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This editor's main activity is translating articles from German Wikipedia. I checked the last several and most were deleted on German Wikipedia for being created by Friedjof, a blocked user, or his socks. Friedjof was banned on dewiki for source forgery and has been socking there. Examples of O-b's questionable creations: The articles are obviously translations, although not credited to dewiki, the articles are almost identical or at least large parts are identical. Either Outdoor-bro is violating Wikipedia licensing or they are Friedjof. Friedjof is not blocked on enwiki, but at least this looks like abuse of multiple accounts to evade scrutiny. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  01:06, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Susanne Gemeinhardt-Seitz, created by Outdoor-bro on 2021-12-18. Draftified on dewiki on the same day (see and )
 * Tom Rohrböck, created by Outdoor-bro on 15 December 2021. Draftified on dewiki on Jun 27, 2021.
 * Siegfried Fink (forest ecologist), created by O-b on 4 October. Draftified on dewiki on 22 May
 * Irina Kummert, created by O-b on 28 September. Draftified on dewiki on 14 Sep 2021
 * Sven Liebich, created by O-b on 23 September. Draftified on dewiki on 5 May 2021

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 * I'm told you read German. Could you translate the log messages at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_Gemeinhardt-Seitz for me?  Google auto-translate comes up with gibberish like "(shift remainder)" and "postponed the side" :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 21:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * On German wiki the article was first moved to "Susanne G." due to the wiki's privacy rules for BLP, and then draftified. After the move, the redirect was deleted also for privacy reasons. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  21:40, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @RoySmith: Sure.
 * 10:14, 18 December 2021 Baumfreund-FFM deleted page Susanne Gemeinhardt-Seitz (Remainder from move) [i.e. "redirect left behind from page move"]
 * 08:47, 18 December 2021 Fiona B. moved page Susanne Gemeinhardt-Seitz to Susanne G. (Violation of WP:BIO, the full name is not [to be] publicly mentioned)
 * The second one could technically be interpreted to mean that this individual's name isn't public knowledge, but considering that w:de:WP:BIO explicitly states that editors should be very cautious when it comes to mentioning the full names of people under criminal investigation, it seems to function as an imperative mood. --Blablubbs (talk) 21:45, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see buidhe beat me to it :) --Blablubbs (talk) 21:46, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Danke (both of you). -- RoySmith (talk) 21:47, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * While it's pretty clear that Friedjof and Outdoor-Bro are the same person, the fact that they were blocked as socks on dewiki doesn't affect what happens here on enwiki. I don't see any violation of WP:ILLEGIT, so I'm going to close this with no action.  If they're generating translations from other projects without providing the appropriate attributions, that's a problem, but it's not socking.  They should be pointed at Help:Translation to learn about our requirements. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:23, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I do see this a violation of WP:SCRUTINY for the record. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  21:29, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I hear you. This one was a bit of an edge case for me, but I asked around my fellow CUs for additional opinions and this is where we ended up.  I think the way to look at this is to ask how would we treat this if we had no knowledge of what happened on dewiki?  We'd say, "It's a clean start, they're fine".  I know that's not entirely realistic, but the theory is that each wiki is an independent project with their own policies, governance, etc.
 * An alternative way to look at it is to consider how global locks work. In general, accounts get glocked when they're found to be socking on multiple wikis.  So, if we blocked them because they were blocked on dewiki, then somebody would look at that and say, "Hey, they're blocked for socking on two different wikis, they should be glocked".  But, in reality, our block would have just been based on their block.  Well, in any case, I do respect your opinion, so I figured you deserved a deeper explanation.  I am sure they will get additional scrutiny in the future, and for sure, my declining to block them for socking isn't a get out of jail free card for violating other policies. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:26, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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This list of socks has been checkuser-confirmed to in a dewiki SPI case (confirmation diff, case page).

