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All are WP:SPAs here to promote a Chinese flautist named Wang Shuxuan. Timmyshin (talk) 19:51, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * . I've blocked the sockpuppet indefinitely and warned the master account and the IP address. No tags necessary at this time, in my opinion. Marking case as closed. Mz7 (talk) 03:16, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

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This master was registered in early August, but only became active today to support the sock's page, Joseph Shen. Compare usernames, edit summaries. Requesting CU because 1) there may well be other socks in this promo farm and 2) this may be User:Mokezhilao. Thanks, GABgab 02:41, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Added James Sitars, an SPA on Leonardo8964's Wong Man Li. GABgab 21:04, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Endorsing my own request. Thanks, GABgab 02:42, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I added two more accounts, one much older, and have moved the case accordingly. GABgab 20:58, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The following are ✅:
 * A connection between this group and Mokezhilao is, but by no means clear.
 * is technically ❌, but note that whoever's running this group has access to several ISPs and devices, so behavioural evidence counts for more than the CU results. Yunshui 雲 水 08:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * A connection between this group and Mokezhilao is, but by no means clear.
 * is technically ❌, but note that whoever's running this group has access to several ISPs and devices, so behavioural evidence counts for more than the CU results. Yunshui 雲 水 08:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * A connection between this group and Mokezhilao is, but by no means clear.
 * is technically ❌, but note that whoever's running this group has access to several ISPs and devices, so behavioural evidence counts for more than the CU results. Yunshui 雲 水 08:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * is technically ❌, but note that whoever's running this group has access to several ISPs and devices, so behavioural evidence counts for more than the CU results. Yunshui 雲 水 08:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Pinging if he'd like to comment. Thanks,  GABgab 22:08, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I took a look at these articles, and I think the style is different from Mokezhilao and most of his socks. My guess is they are not the same person, but there may be a relationship (e.g. work for the same advertising company.) Timmyshin (talk) 23:00, 5 September 2017 (UTC)


 * OK, let's keep these guys separate. Closing since it looks like we're pretty much done here. Thanks to everyone for their help on this. GABgab 20:27, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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These seem to be SPAs intent on promoting Chinese companies. Itpediaoo started expanding Man Wah Holdings Limited right after Leonardo8964 was blocked as a sock of 123Aristotle. There is overlap between this group of editors and the ones already blocked at Che Jianxin, Wong Man Li, Red Star Macalline Group Corporation Limited, and the deletion discussion for Joseph Shen. Note that VissarionovichStalin is already blocked as referencing Josef Stalin. –FlyingAce✈hello 22:26, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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Added User Createdinger and 124.116.220.202 as per edits in similar style on Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur) pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 21:47, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Please compare these accounts (+ ) with each other and the above sockfarm. Thanks, GABgab 23:29, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * And . GABgab 15:36, 6 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Katietalk 22:32, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * These accounts are ✅ to each other and the master:


 * Accountness888, Createdinger, and are ✅ to each other and  to the master.
 * . Confirmed accounts blocked and tagged. Katietalk 22:49, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you - it looks like we also ought to merge Sockpuppet investigations/Ren Yifan into this case. GABgab 22:53, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ...And . GABgab 22:55, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Let's hold on the merger. I just ran Ren Yifan myself and there are technical differences with this case. We can always merge it leter. Katietalk 23:10, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing as per above. GABgab 20:27, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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Apparently using Chinese input method to enter a character in Joseph Shen's AfD discussion and gives "Reserve" vote which is the same as the other two that are determined to be socks. -★- PlyrStar93. → Message me. 🖉← 12:22, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Another "Reserve" vote in Joseph Shen's AfD discussion. -★- PlyrStar93 . → Message me. 🖉← 21:20, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Please note that this case are involved cross-wiki abuse, all accounts have been globally locked.  S A 1 3 B r o  (talk) 18:50, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 18:43, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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Editing of Draft:Wang Shuxuan and recreation of Wang Shuxuan after deletion. The former was edited by a known sock and the latter originally created by the master. Usernames are awfully similar as well. Primefac (talk) 13:34, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please compare to the master + . Thanks, GABgab 15:22, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - Katietalk 23:13, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * to each other, plus . These four are also to  - same range, slightly different devices. Katietalk 23:26, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Xuan98xuan, Menghuan78, 无英雄的英雄, and 朱少强 are now . As for a behavioral connection to Mokezhilao, I can see a similarity in the resume-like structure of the articles they've created (using an "Experience" section: ), but as far as I can tell there's no other behavioral idiosyncracy that connects them. Based on the articles they've created, Xuan98xuan seems to have a better command of English than Mokezhilao, though not by much. Since all accounts involved are now blocked, I don't think any further action is necessary at this time. Marking as closed. Mz7 (talk) 21:45, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

