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31 July 2014

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I believe that User:Nichoal Nde is a sock puppet of User:Coal Press Nation. The userpages of both accounts are identical. The "About Me" section is identical as well. I should also note that Coal Press Nation plagiarized my userpage in this edit. I had to remove most of the content he copied from my userpage in this edit. Keep in mind that Coal Press Nation was blocked on 31 July 2014, and the Nichoal Nde account was created few hours later. I don't believe that this is a coincidence.  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8   (Talk) 21:02, 31 July 2014 (UTC)  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8    (Talk) 21:02, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged (not checked). Elockid  ( Talk ) 01:44, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

06 August 2014

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I am reporting Nicholas Nde as a sock puppet of User:Coal Press Nation. It is quite obvious that the username Nicholas Nde is nearly identical to Nichoal Nde (another sock account of the sock master). The user edit patterns are identical to that of the blocked user. Coal Press Nation posted this response at Lil Kem's AFD discussion page. Nicholas Nde "coincidentally" posted the same exact response on the talk page of the Shizzi article. I don't believe this is a coincidence at all. I also left a note on Nicholas Nde's talk page advising him not to keep opening new accounts every time he gets block. I doubt he'll take my advice. Once this account gets block, it won't be long before he opens another one.  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8   (Talk) 20:11, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the obvious sock. Note that this user has a highly dynamic large IP range at their disposal with very heavy traffic, therefore Checkuser isn't particularly helpful as finding socks and sleepers is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:42, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for blocking this sock user. I guess I'll have to keep reporting him every time he opens another account.  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8   (Talk) 19:29, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

03 September 2014

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The username of the sock puppet is a slight variation of his original username. In this edit, I encouraged the user to go back to using his old account. In this edit, the user told me that he went through the guide to appealing blocks and was told that it was too late to unblock his account. I believe this user has made some useful contributions of late. However, I feel that he needs to understand the reason for behind his block; he also needs to promise not to repeat the same mistakes again. He is yet to take my advice. He feels that once he gets block again, he'll just create a new account. He has created two other sock accounts (User:Nicholas Nde and User:Nichoal Nde) in addition to this one.


 * this edit
 * this edit  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8   (Talk) 19:32, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the account as an admitted sock. Your patience in trying to explain that their use of multiple accounts is against policy is appreciated .--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:09, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

20 March 2015

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I am suspecting Emmanuel Nick. Nde of being a sock puppet of Coal Press Nation. In August 2014, two sock accounts of CPN were blocked. It was easier to detect because the usernames used by the sock master were nearly identical. I remember CPN leaving this note on my talk page, asking me to help him save the Emmy Gee article from deletion. The article ended up being deleted, but I re-created it because I found some evidence of notability. If my suspicion of Emmanual Nick. Nde is correct, it would be the third time that CPN has used the Nde name. I guess the name must be special to him.  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8   (Talk) 03:57, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * Same variation on username, same article target; I've gone ahead and blocked and tagged as an obvious sock.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:56, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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I believe Bello96 and Nonse Nde are sock accounts of Coal Press Nation, a blocked user who was first reported in July 2014 for abusing multiple accounts. The sock master's archive SPI page clearly shows the number of sock accounts he has created. Coal Press Nation has used different variations of the name Nde. In August 2014, he created the Nicholas Nde and Nichoal Nde accounts. In March 2015, he created the Emmanuel Nick. Nde account. The February 2016 creation of Nonso Nde is just another variation of the Nde name. On June 21, 2014, Coal Press Nation introduced himself to Wikipedia as Emmanuel per this edit to his userpage. Fast foward to June 6, 2016, and Bello96 also introduced himself as Emmanuel per this edit to his userpage. I don't find this as a coincidence. Both Nonso Nde and Bello96 have voted keep in two Afd discussions: Articles for deletion/Count It All Joy (Mr. 2Kay album) and Articles for deletion/Sugarboy. I believe these sock accounts influenced the non-admin closure of the former discussion. These socks are also trying to influence the latter discussion, which is currently on-going.  Versace1608  Wanna Talk? 22:46, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

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 * Admin action needed - :
 * On Articles for deletion/Count It All Joy (Mr. 2Kay album), their votes were nearly identical, referencing "criterias 5, 6, and 7 of WP:NALBUMS" and "criterias 6, and 7 of WP:NALBUMS", notably including the word "criterias".
 * On Articles for deletion/Sugarboy, there's the same pattern, again spelling out a long string of numbers and the misspelling and bad grammar "criterias".
 * A checkuser is unnecessary, and in addition, the archives are stale. Blocks requested (indef). Thank you so much,, for your work fighting this sock drawer. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 02:50, 16 June 2016 (UTC)


