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Martin 1887 recently came to the attention of several editors after making multiple, unsourced and unexplained changes to genres in TV articles and was unresponsive to all requests to stop. This ultimately lead to an ANI discussion. He was blocked for 31 hours by. Martin 1887 has not edited since. Instead, Buddieboy 93 has been making multiple, unsourced and unexplained genre changes at a disturbingly high number of the same articles. The most common changes are the addition of "thriller" in one form or another (he really seems to love this). It seems clear from the common articles, the same type of edits, the addition of "thriller" and the timing of the edits by Buddieboy 93 that these are the same editor.  Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 00:46, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

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I have added an IP who has made 2 similar edits today:,. A look at their talk page will show many warnings for genre changes:, , ,. IP has been blocked several times for similar reasons:,. Many of the pages edited by this IP are the same as those edited by Martin 1887 and Buddieboy 93. --Logical Fuzz (talk) 13:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Behavioral evidence should be more than sufficient to block as master and socks. The IP is static, and he switches among the three. These aren't constructive edits!!. --Drmargi (talk) 14:52, 25 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Martin 1887 is probably the master in that the account was opened first, but I'm not sure the distinction means all that much; the majority of editing was done by the IP. --Drmargi (talk) 19:57, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The two accounts are .--Bbb23 (talk) 14:42, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Buddieboy 93 indeffed, IP blocked 1 year, Martin 1887 blocked 1 month --Neil N  talk to me 19:17, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, your blocks are not based on sock puppetry?--Bbb23 (talk) 19:41, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Bbb23, yes they are. I looked at the provided evidence and took into account your "possilikely". --Neil N  talk to me 19:46, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I've switched the master/puppet, haven't I? --Neil N  talk to me 19:48, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's why I asked. You can fix it however you like as long as it makes sense from a policy standpoint.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:02, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks for spotting that Bbb23. --Neil N  talk to me 20:12, 25 June 2016 (UTC)


 * All done here now. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 20:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)