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Re=created Red Star Macalline Group Corporation Limited. Sleeper check at CU discretion, as I'm not 100 familiar with this farm. Crow Caw  15:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * I noticed that this user created Red Star Macalline Group Corporation Limited, which apparently blocked user Aristotle123 has done as well. Since I only noticed this while checking for previous deletions and links to the page; I'll enter this report, and let other people take it from here. If the article needs to be deleted under G5, I'd highly recommend salting it. I dream of horses (My talk page) (My edits) @ 08:32, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * , article deleted. GABgab 15:28, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating Sun Yuchen/Yuchen Sun/Justin Sun as Draft:Yuchen. Timmyshin (talk) 19:51, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Per the above, . Please block the new sock indefinitely and delete the draft. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:18, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:32, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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Sun Yuchen / Yuchen Sun / Justin Sun again as Draft:Justin Sun. Timmyshin (talk) 01:59, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * , page deleted. GABgab 03:17, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

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Created Draft:Tiger pan = Tiger Pan which was repeatedly created by Mokezhilao's socks. Timmyshin (talk) 21:10, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 16:53, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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Both accounts were created this month. Made a ton of redirect requests on Articles for creation/Redirects between them, all involving Chinese characters, not unlike the sockpuppet User:Jooktmggs about a month ago. Very suspicious. And the articles 独之占鳌头 created are all promotional in nature. Timmyshin (talk) 02:20, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:37, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - That sure looks suspicious. Please check to confirm and identify potential sleepers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:15, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Both socks ✅ to Jooktmggs and.
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:55, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I deleted the promotional trash they created. GABgab 02:46, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

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CrystalYu created Draft:Tiger Pan just a few days after Draft:Tiger pan was deleted. XipoXinjushi exhibits the same behavior as the 2 socks above. Timmyshin (talk) 21:46, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:56, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , pages deleted. GABgab 02:44, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

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As per obvious. All, but please check for sleepers (Laohuangdidi is an apparent sleeper). Thanks, GABgab 01:46, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Endorsing my own request. Thanks, GABgab 01:46, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * . ~ Rob 13 Talk 22:47, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

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According to links in the article, Draft:Wang Chun is the wife of Zhanglijun = Zhang Lijun (business person) = Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur) = Zhang Lijun(enterpriser) = Zhang Lijun(disambiguation) = Draft:Zhang Lijun（CEO） Timmyshin (talk) 21:06, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

