Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/KurdîmHeval

KurdîmHeval
Shortcut: WP:LTA/HEVAL
Wikilifespan	February 2021 - present
Physical location	Austria
Sockpuppet investigations	Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KurdîmHeval
Instructions	Suspected socks should be 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	Pending Approval

Basic information

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KurdîmHeval is a sockpuppeteer initially blocked for nationalist edit-warring and personal attacks. They mainly make disruptive unsourced changes on pages related to the Middle East, especially biographies of celebrities and historical figures. This includes adding Kurdish ethnic origins to such articles by falsifying, removing, or not providing a source.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Biographical articles of celebrities and historical figures from the Middle East (specifically Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, etc.)
PKK-related articles (biographies or articles on clashes)

Habitual behavior

Addition of ethnic origins to biographical articles of people from the Middle East or the Balkans by falsifying, deleting, or not providing any sources. This most notably includes claiming Kurdish origins in people noted to be of Turkish, Albanian, Arab, and other origins. Example: [1]
LTA may also add unsourced or poorly-sourced Turkish origins to such articles. Example:[2]
Addition of copyrighted non-free photos. Example: [3]
Username:

May indicate the part of Turkey they claim to originate from through place names sometimes combined with Turkish provincial location codes.
Is often in Kurdish (notably incl. letters ç, ê, î, ş, û), sometimes in Turkish (additionally ğ, ı, ö, ü).

They may declare Turkish or Kurdish ancestry as soon as they start the account. Example: [4]

Cases

Other notes

Confirmed and suspected accounts

Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of KurdîmHeval
Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of KurdîmHeval
As of 14 July 2024, some IPs within 213.162.0.0/16, 213.142.0.0/16, and 2001:4BC9:0:0:0:0:0:0/32. And all of 2001:871:210:0:0:0:0:0/48.