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Besides creating Draft:Anan Foundation, I confirmed them to be the same as the known sock (known via being blocked on Commons) by checking them on Wikidata (because these two accounts were editing the same item in a similar manner). Filing a report here for the record. See wikidata:Wikidata:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Ananislam138.Jasper Deng (talk) 11:14, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * I am having to leave the keyboard, but there are vastly more socks than the two I reported here, see the linked Wikidata CheckUser request. The others should also be locked too, but I discovered that connection only after filing that request.--Jasper Deng (talk) 12:02, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * - has filed a lock request for the socks (but not for Ananislam itself?) on meta. Cabayi (talk) 11:58, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Adding Ananislam138 (recreated Draft:MD ANAN ISLAM), & MD ANAN ISLAM (same vanity edits on Panchanandapur).
 * , only a random selection of the socks identified in d:WD:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ananislam138 have been locked. I've added those who have edited enwiki to this report. Cabayi (talk) 13:35, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * . Tagged as blocked/proven since the CU was on other wikis. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 13:41, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Find oldest indef date

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In my role as a Wikidata CheckUser, I found them related to previous socks of this user, and the username is a strong match. They are also falsely claiming to be an admin and CU on Wikidata. Jasper Deng (talk) 11:35, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * Given the Wikidata CU, and the similar username, pretty clear sock. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 05:49, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

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identical userpages created within 24 hours of each other  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:52, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I spotted this 'cos both were in the non-existent Category:Global rollbackers, which was listed at Special:WantedCategories. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:58, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Cross-wiki abuse; is glocked. Given that Wv Cool is named as an  sock,  is an  sock, and Sockpuppet investigations/Ananislam exists, this case should probably be moved there, and either a CU here, a Wikidata CU or a Steward (depending on which would be most useful) should take a look at . —Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull;&#32;contribs) 16:07, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to, a confirmed sockpuppet of Sockpuppet investigations/Ananislam. , lock requested. Please merge this case to Ananislam. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 21:56, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Cases merged, everyone is bnt, Mz7 filed locks, all good here. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:29, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

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This diff and this one clearly show we are dealing with Ananislam again. . Lymantria (talk) 17:01, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 14:09, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

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A couple of creations of article Md Anan Islam in May 2021 looking similar to previous JW 1961 Talk 09:57, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * This came out the wrong way around via Twinkle, probably my own fault Ananislam should be master and Zoyahssn the sock. Can someone that knows how please move this to Sockpuppet investigations/Ananislam/Archive JW 1961 Talk 09:58, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * - this account is a bit different from previous socks, which were all SPAs, whereas this account seems to have wider interests. CU has been useful with Ananislam socks previously, hoping it can shed some light here. Girth Summit  (blether)  11:24, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Master and archive socks are, so can't give you much there. is ✅ as a sleeper to Zoyahssn, though. Not sure if that helps, but if you do end up blocking, thought I'd let you know there was another account. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:30, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Without anything from CU, I'm going to close this without further action. It's likely that this person is connected with Anan Islam in some way, but behaviourally it doesn't look like the same person.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:03, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , I'm concerned that we've got a CU-confirmed sleeper in a sock-rich environment, even if they've made no edits. I'm going to leave uw-agf-sock on Zoyahssn's talk page, so at least they're informed about our socking policies. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:51, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , fair enough, that seems like a sensible precaution. If you feel that I've been excessively lenient in this case, I have no concerns if you want to overrule my call - I'm the newb here. Girth Summit  (blether)  13:53, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , No, I'm fine with not blocking them. In fact, a block of a zero-edit account would be unusual barring exceptional circumstances.  But looking at Zoyahssn's talk page, they're already pushing the boundaries, so letting them know where the limits are seemed like a good idea. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:12, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Sigh. Now they're denying the connection, which seems to, um, strain credulity. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:26, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit and RoySmith, I've in case the denial here changes the preferred course of action. Please feel free to close again and archive in case it doesn't. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 13:44, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Sigh indeed. Their next edit was to redirect the Twitter account of Isha Khan Choudhury to that of MDAnanIslam - I read that as trolling. Blocked and tagged -, what was that clever thing I saw you do with the tags recently, where the socks are confirmed to each other but not to the master?  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:01, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit In this case, I'd tag SauuHoyyati, and Zoyahssn as both  and . Some people would probably not place the master tag separately, and I don't think it's crucial either – though I do think it would be a good idea to implement an altmaster parameter for  as well. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 14:06, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , thanks - done. Closing again. Girth Summit  (blether)  14:10, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , I'd like to see us rationalize all the sock template variations. I've got some code which parses them, but I've pretty much given up tracking all the multiple variations people use. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:11, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @RoySmith, definitely agree, and I have many rambling thoughts on that topic. I'll archive this and drop a note on your talk later – also noting that I messed up above and forgot to nowiki something; the correct master tag in this case is --Blablubbs&#124;talk 14:26, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , That's the altmaster parameter of {[t|Sockpuppet}}. But,  must be way smarter than I am, because I've never quite mastered all the permutations and combinations of how to use that :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 14:10, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks Roy, but I think a more accurate way to say it might be "way more inclined to obsess over very minor details in tagging trails". ;) --Blablubbs&#124;talk 14:21, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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creating articles related to MD Anan Islam with dubious references. See Enytially, Anan Foundation. noq (talk) 13:31, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * for sleeper check. Enduring Value (since if I understand correctly we don't have a clear CU trail back to the master anymore, we can't tag this one CU-confirmed). . GeneralNotability (talk) 23:36, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * as the IP range is too wide and the user agent too common. Salvio 14:06, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing. Blablubbs (talk) 07:59, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