As Ammarpad put,Cool-ying likes moving Articles of people submitted for AFC review(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cool-ying). And you can check his contributions,which sound like promotion and advertisement  KommossMM (talk) 15:44, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I second GAB's opinion that is as suspicious as the one he/she's nominating. Timmyshin (talk) 17:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Uh,I agree with Ammarpad and Timmyshin.(talk) 16:57, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks, GABgab 17:10, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - Please check these accounts. I am also a bit suspicious of KommossMM, to be honest. Further investigation also reveals the following accounts connected with Cool-ying and Isabellegao888:
 * (Draft:FlySpaces)
 * (Deng Zhonghan) - has the same sort of reviewing activity as Cool-ying; very suspicious
 * (Draft:Wanckel&Temmler)
 * (Draft:CEDEP)
 * There's also something weird going on with . GABgab 18:55, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll do my best, but this is not as easy as I like them.
 * 123Aristotle is on a proxy, and Isabellegao888 also seems to be on a (different) proxy.
 * ✅ to each other:
 * (tagged as a sock of )
 * and are  to the above and  to  from the previous case.   Based on geolocation,, who was blocked in the other previous case, seems  to the ones I checked.  Dchamp59 and Zeeshanalam242, as far as I can tell, are ❌ to anyone.  I blocked Cool-ying, Luoshichang, and  Aomonengzhu without tags, but someone else can add them when they figure out the difference between Xuan98xuan and 123Artistotle. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:22, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the check, NRP., I'd appreciate any insight you could provide on this (since you've dealt with Xuan98xuan). Thanks, GABgab 15:49, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The key behavioral aspect which I used to connect to  was the recreation of a page relating to a Chinese musician "Wang Shuxuan". Compare  (by 无英雄的英雄) to  (by Xuan98xuan) – they're the same text, which quacked for me. Given the CheckUser result here, we can see a pattern of creating articles/drafts related to Chinese people, especially businesspeople: Weijirenren, 我滴那个神, Shabi256 (same subject as 我滴那个神), Rrrp666p (also the same subject as 我滴那个神), Aomonengzhu. The behavior is similar enough that I believe Xuan98xuan is indeed a part of this group of socks. Mz7 (talk) 21:15, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * As for the difference between Xuan98xuan and 123Artistotle, I'm not familiar with the latter, but it seems that they also tend to create drafts relating to Chinese businesspeople: Draft:Tiger Pan, Zhu Jingyi (artist), Wang Chun. It would not surprise me if 123Artistotle and Xuan98xuan are one and the same. Mz7 (talk) 21:19, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Biyadishamo without tags based on the above CU finding of possilikely and the fact that they have continued to move articles by some of the CU blocked accounts above to mainspace from draft. I'll be filing another SPI requesting CU in a few minutes based on some other suspicious activity I've found for this account. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:43, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hate to say it, but we should merge Xuan98xuan's SPI into this one. Could we use the previous method? Thanks, GABgab 16:06, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Follow-up ping: . Thanks, GABgab 16:24, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * the method I used to merge the other cases (keeping the archives separate) was probably ill-advised. I don't really know what the alternative is that won't result in a jumbled mess of an archive, but it seems to me from a few frustrating interactions that the location of the archives is of more interest to CheckUsers than it is to clerks (and more important to them than archive history coherence) so I'd confer with them for advice. As for Xuan98xuan, that's only two reports and probably wouldn't be a problem to just merge into the archive for this case. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:45, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I merged the cases and retagged the Xuan98xuan group; time to figure out the tags for everyone else here. Oh, joy. GABgab 17:57, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think I have any useful advice on tagging, but I had a thought the other day that for this sort of merge of cases with complex, overlapping histories, you could just straight-merge them into one archive and then collapse the older reports under a "previously reported under " banner. It doesn't seem to matter that the revision history will be mangled, as long as it's all in the same place. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:40, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * As for the difference between Xuan98xuan and 123Artistotle, I'm not familiar with the latter, but it seems that they also tend to create drafts relating to Chinese businesspeople: Draft:Tiger Pan, Zhu Jingyi (artist), Wang Chun. It would not surprise me if 123Artistotle and Xuan98xuan are one and the same. Mz7 (talk) 21:19, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Biyadishamo without tags based on the above CU finding of possilikely and the fact that they have continued to move articles by some of the CU blocked accounts above to mainspace from draft. I'll be filing another SPI requesting CU in a few minutes based on some other suspicious activity I've found for this account. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:43, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hate to say it, but we should merge Xuan98xuan's SPI into this one. Could we use the previous method? Thanks, GABgab 16:06, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Follow-up ping: . Thanks, GABgab 16:24, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * the method I used to merge the other cases (keeping the archives separate) was probably ill-advised. I don't really know what the alternative is that won't result in a jumbled mess of an archive, but it seems to me from a few frustrating interactions that the location of the archives is of more interest to CheckUsers than it is to clerks (and more important to them than archive history coherence) so I'd confer with them for advice. As for Xuan98xuan, that's only two reports and probably wouldn't be a problem to just merge into the archive for this case. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:45, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I merged the cases and retagged the Xuan98xuan group; time to figure out the tags for everyone else here. Oh, joy. GABgab 17:57, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think I have any useful advice on tagging, but I had a thought the other day that for this sort of merge of cases with complex, overlapping histories, you could just straight-merge them into one archive and then collapse the older reports under a "previously reported under " banner. It doesn't seem to matter that the revision history will be mangled, as long as it's all in the same place. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:40, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating Draft:Tiger Pan Timmyshin (talk) 19:20, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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All of these accounts (and the IP) created AfC drafts moved to mainspace outside of the AfC process by, who I behaviorally blocked above after the CU finding because they also moved a draft of a CU confirmed sock into mainspace from AfC.

