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19 April 2016

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As noted at this ANI and here; article in question is 2016 Indian Premier League, and the suspected sock is a clear SPA. They are edit-warring to make essentially the same edits there:. Then there's the username similarity. Quack, quack. GABHello! 19:47, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * Obvious sock. I've blocked the master a week and indeffed the sock. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 19:58, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

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Gandhi87 made a series of unconstructive edits to cricket articles, but my attention was drawn to the 2018 ICC World Twenty20 article. They made three edits change scheduled to proposed, removed "ICC" from a category and added "& 2022 tournaments were". These were all done on the 19th October and were reverted (by myself), as they failed WP:V. Angrybirdt reinstated these edits the very next day. Both accounts have also been making changes to do with "England and Wales" in regards to cricket tournament hosts and/or winners:
 * Ghandi adding Wales on 19th Oct
 * Angryb removing Wales on 19th Oct
 * Ghandi adding Wales on 19th Oct
 * Angryb removing Wales on 19th Oct

These are different articles, but in a very specific area with edits very close together. Angrybirdt was previously blocked in the year for using a sock account on another cricket article (see the archive of this SPI).  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 18:39, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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If I may, does the drawn result of same IP different device, not draw a WP:MEAT line? MM (WhatIDo WHATIDO?)  (Now THIS... I did.) 19:08, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts are /. They are editing from the same IP but using different devices.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:34, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * - I'm guessing this is WP:MEAT, but there exist ways to fib a user-agent (that I won't get into). In any event, given the CU result and the diffs, I find these accounts are connected. Given the master's previous block for socking, please indef both. Thanks,  Kevin ( alt of L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 15:17, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked both. It could also just be one person who owns two devices. ~ Rob 13 Talk 17:28, 25 October 2016 (UTC)