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24 January 2012

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Apart from the obvious similarities in usernames, both apear to have a clear interest in Olympiacos F.C. related topics. User:Kosm1fent raised the following concerns at WT:WikiProject Football:
 * Antony1994 is removing or adding  players to football squads without providing a source, introducing false statistics  and information  to players (always without providing a source), and has been warned a lot of times for that behaviour:  Today he's removed yet another player from AEK's squad without providing a reason:  What should be done about him? Also, for your consideration, here are my concerns about Antony1994 "possibly" being a sockpuppet of blocked user Antony1821, as I discussed them with the blocking administrator a while back. Cheers. –  Kosm  1  fent  15:09, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

In addition, Antony1821's user page asserts that that 1994 was the year he/she was born. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:53, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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It's the two accounts are the same. TN X Man 19:29, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged with the same settings as the master. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:17, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

18 February 2012

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raised the following concerns at WT:FOOTY
 * is showing disturbingly similar editing behaviour (editing predominately Olympiakos F.C.-related articles) and also disturbingly similar aversion to policies and guidelines (he has recreated the recently nominated-for-deletion article Nikos Papadopoulos twice so far). Could someone set an eye on him, because I'm 80% sure this user is a sock? – Kosm  1  fent  20:56, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

I should add that he/she began editting just days after the last SPI ended. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:24, 18 February 2012 (UTC) Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:24, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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May I also add that also engaged in similar activities as, namely adding false information to articles (, ,  while Scoria had already left on 16 September 2011, and , luckily he reverted the last one himself). – Kosm  1  fent  08:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

PLEASE....I DO NOT HAVE ANY COMMON ACTIVITIES WITH ANTONY1994......ALL CAN EDIT FALSE PAGES OR EDIT THEM WRONGLY FOR FUN...ASK THEM.......IF I DO SOME MISTAKES WITH NIKOLAOS PAPADOPOULOS...WHERE A PUT A REFERENCE SO YOU CAN FIND HIM AND YOU CONTINUOUSLY DELETE HIM......DOESN'T MEAN THAT IM ANTONY1994 OR ANTONY1821....PLEASE...DO NOT COMPARE ME WITH THESE FOOLS....! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prokingsley (talk • contribs) 17:53, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * It does seem likely, but based on the username change I'm endorsing this to confirm, as well as to find sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:25, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Prokingsley is a ✅ match to . TN X Man  16:40, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, imagine that. Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:36, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

14 March 2012

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In addition to editing on the same topic, Olympiacos F.C., Mtiso88 has recreated articles on Nikos Papadopoulos (footballer) and Ivan Babovic, both of which had previously been created by Antony1821 and socks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:20, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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He has engaged in a similar behaviour as the one that got Antony1821 blocked in the first place, namely uploading copyrighted images: Commons:User talk:Mitsos88. – Kosm  1  fent  17:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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It's that Mitsos88 is a match to previous accounts. Behavior will need to be the deciding factor. TN X Man 16:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. T. Canens (talk) 03:49, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

08 May 2012

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The user is editing the same Olympiacos related topics, showing a similar disruptive editing behaviour (adding and removing players from the squad with no explanation, blanking the page, etc) and he attempted to recreate the salted Nikos Papadopoulos article. Furthermore, he recently created Talk:Nikos Papadopoulos(f), where he wrote "WELL....I BELIEVE THAT I HAVE COVERED ALL THE NECESSARY EVIDENCE TO EXPLAIN THE IDENTITY OF NIKOS PAPADOPOULOS....REFERENCES, SITES ETC...". It's a similar all-caps sentence which he used to defend his Prokingsley account in a previous SPI case. – Kosm  1  fent  21:40, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * I back the reporter's report (sorry for the redundancy) 100%. Sockpuppetry extraordinaire. --Vasco Amaral (talk) 01:51, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

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This account is a match to. TN X Man 14:51, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:09, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

30 May 2012

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About Jimis77: It appears as Antony1821 tried to change his editing behaviour in order not to attract attention. Namely, instead of editing predominantly Olympiacos-related articles, he's mainly editing articles relating to Greek football in general. However, his edits are similarly disturbing. He's been enlarging club logos and player images beyond natural size, moving pages with no explanation given and against naming conventions  and editing against WP:MOS (incorrectly using italics in the infoboxes of football club articles and biographies – too numerous to provide diffs, using dots as separators for thousands instead of commas – again too numerous to provide diffs). Those disruptive edits, I admit, could have been made by another editor who coincidentally showed a similar behaviour as Antony1821 did. However, his total lack of communication, similar to Antony1821's behavious is the one that made me suspicious. Also note the similarities of his username with another account of his: ( – "Mitsos" and "Jimis" are nicknames for "Dimitris" + a random two digit number at the end) Finally note that Jimis77 was blocked on Commons for the same reason Antony1821 was on the first place, uploading unfree images of football players.

If Jimis77 is indeed Antony1821, he was using his now-blocked account along with Jimis77. Note however, that the two accounts never edited at the same time, with hours between edits from each account.

About Kostas45: I'm a 100% sure that Kostas45 is at least a sock of Jimis77, as he's been editing (exactly, as far as I can see) the same articles as Jimis77, except for Greek Football Transfers Summer 2012, where he's adding only Olympiacos players. (Generally, he's editing predominately Olympiacos-related articles, same as Antony1821 did) Note that Jimis77 and Kostas45 are never editing on the same time, much like Jimis77 and Theodore144. Also, I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but the user was created a few hours after I raised the Jimis77 issue on WikiProject Football. – Kosm  1  fent  17:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Update: Jimis77 has been blocked (again) 20 minutes ago for disruptive editing: –  Kosm  1  fent  16:08, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * JIMIS77: inserting italics in box (see here ), wrongly relocating B/RESERVE clubs as youth (here and here ), all consistent with User:Antony1821, plus his lack of response and/or summaries.


