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27 November 2014

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The theme of all this is Abigail Breslin and Michael Clifford (e.g., ). The named master and the first four socks have all been blocked by me as obvious. Of that group of five, the master is the oldest. However, afterwards I noticed there were several other possible socks (some more obvious than others) that had edited the Breslin Talk page. I haven't blocked those because they weren't quite as obvious to me, and in any event I knew I had to come here at that point. Thus, the second group of four puppets are not blocked. I have semi-protected both the article and the talk page as thus far, that is the only interest of the accounts.

I have not checked to see whether the named master is still the oldest account pending the outcome of this SPI. All of the unblocked socks have edited only today (November 27). However, one or more may have been created earlier in the day than the named master. Rachelg508, whose only edit is also today, was created on August 13, 2014. Thus, her account sat dormant for months.

I have requested a CU for two reasons. First, to see if the unblocked accounts are puppets (although I assume the blocked accounts will be confirmed) and, second, to make sure there are no sleepers like Rachel. Bbb23 (talk) 01:47, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * This appears to be some sort of coordinated vandal attack (not unlike a 4chan type scenario), with the offending edits coming from all over the place. Semi-protection is the way to go.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:01, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to block the unblocked accounts. They seem to be done now that the article and talk page are protected. Nor am I going to unblock the blocked accounts, but I could remove the tags. My inclination is not to because they point to here, and this investigation will fill in the blanks for other editors. What do you think?--Bbb23 (talk) 23:32, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd leave it status quo as you suggested. Hopefully the semi-protection will entice them to go play elsewhere, preferably away from Wikipedia. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:34, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Closing based on Ponyo's and my comments. Bbb23 (talk) 00:13, 28 November 2014 (UTC)