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I suspect that all the accounts that I mentioned above are the sockpuppets of this user. There are several similarities in the editing style, and also interest in editing Indonesian sportspeople and beauty pageant related articles. One of the most obvious proofs is that adding File:Olympic rings.svg to the badminton related articles which has been reverted by some users. Thank you Stvbastian (talk) 14:46, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to Deanarthurl:
 * I've tagged the previously blocked account and blocked and tagged the unblocked account.
 * Abodelazeez is ✅ to Abdulaziz999982, whom I had already blocked as a separate master. To be clear, these accounts are ❌ to Deanarthurl. I've blocked and tagged the new account. Please create a new case for Abdulaziz999982.
 * Miftah98 is ❌ to either master.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:09, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 01:41, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Miftah98 is ❌ to either master.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:09, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 01:41, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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These accounts jointly create computer translated articles in multiple languages, with the same Indonesion editors editing in the first few minutes of creation Spanish, Ukrainian, Swedish. Dutch checkuser found that they use the same ip-adresses. Could be sock abuse due to contributing to the same page with multiple accounts or an undisclosed sharing of ip adresses. I am involved as admin on the Dutch Wikipedia. I think it is good to look into other projects where they have more edits, such as the English Wikipedia, to get advice on how to proceed. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 11:46, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to each other + and to . .  Please move to Sockpuppet investigations/Deanarthurl.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:40, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 20:52, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Lock request filed on meta. The SandDoctor  Talk 18:19, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

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The latest account being used is Shuji Matomoto's, which is currently blocked for edit warring and vandalism. See Shuji Matomoto's edit history here, and compare it with Martina Mae Diaz's edit history here —these two accounts, I strongly believe, are both run by Seandotng, based on their edit history here as well.

Note the obvious similarities among articles being chosen and edited by all three accounts, and the obvious similarity in commenting/describing/making notes on edits and activities in terms of diction/word choice, text cases (capitalization), and how they construct notes/comments on edits/activities.

Please investigate. This account or group of accounts has been harassing editors as can be seen on their edit histories, making baseless accusations on editors and their edits, as well as name-calling. All these could be checked by looking into their edit histories, which I've provided above. Thanks. Migsmigss (talk) 19:03, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

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, thanks! Hope the following are sufficient:

1. Similarities in edit/revert comments, calling/generalizing everything as "VANDALISM!" (usually also in ALL CAPS, and on the same/similar articles/pages):

Seandotng: here, here, and here.

Martina Mae Diaz: here, here, and here.

Shuji Matomoto: here. (Relatively newer account compared to the two, and is now currently temporarily blocked for edit warring.)

2. Similarities in diction/word choice and sentence construction in leaving edit comments/notes (often with unfriendly/disrespectful tone, sometimes even a personal attack on the editor), mostly in ALL CAPS, too:

Martina Mae Diaz: "... PAGPAG TROLLS"

Shuji Matomoto: "... MIGSPIGGYPAGPAG", "... PUTANG INA PAGPAG!", and "...VANDALISM BY USER PIGSPIGS..."

Seandotng, who I strongly believe is the sockpuppeteer, also stopped editing articles/pages being edited lately/more recently by Martina Mae Diaz and Shuji Matomoto, a most natural course of action when it's the sockpuppeteer's account. But all of these accounts have mostly edited articles/pages of or relating to beauty pageant titleholders from Indonesia: Frederika Alexis Cull, Kevin Lilliana, Jolene Marie Rotinsulu, and Jesica Fitriana, as examples.

3. Seandotng had also brought up nationality of editors several times as a reason to back up their opinion on biased editing done by said editors, all without proof/evidence, as could be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, just to provide a few examples. These are baseless accusations, and I could treat them too, as attack on my person. These posts were, by the way, deleted by editors/admins who saw that they were unsubstantiated, and that all were baseless accusations and attacks.

(After this specific discussion I had with Seandotng, there is an observable lying low of sorts in his edit activity, but then, around the same or similar time Martina Mae Diaz started making edits, followed much more recently by Shuji Matomoto's edits.)

This same activity/course of action of being too stuck with editors' nationality and its relation to their edits (they view it as a factor of bias, without proof or evidence) is shared by Seandotng (as demonstrated above) and both Martina Mae Diaz and Shuji Matomoto:

Martina Mae Diaz: "Vandalism by IP address User; User:Migsmigss detected from Philippenis country..."

Shuji Matomoto: "VANDALISM BY USER PIGSPIGS FROM THE PHILIPPINES"

These two sockpuppets also share the same disrespectful way of commenting/leaving notes on edits/reverts; even their diction/word choice and sentence construction are obviously the same/similar:

Martina Mae Diaz: "Not needed, youre fake admin of WIKIPEDIA! PAGPAG TROLLS", "I did not need Fake admin or wikipedians like you puting trashy comment on my talk page!", "Bullshit reason!"

Shuji Matomoto: "STOP SPAMMING ON MY TALKPAGE! PUTANG INA PAGPAG!", "VANDALISM BY USER PIGSPIGS FROM THE PHILIPPINES"

You may please have a look at their entire edit histories for more insight on glaringly obvious similarities.

