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:Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Ararat arev

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{{Infobox vandal

| name = Ararat arev

| shortcut = WP:LTA/ARARAT

| image =

| Originalname = Ararat arev

| lifespan = 3 December 2006 – present

| ISP = AT&T

| IPs =

| hostmasks =

| location = US, often Richardson, TX, Wichita, KS, and Los Angeles

| severity = Moderate

| RFCs =

| SPIs = Ararat arev

| RFARs =

| Instructions = Suspected 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.

| status = Active

}}

{{warning|Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI}}

Basic information

{{Vandal-m|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}

[http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?l=all&t=Ararat_arev Comprehensive edits analysis]

Ararat arev, a.k.a. {{user|Tigris}} 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Armenia&diff=prev&oldid=91727876 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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ararat_arev&diff=prev&oldid=134343003#Notice_of_community_ban]

He had begun using sockpuppets even before the ban[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Armenia&diff=prev&oldid=116717772], 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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gevork_Nazaryan&oldid=148654787], citing a [http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/archives/id/22708/ 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 {{user|Artaxiad}}, a.k.a. {{user|Nareklm}}, 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 [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Articles_by_Gevork_Nazaryan&action=history "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.

=Habitual behavior=

=Cases =

=Other notes=

Confirmed and suspected accounts

  • As of 12 April 2008: {{user|Torahjerus14}}, {{user|Hosnnan38}}, {{IPvandal|68.122.154.100}}, {{IPvandal|68.122.159.170}}, {{user|Testerarms}}. Ararat arev is currently using IPs provided by AT&T Internet Services, Texas. [http://samspade.org/whois/68.122.155.155 See here] for a sample WHOIS report.
  • recently seen again at Mitanni, Proto-Armenian language and other articles, again using Richardson, TX IPs ({{IPvandal|76.237.10.140}} among others).
  • A possible re-activation was noted on 3 June 2010[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AFringe_theories%2FNoticeboard&action=historysubmit&diff=365751701&oldid=365749213]. This was from a California IP ({{user|75.51.173.254}}), not Richardson, TX. It is possible that this user was User:Artaxiad (a.k.a Nareklm), not Ararat arev.
  • On the 15 August 2010 {{user|Forsts23}} was blocked as an Ararat arev sock, the IP {{IP|76.246.26.22}} was also established to have been operated by Ararat arev. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ararat arev/Archive#15 August 2010 for details.
  • Sockpuppet category (if any): :Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of {{SUBPAGENAME}}
  • Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): :Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of {{SUBPAGENAME}}
  • November 2010: return of the anon from August 2010, as {{IP|76.232.254.164}}, {{IP|76.237.11.236}}, {{IP|76.232.255.17}}
  • November 2012: return of Ararat arev as: {{IP|75.51.164.182}}, {{IP|75.51.166.134}}, and {{IP|75.51.160.127}}.
  • May 2014: as {{IP|66.214.143.68}}
  • November 2014: return of Ararat arev at Orion (constellation) as {{IP|76.201.60.184}}, on the talk page as {{IP|166.170.14.79}},

::on Hayk as {{IP|166.170.14.126}},

::and on other pages as {{IP|71.95.223.156}} and {{IP|166.170.14.19}}

  • February 2015: {{IP|166.137.246.48}}, {{IP|166.137.247.235}}, {{IP|166.137.246.23}} ON Hemhem crown, Rosetta Stone
  • March 2015: Listing all the IPs used by this character is probably futile, but the range 166.137.246.0/24 has been very busy and has now been blocked for the second time.
  • November 2015: resurgence of IPs such as {{IP|166.171.120.22}}, {{IP|166.171.123.84}}, {{IP|166.176.59.121}}, and {{IP|166.176.58.178}}.
  • December 2016: for the past year adding "Osiris-Orion son of Ra (Christ the Logos)" to articles. Various IPs, in the last 2 days {{IP|64.134.238.15}}, {{IP|47.34.209.25}}, {{IP|166.139.120.49}}

Ararat arev

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  • 9 February 2024: Currently continuing their edit warring and ethno-nationalistic mission through this range Special:Contribs/2600:6C50:0:0:0:0:0:0/32. Notice many of the disrupted articles have been disrupted by other IP ranges (likely Ararat arev too) in the past (eg Osorkon II).
  • 17 August 2024: Using the same range as back on 9 February 2024, using the IP Special:Contributions/2600:6C50:A7F:6DB4:FD3C:2E6E:1640:ADAE at Vahagn, where they are misciting a random source, mixing it with their own words, which indicate that they consider dragons to be real. Also making threats [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2600:6C50:A7F:6DB4:FD3C:2E6E:1640:ADAE&diff=next&oldid=1240723920] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vahagn&diff=prev&oldid=1240726129] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vahagn&diff=prev&oldid=1240727982] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vahagn&diff=prev&oldid=1240728368]
  • 16 October 2024: Special:Contributions/2001:579:933C:2000:0:0:0:0/55 blocked.