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User:Hellishscrubber has been identified as master to 3 socks (Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Hellishscrubber), including User:Linebacker64.

Linebacker64 focused on Ivy League football/rivalry content. Linebacker64 edits Columbia Lions football on Sep 7 & 8, 2018:
 * Removes "Fordham Rams" as rival
 * Adds "Yale" and "Princeton" as rivals
 * +Yale/Princeton, -Fordham (same citations)

User talk:Linebacker64 has both a welcome template and unsourced content warnings from me on their Talk.

On Nov 6, Special:Contributions/JohnnyHillboy (created 24 October 2018 at 17:36, dormant since a lone edit at that time) emerges to make many Ivy League edits including identical +Yale/Princeton and -Fordham edits to Columbia Lions football:
 * +Yale/Princeton, -Fordham (same citations)
 * +Yale/Princeton
 * +Yale/Princeton
 * +Princeton
 * +Yale/Princeton, -Fordham

WP:DUCK. UW Dawgs (talk) 03:54, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Addendum re Special:Contributions/Polestarpyramid
 * 12:53, 6 November 2018‎ JohnnyHillboy is editing while logged out
 * 12:54, 6 November 2018 then while logged in
 * 13:02, 6 November 2018 Polestarpyramid is created
 * 13:33, 6 November 2018 Polestarpyramid makes very first edit using inline primary source citations on Columbia Lions football rivalry content (same as JohnnyHillboy)

Historically this article is very stable, less the recent sock/rivalry issues. UW Dawgs (talk) 15:51, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The above timeline transition is compelling. Polestarpyramid has only 4 edits to date.  JohnnyHillboy uses primary source, inline citations for rivalry content (yalebulldogs.com, gocolumbialions.com), Polestarpyramid is doing the same (guhoyas.com) with their first ever edit and 31 minutes after creating the account. UW Dawgs (talk) 18:49, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * And with their sixth edit ever, they created a cited draft rivalry article stub at Draft:Columbia-Georgetown football rivalry. None of this is the expected behavior of a truly new editor. UW Dawgs (talk) 19:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

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User:UW Dawgs is edit warring and currently under-investigation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:UW_Dawgs_reported_by_User:JohnnyHillboy_(Result:_). He broke the 3RR rule as seen with these three edits: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columbia_Lions_football&oldid=867487187, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columbia_Lions_football&oldid=867492096, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columbia_Lions_football&oldid=867494879. Further, he has been accused of edit warring and sock-puppetry on multiple occasions.41.106.3.19 (talk) 12:53, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I forgot to sign into my account. Resigning my post.JohnnyHillboy (talk) 12:54, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * JohnnyHillboy is ✅ to the master and.
 * Polestarpyramid is and
 * Both accounts are using proxies, but from different providers.
 * TonyBallioni (talk) 18:07, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * TonyBallioni (talk) 18:07, 6 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Polestarpyramid + are ✅. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:37, 21 November 2018 (UTC)