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21 December 2011
Suspected sockpuppets


Rast5 and the 3 IPs have a special interest in

WP:ARBAA2. I suspect that Rast5 is closely related to or identical with these IPs, especially the last one, 85.141.14.195, strongly supporting the Armenian cause. Note that Rast5 accuses others of sockpuppetry. Antique Rose — Drop me a line 22:34, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
  •  Clerk declined - CU will not connect an account to IPs. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 05:23, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Clerk note: None of those IPs have edited since mid-November, so they're pretty stale. Closing with no action taken. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 17:52, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
29 December 2011
Suspected sockpuppets

All of the editors are involved in an edit war on Tamara Toumanova and Tumanishvili pages, on whose Armenian origins they insist fervently. The first listed IP appeared 20 minutes after the user was blocked for edit warring. I've already notified the blocking admin.

UPDATE: The last two IP's just appeared and made the usual edits, including unexplained moving of a longstanding Tumanishvili page. I think we're dealing with block evasion by user:rast5. I would like to see if any of these accounts are related and if there are any sleeper sock accounts. Andriabenia (talk) 16:16, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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It is quite obvious that Rast5 is trying to evade his two week block by using range 178.176. Antique Rose — Drop me a line 16:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

Sockmaster appears to be Gazifikator. I've blocked it for two weeks. Also, Rast5 as well as some other accounts indefinitely. No other action required. Elockid (Talk) 23:04, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

17 January 2012
Suspected sockpuppets

I previously made this request at WP:AIV, but I was directed to WP:SPI.

As the archive page of this SPI shows, Gazifikator is a sockpuppet master. Gazifikator, Rast5 et al., see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Gazifikator, have been busy promoting the alleged Armenian descent of Tamara Toumanova (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). As the SPI shows, Gazifikator and Rast5 are identical. Gazifikator made his first edit in the Toumanova article here and has since then been able to revert and conduct numerous edit wars through e.g. Rast5, 178.176.133.57 and 85.141.14.195, all on the SPI page. Today, Gazifikator resumed his Armenian POV-pushing with this edit. It seems very strange to me, that Gazifikator, previously blocked four times [1], e.g. for sock puppetry and violating the 1RR, should be allowed to continue editing. Antique Rose — Drop me a line 19:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC) Antique Rose — Drop me a line 19:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

I'm not sure what you want done here. Gazifikator has already been shown to be Rast5 (see

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Rast5/Archive) and KKL90 is blocked. Gazifikator was blocked for 2 weeks for the socking issue. The IPs haven't edited in weeks/months. What's left to do? TNXMan 19:34, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Shouldn't Gazifikator himself be blocked indefinitely as the sockpuppet master? Antique Rose — Drop me a line 19:39, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
He was already blocked for two weeks for that issue -the block has expired and I don't see where he has socked since. TNXMan 20:09, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
According to the archive page Shulyatikov (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is a suspected sock, still editing the Toumanova article. Antique Rose — Drop me a line 20:35, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I believe that sock came up CU negative (the comment is unclear...) do you have any evidence to say that it matches? --
(t) (e) 02:13, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply
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I'll elaborate on this. Shulyatikov did not come up during my check of Gazifikator. I also felt that there wasn't enough sufficient reason to perform a check of Shulyatikov. Since the accounts are already blocked and the accounts are stale, I recommend closing this report unless further suspected sockpuppetry is found. Elockid (Talk) 04:25, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Closing, per Elockid. Amalthea 19:51, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
12 June 2012
Suspected sockpuppets


Earlier this year Gazifikator was blocked for sockery, [2] and placed on indef 1RR. Recently he has been engaged in an edit war on Charles Aznavour: [3] [4] On 11 June Gazifikator was topic banned from Armenia related articles. [5] The same day the new account of Retyp was registered, and continued the edit war on Charles Aznavour. The account of OptimusView might be unrelated, but since it made reverts identical to Gazifikator, it would be good to check it too. Grandmaster 14:03, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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28 June 2012
Suspected sockpuppets


On 11 June 2012

Hilal Mamedov into Eurovision Song Contest 2012: [12], edit warring until reverted by uninvolved editors: [13] [14] In the light of the above, a CU is required to check if Dexact has any relation to Gazifikator and Retyp. Grandmaster 20:20, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply
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The following are  Confirmed socks of Gazifikator:

 IP blocked. WilliamH (talk) 09:44, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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