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Suspected sockmaster created page for Garbage Can Man, speedied as A7 web content with deleting admin User:Tokyogirl79 noting A11 concerns, several months ago. Account went dormant after page deleted, but returned to remove speedy tags from suspected sock Preston109876's page The Garbage Can Man Show for same web content.

Also of note, "Davey the Dolphin" is another work of Preston Hazard (the listed creator of "Garbage Can Man") according to this presumably self-created IMDB page. RA 0808 talkcontribs 21:21, 2 December 2016 (UTC); edited 04:50, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Has now removed speedy templates a second time . RA 0808  talkcontribs 21:26, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I have come across a few other suspected socks and have added them here... TJH2018 talk  22:52, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:03, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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BubbaMan123 (originally known as PeterJohnson123) created the non-notable Preston Hazard, The Garbage Can Man Show, and Pow Animation Studio articles (all deleted or in AfD). Most of the sockpuppet accounts follow a naming convention of 123.

71.88.55.177 has been active in the deletion discussions for these pages in an attempt to save them (Examples 1, 2) and has also worked to link them (Examples 1, 2, 3). Nearly all of its edits revolve around these pages.

Mr.Johnson123 has only removed a PROD on one of the BubbaMan123 articles (Example).

G-WIZ123 is another single purpose account active in these articles that follows the same naming convention of the other accounts.

24.43.218.2 is also only active in these articles and their promotion (example).

2603:3005:6F05:D200:BDED:9C63:1B2:D9BA only activity was to remove a PROD on one of these articles.

Update: I believe these accounts are controlled by the Daveydolphin sockmaster.

- GretLomborg (talk) 06:11, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the master:
 * Mr.Johnson123 is independently to the master.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Mr.Johnson123 is independently to the master.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

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User exhibits same pattern of self promotional article creation of some extremely non-notable works as previous socks. For instance, re-creation of deleted page The Garbage Can Man Show and subsequent promotion of it in. The new socks name also follows the same pattern as many of the previous ones.

User:Preston Hazard is also likely part of this sock ring, due to account naming and involvement with prior deleted articles associated with these socks (as shown on its talk page User_talk:Preston_Hazard).

Previous sockpuppets: User:BubbaMan123, User:Mr.Johnson123, User:G-WIZ123, User:The Garbage Can Man Show, User:Preston109876, and potentially others.

- GretLomborg (talk) 15:07, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

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bordering on ✅ that the following accounts are related: --Deskana (talk) 20:08, 21 August 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:21, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeffing sock with tag and closing.

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Recreating pages about the same non-notable topics: Preston Hazard and his works such as The Garbage Can Man Show, etc. on various wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikiquote, and Wikidata). Preson Hazard is a teenager from Connecticut who has been trying to use Wikipedia for more than a year to self-promote his animation videos on youtube.

Cactoboi1 created these drafts on the topics and also added this reference which seems to reference a youtube video by Preston Hazard. That account also uploaded this photo of Preston Hazard.

IIRC work on [] on wikiquote (now deleted)

Ben12312 edited [] the Preston Hazard wikiquote page. Also follows this persons previous account-naming pattern which typically included at "123."

TheCanonGuy uploaded many Preson Hazard photos to wikipedia (such as ). I have requested they all be deleted.

The IPs were used to create Wikidata items and have previously been involved in many of the same articles. GretLomborg (talk) 20:21, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * All three accounts are ✅ to each other. All old accounts are, but the behavior is very close; I consider this proven. ~ Rob 13 Talk 01:03, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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This is quite a blast from the past but they appear to be the same person, specifically the general interest in Preston hazard/Preston Hazard so much so that the articles are nearly identical to that of ie. He is a avid.... i'll also note that a set of ips in the same range and geolocation as priors in this archive created Fundamentally Cynical Praxidicae (talk) 10:36, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Closing without action - I'm not convinced these are the same person. My thoughts:
 * Past socks have been pretty singlemindedly interested in Preston Hazard, including adding his name to various lists. Not seen here.
 * The draft here is fairly different from past versions:
 * Hits a number of different "beats" than the past articles and doesn't include a bunch of the non-notable cruft that past versions have (like "uploaded pictures to the National Geographic photosharing site")
 * Ref style is different - this one mostly uses bare URLs, past versions used cite web
 * Infobox is different - past versions used spaces in param names and didn't have any empty params, this one uses underscores and does have empty params.
 * The only ref in common with previous drafts is the Amazon link for the Garbage Can Show or whatever it's called
 * This editor's grammar and spelling seems better than previous socks.

Of course, many of these changes can be explained by the fact that it's been something like three years since the last sock popped up, and Hazard doesn't seem especially notable, but I just don't see convincing behavioral evidence that they're the same person. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:12, 14 July 2020 (UTC)