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Requesting CU to confirm and check for other accounts. Realize there will be no CU comment on the IP, but listed it for the record. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:56, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * ❌ to anyone I've checked, and to each other. 123Aristotle's sole edit within the CU cutoff was on a proxy when I peeked at his IP address last time, but these don't look like obvious proxies to me. , of course.  .  I don't really know how these accounts fit into the grand scheme of things, but I don't think they're the same person. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - Please compare to Kafl. Thanks, GABgab 16:10, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Those two are very to each other.  I'm still pretty sure this isn't 123Aristotle.  I'll block as a sock of Kafl. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:05, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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Recreation of Justin Sun as Justin Suen which is kind of interesting since the title isn't even salted... CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  14:13, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * , page deleted. GABgab 17:00, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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I'm not totally sure, but Draft:Wendy Yu has the Mokezhilao-feel to it. Then I realize that Naoziwatele created Wendy Yu last year which was deleted unanimously via Articles for deletion/Wendy Yu. Requesting checkuser for both. Timmyshin (talk) 20:26, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * 万风韵 is ✅ to in the group that NinjaRobotPirate found in the above section.
 * Naoziwatele is.
 * 万风韵 blocked awaiting tags. Katietalk 00:43, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing. GABgab 16:09, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating Draft:Justin Sun. Timmyshin (talk) 20:38, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * , draft deleted. GABgab 21:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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Draft:Qu Yi (Musical Actor) looks suspicious. Timmyshin (talk) 14:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

User:GeneralizationsAreBad I might have been wrong. Feel free to close it. Timmyshin (talk) 16:24, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * I'm sorry, but I'm just not seeing it. Could you please clarify the link? Thanks, GABgab 16:04, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, closing. GABgab 17:49, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating GeekPwn, which was deleted by User:Alex Shih in October, as Draft:GreekPwn (with a "r"). GeekPwn was first created by User:Wj887, a suspected sock. (User:GeekPwn is already blocked but not tagged.) Timmyshin (talk) 21:30, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * for strong behavioral evidence. Closing. Alex Shih (talk) 21:39, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating the Zhang Lijun couple (Draft:Wang Chun & Zhanglijun = Zhang Lijun (business person) = Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur) = Zhang Lijun(enterpriser) = Zhang Lijun(disambiguation) = Draft:Zhang Lijun（CEO） = Draft:Zhang Lijun (disambiguation)) as Draft:Zhang Lijun v1 and Draft:Wang Chun v1. Timmyshin (talk) 20:07, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 17:51, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Now tagged. GABgab 16:04, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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Firstly, On Apr 15 2018, Assezde.Paroles, the socket puppet of 123Aristotle (comfirmed by zhwp's cuer), voted at Chinese Wikipedia's AfD (diff url). *. 诸位用户，作为新手，不太了解维基百科的相关社群规则，试采冒犯规则. 现已经移出相关内容. 鄙人认为： 1、用中文谷歌搜索词条中文名称，有2800条结果；用英文Google搜索Liu Lisi,则有732,000条结果，用百度搜索中文名称，有102,000条结果. 足见颇具关注度，并非路人甲. 2、谷歌新闻搜索中文名称，有两篇法国国际广播电台专题报道：在巴黎为自己创下一片天空的设计师刘力司以及设计师刘力司的"巴黎盛宴". 足见颇具关注度. 3、卢森堡RTL集团电视台专访：Reportage: de Concierge vun de Räichen. 足见颇具关注度. Assezde.Paroles（留言） 2018年4月15日 (日) 13:17 (UTC)

Translation: Dear all users concerned, I, as a novice, do not understand Wikipedia's relevant community rules, and just offended the rules. The relevant content has now been removed. I humbly think: 1. Using Google to search the entry's title in Chinese, there are 2800 results; Using English to search Liu Lisi, There is 732000 results; Using Baidu to search there are 102,000 results. It shows that there is considerable noteability, not a john-doe. 2. Using Google News search for Chinese names, there are two special reports on French international radio （1, 2). 3.Interview with TV station RTL Group in Luxembourg: (3)

This sort of statement behavior attempts to prove that an item has noteability is exactly the same as what User:07989Didyoueatanything did before (diff url). Based on my understanding of this user's behavior, User:07989Didyoueatanything is probably 123Aristotle's socket puppet.

Secondly, the user 07989Didyoueatanything created Liu_Youju just 3 days after Hola.Spada.Verso.il.Sorriso created the same one on Chinese Wikipedia. According to the fact that article Liu Youju on Chinese Wikipedia is likely a press release, and the username Hola.Spada.Verso.il.Sorriso is similar to User:Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Finci (the socket puppet of 123Aristotle), I wonder if 07989Didyoueatanything is also a socket puppet.