 * KOSTAS45: raised my eyebrow(s) after the following: Greek username+number, also edits mainly in Olympiacos F.C. players. --Vasco Amaral (talk) 19:25, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for the detailed report, but I would like to see some specific diffs. Please provide diffs that show these users' edits versus those made by Antony1821 or one of their socks. Thanks. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, Jimis77 and Kostas45 have both been adding unsourced material at football BLPs, namely adding transfer rumors as finished transfers: (when he wasn't signed to Olympiacos),  (maybe I'm missing more, but I'm really in a rush right now) which is a similar editing behaviour as other socks of Antony1821. Also, as I said above, Jimis77 was blocked on Commons and on the English Wikipedia for unloading copyrighted images of football players, exactly what caused Antony1821 to be blocked in the first place, and Kostas45 is editing exactly the same articles as Jimis77 or previous socks of Anthony 1821. Cheers. –  Kosm  1  fent  06:51, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * And User:Jimis77, in his SHORT history, has already been blocked! --Vasco Amaral (talk) 13:41, 31 May 2012 (UTC)


 * is ✅ and has since been blocked. is technically, but given the behavioral evidence and the strong editing overlap, I went ahead and blocked it too.  Tiptoety  talk 03:51, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

02 June 2012

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Account was created a few minutes after Kostas45 lost the ability to edit his talk page after being blocked for sockpuppetry. James1453 created a userpage and talk page with the phrase "IM STUPID!!!!!!" and went on to edit the articles of Panathinaikos footballers he announced that he wanted to (incorrectly) remove from the Panathinaikos squad in a previous unblock request of his: Simao, Sarriegi, Kante, Quincy and Rudolf. – Kosm  1  fent  07:58, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * Based on 8 common articles, the likelyhood of being a match is very, very high. Dennis Brown  -  2&cent;   &copy;  20:28, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅, . WilliamH (talk) 11:21, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

03 June 2012

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This IP is making edits of exactly the same style as Jimis77's: vs.,  vs.. Edits from this IP and James1453 were never done on the same time. – Kosm  1  fent  06:29, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The IP didn't make a lot of edits, but all of them are similar to Jimis77's. I can't see how the editor could be unrelated... Regards. – Kosm  1  fent  11:52, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It is interesting, and perhaps another clerk can make the connection. It is quite possible and a valid reason to bring here, I just can't say it is "very likely" myself based on my experience.  Before I connect an IP to a name, I would want more experienced eyes on it.  I haven't closed it, and other clerks are free to override.   Dennis Brown  -  2&cent;   &copy;  11:56, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

More edits by the user, again extremely similar to edits done by Jimis77 on players: and on clubs:. – Kosm  1  fent  13:49, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

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The IP edits do fit inside one pocket of the James's editing, requiring only one logout and login, but not sure what the point would have been. I can't match style similarities with this limited dataset. Could be a friend or unrelated. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;   &copy;  11:37, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked IP 1 month. Matches 12 articles to Master, passes the duck test.   Dennis Brown  -  2&cent;   &copy;  12:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Marking for close. TN X Man  15:52, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

07 June 2012

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User was created yesterday,(6 June 2012) his edits are of exactly the same style as recent socks of Antony1821. Namely, he ignores the manual of style while editing articles of football players, retired players/managers and football clubs , despite my notice on his talk page. Also, although this account only made 30 edits so far, there is already an 8 -article match on stalker when you compare him to. – Kosm  1  fent  14:10, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The matched articles are now 18: 14:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * I have blocked the account as this seems to be a case of WP:DUCK, and the user has caused enough disruption to be blocked even if (s)he wasn't a sock. CT Cooper · &#32;talk 12:43, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

20 June 2013

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The original account, User:Antony1821, was blocked after repeated warnings and attempts to engage, then promised (not a threat, a promise!) he would continue to creat sock after sock after sock. He has. I'm 99,9999999999% sure this new account User:Mitsos77 is him - don't want to get all arrogant and say 100%, thus i ask for your assistance please.

A diff? Sure thing. Antony1821 several times removed some clubs from the players' infoboxes senior section and inserted them in youth. Thus, here is Mitsos doing exactly that in Íñigo López Montaña (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%8D%C3%B1igo_L%C3%B3pez_Monta%C3%B1a&diff=prev&oldid=560556567). Attentively --AL (talk) 23:02, 20 June 2013 (UTC) AL (talk) 23:02, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked per WP:DUCK. Mattythewhite (talk) 01:50, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

21 January 2015

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Has made the page Nikolaos Papadopoulos which was previously deleted and made by these sock puppets (I moved the page to that so it can be linked to it) Wgolf (talk) 21:04, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

-I didn't notice until just now that the original article was from 3 years ago. Now I feel strange I put this up. Well I'm not sure now...Wgolf (talk) 17:20, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Although it looks like he has had socks before, I'm not sure what I found last week with this I will have to look around more. Wgolf (talk) 17:23, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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Beside the recreation of the Papadopoulos page, can you please provide additional evidence by way of diffs between this account and the master or blocked socks? For an account with this many edits, more evidence is needed, particularly if Papadopoulos has become notable since the last time it was deleted.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll keep this on hold for a while longer. Please either get back with additional evidence or let me know if you've reconsidered after investigating. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:28, 31 January 2015 (UTC)


 * 10 days later and no news, I'm closing without action -- feel free to open a new case with the evidence if there is still need for investigation. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  22:06, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

15 July 2015

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Recreation of same articles. Repeated uploading of copyrighted images as own creation. Nthep (talk) 16:37, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

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Forgot to include - have already blocked as WP:DUCK. Nthep (talk) 16:40, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Tagged as suspect. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:35, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

05 March 2016

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Same type of edits to same type of articles. Qed237&#160;(talk)</b></i> 00:40, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Might be a good idea to check for sleepers. Looking at article DEPA, a few other accounts has been blocked as suspected sock of this editor like User:TryYourBest88, User:QuickSilver95, User:LifesGood95 and User:Westside20. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 00:43, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅, , , and  belong to each other. Last known sock has gone . - Mailer Diablo 13:28, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I've blocked, tagged and reverted the edits of . has blocked, tagged and reverted the edits of all the other accounts. Pretty clear that they're all Antony1821's socks. CT Cooper · &#32;talk 19:00, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:52, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

10 April 2016

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has recently been mass creating sock-puppet accounts (listed above in chronological order) to get around their ban. I've routinely blocked and reverted them as them as WP:DUCK cases, as Antony's socks always follow an obvious pattern of behaviour. The problem is that as soon as I block one account, another one appears. I understand that checkusers can't publicly link accounts to IPs, but I'd appreciate it if a checkuser could step in to block any sleepers and, if practical, underlying IPs or IP ranges. CT Cooper · &#32;talk 22:34, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance. CT Cooper · &#32;talk 15:34, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * - For a sleeper check. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 22:07, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The ranges being used are not too large too block, they're just too varied. As soon as an account is blocked, even if I block the /64 range they're active on, they can immediately jump to another range (this is why autoblocks aren't kicking in to prevent successive account creation). I'd pretty much have to block their entire ISP to put a lid on them. Sorry, I wish I had a better solution. (PS I didn't see any sleepers).-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:13, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing. <b style="color:#151B54">Mike V</b> • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 23:15, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

