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15 September 2013

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Samenewguy was blocked at 12:21 for edit warring by User:Materialscientist. User:Alone22 came by at 12:36 to make his first edit to match the edits Samenewguy was making prior to the block. I blocked Alone22 at 12:39 as it was obviously a sockpuppet, but I didn't know of who yet. At 12:49, Alone22 said s/he didn't mind being blocked, but asked for Samenewguy to be unblocked. At 13:18, Samenewguy2 came to Yoga, made the same revert as Samenewguy (basically), then left messages on my talk page and Materialscientist's talk page threatening us to get Samenewguy unblocked. So, also obviously a sock, and I blocked that one.

However, I'm not 100% certain that these editors are, in fact, Samenewguy. Given that the edit warring has been bad at that article lately, it does seem plausible to me that they are socks, but of someone else, running a Joe Job on Samenewguy. Or maybe not--maybe he's just that foolish to create 2 new socks in an hour with obvious edits and names. But I believe a checkuser should help clarify this. Finally, it also seems plausible to me that Samenewguy himself is a sock of someone; the editing history is quite short, but he jumped right into several controversial articles with some aggressive editing. I am not quite clear on exactly what CU can do without a named master, but, well, there it is (maybe someone else who sees this will have some suggestions). Qwyrxian (talk) 14:10, 15 September 2013 (UTC) Qwyrxian (talk) 14:10, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

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Unsurprisingly, and  were a joe job. Those two accounts and are ✅. And, digging deeper, this guy seems to be. And, unsurprisingly just as much,  is not a new user; he and  are ✅. Salvio Let's talk about it! 14:28, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I've blocked all 5 accounts; they're some indication from Samenewguy that he wasn't absolutely socking in the worst possible sense (though I still believe it was to avoid scrutiny, as Apalaria had been blocked for edit warring before), but there may be an unblock possible there. On a practical matter, how do we want to handle this report? Add it to Rajputbhatti's SPI page? Or add part and then create a new one for Apalaria? Qwyrxian (talk) 21:38, 15 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Handled all the paperwork and closing. Rschen7754 20:15, 24 September 2013 (UTC)