 * ✅ to each other:


 * to the accounts above:
 * I've blocked the accounts and removed the comments from the open AfD. Mike V • Talk 16:00, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the accounts and removed the comments from the open AfD. Mike V • Talk 16:00, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

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Patricia marco david was blocked by Huon as a sockpuppet of Coal Press Nation. Patricia marco david created the deleted article Dj Kentalky. A day after the Patricia marco david account was blocked, the Markzy90 account was created and twice posted a duplicate of the deleted article: and.

Cynthiakruz is suspicious looking account as they tried to disrupt an AfD that Markzy90 is involved in with a wild accusation.

I am not very familiar with this particular sockpuppet group, so am requesting a CU to confirm though this looks like a WP:DUCK to me. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:38, 24 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Added Skito58, whose second edit was to !vote keep in the AfD . Skito58 also created a user page that is stylistically similar to Cynthiakruz with the statement of a full name and user name in quotes. Skito58 third edit where they state they will abide to the Wikipedia policy is a rather odd edit for a brand new account. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:13, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

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I suspected sock-puppetry from Markzy90 and Cynthiakruz after this edit. —Oluwa2Chainz »» (talk to me) 23:57, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * There is such an overwhelming number of IPs and ranges involved and mountainous piles of spam on the ranges that checks are painful. That being said, I feel comfortable with stating that:
 * , and  are ✅ to each other.
 * and are ✅ to each other, which links Cynthiakruz to the set of socks above


 * All are to the master when checking socks from the archive, though it could well be a mass of paid editing socks. Either way it's a violation of WP:SOCK and they should all be blocked.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  23:27, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you Ponyo for slogging through the mess. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:52, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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New suspected puppet of blocked master. is a SPA that has recreated the article DJ Shabsy erased after this AfD: Articles_for_deletion/DJ_Shabsy created and defended by confirmed puppets of Coal Press Nation. (, and ) Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 11:54, 5 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Update: Added Scoutt88 and Zoroki both this new SPAs have just been created to remove the speedy deletion template from DJ Shabsy: edit by Zoroki, edit by Scoutt88 (since the article is tagged again for speedy deletion the diffs may be deleted along with the article in the near future). --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 10:34, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * ,, , and  are ✅ to blocked user.
 * is part of the same promotional sockfarm as Coal Press Nation.
 * As with the July 24th check in the archive, the entire lot should be blocked and whatever pages they created nuked.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:59, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * - Please block the confirmed accounts and clean out the spam. Thanks, GABgab 01:21, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Noting that User:Jamzy4/Korrekt (musician) and Korrekt tie to the sockfarm behaviorally. ~ Rob 13 <sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">Talk 13:03, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked all those listed in the CU results above as well as and  on behavioral evidence largely relying on deleted contributions to pages that coordinated with the edits of confirmed socks. I tagged all as just "blocked" since there was no "confirmed" result tying this group to Coal Press Nation (only the "likely"), but the behavioral evidence is very strong here. Feel free to change the tagging if you think "proven" is appropriate. ~ Rob 13 <sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">Talk 13:12, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem, the difference can be somewhat academic. GABgab 15:45, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

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Dj Kentalky Dj Kentalky was created by a sock of Coal Press Nation. Draft:DJ Kentalky was created by another sock, resubmitted by another sock who went shopping for a review. Now Blaze8724 resubmitted it and went shopping for a review   duffbeerforme (talk) 11:20, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare this account to previous socks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  11:54, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Not sure how this one slipped through the cracks, but is ✅ to  from the archives, along with . -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:23, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Marking as closed. Mkdw talk 19:48, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

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Yet another sockpuppet of Coal Press Nation. Recreating Draft:Dremo, which was deleted here in an earlier incarnation created by User:Jamzy4, another sockpuppet recently blocked. Citobun (talk) 15:53, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Same geolocation and mix of ISPs. Same behaviour. Blocked and tagged.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:59, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

