Ararat arev
Shortcut: WP:LTA/ARARAT
Original name(s)Ararat arev
Wikilifespan3 December 2006 – present
ISPAT&T
Physical locationUS, often Richardson, TX, Wichita, KS, and Los Angeles
Sockpuppet investigationsArarat arev
InstructionsSuspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information.
StatusActive

Basic information[edit]

Ararat arev (talk · contribs · block log · arb · rfcu · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis

Ararat arev a.k.a. Tigris (talk · contribs) is an Armenian nationalist permabanned for revert-warring and sockpuppetry. His main focus is articles concerning Armenian antiquity, which he attempts to distort in accordance with certain nationalist fringe theories, mostly attributed to the www.armenianhighland.com/ website.

The user first appeared in December 2006, and showed extreme activity for about three months. He was community-banned in March 2007 for his continual edit-warring, misrepresentation of sources and POV-pushing.[1]

He had begun using sockpuppets even before the ban[2], but beginning April 2007, he invested heavy activity in the creation of hundreds of sockpuppets, both new accounts and IPs, to circumvent his ban: see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ararat arev and Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ararat arev.

Frequent reference to the armenianhighland.com website suggests association or identity with the website owner, one Gevork Nazaryan (www.armenianhighland.com/menk/index.html) (a Gevork Nazaryan article was created by one of the user's socks in August 2007[3], citing a dailybruin.ucla.edu article according to which Nazaryan was a graduate student of Near Eastern languages and cultures at UCLA in 2003.

To be distinguished from Ararat arev is Artaxiad (talk · contribs), a.k.a. Nareklm (talk · contribs), who was active in Armenian topics in the same period, and who was also a prolific sockpuppeteer, but whose contributions were in better faith and of superior quality than Ararat arev's (Artaxiad was banned over using abusive sockpuppets, not because of extensive edit warring). Nevertheless, "Nareklm" is responsible for the "Gevork Nazaryan" article at "armeniapedia.org".

Targeted areas, pages, themes

The following is a list of articles that have been affected by the activities of Ararat arev, or may be affected in future. Please consider adding these to your watchlist.

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Confirmed and suspected accounts[edit]

on Hayk as 166.170.14.126 (talk · contribs · WHOIS),
and on other pages as 71.95.223.156 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 166.170.14.19 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
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