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 * Thanks, this is, yes, a cross-wiki abusement involving zhwiki, enwiki and even frwiki, ruwiki. This suspected user, 123Aristotle, is selling his non-revealing paid edits on Taobao (link for his e-shop), a famous P2P shopping website, and he admitted to me that Toutiao is his non-revealing paid works. I need enwp's local CU to get if they are socket puppets since they are stale in zhwp but not stale in enwp. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 13:30, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I've added an IP, since he said he lives in Huizhou and he admitted that it is his real IP.--云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 13:33, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Reply to Thanks, I am the first time to request for SPI, please excuse my ignorance. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 13:56, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * - is clearly gaming WP:ACREQ (WP:ACTRIAL at the time) to create promotional articles, and is active recently. Please check against the other account which is confirmed via zhwiki.  I can't parse Chinese well enough to communicate even a little bit, but could you please advise the clerks and/or checkusers at zhwiki that this case should be treated as cross-wiki abuse, and confirmed accounts globally locked? If they read English they can follow up with me directly on my talk page here. Thanks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:21, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , I believe the WMF has removed local CU access from zhwiki and that it is entirely handled by stewards now. Pinging on this. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:24, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Already performed CU. CheckUsers: see CUwiki oldid 27214. &mdash; regards, Revi 13:26, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't know what "oldid" means.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:49, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * paste "Special:Permalink/27214" on cuwiki search bar. &mdash; regards, Revi 13:51, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , please don't comment in the Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin area unless you are one. I've moved the comments up so they don't confuse people. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:43, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * please don't add more accounts while the checkuser is working. It confuses things. If more accounts are technically related he'll find them, and we can't check IPs anyway. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:46, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Assezde.Paroles and 07989Didyoueatanything are ✅ to each other. They also appear to be the same as socks from 2017. I've blocked both without tags. Chaopi and PasPenny.S appear to be technically ❌ to each other and to the other two. I believe that –revi checked only data at zh.wiki and apparently found sufficient evidence of socking by those two accounts based on the blocks at zh.wiki. I would take that into consideration, along with behavior, and if they are behaviorally persuasive, block them. I don't consider myself familiar enough with the patterns of disruption in this case to do so.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:16, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: I did not block anyone on zhwiki - block is probably based on local admin’s discretion. And yes I only checked zhwiki, not enwiki. &mdash; regards, Revi 16:31, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The account that was not checked also has not edited, and as the remaining accounts are shown to be unrelated I see no more to do here. Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:25, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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Another WP:SPA for Justin Sun Timmyshin (talk) 19:10, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Could an admin clerk please merge this into the correct casepage? Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:32, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ GABgab 02:13, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , draft deleted. GABgab 15:57, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

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Clearly a paid account, almost certainly from China, articles written in styles very similar to those by the 123Aristotle farm. Timmyshin (talk) 22:49, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Added 5258若批评不自由则赞美无意义 and 3 Jiangsu IPs concerned, Created almost the same article on zhwp, which was created by 123Aristotle (Chinavip) before per log. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 05:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

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✅

. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  10:27, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Three of the accounts listed by the filers are stale so. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  10:45, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * No need to block stale accounts - closing. GABgab 14:47, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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HelenLeeJY's only contribution was editing Draft:Kuai Shou a few hours after it was created by SylviaSu0217. These 2 accounts are clearly related. I'm requesting Checkuser because I think the article also shows some 123Aristotle traits. Timmyshin (talk) 00:42, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

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❌ to the master but ✅ to each other. Meatpuppetry is possible. Same IP, different OSs, no phones involved. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Since the two accounts have not edited abusively and are not connected to the alleged master, I'm ignoring them. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 05:08, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

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See m:SRCU. Also, this account is used to create articles about Chinese companies e.g. RoboSpace. Request for finding sleepers. --云间守望 - (Talk with WQL) 07:53, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

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✅,, . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:49, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:40, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

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Like his previous sock Coqja'uv, made a bunch of seemingly pointless edits (like changing "28" to "twenty-eight") to get to autoconfirmed, then drops a promotional article on something in China. Timmyshin (talk) 01:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

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Please indef. Cabayi (talk) 11:57, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Please compare to . Thanks, GABgab 09:28, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ to . Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:05, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeffed the sockpuppet account. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:20, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

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Exact same MO as the previous socks: numerous pointless and sneaky edits to get to autoconfirmed (All he did to CBS Interactive was inserting citations, but if you look carefully these were already cited in the article. For List of songs recorded by Zubeen Garg he simply reversed the order of a chronological table.), then creates a promotional article on a Chinese subject - in this case the creator of a "new" cancer treatment scheme with a prominent weblink in the infobox. Requesting Checkuser because the likelihood of potential sleepers appears large considering the recent frequency of SPI reports. Timmyshin (talk) 20:59, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * ❌. Appears to be from a different country. T. Canens (talk) 16:32, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing with no action taken per checkuser results. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:00, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