21 May 2016

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Same articles, same types of edits and same name as previous sockpuppets. Also time to chack for sleepers again. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 16:35, 21 May 2016 (UTC)


 * As an example look at Giannis Vonortas where CoffeeStation95 did this just like two previous sockpuppets diff and diff. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 16:41, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅, . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 20:07, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked  Nakon  03:31, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

24 May 2016

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Pretty obvious based on name and article edited if you look at previous sock <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 16:27, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅ against from the archive. Blocked and tagged.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:50, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

27 May 2016

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New account, same edits <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 22:46, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
 * One example is this edit from previous sock, CoffeeStation95, at Norilsk Nickel that was restored by Logitech2016. An other example is at Suleyman Kerimov were Coffeestation95 made this and Logitech2016 made the same and in general I have seen both on the same articles like Rusal, MegaFon and so on. Also looking at old socks the name Logitech2016 has same pattern as "Mitsubishi16", "Samsung995" and other earlier socks. Do you need more? <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 14:12, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * - 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.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  13:08, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * . Blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:29, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

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Same kind of name and edits as previous socks. For example this edit by blocked sockpuppet coffeestation95 is very similar to this edit from AvraImperial01 (both at same article). Also both are updating networth and finances at different articles like Dmitry Rybolovlev and Qatar Investment Authority (this vs this and this from an other sock vs this). The editor edits same articles as previous socks, for example look at article history for Athens Stock Exchange. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 15:44, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:40, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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Edit pattern on Greek football, on Finnivest, Suning (around Italian football). One account blocked and recreated immediately, may even related to previous and Sockpuppet investigations/Antony1821, which also keen on Greek football and moving page without explanation. Creative2017 was already blocked but provided as evidence. Matthew_hk  t  c  14:41, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Katietalk 15:58, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * These accounts are ✅ to each other and, based on the CU logs, to Antony1821:


 * All blocked. Please move to Antony1821 and tag accordingly. Thanks. :-) Katietalk 16:15, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 18:41, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Mikenew1953. GABgab 18:43, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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based on his edit behavior on Fininvest and making controversial move on Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C. (AEL F.C.) This guy had evaded block again. Matthew_hk  t  c  04:41, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * Iceland1925 is ✅ to previous socks, e.g., . Also . Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:50, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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Given the overlapping interests in Greek football, and various investment companies (Fininvest and Marfin Investment Group for example), this looks like a pretty clear sockpuppet to me. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:52, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * from a technical standpoint. Blocked and tagged.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:02, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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Most of the evidence here was already posted above, but I'm separating these cases so that the CU request doesn't mess with request of additional information. Like previous socks, this editor has overlapping interests in Greek football and investment companies. Particularly telling is this edit to National Bank of Greece, which is basically identical to this one from. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:56, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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This looks a lot like Cyprianio/Euclidthalis (see WP:Sockpuppet_investigations/Euclidthalis). Further behavior evidence outlined at WP:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_107. Recommend considering merging the cases. - Brianhe (talk) 01:47, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Even though it would fit with my theory of two sockmasters in this case, I think that's unlikely. Similarities in edit summaries appear to have been vital in identifying socks in the Euclidthalis case, yet none of the recent socks in this case have used them. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:28, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Please, compare to .  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:59, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Katietalk 00:56, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅, no sleepers in that range. Blocked and tagged. I did not check the other open case since they were separated (for good reason). Katietalk 00:59, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:04, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

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Whatever there were actually two sockmaster or not, is the new account to evade the ban of last confirmed socks  and suspected. General evidence were same interests in Greek and Italy football and Greek company, that was common ( was a suspected socks which was the second last editor of Hellenic Post). However, for monthly updating billionaire net worth like this edit (compare to and ) which high likely is him again, although there edits were in good faith and may be done by others (i personally prefer annually update it than monthly, but not asking any wikiproject for consensus). Yet capitalize "Other Shareholders", such a not very grammatical correct edit confirming this sockmaster haven't learn and caught as evidence. (compare to this edit) Matthew_hk   t  c  18:56, 6 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Most likely him, Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. was edited and focused mainly editing infobox by his previous confirmed/suspected socks, with the same habit that not using <ref name=XYZ> to group multiple citation, and with the same error on fail to fill correct entry of operating income and net profit.  Matthew_hk   t  c  16:24, 7 January 2017 (UTC)


 * not sure did he intentionally to make a loud controversial edits to cover other "clean" socks or not. However, the pattern on moving page without discussion, such as Galatasaray S.K. (football), matching his past move for Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C.. Matthew_hk   t  c  19:58, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 02:51, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked. Bsadowski1 06:39, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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Seem he is back immediately after the ban. It is a rare revert to previous version that previous socks edited exactly the same, given the page was flooded with his edit via previous suspected socks. He also reverted the edit in Platanias F.C. (with minor change to reflect the shirt number announced) as well as Vladan Milojević with his own style (capitalize Youth) Matthew_hk   t  c  13:29, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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Special:Contributions/Testingblog shows a strong interest in Profile Systems and Software (Greek financial services firm), same as these socks... Bob's Guide citations are a hallmark of previous editors on relatively borderline notability tech companies looking for low-cost PR, which matches this sockfarm's behavior. noticed that Profile Systems was added to List of companies in Greece by one of these socks in this edit.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianhe (talk • contribs) 16:34, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * relatively weak for Testingblog as no link to, , but relatively have same interest in Greek company as  (still weak prove), as well as  who edited Profile Systems and Software in 2014. May be in the past the "Antony1821" case had mixed another sockmaster case into it? It had to be rely on CU then.  Matthew_hk   t  c  04:43, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * – Wavered a bit between outright requesting admin action but here we are. Thanks, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 20:44, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * MakeSure95 is ✅ to Antony 1821. Testingblog is ❌. MakeSure95 blocked and tagged. Katietalk 12:27, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

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In addition to the obvious similarity in username to the first sock account in this case,, this editor has also openly admitted to being the same person as a previous suspected sock here. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:41, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

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Alright then more detailed evidence:


 * 1) The name. Is there really any scenario in which we'd assume editors calling themselves Antony1994 and Antonios1994 aren't the same person? Especially considering they seem to have the same interests and background?
 * 2) The writing style. Compare this comment from Epavli1500 to this one from Kostas45 or this one from Prokingsley
 * 3) Nikolaos Papadopoulos (footballer). Epavli1500 created the current version of the article. Repeatedly recreating the article is part of what got the sockmaster in trouble in the first place. See this and this.
 * 4) The name of José Holebas. Both Theodore144 (see this) and Epavli1500 (this again) have attempted to change this persons name to Iosif Cholevas.
 * 5) Olympiacos F.C. seasons. Antonios1994 created the article on 1997–98 Olympiacos F.C. season, while Theodore144 created the article on 1998–99 Olympiacos F.C. season and Antony1821 created the next five seasons (in reverse order no less suggesting that Antony1821 had intended to create articles for each season starting with the most recent that didn't already have one and moving backwards).

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 * may be it was more effective to request checkuser. However, i would believe is the new "dirty" sock.
 * For PoseidonPlanet, yet concentration on the same topic as previous sock, Serie A, Greek football and Greek company especially on Inter Milan related topic, Alpha Bank, Eurobank Ergasias and National Bank of Greece (exactly the same as last blocked sock BigCity!!) Matthew_hk   t  c  16:34, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * For Antonios1994, it was relatively weak to prove it was linked to previous confirmed sock (or was sockmaster's "clean" sock), just same area of interests on Greek football. (or it look terrible that even a great team like Olympiacos F.C., in fact was mainly edited by the same sockmaster)
 * For Epavli1500 the previous investigation was closed (not enough evidence provided by the submitter), just a glance i also think it was not enough evidence either. Matthew_hk   t  c  17:34, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm going to go ahead and separate these two cases since they are going to require very different lines of investigation. CU is unlikely to produce anything of value with respect to Epavli1500/Antonios1994 and so will require evaluation behavioural evidence. For PoseidonPlanet on the other hand it may well be possible to link the account to BigCity!! using CU evidence. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:48, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Heads up, this is about to get rather complicated. The more I look at this case, the more I think we may actually be dealing with two separate sockmasters here. I think Antony1821 is operating the accounts blocked in this case up to and including the 15 July 2015 report plus Epalvi1500 and Antonios1994 on one hand, and some other person is operating the accounts blocked since the 5 March 2016 report on the other. In the 5 March report surprisingly little evidence was presented linking the suspected sock Platanias25 to Antony1821. Same type of edits to same type of articles was the entirety of the report. The lack of evidence was kind of a moot point since it quickly became obvious that Platanias25 was using multiple accounts in an edit war at DEPA. CU evidence confirmed this, but did not confirm any link to Antony1821 since the last known sock had gone stale. Since then, interest in the finance sector, has become a hallmark of this case with most new socks identified based on that interest. However, prior to this year, Antony1821 had no interest in the subject. So we're left with a pair of accounts linked to each other that look similar to the original sockmaster based on writing style and choice of username (see evidence above), but very different from recent socks; these are also linked to each other, but have only a tenuous link the master account. That seems like two separate people to me. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:47, 9 December 2016 (UTC)


 * either he is too clever to set up two set of socks for Greek football teams (one is quite interested in Olympiacos and one quite interested in AEL FC), or two separate case. So, for administrative purpose, it is more easy to prove their respective sock and masters, than proving the two masters were actually the same. Matthew_hk   t  c  17:09, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * - It was never established that  is a sock of this master. You have to prove that Epavli1500 is Antony1821.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  21:08, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing as to claims of different master. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 16:25, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Post close note, I have blocked the named account as a strong enough connection was presented. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 16:52, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

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Unfortunate of his instant respawn, based on this infobox update and this revert, matching previous socks. Matthew_hk  t  c  04:24, 14 January 2017 (UTC)


 * and keep updating net wealth of billionaire monthly Matthew_hk   t  c  04:43, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

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Compare:
 * 1) this to this from LetsMake
 * 2) this to this from CoffeeStation95
 * 3) this to this from LetsMake
 * 4) this to this reversion of edits by Creative2016
 * 5) this to this from Autovision007
 * 6) this to this from LetsMake
 * 7) this to this from TryYourBest88 and this from LifesGood95
 * 8) this to this from LestMake
 * 9) this to this from LetsMake

Add to that roughly half the articles edited by Paokara44 were also edited by previous socks, and across disparate topics at that. This looks pretty clear cut to me. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:22, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please provide diffs showing the behavior was present in previous socks. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:29, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * , closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:51, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * Add on 2017-01-18 mobile only user
 * Add on 2017-01-18, mobile only user, stale since October 2015
 * Add on 2017-01-18, stale, reported by to be similar to  (blocked)
 * Add on 2017-01-18, stale, reported by to be similar to  (blocked)


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yet instant respawn of him. Can Sockpuppet apply to range block at least for creation of account? Here is the evidence BTW:
 * Compare this to this (from ) - only him monthly update the net worth section of some soccer related billionaire, also seen on Zhang Jindong for Eudoxus007
 * Compare this to this (by ) his footprint like own styling/grammar on capitalizing nonproper noun)
 * reverting in Chongqing Dangdai Lifan F.C. (was by LetsMake)
 * Marinopoulos Market: the last edit was by Eudoxus007, the 2nd to 21st newest edit, 11 of them (11/20) were by his suspected socks,  Matthew_hk   t  c  18:20, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * not a re-revert in Hugo Sousa, but a follow up edit on the player's transfer (Compare this to this)
 * a re-revert on Samed Yeşil (new, old Matthew_hk   t  c  18:32, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * a re-revert in Dimitris Melissanidis (new, old) Matthew_hk   t  c  02:41, 18 January 2017 (UTC)


 * BTW the discussion in 5 December 2016 above was more than one month old and the accused account was stale, it more likely to close it without progress. Just I am curios that did he keep use VPN, internet cafe to create account, or two set of internet (mobile, landline?), and the theory of dirty socks (a loud one) to cover clean one, or entire it was two sockmasters? (it is possible that he could get lower popularity if he just make good faith edit but not disruptive edits, just purely evasion of ban, but to prove it requires CU) Matthew_hk   t  c  04:41, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
 * symbolic update infobox pattern by Eudoxus007, matching previous socks that not using <ref name=ZYZ Matthew_hk   t  c  19:53, 18 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Just had a revert war on on Hellenic Petroleum‎‎ (his nonsense removing content) and trigger my notice, yet it is weak but Perperof31 was entirely an account that using mobile edit, which in turn quite interest in Avin International S.A. and Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. which were mostly edited by Antony1821's socks in recent year (and a stale mobile editor ).


