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Obviously the same user based on behavioral evidence. I've given the oldest IP that I know of that the user has edited from, but there are quite a few others. All the IPv6's are currently rangeblocked for six months, but their edits are still in the. The main evidence I have is a revert they did. I rolled back one of the IPv6's here. Another IPv6 then undid it here and I undid it again. The IP I've listed as the sockpuppet then undid my revert again before Pending Changes was put on the article. The listed IP also made an edit to Bear in the Big Blue House before being undone by another IP editor (184.19.33.162) who then changed the dates again before they were undone and blocked by an admin as a sock (see Long-term abuse/Muppets LTA). This makes me suspect the IP listed may also be a sock of that user, but I'm not sure since I don't have any experience with that LTA. Whether or not they are a sock of that LTA, they were still block-evading.  —   Gestrid  ( talk ) 22:40, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * Hi, the Muppets vandal IPs from my experience tended to geolocate to Indiana and California, where these seem to be from New York-ish, so I'm not significantly confident this is related, although I do acknowledge the possibility if we could prove there are proxies or VPNs being used. I do definitely see some likely WP:MUPPETSLTA candidates at circa 2014, like this guy, but my instinct says the newer flareup is probably not related, since I've seen lots of unique damage to various kids' TV articles from various NY-based IPs. Not much help, I know... Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:29, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I range blocked 97.33.64.0/22 for six months. It looks like it's the same person as the IPv6.  I noticed there wasn't really much activity in the past month, so I dug deeper.  That turned up, which purports to be from BuickCenturyDriver, a prolific sockmaster.  If it's just vandalism and BCD socks who use this range, I don't really see a problem in blocking it long-term to go with the IPv6.  There have only been about 35 edits on the range in the past six months. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:12, 2 June 2017 (UTC)