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Similar editing patterns including but not limited to:
 * 1) and  both edited Draft:AMTD_Foundation
 * 2)  created AMTD_Group, where COI templates were persistently removed by  and .  and  also edited this article.
 * ,, , , and  all edited Calvin Choi.
 * 1) translated Marcellus Wong (created by Fingururu) to Chinese Wikipedia zh:王锐强,  translated Calvin Choi (Created by Sadmnmn) to zh:蔡志坚
 * 2) There was one warning related to Calvin_Choi on Sadmnmn's talk page on zhwiki
 * 3) Both and  created their user page with hello and a sign, which is similiar to what 123A does.
 * 4) LTA 123A likes to use username including "89" as well . 94rain  Talk 07:11, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * The listed accounts, plus the others below, are ✅ to each other and apparently ❌ to previous socks:
 * Blocked the unblocked accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked the unblocked accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked the unblocked accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

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See ,when admin delete Draft:Calvin Choi(reason,G5: Created by a banned or blocked user (123Aristotle) in violation of ban or block) in 4 June 2019,this user re create it in 17 September 2019.  MCC214 # ex umbra in solem   08:54, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Berean Hunter,have IP(s)/IP range(s) should blocked?-- MCC214 # ex umbra in solem   06:36, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

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✅

Stale but related and now blocked:

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:50, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Close per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 17:18, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Posted to meta/SRG. qedk (t 桜 c) 19:43, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

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It seem connects to the paid editor that blocked from this SPI (See Sockpuppet investigations/123Aristotle/Archive) The new user that recreated Draft:AMTD Group (the old draft was moved to Draft:AMTD Group (China) and deleted on 4 June 2019; userspace draft also existed in User:Sadmnmn/sandbox) Matthew hk (talk) 08:49, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for reporting and the CU. I have reported the account to SRG. -- 94rain  Talk  02:35, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Please compare to previous socks and check for other accounts. Thanks, GABgab 23:37, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ to previous socks. No other accounts seen. Blocked and tagged. You may want to consider requesting a global lock as others have been locked.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:53, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Lock requested, archiving. Cabayi (talk) 09:00, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

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See zh:Wikipedia:元維基用戶查核請求,some user said this three user's is 123A.  MCC214 # ex umbra in solem   06:07, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * zhwiki sysop has already blocked these accounts because they are the socks of 123Aristotle per duck test. Secondly, Susan2019's editing behavior in enwiki is similar to the sock of 123Aristotle, such as and . Furthermore, I hope you guys can check the sleepers; and whether they have used the proxy or not so that the LTA page can be updated. Thank you. -- SCP  -20  00  12:49, 10 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Behaviourally, they have no connection with the sockermaser based on en-wiki edit (two accounts had no edit at all). But viewing the editing of in zh-wiki, yet seem another SPA for the deleted AMTD Group article (the company may pass WP:NCORP, just full of paid editor(s) to recreate it). Hire different person as paid editors, technically not a block evasion (as observed by change in tone in each recreated draft and article of the company in en-wiki), but seem blockable as blatantly paid editing. Matthew hk (talk) 18:28, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

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Two of the users have no edits here, and the third only a few. Insufficient evidence to take any action. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:42, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Cross-wiki long-term covert advertising. Most of articles are of low or just no notability. WP:CITEBOMB all the time with low-quality press releases and irrelevant sources.

To make themselves innocent, these accounts tend to write (or translate) a bunch of non-advertising stubs about reservoirs, waterfalls, mountains, rivers, power stations, Chinese newspapers, etc,. consecutively.

On zhwiki, some of these accounts follow the same pattern: anonymous IP accounts create advertising articles; when such articles are nominated for deletion or marked as not meeting Notability, they remove deletion templates and/or vote for Keep in deletion discussions a few days later; IP accounts add more advertising words another a few days later. On enwiki, they never or seldom participate in discussions.

When warned for advertising, some of them tend to remove warnings selectively from their talk pages.

Some of these accounts have intersections with identified sockpuppets of 123A. And some have intersections with each other.

It takes some luck and coincidence to list them here. So it is predictable there are more unidentified active sockpuppets to be found.