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As we lack checkuser evidence for the Bestof2022-Friedjof connection, yet have checkuser evidence for Bestof2022's sockpuppetry, I find tagging confirmed "Friedjof" socks difficult. Can we perhaps rename Sockpuppet investigations/Friedjof, its archive and the associated category to "Bestof2022", and then properly tag which of the socks are confirmed and which are suspected? Friedjof, to my understanding, is "suspected" or "proven". ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:08, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Local accounts created where missing, all blocked, and due to an interesting bug (T305008), I was autoblocked and might even appear in the checkuser results for Leanderthaler and HB9KOP. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:50, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  08:49, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * - I've taken a look at this, and lots of these accounts do confirm to each other, as well as to other accounts that are already tagged as socks of Friedjof, but don't have time to complete a full sweep right now. I'll come back to it later unless someone else checks first.   Girth Summit  (blether)  09:08, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, coming back to this now. I haven't come across any obvious unblocked accounts yet - a couple of 'maybe' cases, but I might keep digging just to make sure. On the question of how to tag, I'm not convinced there would be much in the way of benefit to making this more complicated than it is, especially if we are confident about the connection between Outdoor-Bro/Bestof2022 and Freidjof. Pinging, who made the original blocks here - do you think there's any point in changing this as ToBeFree suggests? Girth Summit  (blether)  17:05, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * sockpuppet can accept complex options, such as tagging someone as a confirmed sock of A and a suspected sock of B, but this can get overcomplicated and bureaucratic. I don't use this functionality all that often any more, though it can be useful to track which socks are confirmed to whom.  In the end, though, I don't think these complex chains of "confirmed to X, suspected to Y, and proven to Z" are a significant improvement to just saying "X is a sock puppet of Y" in plain English.  But, then again, people seem to get more confused when I try to break free of Wikipedia's bureaucracy and jargon by speaking in normal, jargon-free English without templates. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:00, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The main benefit I see of correct tagging is to inform future investigations. When I'm checking a case, I usually start by going to the archive, looking for all the confirmed socks that are not stale, and using those as my baseline for comparison.  If I can't find enough confirmed socks to give me a good baseline, I'll move on to proven, then suspected, with decreasing levels of confidence at each step. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:12, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, - I'd really appreciate your input here as you are (a) a German speaker, and (b) a much better SPI clerk than me. Please consider how best to record this case going forward. I can tell you that the following accounts are ✅ to one another:
 * I can also say that the following accounts are to the above group (as in, likely enough for me to block the new account ):
 * The following accounts are to the above; the CU data confirms them to one another, and given the editing history, I am pretty confident that they are related:
 * And, to top it off, the following account and their socks are almost certainly the same person, but this is based on article overlap rather than CU data:
 * Happy Easter? Seriously, if you think I'm taking the piss, just say so, but I have great respect for your view on how to archive stuff like this, and I think you'd do a beter job of it than me. Feel free to ping me if anything isn't clear, or to e-mail me with an entirely justifiable off-wiki personal attack if you think this is an unreasonable request. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  19:11, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for checking and considering the renaming suggestion. It doesn't matter much, I just found myself unable to properly tag the socks without using multiple templates.
 * is, hm, somehow famous on- and off-wiki and known as a person. Their writing quality and style are almost guaranteed to differ from Friedjof's/Bestof2022's in a way that could only be explained by extremely effortful, long-time disguise that is practically impossible to have happened. If there is no strong CU evidence for a connection between Olaf Kosinsky and Friedjof/Bestof2022, this theory should probably be abandoned. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:58, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit: Thank you for the nice words – I'll put this on my to-do list for this weekend. Looks doable with a few histmerges, though I might still take you up on the e-mail offer in case the script crashes in the middle of the process or something. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:34, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , thanks for agreeing to take a look at this. e-mailed me with some doubts about the connection to Olaf Kosinsky, so I'd like to expand on that a bit. While investigating the ranges involved, I came across a number of instances where the person behind this sockfarm was logged out, and editing articles which had been created by Olaf Kosinsky, and which had no other significant contributions. I noted that Kosinsky was blocked for sockpuppetry, and joined the dots, but perhaps I should have been more circumspect - it's entirely possible that this is a different person, who perhaps occasionally acts for the same clients. Looking at the CU logs for Kosinsky, I'm seeing a different set of ranges. Worth looking at, but if the behaviour doesn't match then they're probably unconnected.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Noting that I haven't forgotten about this, just been far busier than I expected. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Far, far busier actually. My apologies for the delay. Merged into Friedjof (the oldest account), and retagged everyone. No action on Olaf Kosinsky from my side for now – the logged-out editing connection is intriguing, but I'm extremely hesitant to merge based on evidence I cannot see; no objections if someone else wants to make that call, though. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:37, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I can also say that the following accounts are to the above group (as in, likely enough for me to block the new account ):
 * The following accounts are to the above; the CU data confirms them to one another, and given the editing history, I am pretty confident that they are related:
 * And, to top it off, the following account and their socks are almost certainly the same person, but this is based on article overlap rather than CU data:
 * Happy Easter? Seriously, if you think I'm taking the piss, just say so, but I have great respect for your view on how to archive stuff like this, and I think you'd do a beter job of it than me. Feel free to ping me if anything isn't clear, or to e-mail me with an entirely justifiable off-wiki personal attack if you think this is an unreasonable request. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  19:11, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for checking and considering the renaming suggestion. It doesn't matter much, I just found myself unable to properly tag the socks without using multiple templates.