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was blocked on 21 July, with this account starting editing the very next day. EV's edit summaries where mainly along the line of quoting WP:STYLE. Perodic started with the exact same edit summaries, before expanding them to "Wikipedia:Manual of Style". Similar sort of articles edited between the two of them. Olympian by EV, Olympian by Perodic. Turkish village by EV, Turkish village by Perodic. Lots of quacking going on!  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:05, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * Same UA on the same range, same behaviour. Blocked and tagged as proven.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:06, 22 July 2021 (UTC)


 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 15:57, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

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Using WP:STYLE in edit summaries just like the previous sock, as well as awarding barnstars to users Ashleyyoursmile (talk) 05:26, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * Bears a great resemblance to who was blocked yesterday by NRP as a sock of this master, same reversion of IP editors and the barnstar posting on NRP's talk page is transparent trolling.-- Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 07:17, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the report – Ponyo got to it., closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:20, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * This new user has recreated the same article (Uttar Lakshmipur High School) as a previously blocked sock . It was created with the same content the previous creation had at time of deletion.


 * They have a barnstar from, a previously blocked sock.


 * They gave a user a barnstar, which previous socks have done (mentioned here). ~TNT (she/her • talk) 13:28, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * I logged this primarily for the record (and to experience SPI again from that side). I've checked this user, and it's certainly . I'd prefer if someone else had a second look at the behaviour, so . The differences could be in relation to comments made at this SPI. ~TNT (she/her • talk) 13:32, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Recreated two articles that recent socks have created. Worryingly, one of them (which was entirely free of sources that mentioned the subject) actually got tagged as reviewed at NPP. Both now G5ed.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:30, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing thought - one of their subjects, Anan Foundation, is described here. One 'Anan Islam' seems to be its founder. I'm going to salt that title. Girth Summit  (blether)  16:37, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

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Same barnstar target as many other Ananislam socks.

For transparency, I was alerted to these accounts by Viridian Bovary ~TNT (she/her • talk) 19:18, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * - ~TNT (she/her • talk) 19:20, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Force of habit doing that, evidently it was in progress ~TNT (she/her • talk) 19:26, 6 August 2021 (UTC)


 * This one is a little convoluted so bear with...
 * is ✅ to ,
 * is ✅ to ,
 * and is  to be


 * and thus connected back to the master., next please. ~TNT (she/her • talk) 19:26, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:33, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

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Account created two days after the last sock was blocked; recreated Uttar Lakshmipur High School, which has been one of the previous socks' subjects of interest. Girth Summit  (blether) 13:37, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * -, if you could take a quick look? Girth Summit  (blether)  13:38, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 13:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * is quite to be  via  ~TNT (she/they • talk) 13:42, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Based on likely CU hit and recreation of frequent target article, blocked and tagged. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  21:48, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Afterthought : global lock requested. Girth Summit  (blether)  21:53, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

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This diff and this one clearly show we are twice dealing with Ananislam again. Lymantria (talk) 14:38, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I think I gave the wrong diff, it should be this one. Lymantria (talk) 20:34, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * - the Islam & Reja case is clear enough. - can you provide any more information on why you feel the Vecog account is Ananislam? That article looks exceedingly dubious, but it's not a slam-dunk Ananislam creation to my eyes, what are you seeing that I'm missing?   Girth Summit  (blether)  18:49, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - OK, yes, that diff helps. Blocked and tagged, requested locks, requesting CU to see if there are more.  Girth Summit  (blether)  08:37, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 05:20, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Reported users are . You'll soon see why
 * I note however that:


 * is ✅ to . ~TNT (she/they • talk) 05:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Based on behaviour, I'm confident these are Ananislam - tagged TMT20, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  05:51, 30 September 2021 (UTC)