 * PQZZKYSOUSips
 * Created Draft:Trip.org(Special:Diff/850683483), Draft:Ecoin(Special:Diff/851610787), Draft:Rcoin
 * Created Juglans_regia_'Zijing'(Special:Diff/829723706) and edited its Chinese version zh:紫金核桃树.
 * Created Zepp (brand), Yunmai and several other advertising articles.
 * Uploaded a photo of some a human to Commons c:File:Zhou_An.jpg with the source to be.


 * 識時務者為俊傑
 * Created zh:Ecoin, zh:Rcoin, zh:币易(Coinyee) of which the English version Draft:Coinyee(Special:Diff/843325591) is created by Special:Contribs/PZOOPP.Fhristian who has been identified as a sockpuppet of 123A.
 * Created several other non-advertising articles about non-specific topics.


 * Hiarus Jrneoliuos
 * Created Mornsun, Draft:Lin Ning, Draft:Soontrue(Special:Diff/979362982), Draft:Weiying Technology.
 * Created a bunch of non-advertising articles for Chinese magazines or newspapers.


 * OYxey
 * Cleared deletion templates from zh:钱德君(zh:Special:Diff/68824317)(DJ Qian), which was also edited by Oortaorguus Swdy (see meta SRCU below).
 * Vote for keep in the deletion discussion of zh:拯救人类行动组织(Save Human Action Organization, zh:Wikipedia:頁面存廢討論/記錄/2020/07/21). Edited zh:胡家奇(Hu Jiaqi)(zh:Special:Diff/61471951).


 * 1989ChenKongkong1225
 * Created Hu Jiaqi(胡家奇), Save Human Action Organization, Saving Humanity and zh:林溪_(心理学家).
 * Created decades of non-advertising articles for rivers, Chinese newspapers, and other things.


 * LCSQVZ-4326
 * DJ Qian(钱德君) of which the Chinese version is zh:钱德君.
 * Created decades of non-advertising articles for rivers and Chinese magazines.


 * Komooos.Bi
 * Vote for keep in the deletion discussion of zh:拯救人类行动组织(Save Human Action Organization, zh:Wikipedia:頁面存廢討論/記錄/2020/07/21).
 * Vote for keep in the deletion discussion of zh:TeachMeCash(zh:Wikipedia:頁面存廢討論/記錄/2020/03/01).
 * Created Winner Medical. In near days, the same articles are created by several new accounts in different languages on other projects.
 * Non-advertising articles for reservoirs on enwiki and non-specific topics on zhwiki.


 * XMJG
 * Barenbliss, Yubo Ruan, Draft:X Li(Special:Diff/970493575).
 * Created Amazfit by overwritting the original redirection(Special:Diff/1004107039.
 * Decades of non-adverstising articles for Chinese newspapers, waterfalls and rivers.


 * デラクララバイブ
 * en:Chainge (zh:Chainge, from where Stella Phang removed the deletion template.)
 * en:Explus (zh:Explus by IP)
 * en:LAVA MUSIC
 * fr:Liu Lisi (c:File:Photo_of_Liu_Lishi.jpg is uploaded by Special:CentralAuth/Assezde.Paroles who has been identified as 123A)


 * TimyReading
 * QCY (brand), Feng J.
 * Removed deletetion templates from zh:ACCESS集团, which is created by IP, twice on Jun 22, 2020 and Oct 26, 2020 respectively (zh:Special:Diff/60223578, zh:Special:Diff/62540897).
 * from where Stella Phang (see meta SRCU below) also removed deletion templates (Special:Diff/60741352) on July 24, 2020.
 * Created decades of other non-advertising stubs on enwiki and zhwiki, for Chinese newspaper, magazines, historical Chinese political terms etc,.


 * Lyous AWN
 * Olight, which contains WP:CITEBOMB, and was edited by 1989ChenKongkong1225 and Democracy Never Dies (see the meta SRCU below).
 * Created a bunch of non-advertising articles for temples in China, Chinese traditional weapons, etc,.


 * KoNYofParking
 * HUION with similar CITEBOMB. The subject under the alternative name "Huion" has been deleted multiple times (seemingly involved with another PAID account DoratomGo, which appears to be unrelated to 123A, active in viwiki ).
 * Decades of non-advertising articles for waterfalls, corridors, rock paintings, plains, mountains, other geographical features mainly in China, historical Chinese political terms etc,.

Please also check those accounts (Magoroofu, Oortaorguus Swdy, 7.ESlebedie8.FREIHEIT, Stella Phang, Democracy Never Dies, 西范特斯卢克德马里, Roogérs.Joosé, Xogk-Frederick, Wentwentgogone, Sakiey, Sotonepheen, Otleiz) listed in Steward_requests/Checkuser. (Do I need to list them one by one in CU templates here?)