 * is, hm, somehow famous on- and off-wiki and known as a person. Their writing quality and style are almost guaranteed to differ from Friedjof's/Bestof2022's in a way that could only be explained by extremely effortful, long-time disguise that is practically impossible to have happened. If there is no strong CU evidence for a connection between Olaf Kosinsky and Friedjof/Bestof2022, this theory should probably be abandoned. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:58, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit: Thank you for the nice words – I'll put this on my to-do list for this weekend. Looks doable with a few histmerges, though I might still take you up on the e-mail offer in case the script crashes in the middle of the process or something. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:34, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , thanks for agreeing to take a look at this. e-mailed me with some doubts about the connection to Olaf Kosinsky, so I'd like to expand on that a bit. While investigating the ranges involved, I came across a number of instances where the person behind this sockfarm was logged out, and editing articles which had been created by Olaf Kosinsky, and which had no other significant contributions. I noted that Kosinsky was blocked for sockpuppetry, and joined the dots, but perhaps I should have been more circumspect - it's entirely possible that this is a different person, who perhaps occasionally acts for the same clients. Looking at the CU logs for Kosinsky, I'm seeing a different set of ranges. Worth looking at, but if the behaviour doesn't match then they're probably unconnected.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Noting that I haven't forgotten about this, just been far busier than I expected. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Far, far busier actually. My apologies for the delay. Merged into Friedjof (the oldest account), and retagged everyone. No action on Olaf Kosinsky from my side for now – the logged-out editing connection is intriguing, but I'm extremely hesitant to merge based on evidence I cannot see; no objections if someone else wants to make that call, though. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:37, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for checking and considering the renaming suggestion. It doesn't matter much, I just found myself unable to properly tag the socks without using multiple templates.
 * is, hm, somehow famous on- and off-wiki and known as a person. Their writing quality and style are almost guaranteed to differ from Friedjof's/Bestof2022's in a way that could only be explained by extremely effortful, long-time disguise that is practically impossible to have happened. If there is no strong CU evidence for a connection between Olaf Kosinsky and Friedjof/Bestof2022, this theory should probably be abandoned. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:58, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * @Girth Summit: Thank you for the nice words – I'll put this on my to-do list for this weekend. Looks doable with a few histmerges, though I might still take you up on the e-mail offer in case the script crashes in the middle of the process or something. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:34, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , thanks for agreeing to take a look at this. e-mailed me with some doubts about the connection to Olaf Kosinsky, so I'd like to expand on that a bit. While investigating the ranges involved, I came across a number of instances where the person behind this sockfarm was logged out, and editing articles which had been created by Olaf Kosinsky, and which had no other significant contributions. I noted that Kosinsky was blocked for sockpuppetry, and joined the dots, but perhaps I should have been more circumspect - it's entirely possible that this is a different person, who perhaps occasionally acts for the same clients. Looking at the CU logs for Kosinsky, I'm seeing a different set of ranges. Worth looking at, but if the behaviour doesn't match then they're probably unconnected.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Noting that I haven't forgotten about this, just been far busier than I expected. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Far, far busier actually. My apologies for the delay. Merged into Friedjof (the oldest account), and retagged everyone. No action on Olaf Kosinsky from my side for now – the logged-out editing connection is intriguing, but I'm extremely hesitant to merge based on evidence I cannot see; no objections if someone else wants to make that call, though. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:37, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Checked per the block on dewiki. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:14, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Swissbike is ✅ by way of a handful of other CU-confirmed accounts (,, couple others). I also have as confirmed, they were previously blocked based on the cross-wiki findings. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
On 9 April, the previous Friedjof sock User:Swissbike was blocked. On 10 April, Cadyone was created. Not only do they share the Friedjof interest in extreme right politics in Germany (see e.g. their creation Bernd Schmitt (activist)), but also the interest in bikes (see the edit history and name of Swissbike, and then see CadyOne's edits to Felt Bicycles, this, or Shimano (which was also a topic of interest to Outdoor-bro, another confirmed Friedjof sock). Finally, while Friedjof created articles like Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, CadyOne has a clear interest in topics like Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Three distinct topic matches in such a short career (plus the account creation date) = clear sock. Fram (talk) 09:17, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:39, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ to multiple previous socks including and . Also confirmed are:
