Samira819
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08 January 2024
– This SPI case is open.
Suspected sockpuppets
Right on schedule, more WP:DUCK IPs following in the footsteps of the last Samira819 sock blocked a few weeks ago (Jake106meme, see SPI here). Note that the IPs are very similar to others that were previously reported for this user: see here. The general pattern of the sockmaster is to add WP:EXCEPTIONAL claims and attributing them to sources that do not support the claim, almost always exaggerating the power, importance, or independence of former Libyan (or Tripolitanian) states.
The first three IPs are clearly linked to each other:
- 41.254.66.104 made this edit, pushing the same misleading POV/WP:OR that previous sock Jake106meme tried to push earlier, here. (Both edits aim to undercut the easily verified claim of Ottoman control.)
- When that was reverted, 41.254.71.16 defended the edit on the talk page ([1]).
- 41.254.71.179 then repeated the edit shortly after ([2]).
For the fourth (41.254.66.126):
- Around the same time, editing Karamanli dynasty, an article long targeted by the sockmaster (the talk page for example is almost entirely filled with comments by multiple iterations of Samira819 socks and myself). Following the same behaviour as previous socks: inserting a claim with citation to source that doesn't support it ([3]).
- The edit summary, "possiblr" (sic), is also the same type of hedged/ambiguous edit summary that previous socks would sometimes use for WP:FRINGE claims, e.g. from Jake106meme: [4], [5] (or see this).
The fifth (165.16.20.30):
- This one has previously been active in inserting the same inaccurate and Libya-related WP:OR in multiple other articles (e.g. [6], [7]).
- More recently, edited at Colonial Empire by adding misleading claim that a former Libyan state/faction was a "colonial" empire; namely this, which is just another variation on earlier edits by previous sock Jake106meme making similar claim: [8], [9].
- Same IP also repeating some of the sockmaster's original behaviour of pinging users multiple times in talk page replies: [10], [11], [12] (compare with behaviour of previous socks Jamalie7, Las Davas, and Hello 09761 at Talk:Karamanli dynasty, for example, or examples in previous SPIs).
R Prazeres (talk) 01:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC) R Prazeres (talk) 01:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- Sixth: adding 41.254.71.124, which inserted badly-written material with the usual POV and OR to Garamantes, an article repeatedly targeted by Samira819's socks (e.g. [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]). I've seen some other IPs that look suspicious as well, but as they keep hopping anyways, I'm not bothering with the more ambiguous cases. R Prazeres (talk) 18:04, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
- As of today, IP 165.16.20.30 is the most recent one to be active. I've added another piece of evidence above. R Prazeres (talk) 19:11, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
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