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09 September 2013

Suspected sockpuppets

• Kose zane Khosrow ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Koskesh ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Kose zane Khosrow shows up on the 3rd, starts to make minor edits (some clearly bad or unnecessary), possibly to get autoconfirmed. On the 9th Kose zane Khosrow moved HistoryofIran's talk and user pages to User:Koskesh and User talk:Koskesh. Dougweller ( talk) 10:13, 9 September 2013 (UTC) reply

If these turn out to be unrelated, I've just blocked an IP for clearly stalking HistoryofIran, 91.99.88.237 ( talk · contribs), and looking at HistoryofIran's talk page he believes there is sockpuppetry involving Eight for Eight ( talk · contribs) and Hochvoltag ( talk · contribs). Dougweller ( talk) 10:25, 9 September 2013 (UTC) reply

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• Just wanted to say here that I am obviously going to hold out on deciding the unblock request until this SPI is complete. Singularity42 ( talk) 12:54, 9 September 2013 (UTC) reply

Given the negative CheckUser result, I am going to go ahead with finalizing my review of the editor's unblock request. Singularity42 ( talk) 21:10, 9 September 2013 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

In view of what can be seen in the revision history of User:HistoryofIran, I have no doubt that Kose zane Khosrow is the person who previously edited from several IP addresses in the 91.99.x.x range, making pointless edits to get autoconfirmed to evade protection of that page. Whether it is also the same person as HistoryofIran I can't say, but in any case Kose zane Khosrow shows no sign of being here for any purpose other than disruption, so I have indefinitely blocked the account. JamesBWatson ( talk) 11:44, 9 September 2013 (UTC) reply

• Kose zane Khosrow ( talk · contribs) is  Unrelated. Koskesh is  Stale. Elockid ^{( Talk)} 21:07, 9 September 2013 (UTC) reply
• With one of the accounts indef-blocked, and the other one never having edited since being created in June 2006, there is nothing more to do but close this case. JamesBWatson ( talk) 11:01, 10 September 2013 (UTC) reply