 * I don't see any other unblocked accounts. Will block etc. Girth Summit  (blether)  14:46, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - I've blocked without tags. Please would a clerk please look at the tags in the archive (which seems a bit inconsistent?) and tag appropriately. These accounts are confirmed to one another, and to / cluster. Thanks  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:52, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged,, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 19:53, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - I've blocked without tags. Please would a clerk please look at the tags in the archive (which seems a bit inconsistent?) and tag appropriately. These accounts are confirmed to one another, and to / cluster. Thanks  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:52, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged,, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 19:53, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created the day after the previous socks were blocked. Rapidly starts creating new articles, with e.g. German "activists" (a typical topic for the previous socks), and already shares a completely unrelated article with earlier sock Bestof2022, and 2 with other sock Outdoor-Bro. Achieving this in their first 70 edits without being a sock would be quite an accomplishment... Fram (talk) 14:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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-- RoySmith (talk) 14:59, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 14:48, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * These are both ✅
 * Blocked and tagged, glocks requested. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:02, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
User:Wirtschaftsinfos was just confirmed per deWP checkuser to be the latest sockpuppet of Friedjof, related to already blocked sockpuppets User:Swissbike an User:Otzyvat.

You might want to check if there are further sockpuppets in enWP. Apparently Friedjof is turning to enWP more often after being locally banned in deWP last month. --Johannnes89 (talk) 07:37, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * - for local sleeper check, given the history of extensive socking. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 13:24, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 15:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Wirtschaftsinfos is ✅. I also see  all of which are ✅ but the nature of the data makes me hesitant to call them confirmed, so . -- RoySmith (talk) 15:38, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged Wirtschaftsinfos and requested glock. I'll leave the others for a clerk to ponder. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:40, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Luise Habermann's editing on dewiki is incredibly precocious, but they don't look like Friedjof to me (our German colleagues might know better). The other accounts don't have enough of an editing history to tell one way or the other. I'm suspicious of Europe2022, who edited an article previously edited by Outdoor-Bro, but not enough to endorse a block. I guess we can wait and see. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 16:54, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I just confirmed on de Luise Habermas and Napper One. Couldn't confirm Europe2022 (no Edits on de) but I also found  (not registered on en). Luise is on de pretty obviously a sock: Used same IP as Wirtschaftsinfos with same user agent. Der-Wir-Ing (talk) 20:21, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * In that case, I'm happy to endorse a block; - please indef Luise Habermann, Napper One and Europe2022 (I'm less convinced that Europe2022's overlap with the master is a coincidence in light of the dewiki CU results for the other accounts). Spicy (talk) 20:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 20:59, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Previous sockfarm closed 20.59, 24 May 2022. This account created 21.06, 24 May 2022. Interest in German politics, epecially far right, and starts creating articles right away. Apart from the main topic of interest, already succeeds in editing the same unrelated articles as previous socks, e.g. this, or ships. Fram (talk) 08:12, 28 June 2022 (UTC)


 * The account was confirmed to be a Friedjof sockpuppet in deWP, sorry I forgot to inform sysops/checkuser at enWP when blocking the user in deWP. -- Johannnes89 (talk) 09:31, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * - worth a sleeper check considering how prolific the master is & that as far as I can tell, the last CU on either en or dewiki was in May. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:58, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 16:12, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 16:32, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, requested lock. Spicy (talk) 18:09, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Previous socks blocked the 28th, this user created the 29th. Similar interests, and first creation is Fynn Kliemann, which was deleted just a few weeks ago at Articles for deletion/Fynn Kliemann and which was a creation of previous Friedjof sock User:Ozimatli. Fram (talk) 17:28, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * - to confirm and check for others if this is Friedjof. It's certainly suspicious but two things give me pause - the article doesn't seem to be similar to Ozimatzli's version and this account is not attached on dewiki yet. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 09:33, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ to previous socks, no sleepers jumping out at me. Blocking, will request lock.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:38, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar username like blocked sock. Shared interest in radio transmitters (List of amateur radio transceivers). Odd typos in edit summaries on Draft:AnyTone: "please ask for deletation if needed", "please asked for delation, if you think the company is irrelevant". – NJD-DE (talk) 11:34, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Found on de after checking RedPorscheKiller --Der-Wir-Ing (talk) 17:32, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * On the basis of behavioural similarity, crossover and shared interests. . --Jack Frost (talk) 13:14, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ to one another; technically exceedingly likely to, taking editing into account I'm tagging as confirmed. Blocked, locks requested. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:52, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * Both users show an interested in DE/AT-related articles only.
