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On econ-related Wikipedia pages (e.g. Protectionism, Free Trade, Balance of trade), a "red" account pops up on regular intervals, only to edit war all kinds of fringe text into the articles (serious violations of WP:FRINGE and misrepresentation of sources). The content is always the same poorly sourced and pro-mercantilist nonsense. The text tends to be written extremely poorly, usually with grammatical and spelling errors. The red accounts appear to be from France (judging by the google.fr and blogspot.fr links). These make the same errors and then play coy on talk pages when other editors point out these errors. They never follow the rules laid out by WP:BRD and make econ-related pages a temporary mess for one-two weeks: bad content is repeatedly forced into Wikipedia pages because other editors are constrained by the WP:3RR rule while these accounts keep restoring the bad text. The user is either unable or unwilling to understand what others are saying on talk pages and either unable or unwilling to understand Wikipedia policy. The users always force content in and then say that "consensus" is required to remove the content. Two of the accounts have also blanked their talk pages when other editors warn them. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 10:33, 30 October 2017 (UTC) Snooganssnoogans (talk) 10:33, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hello. A new account (Scoltire) was found by french checkuser. Please see here. Supertoff (talk) 16:06, 4 November 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:42, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * That account is not registered on en.wiki.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  04:23, 1 November 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  04:29, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - There's clearly a pattern here, but I'm not one hundred percent on all of these accounts being one person, so I'm requesting CheckUser evidence to confirm. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:28, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other:
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * Indeffing all confirmed socks with tags. Nebere is stale and would need to be decided on behavior.
 * & There appears to be cross wiki abuse by some of the socks so we may need to get the meta stewards involved.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:21, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - Nebere just edited. Thanks,  GABgab 15:08, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Nebere is ✅ to the other socks and now blocked and tagged.
 * A few of these haven't been globally locked like the rest have: Shharp, Bandder, and Nebere. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 16:16, 2 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Only the accounts that were actually active across multiple wikis have been locked. The three that weren't have only ever edited here. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:56, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Doesn't make much sense -- they're all quite obviously the same human being. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 19:48, 2 November 2017 (UTC)