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Tombah

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18 July 2022

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Suspected sockpuppets

The probability of the following event being a coincidence is vanishingly small. Within four hours of the closure of a seven-week long RM discussion:

  • two commenters ignored the “do not modify” ( and ) and a third commenter made a similarly formatted edit as a "post-close comment" ()
  • for two of the three accounts, this was the only RM they have ever commented on
  • all these votes were similar in nature
  • all three have timecards suggestive of the Israel timezone
  • All three editors are either new (Tombah’s editing began just over 6 months ago) or low edit count (both Eladkarmel and Atbannett have just over 500 edits - i.e. the ARBPIA threshold)
  • All three editors interacted with each other on ARBPIA pages immediately after the two low edit count accounts passed the 500 edit threshold: March 2022: Eladkarmel supported Tombah in discussions on another ARBPIA page at ; April 2022: Eladkarmel supported Tombah in discussions on another ARBPIA page at , around the same time as Atbannett was involved in a edit war on the same page

For a seven-week-long RM to attract this kind of behavior (modifying a closed discussion after it has closed when the article tag has gone), in just four hours after it has closed, is too much of a coincidence.

It is also worth noting that Tombah has interacted with a sock of יניב הורון (a persistent offender) as discussed at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet_investigations/יניב_הורון/Archive#28_April_2022. The two edits in question are really very odd - a totally new editor (<10 edits), later found to be an experienced sock, comes out of nowhere to Tombah's talk page asking for him to edit some ARBPIA content. How did this editor know to come to Tombah? Why did this editor need to come to Tombah if the editor was in fact a sock of יניב_הורון? Bizarre.

Onceinawhile (talk) 20:13, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

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