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I have been monitoring the edits of this user and is convinced he is a sock of this thread. His recent effort in re-creating Indomix, an article that has since been salted due to its re-creation by blocked users. His request on this talk page looks identical to this request by a certain Blaze8724 who is also blocked per this SPI. By the way, his poor English is obvious like the others.—Oluwa2Chainz »» (talk to me) 22:08, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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Draft:Indomix Indomix was created by a sock of Coal Press Nation. Draft:DJ Kentalky was created by Music Boy50 who asked me to move this over Indomix as it was create protected. A similar name is used to some of the other known socks, and edits summaries and some behaviour, such as targeting DJ pages for deletion have been similar. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:36, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * Music Boy50 is ✅ to from the archives. Blocked, tagged, closing.  Katietalk 00:33, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

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Alleged sock created Mayorkun, which has already been deleted at AFD. It got G4'd, and the alleged master popped up to remove the tag and made an argument identical to the sock's. It's obvious, but I'm requesting CU to check for a link to an older master, perhaps, even though I am not terribly familiar with that case. Thanks again, GABgab 03:37, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * I don't really know what is going on for now, to be honest here am not a Sockpuppet. I have read about Sockpuppet on Wikipedia and it stand out to be an editor who is abusing multiple accounts. I am Donald and this is my account, according to the accusation I am not in any way related to Sharp , an edit was reverted which was tag on Mayorkun, I did not take any action any way because that was meant for other editors and admins to to handled, I have given my clear stament while Mayorkun should not be speedy deleted at the talk pages. I will appreciate SPI clerk to look at this investigation thanks. GeneralisationAreBad the article Mayorkun which you said was deleted under AFD, please can you look at the AFD discussion, only one person voted which was a Sockpuppet and have been block , am trying to explain this but it seems you don't understand. At the same time I have look at all the sock puppet in Coal Press Nation none of them created the article Mayorkun I don't really know who created it. So I still have a hope to prove am not a sock because none of the sock puppet in Coal Press Nation created the article . Thanks
 * I also suspect Donald422 as a sock because his recent contributions is just all about his request for the undeletion of the Mayorkun article. —Oluwa2Chainz »» (talk to me) 22:23, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Endorsing my own request. Thanks, GABgab 03:39, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The range is messy and active and IPs seem to change quickly. There is no 1 to 1 match so I am going to mark this as . Another CU who has more experience might upgrade the certainty. I would lean heavily on the behavioral evidence. -- Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  03:28, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Sharp002 and Donald422 are very to each other and are  to be Coal Press Nation. Blocked, tagged, closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:40, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

