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Suspected sockpuppets



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Master was blocked in October 2019 more than once and ultimately indefinitely for edit-warring over WP:ENGVAR disputes, and in particular for insisting that articles on European cities should use "European English", something they were told repeatedly does not exist (Use European English redirects to Use British English; for all intents and purposes on Wikipedia "European" English is British English), and for mass-converting articles to "European" (i.e. British) English without consensus or against consensus, usually with a misleading edit summary. The new account has picked up the same crusade, mass-changing articles to "European" English without discussion and with misleading edit summaries, sometimes on the same articles (e.g. Kaliningrad). See comments below. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:36, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Also, after being blocked, the master alluded to intent to create new accounts; see for example Special:Diff/920547598. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * The behavioural evidence is strong enough for a sockpuppetry block here, but I checked anyway. The following accounts are ✅ to each other and at least to the master based on IP addresses checked in the past.
 * "Perry Pat Etic Poleaxe" is another account that was created the day after the master was blocked, and also claims on their user page to be a native speaker of European English and has been adding European English templates to articles with misleading edit summaries. "By2ant1um" is, well, obvious. All of the accounts are . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * "Perry Pat Etic Poleaxe" is another account that was created the day after the master was blocked, and also claims on their user page to be a native speaker of European English and has been adding European English templates to articles with misleading edit summaries. "By2ant1um" is, well, obvious. All of the accounts are . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * "Perry Pat Etic Poleaxe" is another account that was created the day after the master was blocked, and also claims on their user page to be a native speaker of European English and has been adding European English templates to articles with misleading edit summaries. "By2ant1um" is, well, obvious. All of the accounts are . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * "Perry Pat Etic Poleaxe" is another account that was created the day after the master was blocked, and also claims on their user page to be a native speaker of European English and has been adding European English templates to articles with misleading edit summaries. "By2ant1um" is, well, obvious. All of the accounts are . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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An account, already blocked as a sock of this sockmaster, made an edit to Chechnya at diff1.

An unrelated IP account reverted the edit as a blocked sockpuppet at diff2 (No issue here).

The rather obvious 'suspected' account almost immediately reverts the reversion at diff3. This is a clear continuation of the sockmaster's obsession with converting articles to British English (or should that be 'European English' - whatever that is). ~ 86.152.235.50 (talk) 13:48, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * This one was by mistake and I even apologized to the IP address(whom I reverted, on their talk page) too, lately I have been finding users who are using Grammarly to do unnecessary changes in the articles such as changing American to British English or vice versa. I am unsure how the IP who reported specifically found my account to be a sockpuppet. QuantumRealm (meow • telescope) 15:53, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - I find this doubtful. This user seems to be on a campaign of indiscriminately reverting IP edits, and looks to me to have just come across this particular reversion by coincidence. Otherwise I don't see any of the sockmaster's pattern of trying to invent "European English". can you point to any more supporting evidence? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:31, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I misread the account's creation date. and closing: this is clearly a one-off and coincidental. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:47, 19 September 2020 (UTC)