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Ararat arev a.k.a.
Tigris (
talk·contribs) 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
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.
[1]
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
[3], citing a
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
Artaxiad (
talk·contribs), a.k.a.
Nareklm (
talk·contribs), 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
"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.
A possible re-activation was noted on 3 June 2010
[4]. This was from a California IP (
75.51.173.254 (
talk·contribs)), not Richardson, TX. It is possible that this user was
User:Artaxiad (a.k.a Nareklm), not Ararat arev.
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.
March-April 2019:
Special:Contributions/2600:1700:D570:B380::/64 emerges with same patterns as previous. Geolocates to Redmond, WA (same with 2602:304:CC93:CB80::/64). Rangeblocked swiftly.
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).