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Almost identical edits here:
 * STL: (and a variation here)
 * HYC:

Removal of the term "of other forms" and the addition of speech marks around American in these two edits: one by HYC; one by STL (STL also removes it here, here and here).

Both also edit Dumbo to deal with the angle of race and racism, with much overlap between the content the add (see the history, generally, and HYC and STL, specifically). – SchroCat (talk) 07:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅ -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 08:52, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * . Closing. Cabayi (talk) 09:30, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

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"New" account starts editing after others were blocked, and its very first edit refers to an article HYC was edit-warring on, followed by a request to be allowed to edit it. Now making the same kinds of edits to the same articles (peacocking Disney and countering accusations of racism). Jason A. Quest (talk) 14:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * blocked the sockpuppet, citing this SPI in the block log, but didn't close this report, so I am doing so. JBW (talk) 16:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

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Promptly redoing his previous edits, even before his previous SPI is archived. IPs doing clean-up on this are all in Italy, the same country that User:Panomarix claims and User:Giorgio Il Saggio implies. - Jason A. Quest (talk) 02:23, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Even in the fairly small number of edits Panomarix has made there are several tell-tale signs, as there are also with the IP editing, so I shall block them. I shall also consider whether to do some page protection. JBW (talk) 16:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

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Per the discussion here, the same pattern of spewing long defense-of-racism into articles relating to Walk Disney from IPs that geolocate to Italy. Possibly a range-block and additional page-protection should be considered. JBL (talk) 23:02, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the three IPs listed above for two weeks each per WP:DUCK. No other action seems necessary. EdJohnston (talk) 01:10, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:03, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

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New accounts, both interested in Rayman (edited by Panomarix and Leyla Aisha), and List of Disney animated universe characters which overlaps with PTD having a keen interest in 'splaining that the Dumbo crows aren't racist. And PTD accidentally copied a citation from the Italian wikipedia untranslated. Jason A. Quest (talk) 15:41, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * See also some edits by Polokus the Dreamer of the Dumbo article on the Italian Wikipedia. Since the behavior matches and Honest Yusuf Cricket constantly creates new socks, in my opinion a check would be justified. EdJohnston (talk) 17:03, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Checkuser has been done and the accounts were ✅ to Honest Yusuf Cricket by  based on the tags on their userpages. Accounts have been checkuser blocked. Nothing left to do. Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:30, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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Same old, same old: obsessive Disney fan and racism apologist. Second IP helpfully identifies itself as the same person as the first IP here. --JBL (talk) 14:07, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

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User:Honest Yusuf Cricket is stale. But a typical sequence of events would be, we will semiprotect the articles of interest, shortly after that some socks will appear and then we need to notice and block the registered socks. For now I've semiprotected Song of the South indefinitely. I'll also block the two IPs above for a week each. No checks seem possible. EdJohnston (talk) 17:16, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * IPs blocked and target article semi-protected. I think we're done here, so closing. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:38, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

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New account name is a reference to Rayman, a known HYC interest, as with previous sock User:Polokus The Dreamer. Its first four edits relate to Disney racism accusations, all on articles HYC edited. It follows this by partially redoing reverted edits by a HYC sock. It does a bunch of unrelated low-value edits to get history on the account, then edit-wars on semi-protected page about Disney racism. Jason A. Quest (talk) 15:46, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I just noticed the account was created 2020-06-03 (just after two socks were blocked), and only recently started editing. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 15:50, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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This is certainly the same person; for example, HYC obsessively added this quote and source to several articles. After being blocked they were able to sneak it back in without anyone noticing, and because they are obsessed they can't help tidying it up now. --JBL (talk) 17:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * The biggest piece of evidence is that previous confirmed sock was working on Rayman articles when they were blocked, and  was created 8 hours later, with a user name drawn from the Rayman universe.  All the other behavioral aspects match too (not going into details per BEANS). -- RoySmith (talk) 15:38, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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Again using Joker (character) to earn in-game credits allowing him to return to the usual compulsions. Jason A. Quest (talk) 04:42, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

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I made an earlier request to have Lord Of Keys investigated. He is again editing the Dumbo page adding the same sources he used before. He has also made identical edits on the Criticism of The Walt Disney Company page in which he previously edited using other accounts. PrinceArchelaus (talk) 05:51, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅ + few other blocked accounts,, requesting locks, closing. for CUs KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 07:38, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

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Same obsession with Rayman to gain editing privileges, and with Disney's racism (especially repeating this specific edit). Jason A. Quest (talk) 00:48, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

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It is obviously the same person, and indeed the account has been globally locked by. (Someone should also probably run another CU, as it seems likely that this new creation is the latest iteration.) --JBL (talk) 17:27, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  15:52, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Globally locked as an Honest Yusuf Cricket sock. Closing.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:13, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * JBL, just saw your comment. I've blocked as well.--  Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:16, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

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This edit compulsively reinstates this recent edit.

