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I am submitting a Checkuser request. The accounts were created in the period of July to August 2016, and display similar editing patterns, and has made a series of unconstructive edits and article creations in the subject of genocide, and in many cases, create OR changes and redirects. For instance, Accopulocrat created Polish Genocide and Chinese Genocide, which are both deleted for WP:OR, while redirecting Guatemalan Civil War to Guatemalan Civil War & Genocide of Mayans. Hooshcleff created a series of redirects such as List of politicides by death toll, List of War crimes by death toll, List of atrocities by death toll, List of dictators by death toll, List of democides by death toll, List of Forced Labor systems by death toll to List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. Zetsubuobiry created the redirect Congo holocaust to Congo Free State. A quick look at recent history of List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll and Genocides in history shows that the accounts are very active and made a series of high volume changes in a short time. LucasGeorge (talk) 06:54, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

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Likely block evasion: similar edits to same article by nearly identical IP address to the one blocked in the original SPI. . Wikimedes (talk) 03:19, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * Admin action needed - As a general rule, /64 IPv6 ranges belong to the same user. Behavior is obvious. Please block 2001:558:600A:49::/64 for two months to match the length of 's current block. Thanks, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:03, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. Blocked as requested.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:06, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

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Newly created account editing the same articles and types of articles, and calling all mass killings "holocausts".. Added "Worst event" section similar to "10 Deadliest Man Made Events (Listed bellow)". This may not be the place to suggest it, but perhaps a mass rollback of this sock's edits would help discourage the sock master from creating new accounts to avoid a block? Wikimedes (talk) 20:54, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * The account is ❌/. The reasons are that the editor is using a proxy server (for the first time to my knowledge) and a different device.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:06, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree with Bbb23, the technical data is quite murky. I've blocked the account based upon behavior on the article. Mike V • Talk 02:28, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

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Urchu is a SPA with a focus on genocides and massacres. After his block for a "large-scale campaign of massacre-related page moves" for which he made no attempt at discussion, he started to use socks and received a CU block by Jezebel's Ponyo ,. A comparison of the edit patterns of Vulokoko and Urchu, indicates that Vulokoko is a duck. JimRenge (talk) 13:33, 27 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I suspect Urchu is a sock of Accopulocrat: SPI Accopulocrat. JimRenge (talk) 10:41, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Pinging to alert her of this case. GABgab 17:22, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the following accounts as ✅ socks of :


 * All are blocked and tagged. I've also reblocked the master. Given the extent of the contentious page moves there may be some significant clean-up required.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:07, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I did a spot of cleanup, but the problematic moves by Vulokoko seem to have been undone. Nevertheless, I'll leave this open in case I missed something (a possibility). GABgab 04:47, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * - Can we please check against & co.? Thanks, GABgab 16:01, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The ISP and geolocation are a match, and given the behavioural overlap I'd call this very to be Accopulocrat. I'd like 's input as they were more involved with the Accopulocrat case and may have additional information I can't glean from the log.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:53, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The accounts are ✅ to Accopulocrat. This case should be merged to the older case.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:52, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅, merged from Sockpuppet investigations/Urchu. Retagged and closing. GABgab 20:11, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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Given the overlap and their redirect creations (compare, for example, to User:84man's redirects), it certainly seems to be Accopulocrat. Sro23 (talk) 10:05, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged. Closing.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:29, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

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And we're back again. Another brand-new account that dives into genocide issues, and hits the old targets List of genocides by death toll, Anfal genocide, Aardakh, and List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll (geez...)

Same habit of creating redirects and conducting moves. Hargeisa Holocaust is yet another redirect to Isaaq genocide, just as created redirects Somalian genocide and Genocide in Somalia. Just as moved Ethnic cleansing of Hazaras (1888-93) to Massacre and displacement of Hazaras in 1888 to 93, the alleged sock moved it again to 1888-1893 Uprisings of Hazaras. And for the pièce de résistance, we have the new account making a similar edit on List of genocides by death toll as a previous sock, with a very similar edit summary. GABgab 03:41, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please compare to non-stale sock . Thanks very much, GABgab 03:42, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:14, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * - Wow. Please block the rest of these accounts (and, if possible, reblock the two softblocked accounts with harder blocks). Thanks, GABgab 12:57, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocks and tags applied. Closing.

