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Logging for the record - found during a routine check of. Behavioural match per history of Cyclone Damien alone.. ~TNT (she/they • talk) 19:05, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * are ✅ to . . Other accounts visible but currently not likely enough to action. ~TNT (she/they • talk) 19:08, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

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User accounts: Both accounts clearly like editing tropical cyclone articles. The targeted basins are the Australian and Indian ocean basins. . There is also overlap on Cyclone Damien. See here:, ,. This also overlaps with another of Btibd's socks:. . Finally, both users like pestering. Diffs:. IPs: How did I connect the IPs to the suspected sockmaster? block evaded in the past and was blocked by. geolocated to the same country as 103.96 - Bangladesh. In addition, 103.196 edited 1985_Bangladesh_cyclone, an overlap with Meteorological Person. Diffs:. The 103.196 IP also edited Cyclone Imogen, one day before Ilovehurricanes showed up. Revision history:.

It's a bit hard to call this a DUCK case by just using diffs, so I request CU. Thanks. Destroyer (Alternate account) 20:18, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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I am convinced that regardless of whether or not the newest account listed is a sock (there is convincing evidence that they are the same person, though), that Btibd21/Metorological Person is a sockpuppet of Hurricane boy 50. Behaviorally, they are identical. Same types of inexperienced and often disruptive edits to cyclone articles in Eastern Hemisphere regions (e.g. India and Australia), and the IPs in the older SPI archive also geolocate to the same location as this sockmaster's IPs. These socks are identical in behavior to the newer ones, and both sockmasters have used this IP. As such, I am requesting the merger of both SPI cases as well. It should also be noted that the older sockmaster is Globally Locked for cross-wiki abuse.  Light and Dark2000  🌀 (talk) 20:27, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 20:40, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * on behavioural evidence & the use of checkuser evasion - unable to rely on CU data. Sorry, but . Further checks in progress... ~TNT (she/they • talk) 20:57, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately all of 's socks are to compare against. I can't confirm or deny any potential IP correlation ~TNT (she/they • talk) 21:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Any thoughts on 's request to merge? ~TNT (she/they • talk) 21:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't see a lot more in common than between any two random LTAs in this topic area. Looking at the various accounts' contribs, no obvious tells jump out at me. Both being in Bangladesh and editing Eastern Hemisphere articles is a correlation, but far from a definitive one. The shared IP address would be very persuasive, except a) I'm not sure how we're supposed to know that the recent edits are indeed from Btibd, and b) I strongly suspect that that IP is a proxy. If more evidence emerges in the future we can revisit this question. For now, closing. -- Tamzin  [cetacean needed] (she/they) 01:52, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

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Similar contributions relating to the mass-creating of poorly-written drafts filled with copyvio. See the user's talk page. Both Andy and the Btibd21 socks had shown an interest in editing articles relating to the North Indian and Australian cyclone basins. Also, I'm suspecting that this is a sock. See this comment from Chicdat, which stated that Hurricane boy 50 and his socks repeated created Cyclone Maha and Cyclone Pawan. In this case, HelloImAndy recreated both drafts: Maha and Pawan. Destroyer (Alternate account) 14:38, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * - ~TNT (she/her • talk) 14:53, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to, a previously blocked sock of.
 * I now consider effectively site banned by the Wikipedia community per WP:3X ~TNT (she/her • talk) 14:58, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Sam. You've done all the clerk work for me, so, closing.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 17:02, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

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Similar behaviour on tropical cyclone articles, i.e. copying content from storm articles into drafts without attribution. See deleted history on Draft:Typhoon Pamela (1954) (which was copied mostly from 1954 Pacific typhoon season), and diffs on Draft:List of Puerto Rico hurricanes (1980–present): from Hurricane Lenny,  from Hurricane Georges,  from Hurricane Hugo,  from Tropical Storm Chris (1988),  from 1985 Puerto Rico floods (probably not exhaustive). Also named similarly to previous socks and, and note the user page similarity between current and previous sock. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 16:05, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * , and I think there is enough behavioral overlap to block per WP:DUCK., closing. Mz7 (talk) 04:10, 26 December 2021 (UTC)