This reflects HYC's long-running obsession with telling us that Disney wasn't "racist".

And this series of user page edits demonstrates that he knows that he needs at least 10 edits to evade the article's semi-protection. Jason A. Quest (talk) 17:45, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Blocking and tagging sock account. This SPI report can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:56, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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Same edit pattern as the last one. Plays with his user page to evade semi-protection, then edits racial terminology on a Disney article. Jason A. Quest (talk) 00:07, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * Obvious sock is obvious. Blocked and tagged.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 00:36, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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Same general ranges as past socks. Standard behavior: racism apologetics associated with cartoons. These two edits  specifically restore a bunch of HYC material, e.g., and  is the same thing at a different article. I request any appropriate combination of range-blocking and semi-protection; thanks. JBL (talk) 18:40, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked 94.36.16.0/20 for month. The 151.34 IPs are stale. Semi-protection may be helpful if (when) they pop up again, just drop a note on my talk page.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 19:57, 15 June 2022 (UTC)--

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Now back on a new IP range: restores an edit from the most recently blocked accounts. JBL (talk) 19:08, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * That IP is editing from a different continent than the range I blocked and has been editing from that same static IP for many months. They're very unlikely to be related.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 19:16, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Closing per Ponyo's comment. Bbb23 (talk) 21:10, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

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versus, versus. JBL (talk) 23:15, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * ✅ and blocked, along with the sleeper .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:23, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

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User's first edits to get autoconfirmed can be compared to Donald Drunk's, with more style this time. Similar diffs include. Article Gyaru was also edited by one of Yusuf Cricket's socks. lol1 VNIO ( I made a mistake?  talk to me ) 22:27, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ to and blocked. Can a clerk please tag if appropriate. Since this user also has 52 edits on the Italian Wikipedia I recommend a global lock. EdJohnston (talk) 03:36, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
 * as confirmed. . Closing. --Jack Frost (talk) 06:13, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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Same flash edits to same topics of interest (The Mario Movie and Middle-Age.) General pattern of disrupting the page. Schwarbage (talk) 23:05, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

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who is already blocked as a sock under this case. The geolocations all agree with those of Honest Yusuf Cricket, and there are some distinctive version strings. Certainly the interests of these editors are the same. Nelson N. Nelson made a bunch of edits of his user page to get autoconfirmed. EdJohnston (talk) 03:38, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to
 * Tagged,, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 09:46, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * ( original case name)

Went back to edit warring/disruptive editing after recent IP blocks/global account lock: 84.222.64.189 vs. Grew Baddymore. Wani (talk) 22:09, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * - I believe this should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Honest Yusuf Cricket. Bbb23 (talk) 13:26, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Done. Spicy (talk) 23:34, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * is ✅, blocked and tagged. .-- Ponyo bons mots 20:43, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that the account has been globally locked since July 2nd, so the check was pretty pointless I suppose.-- Ponyo bons mots 20:45, 18 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Accounts are locked, IPs have gone quiet now that the page is protected. Come back if they resume when the protection ends. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:04, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * per below.-- Ponyo bons mots 16:06, 1 September 2023 (UTC)  Ponyo bons mots 16:06, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * CU blocked and tagged the first account, added tag to the second, already blocked, account. Noting for the record.-- Ponyo bons mots 16:06, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

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Same anti-feminist POV (see The Rising of the Shield Hero vs a previous sock's edits on Barbie (film)) and tendency to have "???" in edit summaries; they also created the user page with "1" before blanking it like the previous socks. Link20XX (talk) 22:59, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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First edits after creating a userpage are to Elmer Fudd and something race-related? Quack quack. --JBL (talk) 00:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)


 * He was also edit-warring using these IPs. --JBL (talk) 00:23, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Please also add to this report based on their recent edits to The Rising of the Shield Hero and other pages that match the pattern of this user's contributions. Link20XX (talk) 06:07, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged. -- Ponyo bons mots 20:32, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The Wordsmith Talk to me 01:11, 7 March 2024 (UTC)