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08 May 2012

Suspected sockpuppets

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Wakwakwiki, on their talk page at User talk:Wakwakwiki#The Vandalism of the user Historyfeelings, says "The user Historyfeelings has also been granted the status of Autopatrolled unlawfully as most of his article are vandalism and they are usually rejected by Wikipedia as they talk about tribes and families (In the Arab world) which is banned by wikipedia regulations".

On my talk page at User talk:Boing! said Zebedee#Historyfeelings vandalism on article Jerash, Banimustafa says "The user Historyfeelings has manged to obtain the status of Autopatrolled unlawfully.... Most of his article are vandalism and most of them violates Wikipedia policy as they are written solely to glorify his/her unknown tribe and village which is banned by wikipedia regulations".

Both making an almost identical choice of words seems a rather unlikely coincidence. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Given the confession below, CheckUser does not appear to be needed now. This editor has been using the two accounts to take part in the same dispute, which is not an acceptable use of multiple accounts - edit-warring with User:Historyfeelings at Jerash and Jordan using the Wakwakwiki account, and using the Banimustafa account to seek support for their actions, eg at Talk:Jerash and at several admins' Talk pages. Also, the Wakwakwiki account was indef blocked because of apparent legal threats (see User talk:Wakwakwiki), so I have also indef blocked Banimustafa for the same reason, now that we know that account is operated by the same person. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:45, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I reviewed, Wikipedia policy regarding multiple accounts.Wikipedia allows multiple accounts as long as they are not used for Sockpuppet and I believe it is not the case with my accounts

Yes I have more than one account in wikipedia. I created Banimustafa account in 2006 and Wakwakwiki in 2011.

I created the new account Wakwakwiki to conceal my personal identity for safety and security, as the first account was pointing to my surname. I used the old account Banimustafa, just to make a point about my contribution to the article Jerash, which the user HistoryFeelings was trying to vandalize since some months ago by replacing Souf with Sakeb, while keeping the same words which I used for describing the souf role in the development of modern Jerash.

The my accounts were there much longer than the dispute with HistoryFeelings and that is a proof that it is not a case of Sockpuppet. If I was using them to support my editing war with HistoryFeelings, I will not use the same words as you described in the case and in this case I would not even be involved in any talks. My defense is verifiable by checking the history of the article, which prove that I never been involved in Sockpuppet.

My contibution to the article in 2006 is described by the edit history of the article:

(cur | prev) 23:23, 8 April 2006‎ Banimustafa (Talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,446 bytes) (+1,128)‎

While my try to stop Historyfeelings was in 2012

(cur | prev) 23:33, 5 May 2012‎ Wakwakwiki (Talk | contribs)‎ m . . (16,037 bytes) (+687)‎ . . (undo vandalism, inaccurate information and unjustified deletion of authentic citations)

However, if you check the history of the recent edit war with HistoryFeelings using the article history you will note that I did not use my old account Banimustafa in editing the article, which prove that my good intention. I used the account Banimustafa in the complains and the discussion, just to make a point that I was the editor of the information which Historyfeelings was vandalizing, by replacing the word Souf with sakib and that what made me angry as I spent many hours and days in developing the article from its beginning the user Historyfeelings.

In addition, the user Historyfeelings was in fact the one who was doing Sockpuppetting using different IP addresses in the editing war as described below:

(cur | prev) 23:40, 6 May 2012‎ 46.185.160.11 (Talk)‎ . . (15,350 bytes) (-691)‎ . . (Undid revision 490973090 by Wakwakwiki (talk))

The edit history of the article also showing the user involvement in several editing wars before mine, while I never been involved in such wars as showing by history of the article edit, neither using the old account Banimustafa, or using the new account Wakwakwiki.

I hope this explain the matter. Best Regards Banimustafa (talk) 12:24, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• Per Boing!'s comments and Banimustafa's admission, I'm reblocking and tagging the sock and closing the case. Banimustafa should respond to the
  WP:NLT block via their primary account. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:53, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply
  ]

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user:Banimustafa making a fake case to attack me cause he thought that I am the one who nominated article "Bani Mustafa" for AFD. Now he make his sockpuppet Amb04 to nominate articles I edit for AFD. Kindly, have a look here: 1, 2

I would like to note that user:Banimustafa has been blocked for sockpuppetry (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Banimustafa/Archive)

Banimustafa has a history of vandalisim; user:Wakwakwiki is a banned[1] sockpuppet of Banimustafa,[2] who has his own history of blocks[3] user:soufray is a banned souckpuppet of Banimustafa. Thank you HF► 21:11, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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• I'd just like to point out that Banimustafa is under restrictions of only having one account (see Bwilkins' comment here), and to me this seems fairly obvious that it's the same user, and technical evidence saying that it's likely seems like enough to not AGF. Frood! ^Ohai _{What did I break now?} 14:27, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• This is a "bad faith" accusation made by the user:Historyfeelings as a revenge for reporting him earlier for puppetsocketry and because of ower content dispute over the article Jerash. I would like to highlight important facts here:

- The user:Historyfeelings has a history of sockpuppetry which was explained here.

- Unlike the user:Historyfeelings and since we have been BOTH unblocked conditionally, I have never been involved in using any other usernames or IP addresses in the dispute. This can be verified by reviwing my the history and the context of my contributions.

- As my username banimustafa is the same as my family name, I still believe that I reserve the right of using an alternative account in order to conceal my identity which is a legitmate use as stated in wikipedia policy: Privacy: A person editing an article which is highly controversial within his/her family, social or professional circle, and whose Wikipedia identity is known within that circle, or traceable to their real-world identity, may wish to use an alternative account to avoid real-world consequences from their editing or other Wikipedia actions in that area. Banimustafa (talk) 01:37, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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That does strike me as a bad faith nomination, and a technical connection is definitely  Possible and looks  Likely. WilliamH (talk) 07:30, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• No action. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 22:58, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]