Seandotng has of course not demonstrated the unruly/disrespectful and xenophobic behavior above, unlike Martina Mae Diaz and Shuji Matomoto, but not before going to such lengths to attack my supposed nationality and bias because of my supposed nationality, all without proof/evidence, as could be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Those are what I could supply for now. I hope the above information would be helpful you in your investigation. Thanks.

Migsmigss (talk) 20:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

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Contribution histories are not good enough. You must provide comparison diffs for each of the three users showing behavioral similarities.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:49, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I started running a check based on socking at one of the beauty pageant articles that turned out to be related to this. Seems to be related to this case: Sockpuppet investigations/Deanarthurl. Will update once I finish sorting through everything. ST47 (talk) 20:23, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, so the following accounts are ✅ to each other. It is very likely that they are related to Sockpuppet investigations/Deanarthurl based on the checkuser log and behavior, although I haven't run a check in that case before, so I don't know if the user agents match.
 * Let's merge this case to Sockpuppet investigations/Deanarthurl. ST47 (talk) 20:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Requested for glock. ST47 (talk) 21:00, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the assistance, ST47. I appreciate it.Migsmigss (talk) 21:07, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Let's merge this case to Sockpuppet investigations/Deanarthurl. ST47 (talk) 20:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Requested for glock. ST47 (talk) 21:00, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the assistance, ST47. I appreciate it.Migsmigss (talk) 21:07, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Let's merge this case to Sockpuppet investigations/Deanarthurl. ST47 (talk) 20:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Requested for glock. ST47 (talk) 21:00, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the assistance, ST47. I appreciate it.Migsmigss (talk) 21:07, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Case moved. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 04:16, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK similar editing focus on beauty pageants and strongly similar edit summaries, all-caps with signature accusation of "vandalism!"
 * "For 100th time. DO NOT ADD ISRAEL AND NORWAY! THE ORGANIZATION ALREADY STATED THAT THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN JOINING MISS WORLD THIS YEAR AGAIN!"
 * "Why adding Miss International USA to Miss World USA?This is vandalism!DO NOT ADD NON SENSE THINGS!AGAIN,DO NOT ADD NON SENSE THINGS!"
 * "‎Vandalism in Miss Universe page!"

End of initial report ☆ Bri (talk) 22:47, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Singular interest in beauty pageants and all-caps vandalism accusations are indeed reminiscent of past socks, especially . My biggest concern is that they're exclusively editing from mobile, my quick skim of the archives didn't show that behvaior. CUs - I know that all known socks are stale, but requesting CU on the off chance that there's something in the checkuser logs on these past socks. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:51, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The logs are unhelpful or cast doubt on a positive conclusion here. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 01:38, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * All right then. I'm going to close without action at this time. Given the newest account's behavior, they may need a block for their behavior and interactions with others, but that's not a matter for SPI. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:48, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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I am filing in this SPI due to similarities with Pierre Nguyen which is CU blocked at this SPI, but this association is tentative, what set me off was the similarities of Hoangminhloc and Kannweame7961.

Both Hoangminhloc and Kannweame7961 are creating "country/territory at major beauty pageants" articles with nearly identical formatting. Some of the articles created are for really oddball and obscure sub-state locations, e.g. Northern Mariana Islands at major beauty pageants (unincorporated territory US territory with 50 thousand residents) by Kannweame7961 and Turks and Caicos Islands at major beauty pageants ( British Overseas Territory with 42 thousand residents) by Hoangminhloc. These type of obscure pageant articles have been showing up on the new page feed in the last couple months, triggering my suspicion (possibly also other accounts, but these are the two I found now).

Beyond the identical, and obscure, pageant articles, both accounts intersect on quite a few articles, particularly given their fairly low edit count (459 & 227 edits).

The listed IPs are obvious in terms of them jumping into these articles.

CU to confirm, at least the association between both accounts, and see if other accounts are involved.  Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 15:28, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * is there any sign of proxy or VPN use? Kannweame7961 and Hoangminhloc are continuing in their creation of very similar articles, and their time cards Kannweame7961 TC Hoangminhloc TC indicate very similar editing times.-- Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 17:02, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Eostrix - Looking at the geolocation and WHOIS information for each of the IP addresses that came up in the checks, I would say that VPN usage is not likely.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:51, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * All of the accounts appear or ❌ to one another.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   03:20, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:03, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Migsmigss (talk) 12:43, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * - can you give us something to go on here? When filing an SPI you need to provide evidence to back up your assertion of sockpuppetry - simply listing a user and "letting us figure it out" is no good. Everything is stale here so I don't think CU is going to help - not that I'd be running one without evidence anyway. firefly  ( t · c ) 16:22, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Please re-file if someone wants to provide some, but I'm not wading through 1,600 edits looking.  (I admit sometimes a handwave at a 3 edit account is enough, but even that's not optimal.  And we don't even have a handwave at a case here.)  Closed without prejudice to an evidence based filing. Courcelles (talk) 14:14, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * (see comments above) — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 09:53, 9 August 2023 (UTC)