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Both users appear to be a part of a hoax regarding fabricated material. First, when the suspected sock was created, they immediately add Fudwan to the list of most populous cities in South Sudan. Minutes later, they vandalize Riek Machar by adding Fudwan as a spouse, which was later reverted.

Later, in May 2017, the suspected sockmaster, the oldest account of the two, creates the article Fudwan, depicting the sock's hoax. I suspect some meating going on here. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk &bull;&#32;contribs) 03:43, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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DARC 12345 submits: Thank you for the chance to protest my innocence in this claim. I have been a Wikipedia contributor for a decade, with no accusation of this type in all that time. 1. I have never heard of the user Mchadaga 2. I have never colluded with any user to conduct sock puppetry 3. I have never heard of, nor edited the Wikipedia article Riek Machar 4. I did create a In Good Faith  stub for an article that was called Fudwan, because it was incidental to an article I was creating about something in South Sudan, but I have not worked on it since then. 5. I have never done sock puppetry. 6. If I was stupid enough to do sock puppetry I would not have used my regular account.

Thankyou DARC 12345

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 * The suspected sock hasn't been active for months. Closing without prejudice to reopening if the puppet becomes active again. Sro23 (talk) 21:06, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Looking at the focal point of a particular article: Franklin County, New South Wales
 * 19:39, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Bundunglong ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:39, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Florabel ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:39, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Papekura ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:39, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Saburra ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:38, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Lallal Parish (Franklin County), New South Wales ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:38, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Moolbong Parish (Franklin County), New South Wales ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:37, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Warragoodinia ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:37, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Kendal Parish (Franklin County), New South Wales ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:37, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Molesworth parish ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:36, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Merungle ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:36, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Goolagunni ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7
 * 19:36, 2 September 2019 diff hist +119‎ N Bellatherie ‎ ←Redirected page to Franklin County, New South Wales Tags: New redirect PHP7

edited by the current editor, then looking at the previous at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franklin_County,_New_South_Wales&oldid=839710095  by the earlier named editor

it is probably the most obvious re-visit of the earlier work.

Also editing articles that are then worked upon again - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euabalong_West&oldid=644939090 and then https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft%3ACagellico%2C_New_South_Wales&type=revision&diff= - the pre-occupation with 'parishes' of NSW is also a signature theme of both editor(s)

There are also a range of behavioural patterns between the 2018 editing and the 2019 editing that can be further described if required  JarrahTree 02:29, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

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This case is. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:55, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Stub maker 2000 has been indeffed for block evasion by ; I've blocked 110.174.62.147 for a month for the same reason. Unless it is now worth running check-user for other socks, this should probably be closed. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:17, 15 September 2019 (UTC)