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I have crossed paths with The450 a few times in the past few months while editing motorsports articles, and noticed their work on Draft:BRSCC Ford Fiesta Junior Championship, an article that has been in draft space for for several months now after numerous rejections. A quick glance at the draft history shows that the draft was actually started by User:AC9900, another user I had crossed paths with when they had requested help in editing Wikipedia articles on my talk page. I found that AC9900 had been blocked as a sockpuppet of Adam Cleary about two weeks after this request for help was made. This seems to be to be a clear sign that The450, created in October 2016, is continuing the work stopped by AC9900's sockpuppet block in September 2016 to the draft article and elsewhere on Wikipedia, per WP:DUCK.

I also had another user point out the similarity of usernames between myself and The450, and at the time I assumed good faith as I did not see anything that was harming with their edits thus far. However now it seems as though this The450 account was indeed created to mimic my user name after AC9900 was blocked.

I request CheckUser because a previous CheckUser found other accounts, including ones that had not been used. The359 ( Talk ) 09:19, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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I never heard of any of the Users involved with the content above. The450 (talk) 18:53, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - CheckUser is stale for the master - nothing to compare it to. Katietalk 15:08, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * .&#32;In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this. King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:43, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * User:AC9900 creates Draft article for BRSCC Ford Fiesta Junior Championship. Following AC9900's block as a sockpuppet of Adam Clearly, The450 takes over editing the draft.  The450 also continues the behaviour set by Adam Cleary and AC9900 of asking other editors for help when they are involved in articles they work on.  The450 requested help here following this edit.  The359  ( Talk ) 21:42, 7 January 2017 (UTC)


 * King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:56, 7 January 2017 (UTC)