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Creation of this redirect, Khmer Rouge genocides of Cambodian minorities last sock copied and pasted an article here. Darkness Shines (talk) 21:53, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Also spotted this. Endorsing because this master is now apparently operating multiple socks at a time. Thanks, GABgab 22:00, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked, and tagged. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:59, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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GABgab 21:57, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

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Essentially the same edits to the same articles as always Darkness Shines (talk) 14:22, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * Geez, first two blocks by me didn't seem to take. 3 months - let's see how that holds up. GABgab 15:04, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Please compare to previous socks. Thanks, GABgab 15:14, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * and are ✅ (along with, previously blocked as suspected). .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:25, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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Exact same edits to effacer le tableau as a currently blocked IP Darkness Shines (talk) 12:10, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 15:11, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Same as previous creating forks on genocide articles, latest example being Eastern Zone massacres Darkness Shines (talk) 15:54, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * Kimyoda is ❌ to Accopolocrat.
 * However, the following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Blocked and tagged with Infinenoi as the master. Please create a new SPI for these five accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 18:59, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged with Infinenoi as the master. Please create a new SPI for these five accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 18:59, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged with Infinenoi as the master. Please create a new SPI for these five accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 18:59, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 18:59, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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I blocked this user per WP:DUCK. They are only interested in massacres/genocides, and their main activity is to call everything a genocide, moving articles against consensus and adding walls of text to these articles (see for example, , (disruptive moves),  (adding a big chunk of text). Essentially, all contributions of this user are of this type. Whereas the connection  seems obvious to me, we may want to check for other users, on previous occasions multiple accounts have been found.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:19, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * Previous socks are stale. There's no one to compare Leavemydaughteralone to. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 15:49, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I thought so, too. GABgab 20:30, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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Both accounts have a similar focus (read=WP:SPA) on genocide articles (interaction), similar edit summaries (Accop., ccopulocrat moved page Red Terror (Ethiopia) to Qey Shibir: I think the more unique name should take precedence over the more vague and generic red terror (ethiopia) name., and donus ‎ Poundofdonuts moved page Genocides in central Africa to Genocides in post-colonial Africa: most of these genocide weren't even in central africa, this is basically what the article is trying to refer to), and a similar aversion to communicating on talk pages (donuts, and Accop.,. —— SerialNumber  54129  14:02, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Serial Number 54129, there was more? Ugh. How sad. Drmies (talk) 00:41, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * Comment by &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 16:13, 13 May 2019 (UTC) - I was planning to file an SPI of this nature as well, as the editing pattern looks very similar. Here are some diffs showing pages moved without discussion that had already been previously moved by confirmed sockpuppets of Accopulocrat:
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 * - TNT 💖 19:43, 13 May 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅, blocked and tagged - TNT 💖 19:46, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:16, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * In addition, I placed a one-month range block. Drmies (talk) 01:52, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Retagged. qedk (t 桜 c) 18:20, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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The Users account is 6 hours old and is following the same editing pattern of user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Poundofdonuts who was a sock puppet of banned  user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Accopulocrat Jack90s15 (talk) 01:44, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Oshwah When we look at the banned user https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Accopulocrat&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end= History they stayed in the Genocide and atrocities part of Wikipedia. And so does there socks,

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Poundofdonuts&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end= and potential socks also https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Quorisullo&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=6ullga&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=  The older account and the newer account are an exact carbon copy in terms of editing as the Sock master and the confirmed sock puppetJack90s15 (talk) 19:55, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