虹易 (talk) 14:40, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Added several newly found accounts. 虹易 (talk) 09:14, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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All non-stale accounts reported above have been CU-blocked and locked, plus:
 * , I noticed you CU blocked many of these accounts earlier today, but not XMJG. Was this account checked? The behaviour looks very similar to me. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:20, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Checked them now, they are related. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 15:45, 7 January 2022 (UTC)



The remaining accounts are stale. I'll also throw in
 * - removed A7 on Olight, same mass creation of legitimate articles on Chinese magazines mixed with spam , same distinctive article creation style (I don't want to spell out exactly what it is here, but it's easy to spot - admins, clerks and CUs can contact me off-wiki if they don't see it). I don't normally request to block stale accounts, but some of these accounts have remained dormant for a long time before reactivating (e.g. ), the behavioural evidence is clear, and there is a lot of spam that ought to be G5d. Therefore, - please indef PQZZKYSOUSips, Hiarus Jrneoliuos, TimyReading, LyousAWN, KoNYofParking, and BigSétan. I do not think there is sufficient behavioural evidence to block 識時務者為俊傑 as they have no contribs on enwiki. This account would be better dealt with through zhwiki processes. Thanks to AmandaNP and 虹易 for their hard work on this filing. Spicy (talk) 21:04, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocking per, leaving the tagging to you. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:30, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged as suspected,, closing. I'll go through the contribs of the newly blocked accounts and see if there's spam that's eligible for G5 (I did this for the other accounts already, but it's possible I missed things, so other eyes would be appreciated. I don't think there's any need to G5 the articles about temples, rivers, old newspapers, etc...) Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:53, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Ugh, I don't know if the large number of entries blew spi-helper's mind, or if it was that my internet connection went down at just the wrong time, but I got a whole slew of javascript errors, and it looks like I accidentally stepped on many of the tags Amanda placed (for example, Special:Diff/1064348957). I'll go back through my edit history and revert those. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:01, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, I think I got everything back to where it should be. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:12, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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These three accounts were created several months ago, but only began editing in January/February 2022, shortly after the blocks of a large group of socks from this farm. Each account made a number of minor edits to game ACPERM and then created fully-formed articles about likely-UPE topics in mainspace. See contribs, article creations. The behaviour is somewhat different from the last batch of socks reported here, in that they don't also create articles about non-spammy topics to cover up their UPE activity. However, I believe these accounts are related to 123Aristotle based on the subject matter of their creations (brands with a presence in Asia - compare to known Aristotle123 creations such as Barenbliss, QCY (brand), Olight, Zepp (brand), etc.) and a number of idiosyncrasies in the way they create articles and the sources they cite, which I don't want to disclose in public but can explain to CUs/clerks privately if it's not obvious. Spicy (talk) 21:24, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * - for comparison to previous socks and a sleeper check, since the last check turned up a ridiculous number of them. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 21:27, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 21:52, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Pizery is ✅ to Rockxd, but I can't connect them back to 123Aristotle in any way. There's some CU logs, and also some notes from several years ago on zhwiki, but nothing matches.  XjeeW appears to be ❌, but  -- RoySmith (talk) 22:12, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I sent an email with some more behavioural evidence. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 17:10, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, the CU results aren't quite what I was expecting, but based on behaviour, I'm quite certain that these 3 accounts belong to the same operator and if they're not the same as previous 123Aristotle socks, they're at least WP:MEAT for the same UPE operation. I'm happy to explain why privately if it's unclear, but there are a number of weird things going on here that I don't believe can be explained away as coincidences. - please indef Pizery, XjeeW and Rockxd as suspected socks of 123Aristotle, and Pizery and Rockxd as confirmed socks of each other (I can handle the tagging if you find it too annoying). Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:42, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 01:46, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. I'm not going to bother with locks for now as these accounts haven't been active on other wikis. Spicy (talk) 02:10, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

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Making same edits as LTA Long-term abuse/123Aristotle. 331dot (talk) 13:42, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

I've blocked, but brought here for the record. 331dot (talk) 13:45, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 20:59, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - I've re-opened this as I think a sleepers check might be worthwhile here given their history. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:53, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 18:05, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The CU data says that Tavicocci is either ❌ or more likely due to proxy use.  Given the lack of any real baseline, I only made the most cursory of sleeper checks and didn't find anything. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:15, 3 April 2022 (UTC)