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Users are focused on same topic area (mostly American collegiate track and field athletes), both have an issue with copyright violations of copy-pasting .. Both users mark all their edits as minor even when they are clearly non-minor, possibly to avoid scrutiny. The users' editing styles rarely write lengthy original prose and produce the same style of track and field results tables that are not common among other users. Both produce boilerplate articles with empty result tables and do not fill in the tables Both accounts have been in use for long periods of time with the same editing problems and no clear statement that the user is the same.

Please can a checkuser be completed as this user has presented copyright violation issues for some time and has not responded to user talk on that subject. It would be helpful to see if there are any other accounts or IPs that should be reviewed for the same issue. SFB 22:57, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:12, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

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New user drafting full articles in similar style of blocked user, with same habit of marking all edits as minor, and on same common topics of American female distance runners (compare Draft:Tierney Wolfgram with Kaela Edwards) and mostly empty articles on forthcoming events (compare and ). User has failed to engage over previously problematic editing involving copy-paste copyright infringement and sockpuppetry. The user must address these issues before returning to the community. SFB 00:08, 31 December 2020 (UTC) SFB 00:08, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * The niche subject matter, common username theme (Utility15December and AthleticsNovember14 both named for their dates of creation), and all the other behavioral clues noted in the report all add up. Blocked & tagged. There's also U15December  which has never edited, so I'm not going to bother blocking. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:31, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

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New user demonstrating similar pattern of behaviour as banned user, and is editing articles previously edited by the banned user. User has failed to engage with discussion of past copyright violations and must do so before returning to editing. SFB 22:40, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * Username, interests, editing style, date of creation - looks like a duck to me. Blocking, tagging, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  17:21, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

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Users displaying same pattern of editing American female collegiate athlete articles and creating empty articles for future track and field competitions. Includes edits to articles created by the master at Natosha Rogers Erin Clark and Chase Ealey. User still has not engaged on past copyvio editing. SFB 20:44, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Quite convinced about Athletics. Slightly less confident about Off Track and USA LJ, but behavior does match up pretty well with past socks. all. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:20, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

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I noticed this account because they created Gabby Scott, which was previously created by the sock. The articles aren't identical, but the general behavioural pattern matches. As with previous accounts, TrackFieldHornet is focused on creating articles on American track and field athletes, and marks all edits as minor. They use the same edit summary pattern as previous socks when creating pages:. Also see overlap with previous socks. Spicy (talk) 03:36, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * - please indef the sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:41, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * firefly ( t · c ) 13:05, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

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Similar editing pattern of editing track related articles, also always marks edits as minor, following the pattern. Also see the Interaction timeline with the last known sock. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 02:57, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:18, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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Editing similar topics as the sockmaster and the other accounts. In particular, edited this article, which was created by one of the socks. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 14:41, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * All the previous socks are stale, but there's some old data which, in combination with the extensive editing overlap, is sufficient to call this proven. RoySmith (talk) 17:40, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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Similar edits as the sockmaster (athletics related articles with bad formatting in tables and adding blank participating nations (trademark of the master and its socks). Just finished updating an article with errors here . Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 02:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * based on historical data. . Spicy (talk) 01:01, 9 April 2024 (UTC)