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The master only edited Everton FC related articles and was indefinately blocked last week after edit warring and making personal attacks repeatedly. Now after Evertons most recent football match (the first after the indef block of the master) a new account editing only Everton FC related articles was created and it is to me an obvious sock. For example if you look at this edit from the master, where he changed the date of nationalteam-update parameter in the infobox (to an incorrect one), the sock made the exact same thing in this edit. Qed237&#160;(talk) 10:02, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:25, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

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I am 50/50 on this investigation. Although they have updated Everton stats, I have used a tool found on the "My Royal Young" investigation and discovered that both have edited on pages which are of current/past Everton players. The main point is that the page Seamus Coleman had a lot of edits on the timestamp changes which was altered to 1 July 2017 (dmy format), but the same Dublin IP user, whose IP has changed—which is normal—have changed it back to the "correct" dates on when they were updated which caused me confusion. That has been reverted and gone into double cycles of 1 July 2017 → "correct dates" countless number of times. The Dublin IP has concern about it, I was interested if that is a possible sockpuppet and see if an investigation can take us there. Talk:Séamus Coleman has a discussion about infobox dates for the fact that the Dublin IP has concerned that Davekgoodnight may be a sock. Iggy (talk) 21:37, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Both accounts edit-warring over timestamps on Séamus Coleman -  and both accounts using near identical edit summaries -  . WP:DUCK; please indef the sockpuppet. Sro23 (talk) 00:06, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Found all of the edits that have the timestamp updated without app updates:                            

All of this was done on day one of the Davekgoodnight era on Wikipedia. Iggy (talk) 17:43, 9 November 2017 (UTC)


 * One thing I would like to point out is that other monitor like Mattythewhite did the editing on infobox like my way. It does not necessary need the player to physically play a match to update the infobox as both career and international timestamps read data updated as of, for example 1 July 2017. They are showing facts and those are not made up by me. So it looks like Iggy believes in the Irish lad and accuses me as a sock. Thank you very much. Davekgoodnight (talk) 18:38, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * This could be an excellent clue that I've found near the end of Efc1878 era & Davekgoodknight similar editing... Iggy (talk) 18:49, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Iggy you want me out you get your wish. I reiterated that I had done nothing wrong on all those pages. Some admin even did in the same way. All infobox statistics and timestamps are done through (～～～～～) They are facts. Give yourself a clap here Sherlock. So long. PS: sorry never meant to be rude here Iggy. Davekgoodnight (talk) 19:20, 9 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I've reviewed the case independently of (as I do before taking any clerk recommended block.) I concur with their findings that there is enough here for an indefinite behavioral sockpuppetry block. Davekgoodnight is . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:00, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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Reverted same type of edits on the Seamus Coleman page whilst logging out. Geolocate, e.g. here says this IP is located in the same part of China as the previous socks like 210.3.99.147 who persistently undid editor's reverting as they believed the IP is a sock, back in May 2017. This was done between 3 and 6 November. Iggy (talk) 12:54, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * Re-report when the IP's become active again. Sro23 (talk) 21:53, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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On behalf of, the anonymous user has had a suspicion that the user Rr126 is a sock of the banned Efc1878 which I understand now why the master was indef. blocked in the first place.

this shows that Rr126 has not edited these pages first, the timeframes are not overlapping, I will also show you a couple of differences by Rr126 and homepages of the recent two socks -, , plus  &. The last two were page creations of just a short sentence.

In any case, due to the Sock policy, this user will be indef blocked due to sock puppetry. The Editorinteract.py when clicked on the timeline feature shows similar edit summaries shows the updating of stats. Iggy (Swan) 11:34, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:29, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Rr126 is blocked by and ✅ to.
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:12, 2 February 2018 (UTC)