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*We are not going to evaluate alleged topic bans that occured 1-4 years ago. Closing. [[User:Bbb23|Bbb23]] ([[User talk:Bbb23|talk]]) 14:08, 29 June 2018 (UTC) |
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NadirAli
- NadirAli (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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29 June 2018
– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
Suspected sockpuppets
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NadirAli had been sitebanned and he was unbanned too by Arbcom with a topic ban on South Asia and one account (no IP) restriction,[1] and later on Arbcom vacated the topic ban. But the reality is that NadirAli always evaded his siteban,[2][3][4] topic ban,[5][6] one account restriction while he was at it. He even evaded his 1 month block[7] for violating topic ban.[8] Here's further evidence of abuse:-
Starting with comparison of 69.165.246.181 and NadirAli. For starters, this IP address geolocates to the same geographical area as his other IPs in Central Toronto, Ontario. NadirAli has made 1,598 edits with this IP address and disrupted very controversial articles like Talk:Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War,[9] engaged in battleground mentality against an editor with more than 100,000 edits in WP:ANI,[10] while his account "NadirAli" was still sitebanned. There is a massive overlap between NadirAli and this IP, including on many obsure articles, as the Editor Interaction Analyser shows. This IP was also blocked for 48 hours for edit warring in 2014.[11]
- Added "D. D. Mahulkar" as reference on Indo-Iranian languages.[12][13]
- Added "Annarita Puglielli" and "Mara Frascarelli" as reference on Indo-Iranian languages. [14][15]
- Adding wikiprojects to Talk:Hindustan.[16][17]
- Adding wikiprojects to Talk:Darkover series.[18][19]
- Agreeing with his IP on Talk:Hindustani language. [20][21]
- Disrupted same sentence on Greece–Pakistan relations.[22][23]
- Adding or removing maintance templates on Muhajir people. [24][25]
- First adds "WikiProject Law Enforcement" on Talk:Frontier Corps with IP,[26] then updates its class and importance with account.[27]
- On British Indian Army; both the IP and NadirAli replaced the word "India" with "British India" in the same paragraph,[36][37] and used contractions ("it's dissolution""it's dismantling"). What is even more striking is that they both made the same mistake of using "it's" instead of "its".
Below edits are comparison between 173.209.159.202 and NadirAli. All before 23 December 2015 when NadirAli's topic ban was removed. Socking from this IP has been carried out mostly to evade topic ban from WP:ARBIPA, and also after it. He made edits with this IP in violation of his topic ban and the details of this IP address concerning ISP (Rogers cable), location (Toronto, Ontario) are all matching with the IPs he used for socking back in 2000s (see SPI from 2007). Here is the evidence of abuse:-
- Added same non-existing image ("File:Punjab rangers insignia.gif") on Pakistan Rangers with same "150px" size. [41][42]
- Adding Urdu/Nastaliq scripts on lead sentence of Pakistan Marines,[56][57][58][59] and NadirAli later added the same to infobox.[60]
Even after getting unbanned from topic ban, he has abused this IP to avoid scrutiny. For example, in July 2017, he restored so much of content that was actually written by a topic ban evading sock puppet[61] and NadirAli used this 173.209 IP when restoring.[62] For starters you can search "Only 15 percent (21,606) of Junagadh’s Muslim population voted", entire text is mostly same. Later, NadirAli defended the content on talk page using his account.[63]
Here is the evidence for 70.54.131.177 as being related to NadirAli:- Just like the above, this IP geolocates to the same area i.e., Toronto, Ontario, is registered to the same ISP (Bell Cananda) as the IP that NadirAli inadvertently revealed in late October 2017.[64] Here are the details concerning postal code (ZIP code) of these two IP addresses: 70.54.131.177 M4S Central Toronto (Davisville) vs 184.145.119.147 M4T Central Toronto (Moore Park / Summerhill East)
- Just like diffs above[65][66], this IP has also added the same Urdu/Nastaliq scripts on the concerning lead of the article.[67]
- Like 173.209.159.202 and NadirAli,[68][69] this IP has also edited the same sentence on 2011 Pakistan Rangers shooting incident.[70]
Since removal of topic ban, NadirAli has been subject to indefinite image upload restriction,[71] two indefinite blocks for copyright violations,[72][73] a block for violation of 1RR,[74] multiple reports on WP:ARE[75][76] and ANI thread discussing sanctions[77] and he was topic banned from India-Pakistan conflict last month,[78] surrounding the conflicts within the subject where he played the biggest role in disruption by violating copyrights and rejecting the obvious violation,[79] reverting 4 times on Princely state[80] and more. It is very fair to say that NadirAli is a total net negative and the biggest problem behind the mess that was created in South Asian subject not only in 2006-2007,[81] but also since he has been unbanned by Arbcom.
I had contacted Arbcom about 3 weeks ago but understood that this can be handled on-wiki. I can't think of any other ethnic POV editor of Pakistani articles who can be such a die hard fan of Star Wars, while thinking that " the Russian Federation" is a more common name for "Russia". Sock puppetry is too obvious here. My Lord (talk) 04:12, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Comments by other users
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The ban evasion regarding both siteban and topic ban is probably more than what has been provided here. NadirAli was evading the siteban with his apparently admitted IP[82] for months[83] even after an indefinite block was imposed after he had been lucky enough to have his block duration modified for four times.[84]
The diffs are convincing. I also note that NadirAli has been long continuing the same misconduct that led to a site ban (WP:AE report) and probably engaged in proxying for a banned editor (WP:AE report). NadirAli is one of those who have commited some of the worst violations on Wikipedia, evaded each type of sanction and unfortunately, he is still allowed to edit. Ping @Future Perfect at Sunrise, Jpgordon, and Ohnoitsjamie: as they dealt with his rigorous policy violations since his return. --RaviC (talk) 10:33, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
- We are not going to evaluate alleged topic bans that occured 1-4 years ago. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:08, 29 June 2018 (UTC)