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'''04/03/17 - Requesting a CU due to this situation with regards to SYS continuing on with no resolution. Lots of info below, though I did try to stay concise..'''

conqueryourpc perviously added a fake award nomination for Henry Laster on the Salute Your Shorts page. conqueryourpc is Henry Laster's current company name. User has been blocked. Since the block, User:LeakySponge has attempted to add immediate deletion tags to the Trevor Eyster page and related Talk page. He acknowledges at User talk:2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 that the (now deleted) Henry Wally Laster page is his. He had previously attempted to create Henry W. Laster, which was also deleted. While it's possible the Hwlaster account is coincidental, it would appear that Hwlaster is his master account (though, it's doesn't have much history) and conqueryourpc and LeakySponge are socks.

Edit to add: is from a location similar to the other IP user listed, and also has a history of only interjecting credits for Henry Laster.

is a new account making similar changes as conqueryourpc and LeakySponge had made. See additional diff links added below.

Editing again to add that these two new users appear to be the same individual and  is now posting from an IP address based in the same location as the prior IP users, modifying the Salute Your Shorts page to remove a guest star, and cluttering the hist page. These two new users used the same language in two separate history entries (listed in diffs below)

Edit again: Added two more IP mobile users who'd made edits exclusively to add more credit to one individual "extra" on the show - and

Diff: conqueryour PC adding a fake award nom for Henry Laster: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salute_Your_Shorts&diff=prev&oldid=770561415

Diff: LeakySponge creating Henry W. Laster page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Henry_W_Laster&diff=prev&oldid=771726295

Diff: LeakySponge discussing Henry Wally Laster page deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:C.Fred&diff=prev&oldid=771827974

Diff: LeakySponge adding Speedy Deletion tag to Trevor Eyster page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trevor_Eyster&diff=prev&oldid=771828940

Diff: LeakySponge adding speedy deletion tag to Trevor Eyster talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Trevor_Eyster&diff=prev&oldid=771829221

Diff: LeakySponge commenting about "his page" Henry Wally Laster being deleted: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63&diff=prev&oldid=772077338 Erinhayden (talk) 21:23, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Diff: re-adding an award nomination for Henry W. Laster for an award the individual was never nominated, exactly as conqueryourpc had: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salute_Your_Shorts&diff=prev&oldid=772495342

Diff: to get Trevor Eyster deleted "ASAP", just as LeakySponge had: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Trevor_Eyster&diff=prev&oldid=772496416

Diff: and  Wrongly editing Salute Your Shorts again, and clearly now holding a grudge against me by accusing me of being a sock. Two separate users leaving the same comment regarding one individual edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salute_Your_Shorts&diff=prev&oldid=773552349 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salute_Your_Shorts&diff=prev&oldid=773551242

Diff: LeakySponge just changed a closed AfD tag from "Keep" to "Delete" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Trevor_Eyster&diff=prev&oldid=773565322 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erinhayden (talk • contribs) 07:00, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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Due to the Wikimedia Foundation's Privacy Policy which all the Checkusers have to follow, I doubt you'll get any information on them around the IPs. MM ('"HURRRR?'')  (Hmmmmm.) 09:55, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The master is .--Bbb23 (talk) 07:25, 4 April 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:14, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * As above, the master is stale, but Conqueryourpc and LeakySponge are ✅ to each other. . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:02, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked LeakySponge 72 hours for IP socking. Closing.