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I believe the users above are sockpuppets of Coal Press Nation. MKJ6006 re-created the Sugarboy article, which was previously deleted via an AFD discussion. User McGeddon requested that the article be speedily deleted, but their request was declined by user Patar knight. I believe that the previously-deleted Sugarboy article was created by Bello96, a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster. MKJ6006 joined Wikipedia on September 2, 2016 and created the Sugarboy article for the second time. I don't find this much a coincidence. I believe that MKJ6006 is connected to Coal Press Nation in some way, shape, or form. In this edit, Coal Press Nation supposedly listed "all" of the sock accounts he has created. If MKJ6006 is confirmed as a sock of Coal Press Nation, then the sockmaster shouldn't be allowed back on Wikipedia. He promised in this edit that he will "never create multiple accounts again". I believe Bob276 is a sockpuppet of the sock master. Historical Ben, who is a confirmed sockpuppet of Coal Press Nation, nominated the Fliptyce article for deletion via AFD. The result of the discussion was Speedy keep after it was revealed that the nominator was a confirmed sock user. On February 21, 2017, I nominated the Fliptyce article for deletion and two days later, Bob276 left a comment on the discussion page. How does an "unexperienced" editor, with a history of only two contributions, locate an AFD discussion and comment on it while knowing how to properly format and sign their post? I don't believe in coincidences and I don't think this is one. Lastly, I believe Obari2Kay is connected to the sockmaster somehow. Both the sockmaster and Obari2kay have a bad command of the English Language. Their style of writing and structuring of articles are similar. Obari2Kay is known for emboldening words that shouldn't be in a bold typeface (proof of this can be seen here, here, here, here, and here). MKJ6006, a suspected sockpuppet of the sockmaster, replicated the same habit while creating the Sugarboy article (proof of this can be seen here). Historical Ben nominated three (Fliptyce, Jay Pizzle, and Ayo Jay) of Obari2Kay's articles for deletion. In this edit, Bob276 accused Obari2kay of sockpuppetry. It isn't unsual for editors to accused each other of sockpuppetry, but I don't think all of this is a mere coicidence. I believe Obari2kay somehow knows or is connected to the sockmaster.  Versace1608  Wanna Talk? 01:51, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * I have nothing much to say, cause saying much make's no deference. All i request is an IP check and also i would like to say something; before i write any article, i do this first a google research on the topic and a Wikipedia search for the topic to see if the topic in question has been featured on Wikipedia by any award or something else. Then i look for other article on Wikipedia which has never been nominated for deletion as a guideline to write an article. Like my most recent article Spellz (producer) was written with this article Masterkraft (producer) as a guideline to achieve something nice. My main reason for always looking for a guideline is because gave me tip's to write, an whenever i use this tip's  she still nominated my article so i always use her article as a guideline to write my. As you said earlier "Their style of writing and structuring of articles are similar." I don't just understand how cause i always use  articles as guide to make my. An i would also like to address this,  accusing me of sockpuppet, which i don't understand why but i strongly believe  is behind sockpuppet in question  why did i say so, let look at their talk page.  joined Wikipedia an the first article he/she write is on Milly Kay and  also joined Wikipedia an he/she write is on Lil Kem. To my google search they are both music artist who are unknown and their stories are only on blog's which mean's they fail WP:GNG.. I agree with you saying we got something in common the only thing i see we have in common is that our first article all got deleted but their is a but, Jay Pizzle is know but don't have all it takes to pass Wikipedia law but he meet some, if not all. But he does not have so many newspaper links to backup his article, but he only has one  which i was told that wasn't strong to put him on wikipedia which i understand but he has also been nominated 2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards .. If you saying my English, yes you right about that doesn't make me a sockpuppet of anybody all i know is i am a sockpuppet of myself, like i said the last time i was nominated for sockpuppet, i opened my wikipedia account with  but i was instructed to change my username which i did  Thank's.--Obari2Kay (talk) 10:12, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare and  to each other and to . Evidence against Obari2Kay is too weak, so no check is needed.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  22:50, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * - Katietalk 14:44, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * MKJ6006 is . The range is messy, as another CU noted, and the technical data for CPN is no longer in the archives for the socks CPN listed as his.
 * That said, Bob276 is ✅ to, which behaviorally matches to CPN, and both of those are confirmed to and , both likely CPN socks. I did not run Obari2Kay per clerk notes. Bob276 and Samo901 blocked and tagged. Closing. Katietalk 15:06, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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Single purpose accounts whose owners have recreated articles which have been previously deleted via AfDs. Their style of starting &  and moving the articles into main-space ( & ) are quite similar. —Oluwa2Chainz »» (talk to me) 22:29, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Both are . GABgab 22:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Clearly sockpuppets. There are far too many similarities in article content, layout, way of starting a new article, etc etc, to be anything else. I have blocked the accounts, though to judge from the editor's past behaviour doing so is likely to be futile, as he or she will probably just come back with yet more sockpuppets. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:55, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

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The sock master is a PR person who has created numerous accounts to evade his block. He created a draft article about himself, violating Wikipedia's WP:COI. From this draft, we learn that he owns a marketing firm and has worked with several notable acts. The sock master is definitely a WP:paid editor. Coal Press Nation has created user accounts under the names Emmanuel Nde and Nicholas Nde. Evidence can be seen here and here. In the draft article, it states that he is Emmy Gee's PR person. I must point out that Gee is an artist whose article was initally created by Coal Press Nation. CPN left a message on my talk page asking me to "save the article" from deletion. I re-created the article after finding evidence that Gee was notable. The Emmy Songz draft also states that Songz is the founder of Coal Africa, a social media marketing firm. The name of this so-called firm is eerily similar to Coal Press Nation, a website that the sock master created to promote and solicit artists for payments. The website was taken down after I reported the sock master. The following articles have been created by accounts that have been linked to the sock master in one way or the other. The sock master has a long history of creating sock accounts on Wikipedia. He just can't stay away from Wikipedia.
 * DJ Spinall
 * DJ Caise
 * Kiddominant
 * Derrick Worsley
 * Tee-Y Mix
 * Shohruh
 * Buffalo Souljah
 * Laura Ikeji
 * Tonye Ibiama
 * DJ Neptune
 * May D  Versace1608   Wanna Talk? 00:38, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

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Suspected puppet has been renamed.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:28, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Checking the editing history of this account, the master account, and some of the known sockpuppets I found too many similarities to hve any doubt. Blocked. JBW (talk) Formerly known as JamesBWatson 22:57, 24 September 2019 (UTC)