Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Faizan

Faizan

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07 July 2017

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Suspected sockpuppets

• Sicilianbro2 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Duck evidence: Sicilianbro2 continues the interests of Towns Hill, viz., Partition of India and disputes over princely states. He wisely stayed away from Kashmir, but this time he is dealing with Balochistan and Junagadh. In the Junagadh edit, we see him having constructed a complete article offline (similar to what he was doing in edits [1] and [2] of Losthistory9, edit [3] of Problematics, or the new article [4] created using Owais Khursheed as a proxy editor). Signature patterns include the use of scholarly sources (Iqbal Chawla's article in the Balochistan edit and Rakesh Ankit's article in the Junagadh edit, overused, similar to his overuse of Bina D'Costa and Sharmila Bose in Towns Hill's Bangladesh edits or the overuse of Seema Kazi in Rape during the Kashmir conflict), India-bashing and Muslim victimhood. More directly, the Junagadh edit gives copious quotations from the source, a habit Towns Hill developed sometime around this edit of Kashmiris. Shows good understanding of verifiability but little understanding of WP:NPOV. (See this WP:RSN discussion.) Remarkable that the user knows about WP:HISTRS despite being a newbie editor! Nobody pointed him to it.)

Identity: Towns Hill was topic-banned on 18 January 2017. Sicilianbro2 was created on 20 January 2017. It is possible that Towns Hill created this account for himself. But it didn't show up in the CU check done in May. It is also possible that Sicilianbro2 is a separate individual, who has lent his/her account to Towns Hill sometime in June. There is a marked difference in the quality of edits done by Sicilianbro2 around 15 June 2017. However, the two individuals appear to have been connected. In one of his first edits, Sicilianbro2 copied the content originally written by Towns Hill in August 2016.

I am also pinging EdJohnston for his input. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 08:39, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims. I observed the edits of the mentioned users, I have been here for months so am familiar with the procedures, arguments, I have been an observer on wikipedia for months. But I am not a sock. Run the CU thoroughly please. Sicilianbro2 (talk) 09:16, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I have a friend who lives in my area who is also a wikipedia editor. He often helps me in refining my content. I am not aware that such a thing as helping friends or being helped by them is prohibited on wikipedia. According to WP:PROXYING even if I did make edits for a banned user (who could be my friend, I will ask him) then thats not prohibited by wikipedia policy as long as they are verifiable which is a fact Kautilya3 accepts. I also have independent reasons for making such edits. I have an interest in these topics and I do the research myself and get help from my friend in wording my content,. Sicilianbro2 (talk) 10:39, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

• Sicilianbro2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)'s third edit, which he made after the Towns Hill account was reverted and topic-banned, was to restore the exact same content that the sock account Towns Hill had added([5], [6])
• Same obsession with removing 'Jinnah' from Shia Muslim page[7]. It's actually worth noting that he made these two reverts[8],[9] after Son of ATM showed up and reverted Towns Hill's edits.  Looks like a duck to me.—MBlaze Lightning ^T 10:24, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

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