 * IP reverts to sock version of article Freenet (radio).
 * IP whois locates to area in Germany.
 * LXT Fan wikilinks to deleted article Engagement Global created by blocked sock (Outdoor-Bro). – NJD-DE (talk) 13:38, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Today editing as, see Communication systems of the Bundeswehr. – NJD-DE (talk) 16:57, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on HRM-7000 I also suspect to be a Friedjof sock. – NJD-DE (talk) 17:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * @Njd-de what is "DE/AT?" -- RoySmith (talk) 14:02, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi RoySmith, sorry if it wasn't clear. I meant Germany and Austria. Friedjof as well as these registered users and the two German IPs show an interest primarily in articles dealing with Germany- or Austria-related topics. – NJD-DE (talk) 17:05, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * - history at Communication systems of the Bundeswehr and HRM-7000 is pretty suggestive. Please CU to confirm and check for others. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 08:40, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 17:24, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * LXT Fan and Mr Yagi Beam are ✅.   .   -- RoySmith (talk) 17:35, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - please block for six months (anon-only, account creation blocked). It appears to have been used near-exclusively by this sockmaster since at least the beginning of the year (same interest in German business, politics, and radio, overlap with named accounts:, , , ) and has been blocked in the past . I suspect all of the recent activity on  is Friedjof as well. That range has also been blocked previously. However, the editing is very intermittent so I am not comfortable blocking it right now. Feel free to re-report if there is further suspicious editing from this range. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 18:19, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
 * 87... range blocked 6 mo AO ACB. Closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 19:49, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New precocious account creating articles on Friedjof's typical subject matter (controversial German BLP material - see Draft:Almir Ćulum and United Tribuns, compare e.g. Hanno Berger, Stefan Lurz). Also editing Draft:Johann Reiners and Riede alongside an IP in the range, which I noted to be used by the sockmaster in a previous SPI. More overlap with blocked accounts here. Spicy (talk) 17:41, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * - for confirmation and sleeper check. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 17:42, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅  -- RoySmith (talk) 17:54, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Confirmed by de:Wikipedia:Checkuser/Anfragen/Friedjof, Helium300. You might want to check for additional sockpuppets on enwiki given his frequency of creating new accounts on dewiki and enwiki. Johannnes89 (talk) 10:48, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 12:45, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ via :
 * ,, closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:49, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * and (both blocked on dewiki) are also quite . --Blablubbs (talk) 12:58, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ,, closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:49, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * and (both blocked on dewiki) are also quite . --Blablubbs (talk) 12:58, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ,, closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:49, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * and (both blocked on dewiki) are also quite . --Blablubbs (talk) 12:58, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * and (both blocked on dewiki) are also quite . --Blablubbs (talk) 12:58, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same unusual combination of interest in (extreme right) German politicians (e.g. Robert Sesselmann), radio (e.g. Norddeich radio station) and ships (e.g. Harro Koebke (SK32)), compare e.g. to my 28 June 2022 entry in this socks archive. Fram (talk) 10:40, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * They're editing out of all of Friedjof's usual ranges - blocking. Are they usually interested in cycling as well? is pretty much ✅ to them. Blocking them too. Requesting locks, closing.   Girth Summit  (blether)  17:12, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New account (since 13 October) jumping straight into article creation for the typical Friedjof topics, German politicians, the extreme right (e.g. Wolfgang Plan), and now recreated a deleted Friedjof article, Busch-Jaeger (since moved to draft). Apart from this draftification they already have one other moved to draft and one speedy deleted, so it's not as if they are unproblematic either. Also note on Commons, created by the previous sock and  by the current sock, both have a weird identical "copyright holder" name at the bottom. Also on Commons, Friedjof created ; in the summary -> author, it says "L&D". The current sock has the same "author" name in his Commons photo. Fram (talk) 07:57, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * - behavioural evidence is clear enough but a sleeper check seems like a good idea given the case's history. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 19:32, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The only account that's not stale is, so I have checked these accounts against it. is likely operated by the same person. There are also more sleepers, and I'm fairly certain I haven't identified them all, because the UA is all but unique, so I am only reporting the accounts that seem to be editing in the same general area. As usual, . The accounts are as follows:
 * Salvio giuliano 20:32, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Behaviourally, I'm convinced that all of these accounts are socks of Friedjof., . Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:34, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Salvio giuliano 20:32, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Behaviourally, I'm convinced that all of these accounts are socks of Friedjof., . Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:34, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Salvio giuliano 20:32, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Behaviourally, I'm convinced that all of these accounts are socks of Friedjof., . Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:34, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Salvio giuliano 20:32, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Behaviourally, I'm convinced that all of these accounts are socks of Friedjof., . Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:34, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

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A bit tenuous, perhaps, but: I came across 200100TUNA when they submitted Draft:Ursula Heinen-Esser (a German politician) to AfC, and the helper tool flagged it up as having been previously deleted as a creation of one of Friedjof's socks. It's a new account, but edits like an experienced one. That's all I've got, though, so requesting CU. --DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:00, 13 November 2023 (UTC) DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:00, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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They've now also started creating articles on radio stations (e.g. Antenne 1 Neckarburg Rock & Pop), matching the interests of previous socks. Fram (talk) 13:42, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * Good spot. ✅, lock requested.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:52, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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New account creating the same typical articles about far right Germans (e.g. Bodo Schiffmann), far right politics (Bund freier Jugend), ... A previous sock, User:HearbreakingSuperman frequently edited Rohde & Schwarz: this new sock has now created SOVERON, which was as redirect to Rohde & Schwarz, and also matches the radio interest of previous socks. Fram (talk) 09:29, 11 December 2023 (UTC)


 * new account created 12 December has the majority of its activity adding sources to Schandona's articles—possibly to avert G5 deletion. Is this account connected as well? (t &#183; c)  buidhe  02:04, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * Yup. Also and ., . GeneralNotability (talk) 01:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * , well spotted; is very likely them. And found  and  for good measure. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:42, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Focus on German politicians, including the far right ones (e.g. Krzysztof Walczak (politician)), and copyright issues, similar to latest sock User talk:Schandona. Fram (talk) 10:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ plus:


 * Spicy (talk) 11:08, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Spicy (talk) 11:08, 23 January 2024 (UTC)


 * ,, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 11:12, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Brand new account creating articles on far-right German politicians (Ansgar Schledde), editing articles on the same and on Russia, and the other interest are bicycles, just like previous socks (see e.g. the entry for CadyOne in the SPI archive). Also shared inteerst in AfD pro-Russia movement with recently blocked User:Sinomina2000 and StabiloMax, also Friedjof socks. Fram (talk) 12:38, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Already globally locked as a sock from this case; tagging locally, closing.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  10:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Typical intersection of type of edits (creation of new articles soon after registering) and interests: German and Austrian extreme right (e.g. Tim Krause) and radio (e.g. Wouxun). Quite telling is the recreation of Draft:Anna Fischer (politican) (note the typo!) which was previously deleted as a Friedjof creation. Fram (talk) 09:37, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Exceedingly based on historic data, as is . Blocking both, requesting locks.   Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  12:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

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Proforma - already blocked. Reinstating socks' edits, technically very indeed. Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether) 07:31, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Lock requested, closing.  Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)  07:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)