 * If counting stale account such as which should report to SPI but didn't (User talk:Ricky81682/Archive 10), Karelia Fine Tobaccos was in fact mostly edited by accused socks of him, including Perperof31,,  but not Eudoxus007.


 * Also seen on ANEK Lines was in fact mostly edited by accused socks of him, including Perperof31,, Westside20, , , , but not Eudoxus007, as well as , a socks from Sockpuppet investigations/Kefalonitis94 (may in fact the same sockmaster with Antony1821).
 * Also seen on Ster Cinemas, Vardis Vardinogiannis, lack of outsider interest except accused socks and cleanup edits since 2015.
 * Spiros Latsis may look like having other related users, but still roughly half of them were socks of Antony1821, making Perperof31 and Larntinokk (Eudoxus007 not present yet), may in fact the mobile socks of Antony1821, but i admit edit in mobile was difficult (thus change in edit scripting pattern) and i haven't dig out solid edit pattern prove. Matthew_hk   t  c  19:16, 18 January 2017 (UTC)


 * for Perperof31, not sure monthly update of net worth of Dimitris Melissanidis (back to November 2015) may able to convince Matthew_hk   t  c  19:49, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * Eudoxus007 is ✅ to previous socks; blocked and tagged. Perperof31 is ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:26, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

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Despite just 16 edits. His insist on revertingtwice in Dimitris Melissanidis‎‎ to his wrong version, is him. Matthew_hk  t  c  16:24, 19 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Compare monthly updating net worth of Suleyman Kerimov, not a coincidence that previous update was by Antony1821's socks  Matthew_hk   t  c  17:04, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * It's him. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 16:27, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

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As usual, based on disruptive edit on Dimitris Melissanidis (compare to this), and unique random round up/down add digit/remove digit in infobox, especially capitalize other shareholder (compare to ) Matthew_hk   t  c  16:58, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * Amanda blocked the account. Nothing left to do -- Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  23:21, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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The most compelling piece of evidence in this case are the following three edits from AnomieBOT to National Bank of Greece: (1, 2, 3) All three are the bot rescuing the orphaned "Q4 2015" reference. For the first two, the bot was triggered by edits from previous sockpuppets, the third by Nescafe2017. The edits triggering the bot are also similar infobox updates. (see 4, 5, 6.) Add to that overlapping interests in the Greek financial sector, and Greek football. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:51, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * - I'm not sure if previous socks are stale or not. If they are, please, disregard this endorsement.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:16, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ to previous socks. Blocked, tagged, closing. One of the reports in the archive is out of chronological order.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:35, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

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based on this edit, it is pretty similar to previous edit by capitalizing the company name (compare to, , , , edits on Dimitris Melissanidis). Also looser evidences were same interests on changing value of net worth of Greeks (but using unstable real time value instead of year to yearly value of the annual Forbes list) and interests in Greek football. Matthew_hk  t  c  13:40, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:50, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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In addition to the obvious overlapping interests in football, banking, and shipping in Greece, this editor has duplicated a few edits from the most recently blocked sock. Compare this to this and this to this. While these edits may seem innocuous, the subjects of the articles are disparate enough that it's unusual for a single editor to edit both, and both have been of interest to the sockmaster for some time. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:02, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Additionally, there are many similar, but not quite identical edits. Compare: All told, I think there is simply too much overlap for this to be a coincidence. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:55, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) this to this
 * 2) this to this
 * 3) this to this
 * 4) this to this (Also note the reference to coffee in the usernames of both accounts)

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 * - Katietalk 14:41, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked and tagged. Closing. Katietalk 14:48, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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The obvious red flag here is the username, given that this editor has used socks called User:Antony1994 and User:Antonios1994. The second thing that stands out is the uploading of logos, and claiming them as their own work. Particularly, File:Ministry of National Defence.png and File:Υπουργείο Εθνικής Άμυνας.png (the Greek text means ministry of defence) stand out, as Antony has expressed a previous interest in the Greek military. For instance, Antonios1994 and User:Epavli1500 uploaded File:Hellenic Navy Emblem.png a several times, and always without evidence of permission. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:28, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

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.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:28, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 20:03, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

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Like several previous socks, this editor has made edits to the infobox of the article on the National Bank of Greece that broke the "Q4 2015" reference, thus triggering AnomieBot. (/Archive and diff.) Given that there is a fairly consistent editing pattern from this IP over several years, for instance there are edits to some of Antony1821's favourite articles dating as far back as November 2014, I think it's safe to say that Antony comes back to this IP pretty frequently. As such, a block of this IP might actually accomplish something, even if it appears dormant by the time this SPI gets resolved. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:38, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * In SPI 194.30.139.109 interesting to see that the ip was claimed as another paid editor in Hellenic Bank instead. Seem need to prove connection to another Greek user (SPI Euclidthalis) also. (Either the consistent editor of Greek banks were actually Euclidthalis or Antony1821, or actually they are the same) Matthew_hk   t  c  18:06, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Anyway, if the ip was tagged as from Hellenic Bank (despite the database entry was in 2005, the ip may from Logosnet Services instead), and his attempted to edit Hellenic Bank article in wikipedia several time, may be easier to ban it after several COI warning, as SPI not normally link user to specific ip. Matthew_hk   t  c  15:26, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * IP edits too old (I read filer's comment). Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Noting that this case crosses over to Sockpuppet investigations/194.30.139.109 which was filed by . This is the same editor. I've blocked several IPs for three years.

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In addition to the overlapping interest in football in Greece and in the Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece, this editor has re-uploaded the institute's logo at File:TEISTE.jpg, again claiming the logo as their own work. Sir Sputnik (talk) 13:29, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * He is making duck edits so I'm blocking on behavior and closing.

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WP:DUCK same articles, interests, editing habits. Compare in general and edits to Hellenic Bank and Bank of Cyprus in particular e.g.  vs  Bri (talk) 00:18, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * Comment - Maybe rangeblock the 212.31.115.0/24 range? Assuming this is Antony1821, they account for the vast majority edits from that range. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:30, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I know we don't like to rangeblock but I believe the problem edits are coming from HELLENIC-BANK range which is actually 212.31.115.128/26 . There are innocent-looking edits from the 212.31.115.* range, like Special:Contributions/212.31.115.94. - Bri (talk) 17:41, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * 212.31.115.128/26 anon rangeblocked one year. Closing.

