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WP:DUCK.  General Ization Talk  04:56, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

A possible earlier master:.  General Ization Talk  05:16, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * Yeah, the combination of anti-COPPA activism (see both's contribs generally) and interest in niche stuff about stars ( vs.  ) and earthquakes (see both's contribs generally) is pretty distinctive. : Please block Ressnatt indefinitely as a proven sock of JIUG@U13.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 05:03, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I loaded the case in the three minutes between its filing and when the 2nd and 3rd sox were added. As this appears to now be the fourth sock in this farm, and as the xwiki evidence shows there've been quite a few other accounts, switching to . Any admin is still welcome to block Ressnatt on the behavioral evidence in the meantime, which might be a good idea since they are now vandalizing this SPI. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 05:10, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Accounts blocked. The recent local socks listed above are confirmed, along with some other already locked xwiki accounts (such as ). I'd be surprised if this was a new vandal. It's ringing some vague bells somewhere. -- zzuuzz (talk) 05:35, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

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username, edits, obsession, duck Cabayi (talk) 08:38, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * Sock blocked, lock requested, G5 deletions done, closing. Cabayi (talk) 08:57, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK.  General Ization Talk  03:52, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * . Closing. --Jack Frost (talk) 08:45, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

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Draft:12-years-old girl's Red Giant Star (HD 7347, HIP 5715, SAO 129184), and links to that from random articles Storchy (talk) 06:02, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

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Confirmed to previous socks, who are all glocked and mostly tagged. I do believe this case belongs at Sockpuppet investigations/CD -32 9396SSE at this time, though I still think there's something older. -- zzuuzz (talk) 06:30, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually I see that is older. There's no rush or demand to move this, I'm just sayin'. -- zzuuzz (talk) 06:34, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

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Adding the same nonsense as User:Caesium-137 RT 1893-20 and User:Plutonium-244_RE_1797-84 did to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act MrOllie (talk) 01:08, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * . - Requesting CU to verify whether  is the true master through the suspected sockpuppets. Both categories have chemistry-related users (Caesium-137 RT 1893-20 for JIU13 and Plutonium-244 RE 1797-84 for CD), Russia-related users (Ukraine is strictly forbidden and 2022 Belarusian Invasion of Russia), astronomy-related users, as well as all being obsessed with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. DatGuyTalkContribs 20:28, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Let me see what I can dig up. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:33, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

I can connect (confirm) the following accounts with a high degree of certainty:
 * (glocked/hidden)

I may have missed a few.

See also:

I think the behaviour connection to and, as well as CD -32 9396SSE, is very strong, and the technical data suggests it's likely.

I still think there may be something older. Some of the older behaviour centres on earthquakes, and I seem to recall a particular abusiveness to Haitians, if that rings any bells with anyone. -- zzuuzz (talk) 22:22, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

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I'm filing a report of a recent, obvious sock (,, , etc.) that has not been blocked as a sock (but has been indef'd for vandalism) so that I can add some record-keeping information.

This same guy is a well-known vandal on Uncyclopedia. You can see quite a bit about this here. We refer to him as "Svex", as his original account names were something similar to that. Most of his IPs over there geolocate to China, but timezone evidence makes it highly unlikely that he lives in China, and it seems like just a bunch of proxies that use a residential ISP (also - not all of them are Chinese).

Uncyc has a lot fewer users than Wikipedia, so we have very little collateral from range-blocks most of the time, which is why we usually do a /24 range block of his IPs. However, this is unlikely to be feasible here, as there is a much higher risk of collateral.

If you want to see some information about how often he does this kind of thing, just look at Uncyc's recent block logs, where the majority are him.

I feel that a lot of blocks of his recent socks were first treating him as a confused good faith editor due to many of us not seeing this SPI/forgetting about it, so I want to file this information to maintain a well-organized and accurate record of sock reports/investigations about the sockmaster. Among Us for POTUS (talk) 04:45, 6 December 2022 (UTC) Among Us for POTUS (talk) 04:45, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, I should've paid closer attention to SPI instructions. Also, thanks for the information. Among Us for POTUS (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * . : Please, keep your reports more concise next time. The first line of your report would have been enough. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 08:47, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, no unblocked others are immediately visible. --Blablubbs (talk) 09:50, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

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Similar behavior, username, etc. Obsession with COPPA and astronomy, obsession with 11-year-old girls, creating the same weird stuff in draft namespace, etc. Among Us for POTUS (talk) 17:47, 8 December 2022 (UTC) Among Us for POTUS (talk) 17:47, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked by Among Us for POTUS (talk) 17:47, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * - a sleeper check might be useful. . MarioGom (talk) 18:31, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Nothing to add. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:32, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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Given that the account is already blocked, maybe there is no need to open an SPI, but perhaps I should do this for the sake of record-keeping, or we need a sleeper check - please tell me if there's any relevant policies on this, I can't find any yet.

Evidence: ,, , etc.

Overall, an obsession with France (among other countries), blanking out articles vaguely relating to things they don't like, a complete lack of understanding of the English language (capitalizing every word for no reason, not understanding what is and isn't plural, etc.), pasting the contents of random articles onto their talk page, an obsession with GDPR, etc.

Also worth noting that over on Uncyclopedia, quite a few CU-confirmed accounts from this same individual have had an obsession with juvenile justice.

Also requesting that a clerk or someone else request global locks for me if this is a confirmed sock - I am not autoconfirmed on meta-wiki, and autoconfirmed permissions are required to request locks. This sock has been globally locked before due to cross-wiki vandalism and needs to be reported for lock evasion. Among Us for POTUS (talk) 03:19, 13 December 2022 (UTC) Among Us for POTUS (talk) 03:19, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * Tagged, global locks requested. CU has nothing interesting here. Closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 08:12, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

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Same edits in HE 1523-0901 and HE 1327-2326 with previous socks. Mys_721tx (talk) 03:02, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ - blocked, lock requested.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:54, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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Warring over suspicious edits made by previous socks. Mys_721tx (talk) 14:56, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * Seems pretty obvious, I've blocked the IP.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:15, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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Same pattern of disruptive edits to stars and age-related articles; same writing style here; restoring reverted edits by other socks. SevenSpheres (talk) 17:05, 30 April 2024 (UTC)


 * See also edit history on this SPI. SevenSpheres (talk) 02:06, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * They've already been globally locked - no further action required, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:57, 1 May 2024 (UTC)