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For the repeated interest in Rocky De La Fuente (and little else). Joewendt was blocked earlier this week for making legal threats. He would've likely been blocked for edit-warring, regardless. He also has a COI relating to the Reform Party (he's using his real name and he's a party leader, the same party that De La Fuente was a member of) that he did not declare for a long time, that should prevent him editing any pages related to the RP.

The named accounts (and several IPs) have made the same or similar additions of weasel words and aggrandizement and removals of negative coverage, and insist on adding De La Fuente as a "major" candidate, not a "minor" one.

edited today, very similar in edit summary style to the newly blocked Joewendt account, e.g. putting the link in the edit summary. The other accounts and IPs were already blocked for other obvious reasons or stale (174... is somewhat recent so included just in case). JesseRafe (talk) 13:19, 1 November 2019 (UTC)


 * just tried to speedy delete this investigation, which is kinda charming, and also asked for the love of God that [we] stop removing important info... in an edit that removed sourced info. Cool! Don't know if middle name or relative name, but c'mon, why is he even bothering to use "Wendt" still? JesseRafe (talk) 14:02, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * added

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Its because I am not the same person of Joe. I am his baby brother.

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 * Group 1 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other, and blocked and tagged:
 * Joewendt
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other, ❌ to Group 1, and blocked without tags:
 * ReyOlsen
 * Friendofroque
 * Group 3 – the following accounts are ✅ to, blocked and tagged:
 * Danwendt
 * Fake News Corrected is ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:14, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Woshiyiweizhongguoren and Sockpuppet investigations/ReyOlsen spun off from this case. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:03, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:03, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Fake News Corrected is ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:14, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Woshiyiweizhongguoren and Sockpuppet investigations/ReyOlsen spun off from this case. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:03, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:03, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

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Brand new editor LLSmith1975 appeared today. Their first and so far only edit was to say they were reinstituting the edits made by Joewendt. (Turned out they can’t reinstitute them, since the article is semi-protected.) Somehow this “brand new” user knows enough to read a history and to talk about consensus and vandalism. I think a checkuser might be a good idea, because the previous investigation found this sock drawer to contain several, technically unrelated groups. MelanieN (talk) 21:41, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Second edit, to modify the first, trying to make it sound more neutral and personal. -- MelanieN (talk) 21:43, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Quack quack – Muboshgu (talk) 21:57, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Technically due to the use of proxies/web host ranges. Closing as already blocked. ST47 (talk) 22:44, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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user reposted a comment previously posted by confirmed sock User:Marymary1985 Nat Gertler (talk) 18:11, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:51, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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Attempting to insert the same material - - as two previously detected Joewendt socks. Nat Gertler (talk) 19:30, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Storey Madness has already been blocked for block evasion, presumably per WP:DUCK. And for completeness please add User:Gormomma to this list of socks; they have also been blocked per DUCK. (Never mind, I see they are already in the archive.) And I have semi’ed the Rocky de la Fuente talk page because of the onslaught of socks there. So probably nothing to do here but file the report. -- MelanieN (talk) 19:50, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

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Inconclusive. Please refer to the following report. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:08, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

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repetition of material from blocked user Nat Gertler (talk) 19:41, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * I have blocked GoROCKY per WP:DUCK. -- MelanieN (talk) 19:53, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Please also add User:Shchromboli to the list of blocked socks; although they were blocked for vandalism rather than socking, they are clearly part of the sock drawer. -- MelanieN (talk) 20:12, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Closing, having just throttled . Favonian (talk) 20:14, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * This is probably not Joewendt. There appears to be some joe-jobbing from another LTA going on today, yesterday. Blocks all round but no tags thanks. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:16, 5 November 2019 (UTC)