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This editor has almost exclusively edited articles previously edited by Antony1821 socks, and has replicated a number of their edits compare: Sir Sputnik (talk) 13:59, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) this to this and this
 * 2) this to this, this, this, this, and this.
 * 3) this to this
 * 4) this to this, this, and this
 * 5) this to this

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 * - to confirm and find other accounts.
 * Salvio Let's talk about it! 17:26, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeffing with tag and closing.

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Despite look like a dynamic ip, but compare
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 * this to this

It look similar. Moreover, the page aforementioned, Ivan Savvidis, had an stale ip editors and, which 3 ip were from Ote SA (Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation), and interest in both Greek businessman and Greek football. Matthew_hk  t  c  14:24, 29 July 2017 (UTC)


 * one more ip added. Some practical to narrow to 2a02:587:c42f:d800 range. Matthew_hk   t  c  10:07, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Compare this to this

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 * Rangeblocked for two weeks and closing.

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Overlapping interests in Panathinaikos F.C. and Ivan Savvidis make it pretty clear that it's one person operating all of these IP's. Three of these IP's have reinstated the same change made by the three most recent sockpuppet accounts. (Compare 1, 2, and 3 to 4, 5, and 6) Given that these four are the only IP's from the range to have ever edited Wikipedia, could we get a range block of the 2a02:587:c42f:d800:0:0:0:0/64 range. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:12, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

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Range blocked for a month. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:00, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

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overlapping interest with sockmaster on Ivan Savvidis and Greek football. Moreover, E Channel (Greece) was edited by another sockmaster Billy Liakopoulos which may be simply alias of Antony1821. So, request cross checking Antony1821, Billy Liakopoulos and the ip ranges (2a02:587:483a:4700:0:0:0:0/64 and previous blocked 2a02:587:c42f:d800:0:0:0:0/64). Also, is it possible to raise the protection level of Ivan Savvidis and E Channel (Greece)? 30 edits look test edit and/or minor edit. Matthew_hk  t  c  14:45, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * Blocked 2A02:587:483A:4700:C406:588:AD8F:F60A for 1 week. GABgab 15:56, 25 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Maybe a /64 range block instead for a week? There's no collateral.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:38, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I've just gone ahead and switched it to a range block for the same duration. "A stitch in time..." and all that.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:05, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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Emerged as this new ip. Compare this new edit to previous ip edit. May be increase the protection level on Ivan Savvidis will more efficient (which was declined when request it directly in Requests for page protection) Matthew_hk   t  c  10:07, 30 August 2017 (UTC)


 * shifted to new ip with same pattern with last ips of spamming wiki link (overlink). Since 2a02:587 cover too many Greek ip, may be it is a valid reason to protect the page Ivan Savvidis? Matthew_hk   t  c  05:39, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * Well-known range of the sockmaster. Rangeblock per collateral. --<span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,sans-serif"> QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 19:51, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Both /64 ranges blocked for a week. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:14, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

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This editor repeated the same edit to Panathinaikos F.C. that identified several recent socks. Compare 1, 2, 3, 4. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:43, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Compare this to this by . Is it a valid reason to protect the page? Matthew_hk   t  c  13:39, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Compare this to this by and this by   Matthew_hk   t  c  13:19, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * --<span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,sans-serif"> QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 19:50, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. Blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:15, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

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Here we have yet another account with a name ending in 2017 with a particular interest in (mostly Greek) businessmen invested in football. This editor has continued the pattern established by previous socks of in the owner field of football clubs' infoboxes linking to the person who owns the investment firm that is the primary investor in the that club. (Compare this, this, and this, to edits like this.) Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:54, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Compare username
 * Compare this to previous attempt to capitalize the word Other Shareholder in Inter Milan
 * Compare this to this on Dimitris Melissanidis (every time his edit was sightly different but keep cycling) Matthew_hk   t  c  19:49, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * - to confirm and check for others. The underlying IP range may need blocking based on previous history.
 * ✅, blocked. Tried laying down a range-block, we'll see if it helps.   Courcelles (talk) 00:57, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. Tagging and closing.

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This is based mostly on the username. Every new account with an interest in Greek football and a username ending in 2017 over the past year as been a Antony1821 sock. On top of they've used the name quicksilver before as well (User:QuickSilver95). Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:17, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * The sockmaster was not only interested in football and Greek finance, but also some billionaire and businessman that may or may not link to football. However, an odd edit of the latest suspect on Subrata Roy, seem suggest that it was intended to distract or the master find new area of interest (F1?). The article was edited by another seem unrelated sockmaster before.  Matthew_hk   t ' c  20:39, 30 October 2017 (UTC) (wording  Matthew_hk   t ' c  20:46, 30 October 2017 (UTC))
 * The overlap with Shevakumaran is likely just a coincidence. That being said an interest in the net worth of business people (as evidenced by the one edit to Subrata Roy is consistent with previous socks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:40, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I just meant he may be a sock, or a coincidence (very less likely me) Matthew_hk   t  c  22:44, 30 October 2017 (UTC)


 * For something a little more concrete in terms of editing, this editor has continued to change the "owner" parameter of the infobox at Aris Thessaloniki F.C. (compare this to this.) Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:44, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * May "coincidence" as it was not controversial enough. The information was introduced in the main content with citation. May more rely on checkuser. Matthew_hk   t  c  01:57, 1 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Instead, this edit was typical enough for controversially changing owner without any citation, just like previous sock on other article. But yet a coincidence that, many user that edited Nottingham Forest F.C., had a username pattern of Latin + 4 digit number. However, it looks NOT a coincidence to me that Nottingham Forest had a Greek owner; but yet again, previous sock did not edited the article so can't compare exact edit, but edit pattern. Matthew_hk   t  c  09:12, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Compare this (new) to this (old), exact same information. previous attempt with an useless citation, this time without one. Matthew_hk   t  c  09:19, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Compare this (new) to this (old). Look fishy to make so obvious duck edit. Decoy to avoid the CU step for another sock? Matthew_hk   t  c  18:13, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * add (mentioned by Amanda)
 * Compare these to this by user:FootballGreece and these by Handmade2017, the previous confirmed sock. Matthew_hk   t  c  23:24, 4 November 2017 (UTC)


