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01 September 2015

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Articles related to Blacksnipe Hitro   talk  20:34, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Comment- Diffs are not possible because most of their contributions are deleted. Hitro   talk  19:03, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I believe deleted pages make good resemblance for them to be the sockpuppeteer and the sockpuppet. They both are or were trying to make article related to Blacksnipe Records. Hitro   talk  19:28, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  12:16, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - . Please, indef Daxisblade. This IP: was also used by him .  Vanjagenije   (talk)  20:53, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Neil has already indefinitely blocked the puppet. I'm leaving it in its present status because it hasn't been tagged. My guess is you want it tagged, but I'll let you take care of it and close the case.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:11, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:00, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

17 January 2016

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Recreated both Blacksnipe Records and Blacksnipe Entertainment (Music Label), as well as an article on Cyril Ogwu a founder of the former, who may or may not be this user. Crow Caw  21:36, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I added who removed speedy tags from Blacksnipe Records twice.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  00:04, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * Question for future reference, shouldn't your comment of adding another user be under comments by clerk, checkuser and patrolling admin? Dat GuyTalkContribs 16:46, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't know.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:43, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Given the 2 seemingly related accounts, do you think a CU is warranted? The standard behavior of this sock has generally not been to have more than 1 active, but this looks remarkably suspicious. Also, the sockmaster is approaching staleness, so a CU might help to establish a known baseline? Just thoughts, thanks! Crow  Caw  23:26, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sockmaster and the previous socks are .  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:33, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Both Elvisdave and GregDaniel are blocked and tagged. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * just deleted another recreation of the Media company. Suggest adding that creator to the socklist, and possibly breaking out the salt shaker? Crow  Caw  22:41, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It was Elvisdave, which is when I realise that the two had not been blocked yet. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare Elvisdave and GregDaniel to each other.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:34, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ to be each other, and also to be the original sockmaster. Sadly, a sleeper sweep is futile given the source - good duck hunt.  &mdash; Coren (talk) 04:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:02, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

05 February 2016

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Block evasion. First and only edit was to recreate salted spam article Blacksnipe Entertainment at Blacksnipe Entertainment Label. NeemNarduni2 (talk) 15:58, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged based on behavior. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:17, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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A new account has been created solely to recreate Blacksnipe Records, now back to Afd at Articles for deletion/Blacksnipe Records (2nd nomination), where I see it was speedily deleted one year ago as CSD G5 "Created by a banned or blocked user (Darcruz iyari) in violation of ban or block." (Blacksnipe Entertainment (Music Label), Blacksnipe Entertainment and Blacksnipe Entertainment Label have all been recreated multiple times, too. For a new user to pop solely to recreate certainly raises a flag for me. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:46, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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Blaksteve234 is a SPA, writing articles about Blacksnipe Records, Blacksnipe Entertainment Company, and Blaze Entertainment. Those are all related companies. Those were the same articles previously written and edited by Darcruz iyari. I can't supply diffs for the two deleted ones, or for the earlier deleted ones written by Darcruz Yari. Darcruz Yari wrote the original version of Blacksnipe Records in 2015 and recreated it three times under their own name and subsequently under sock names including Daxisblade and Elvisdave. Here is the history for Blacksnipe Entertainment Company:. Blacksnipe Entertainment Company is another name for Blacksnipe Records and is currently at AfD. MelanieN (talk) 23:41, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Oops, I see this is a duplicate report. Anyhow, I have gone ahead and indeffed Blaksteve234 per DUCK. I also salted Blacksnipe Records and will investigate whether the others need to be salted as well. --MelanieN (talk) 23:50, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Already blocked. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:27, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating Cyril Ogwu, just like a previous sock. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 18:48, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Their edits show it's an experienced editor, in spite of being a less than two weeks old account with less than 50 edits, even having started to review drafts made by others... - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 19:00, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ... and this edit shows that Libertydavid is familiar with sockpuppet investigations and CU-checks. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 19:12, 21 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Being a "prophet" with an own church, and perhaps also an own TV-station, seems to be the best way to make money fast in Nigeria today, judging by the number of articles about "prophets" living in luxury that are created here, and the SPIs relating to Nigerian "prophets" that exist here (see the one about Isaiah Ogedegbe...), more lucrative than owning a record company. So I'm not the least surprised by their change of career... - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 21:26, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * The articleCyril Ogwu bears no resemblance to the deletion article of the same title, and appears to be about a different person. Since that is the only evidence offered to connect the supposed sockpuppet to the master, there is no case. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:12, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this. The two versions of the article are about the same person. According to the archive of this page, the previous versions were abou the founder of Blacksnipe Records. The twitter feed linked from the current draft, features a tweet from 23 June 2017, which is identical to the only tweet from Blacknipe Records (link). Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:39, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Reopening to give, , and any other interested contributors a chance to hash out the above disagreement. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 02:57, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Than you for calling attention to my mistake, and  for reopening the case. I am guilty of forming an opinion hastily. For some reason that I don't now remember, when I looked at this I was in a hurry, and seeing at a quick glance that the old article was about "an entertainment intrapreneur [sic], talent manager, and record label executive" while the new one was about a self-styled "prophet", and that they did not contain similar career information, I concluded that they were about two different people. Looking more carefully now, though, I see that the two are clearly about the same person, with the same middle name and date of birth, and coming from the same place, even though the two articles describe two completely different aspects of his career. However, I don't see any other connection between the two accounts, apart from creating two almost totally different articles about the same person. That is not to say that they aren't the same person, just to say I don't see any evidence that they are. I also do agree that Libertydavid looks somewhat suspicious, so maybe someone else can come up with something more definite. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:07, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * While I still have my suspicions, I have to agree that there isn't enough evidence here to conclude definitively that this is the same person. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:07, 13 August 2018 (UTC)