Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ScholarM

ScholarM (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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– An administrator or SPI clerk has placed this case on hold pending further information or developments.

• Rahil mirza9 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• MahammadSadab (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• TASchamparan (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• KhanQadriRazvi (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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ScholarM was blocked on 8 August (for violating a topic ban from 2020) and Youbat was blocked for meatpuppetry in support of ScholarM on 24 July. ScholarM has repeatedly removed real life images of Akhtar Raza Khan ([1], [2], [3]), apparently in violation of their topic ban. The newly created accounts are edit warring over real life images in a similar fashion (replacing them with a symbol). TASchamparan: [4], MahammadSadab: [5], Rahil mirza9: [6][7]. This may be meat and not sock, but the results are the same. Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 07:19, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Added KhanQadriRazvi (not sure how I missed them) who has been doing the same: [8], [9]. This is a ~100 edit account was was active for 3 months in 2020 (April-June) and then reactivated in August 2021.--Eostrix  (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 13:09, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't know much about the technical aspects of checker processes, but the behavioral evidence here demonstrates puppetry in a conclusive manner. Considering how ScholarM's other meat puppet User:Youbat was caught in the last investigation, I think it wouldn't be controversial to suggest that the users here coordinated their edits off-Wiki in order to push a certain quirky POV. ScholarM and Youbat both previously shared e-mail addresses and/or WhatsApp numbers with other users, and ScholarM has made multiple appeals to admins on Urdu Wikipedia for help in content disputes here in English Wikipedia, so there's a definite pattern of meat puppet behavior with this person. MezzoMezzo (talk) 14:46, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• I've blocked all four as obvious ducks. A checkuser will be helpful in finding other sleepers. --RegentsPark (comment) 13:30, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
•  Clerk endorsed - per RegentsPark, sleeper check if practical please. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:05, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• KhanQadriRazvi is  Confirmed to QadriRazvee (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) but technically  Unlikely to ScholarM. The remaining accounts are also  Unlikely to each other from a technical standpoint. I found the following account that is definitively  Confirmed to ScholarM: Logicalpointing (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). NinjaRobotPirate already blocked the account, though. Closing without further action. Mz7 (talk) 07:01, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
•  On hold - Pending outcome of unblock request at User talk:KhanQadriRazvi -- RoySmith (talk) 14:05, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]