 * With so few edits, there's not much to go on with CU possible accounts below. What little there is to go on, timing and interests in particular, lead me to think that they are probably unrelated to Antony1821. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:42, 9 November 2017 (UTC)


 * by "coincidence" Carlitos760 started to edit again (third to 9th edits) after the ban of the two socks. But may need to wait for more edit to compare. P.A.O.K. H.C. and P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki V.C. were not touched by socks before but those ip edits may related. Matthew_hk   t  c  09:35, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Quicksilver and FootballGreece. Also a checkup on the range block attention,met would be nice. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 20:57, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ to socks in the archive


 * to each other but using an older machine/UA than the socks in the archive makes them to the master:

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:00, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is using a completely different device but the name and coincidental timing of editing by a phone UA which looks to be used by the master suggests this account may be related.
 * is using a completely different device but the name and coincidental timing of editing by a phone UA which looks to be used by the master suggests this account may be related.
 * is using a completely different device but the name and coincidental timing of editing by a phone UA which looks to be used by the master suggests this account may be related.
 * is using a completely different device but the name and coincidental timing of editing by a phone UA which looks to be used by the master suggests this account may be related.
 * All the confirmed socks are blocked. For the others, there's note enough to draw any meaningful conclusions. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:15, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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evidences: by username as well as edit pattern. The sockmaster keen to use capitalized Manager in infobox, as well as unnecessary change of letter Y and letter G due to the transliteration of Greek to Latin. In more specific, compare
 * this to this
 * this to this
 * regarding previous CU result, Carlitos760 was tagged as possible but not banned, but after the previous ban of confirmed sock, Carlitos760 start active again, not sure an intentional attention seeking vandal or not, but may be just WP:RBI to him? Matthew_hk   t  c  17:16, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:01, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Imperial2018 is ✅ to.

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Based on username, interest in Greek football club (e.g. Márcio Azevedo ) and company (for example Star Channel (Greece)) Matthew_hk   t  c  18:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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Compare:
 * 1) this to this
 * 2) this to this, this, and this
 * 3) this this to this, and this
 * 4) this to this, and this. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:19, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * note: should be this new edit for the third row. Matthew_hk   t  c  18:23, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, fixed error. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * , actually the fourth row also. Matthew_hk   t  c  19:39, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Fixed. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:41, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Based on the evidence above, please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:20, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * , closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:36, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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username had matched previous socks, , and overlapping interests in Greek finance and football (e.g. Dimitris Melissanidis , OPAP and Olympiacos F.C.) Matthew_hk   t  c  22:06, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:34, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * - Between the username and the subjects edited, this looks suspicious. Please check to confirm and identify potential sleepers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:26, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to.
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:50, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

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based on username and edits:
 * Compare old to new on Public Power Corporation
 * Despite can't find exact match of edit, but since the sockmaster was keen on Greek football and finance, and the past edits on Hellenic Petroleum, many of them involving sockmaster socks, , , , , , , the edit pattern of the new suspect match those socks edit outside the article (don't use group in , use 4-trader as ref). Matthew_hk   t  c  13:48, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * - We also see similar commonalities at Hellenic Petroleum and Avin International, the username fits the usual naming scheme for Antony1821, and they have 100% with previous socks in terms of which articles they've edited. Please check to identify potential sleepers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's him.  Salvio Let's talk about it! 01:19, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
 * . GABgab 02:31, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

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Based on username, edit pattern and area of interest (100% overlap with previous socks and sockmaster). Also not using name in and spamming the exact ref several time (Special:Diff/827386971), and using 4 trader as ref (Special:Diff/827387807), matching the edit pattern of the sock just blocked this week. Matthew_hk  t  c  14:36, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * - TNT❤ 15:32, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to the archive. Blocking and tagging - TNT❤ 15:36, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:09, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * Compare new to old (spamming same ref and not using Matthew_hk   t  c  16:36, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Compare new to old on EYDAP. Matthew_hk   t  c  16:39, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:49, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sir Sputnik - ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking.
 * Compare old to new in Danaos Corporation
 * Compare old to new in DESFA Matthew_hk   t  c  01:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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CU-confirmed and blocked. Drmies (talk) 01:39, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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Based on username pattern (word + year) and area of interest. Despite no exact edit match, but the edit around Ivan Savvidis and his companies overlapped with previous socks. Matthew_hk  t  c  16:17, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:04, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * TurboX2018 is ✅.
 * is
 * should be watched.
 * AntonyRomanos2017 is probably unrelated. Their interests, while adjacent to those of Antony1821, don't quite match. The master also has no history of user-page use that I can recall. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:25, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

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ducking, almost exact match on edits, as well as username pattern. Compare:
 * new to old
 * new to old Matthew_hk   t  c  17:01, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ and blocked. Courcelles (talk) 18:10, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:56, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking. Compare new to old Matthew_hk   t  c  15:53, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * - This is obvious enough to not require CU attention. Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 13:52, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * . NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:03, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking. Still the same area of interest and username pattern. For edit comparison:
 * Compare new to old Matthew_hk   t  c  19:03, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:56, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * - Given that now seem to have registered yet another account in the form of, a CU check for additional accounts, might not be a bad idea. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:29, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked and tagged. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:44, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking. Compare new and old1 and old2 on Ivan Savvidis. Matthew_hk  t  c  18:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:32, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Done, closing/archiving. Courcelles (talk) 16:13, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

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Again, username and area of interest. Also, Not entirely exact edit, but compare:
 * new to old1 and old2 Matthew_hk   t  c  13:14, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to previous sock, Unforgettable2018. Blocked. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:05, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

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Same general evidence: area of interest and username pattern. For apple to apple comparison, compare:


 * old to new (insist on expanding abb in infobox and G to Y transliteration of Greek alphabet). Matthew_hk   t  c  10:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)


