closed. Mostly filed here for record. Mkdw talk 23:49, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

07 June 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Same behaviour as Liza.Alicia. Account created 1 day after Liza blocked.

Diff of identical edits:

Stickee (talk) 08:08, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

18 June 2017

Suspected sockpuppets


This account's first edit was June 10, a couple of days after the last sock was blocked. Their edits have all been: 1) making minor corrections/wikilinks to build up the edit count; 2) spamming Psychologydictionary.org; 3) 2 new obviously paid-editing articles about musicians, Artist KcK and Charlie Ungry. Just like the prior socks of this master. Jytdog (talk) 02:30, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Pardon, but I speedy-tagged the 2 articles created by this sock per CSD G5 and these tags were immediately removed by a very recent account that has done nothing about tweak a few articles and add COPYVIO to an article about another band. Likely additional sock. Not sure where to put this, so put it here. Sorry, I do understand that this was closed.
-- Jytdog (talk) 00:25, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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