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User:Danratedrko has already been blocked indefinitely for abusing the sockpuppet User:DS-616, which was confirmed by Checkuser, and had been blocked for personal attacks and disruptive editing. I believe Abc5274 is a sock. They have already been blocked for a week for disruptive editing. All three have the same general pattern of edits with abusive edit summaries, and removing criticism, as can be seen by just browsing their contributions. There are specific signs they are the same person:


 * Abc5274 has used the terms SMDH and Troll-worthy in edit summaries, , as did Danratedrko: ,.
 * Both have editted Wrestlemania 32, in particular to remove criticism. vs.
 * Danraterko as DS-616 made very few edits, including ones to How I Met Your Mother:, removing criticism. Abc5274 also edited the same page: , also removing criticism.
 * Both accounts also performed apparently innocuous edits to Batman: The Telltale Series:,.
 * The edit interactive utility: reveals that of the 61 edits for Abc5274, 5 were to articles also edited by DS-616 (aka danratedrko), and 20 on articles edited by the danratedrko account itself:.
 * All three accounts seem to mainly edit articles about professional wrestling or comic book related content.
 * Finally, danratedrko and DS-616 were blocked on 22 July 2016 and July 28 respectively., . Abc5274 started editing on August 2, so not long after, and all of their edits up to 20:00, August 3, 2016 only change 1 byte, (e.g. ) which makes it look like they are trying to disguise who they are, by not attracting attention, as all their edits after that are more substantial.

I hope that is enough to at least investigate. Please let me know if you need any more evidence, or you need clarification. Silverfish (talk) 13:38, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Certainly appears fishy. I think there's a high chance that a CU will return positive but I don't think guess work will do here. On the bright side, the user has stopped editing after a final warning.  QEDK ( T  &#9749;  C ) 18:49, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * - Socks need indefs.  QEDK  ( T  &#9749;  C ) 02:05, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Katietalk 23:21, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Everything good to go. Closing.  QEDK ( T  &#9749;  C ) 14:48, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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NTLS 82 so far has the same general pattern of editing as danratedrko and their socks, of removing sourced content from professional wrestling articles, and of abusive edit summaries. Also, they started editing with a series of minor edits to Rocky Steps, which is similar to what confirmed sockpuppet User:DS-616 did. User:Abc616, who seems to be a sockpuppet, also made similar edits to Rocky Steps, but has been indefinitely banned, so it doesn't seem to be useful to pursue further. Silverfish (talk) 23:27, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Also, they add reported to the end of edit summaries, whereas danratedrko also claimed to have reported edits to high-ups :, . These edits also show the removal of well-sourced content, which NTLS 82 shares. Silverfish (talk) 23:45, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Would a checkuser of NTLS 82 against User:Abc616 be possible? User:Abc616 has been blocked indefinely, and it seems clear from their editing pattern they are a sockpuppet of danratedrko. They use the terms SMDH and troll worthy:, , and their general pattern is to remove critical reviews and commentary from pop-culture articles, as is true of danratedrko, and NTLS 82. In particular, Abc616 edited [[How I Met Your Mother][, removing critical commentary: , as did danratedrko. Also, Abc616 follows the same naming scheme as danratedrko's socks, in particular Abc5274 and DS-616. Finally, for now, Abc5274 was banned on October 8, and Abc616 started editing later that day. [[User:Silverfish|Silverfish]] (talk) 17:18, 8 April 2017 (UTC).

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The previously blocked accounts in the archive are. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:24, 8 April 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:07, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeffing and closing.

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This user shares similar userpage and name to the previous one  Nickag989 talk 11:21, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Particularly given their edits to Rocky Steps, . Please block the new sock indefinitely Sir Sputnik (talk) 13:08, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
 * . Amortias (T)(C) 20:43, 7 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:38, 7 April 2018 (UTC)