I am pinging you There'sNoTime since you banned the sock puppet you would know if the new and old account are linked. It seems like the two are since they're showing the same pattern of editing as the sock and the banned userJack90s15 (talk) 20:18, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * Jack90s15 - Can you elaborate on exactly what similar edits you notice between the suspected sock puppet and the sock master? Can you provide diff links to support your in-depth thoughts so that we can take a look? It would be a big help if you could amend your evidence statement above and add this information. The more details and diffs you can provide, the more helpful it will be. :-) Thanks -  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:28, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ and . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:26, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

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I am 100% certain this is another sock puppet of the Sock master, they may try to use this one since the other sock puppet was recently blocked. this account followed the same carbon copy editing as the sock master and the two confirmed socks. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Accopulocrat&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=      https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Poundofdonuts&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Quorisullo&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end= Jack90s15 (talk) 20:57, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * Same geolocation. Blocking because . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:29, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

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Is a relatively new account I am Suspecting they are a Sock puppet because. They are Following Exactly the Same editing Pattern as the other two socks that edited the page. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_genocides_by_death_toll&action=history. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_genocides_by_death_toll&diff=895954565&oldid=895942933. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_genocides_by_death_toll&diff=892797234&oldid=892626972 Jack90s15 (talk) 22:25, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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(compare edit about Hakka people which is something he has been editing recently)


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Indeffing confirmed and likely. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:08, 1 July 2019 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:18, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Just curious..., is the for Nixovi based only on the technical evidence? Thanks,  GABgab 21:47, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * GAB, no, there is article and subject overlap also. This edit by Nixovi is on the same sentence of the same article as another sock of the master. Subject overlap is death tolls/massacres/ethnicities/dialects/Nobel laureates (Nixovi edit, Widoezix edit).


 * Right, just wanted to clarify. Nixovi. GABgab 20:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

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An experienced user. Brought up concerns about Random copy-pasting without a edit summary.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes&action=history After doing some research it seems like, they are doing mass copy pastes from different Ip address in the same range. I was on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Penal_military_unit&action=history and the user said this was a banned user. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Penal_military_unit&diff=929521509&oldid=929504646 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.17.36.115 and when you look at the IP its in the same range as this new edit.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_genocides_by_death_toll&diff=952995923&oldid=952907919.Driverofknowledge (talk) 03:04, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Full /64 block (2601:601:1501:1890::/64) is likely being currently used by Accopulocrat. --MarioGom (talk) 14:45, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The first two are already covered by a /64 range block. The last one hasn't edited for months (no activity on the /22 range either), so blocking it probably won't serve a purpose at this point. --MrClog (talk) 10:32, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Per MrClog's comment. ST47 (talk) 15:06, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

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Previously this /64 range has been CU-blocked twice for 3 months, last time by in May 2020. Same trademark Accopulocrat behavior continuing, adding thousands of bytes of content to genocide articles. Cautioned for doing copy-paste edits. Pudeo (talk) 23:29, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * IP range has been checkuser blocked. Closing SPI case.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:17, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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The two older SPAs (Hahilasbuya and ColdFocus) have recent single edits ( and ) to add Uyghur genocide to List of genocides by death toll without references. The newest SPA (NOAA42) asked for re-insertion of the same entry (while casting aspersions) after the page was EC-protected.

There may also be other socks or an older sockpuppeteer, as several IPs and another editor also added/edited the entry. In particular, the IP that first added the entry  was CU blocked as a sock of  (SPI case). There are also several other SPAs appearing at List of genocides by death toll and Talk:List of genocides by death toll in general. — MarkH21talk 21:39, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * In fact, could a clerk move this to Sockpuppet investigations/Accopulocrat? The more I look at the cases there, the more it seems that these are related. — MarkH21talk 21:51, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * There may be an external explanation for some of the new disruptive behavior and SPAs: Reddit thread. — MarkH21talk 03:19, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * I suspect that this is one of those cases where a bunch of people saw the Reddit thread (or something similar) and showed up here rather than these being Accopulocrat socks. Since these accounts are all throwaways and the page has been protected, I'm not going to bother blocking., feel free to drop me a note if they move on to being disruptive on a different page, I can semi-protect as needed. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:03, 3 November 2020 (UTC)