 * old to new (using the same ref multiple time for assets revenues, did not use ref grouping). Matthew_hk   t  c  15:45, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * old to new (insist on changing Mega Channel to E Channel (Greece) (which was moved to Epsilon TV (Greece)) without citation) Matthew_hk   t  c  07:20, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * based on filer's evidence & familiarity with this case. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:27, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ to previous socks. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:05, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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Here we have yet another account with a name ending in a year interested in Dimitris Melissanidis. There have been seven others in the last twelve months, and all of them are Antony1821 socks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:47, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Given the above, please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:48, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 04:13, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking. new, old1, old2. Matthew_hk  t ' c  09:07, 3 May 2018 (UTC)  Matthew_hk   t ' c  09:07, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:14, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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ducking. Compare new, old1, old2. Matthew_hk  t  c  16:20, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked for 2 weeks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:06, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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Yet again, area of interest and username. In specific, compare old to new Matthew_hk   t  c  17:37, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Also please pp-sock for some article that only edited by this sockmaster for past 1 or 2 years. Except those ip, most of the "user" that edited Attica Bank were actually Antony1821's sock. Matthew_hk  t  c  17:43, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Plus Avin International, that excluding maintenance edit, was yet only edited by Antony1821 and "another" sockmaster Perperof31 (and in the past Mikenew1953). Matthew_hk   t  c  17:48, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:50, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 01:06, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking Compare new, old1, old2, old3 Matthew_hk   t  c  11:08, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * before I saw a report had been filed. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:38, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking. Not sure why he insist of spamming ref in the infobox such as DEPA (new and old). Same as other articles, DEPA was interested by "another" sockmaster and since 2014 most of the registered user that updated the infobox are the socks of Antony1821   Matthew_hk   t  c  12:29, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * restoring the edits of previously confirmed socks on Greek business and football articles. IP blocked for 1 month. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:45, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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Same interest with the sockmaser (football, finance, Greece), same from Greek ip, same monthly update of net worth (Forbes had annual list and real time net worth, using the latter seem very unnecessary), same behavior of unresponsive to talk page. Matthew_hk  t  c  09:33, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * for 3 months. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:43, 1 August 2018 (UTC)-

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static sock of Antony1821. Still the same interest in football, finance and Greek. Still the same monthly update of net worth, still the same capitalize everything (Special:Diff/855296581), still the same unresponsive to the user talk page. Matthew_hk  t  c  10:24, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 21:23, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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Apparently static sock of Antony1821. Same unresponsive to warning in talk page as well as interest in football, finance and Greece. In specific same vandalism: Special:Diff/855296980 and Special:Diff/858741773. Li Yonghong most and probably only known as Milan owner, but he keep on remove it Matthew_hk   t  c  09:26, 9 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Also compare to confirmed sock: Special:Diff/858447303 and Special:Diff/832056684 on Epsilon TV (Marousi) Matthew_hk   t  c  09:28, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked for one month. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 01:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking. Compare Special:Diff/859478667 by the new ip, to Special:Diff/858447303 previous ip and Special:Diff/832056684 previous confirmed sock.

More environmental evidence were interest on football, finance and Greece, unexplained removal of [former owner of X] entry from infobox (see Special:Diff/859645250), monthly update of networth using real-time data instead of static yearly list data. Matthew_hk  t  c  11:52, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:56, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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Same username pattern, picking up the edit of the aforementioned ip sock suspect (see above section that did not need CU) on L.R. Vicenza Virtus (Special:Diff/859980953, previous ip sock suspect edit Special:Diff/859954404). Monthly update on networth using real-time figure (the dynamic data that changed everyday due to stock market) on Guo Guangchang (Special:Diff/859191889, compare to Special:Diff/839048445 and Special:Diff/832219463) Matthew_hk   t  c  15:37, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ along with the sleeper account . Tagged and closing.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:59, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't you like to block Guess2018?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:03, 17 September 2018 (UTC)--
 * I blocked the account for you. You can reblock if you want to make it a CU block.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:06, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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Same username pattern and interest.
 * In specific, compare removing entry in infobox of ACF Fiorentina: Special:Diff/860988997 to Special:Diff/854652606.
 * compare a set of edit on adding unsourced company as owner in Epsilon TV (Marousi): Special:Diff/860565959 and Special:Diff/861141139 to Special:Diff/859478667, Special:Diff/832056684, Special:Diff/830894333.
 * Compare comma separator and billion disruptive editing to a very old sock (year 2016): Special:Diff/861033997 to Special:Diff/742749522.  Matthew_hk   t  c  14:11, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Regarding the named account it's technically ; combined with the technical evidence I've blocked and tagged as proven. .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:32, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * IP is already stale. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:44, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

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Same username and interest area. Not exactly the same edit but still similar unsourced and unnecessary edits on Epsilon TV (Marousi) and Li Yonghong. Also exactly the same comma separator/ billion vandal edit (Special:Diff/863967803), despite now on another article Deutsche Postbank. Matthew_hk  t  c  10:55, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * - TonyBallioni (talk) 13:10, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Capitano2022 is ✅ to from the archives. The account is . TonyBallioni (talk) 13:15, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing. GABgab 14:03, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

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Same pattern of username and area of interest. For specific evidence, had the same pattern of vandalizing Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.: Special:Diff/838006341 to Special:Diff/867420325 Matthew hk (talk) 17:04, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to . Blocked and tagged. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:05, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

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Same username pattern, active right after blocked sock. Also, same edit pattern of same ref spam 5 times instead of other method of grouping, as well as fraction of people of using dot as separator on both billion and thousand of people (see Special:Diff/873751190) Matthew hk (talk) 05:17, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * This is obvious enough to not require CU attention. . Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:30, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

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Ducking. Pickup the BRI reverts of mine at Hilal El-Helwe and Adam Tzanetopoulos and Christian D'Urso, etc. Matthew hk (talk) 06:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:58, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:40, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

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In my opinion, by editing behaviour it is hard to tell it is Antony1821 yet again or not. The user is not that active and the first 150 edits spawn from 2009 to 2019. The 4 edits from this year, did not match Antony1821's unsourced edit, since this user Geostavr had provide citation and they are RS and supporting the content the user want to add into wikipedia. Matthew hk (talk) 23:47, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

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This account is older than Antony1821 but has the same interests: football, finance/banks and Greek/Cypriot subjects. He is responsible for another SPI case that was filed under a single IP address by that I can't point out so that would have to be left to others to figure out. Most telling is that he was on a long-term static IP address that was originally hardblocked in 2017 as associated with Antony1821 but unblocked a few months ago since there was a possibility that it may have been reassigned. Soon after unblocked, he precisely edited on some of the article targets that I semi-protected. may be interested in this. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The named sock is blocked. BH reinstated the block on the unnamed IP, whose talk page leads to the IP report where all the listed IPs are either blocked or inactive since 2016. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 11:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)