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22 August 2014

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I think that this is the only sock, but a search might not be a terrible idea if others think it is warranted. Basically, back in January/February User:DrexMafia created an article for TransTales Entertainment and The Secret Princess. They both went through deletion (see here and here) and both were deleted for a lack of notability. Recently User:NSNAA recreated the articles (the name for the company was changed slightly to Transtales Entertainment), which are largely the same as they were when they were deleted. The TTE article is identical, the Secret Princess is very close. I was originally just thinking that this was a case of meatpuppetry, but then I saw this page on Wikimedia Commons, which was created by DrexMafia. I want to note that DrexMafia was temporarily blocked from editing because he was repeatedly trying to re-create The Secret Princess and he was being disruptive by removing AfD templates. I have a feeling that this is him trying to evade detection (and possibly because he thinks he is still blocked). I'd like to make sure. He hasn't been active on Wikipedia, but he has been active on WC- the Transtales Entertainment page was created just a day before the pages for TTE and TSP were created on Wikipedia. I've salted the original TTE page that was deleted and I've marked the other two pages for deletion as a repost. If they aren't salted by the closing admin, I'll probably salt them myself just to prevent re-creation and further issues. Mostly at this point I just want confirmation that these are the same person trying to go undetected. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:36, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * The only thing that really worries me about not blocking the other accounts is that if this is a separate person, they're very clearly linked with DrexMafia and seemed to be working in tandem to re-create the articles. I just kind of worry that they will potentially become disruptive. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:22, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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. There's a lot of evidence to show that DerekMafia was disruptive. However, there's considerably less evidence tying Derek to NSNAA, particularly because NSNAA has made only two edits, each creating one article. If a CU is not possible, behaviorally I'm not inclined to block, partly because there's been no active disruption here for quite some time. However, if a CU could be done based on Derek's apparent edit at Commons (I don't have admin privileges at Commons), which was recent (he's stale here), I would endorse that. Cross-wiki abuse is also more serious. So my endorsement is a partial endorsement and question to the checkuser who looks at this.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:44, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * considering you have checkuser privileges on Commons and here, I'd thought I'd ping you about this slightly unusual case. PhilKnight (talk) 19:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Dropping a note to say I've seen this and will take a look tomorrow. Tiptoety  talk 02:45, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅. Tiptoety  talk 15:22, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've indeffed and tagged both accounts. I assume that anything that needs to be dealt with on another wiki will be done.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:01, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

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Recently a new account,, signed up to create an article for The Secret Princess, which was deleted at AfD for a lack of notability for an unreleased film. It finally got a release in February and someone recreated it at The Secret Princess Movie, as DrexMafia tried to recreate it so frequently that the article was finally salted. He also tried to create one for the company,TransTales Entertainment, which was deleted at Articles for deletion/TransTales Entertainment and was also salted.

This article bears some marked similarities to the prior version, notably that they used the same copyvio plot synopsis. The arguments are also somewhat similar in places, as they tend to argue that the film should be kept because it's obviously important to the general public, an argument made by DrexMafia. Another piece of evidence is that the new user's name is nearly identical to a confirmed sock of DrexMafia's, NSNAA. (I've blocked them as a result.) The IPs are likely him as well, given that they all tend to make the same argument and some of them appear to be editing from nearly the same area.

Something else to indicate shenanigans and sockpuppetry is this edit by 2a02:c7d:51f5:7b00:715c:ff57:257f:f8ec, who tried forging votes by and someone who is apparently not registered, RightOnTheTin. If they're willing to create fake "votes" then sockpuppetry is not even a stretch for them.

I'm aware that DrexMafia is stale now, so this will have to be done based on behaviors, but I think that there's enough evidence to suggest that this is the same lot. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:02, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Named account is, IPs are stale now. Closing. GABgab 03:11, 14 October 2016 (UTC)