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The proposed master is a SPA who has been obsessed with the Varicocele article off and on since 2015. They have just been through a very intense period of engagement where they were blocked for editing warring twice, per their block log, the last time for 4 days, enacted about 24 hours ago. Their focus this time was especially on "lifestyle" factors that may affect fertility (for example, their last dif series before they were blocked). New account just appeared and has made two changes to exactly that section - their only contribs thus far. This is also the time of day when the proposed sockmaster edited. Am not requesting a CU as the quacking is plenty clear but if you feel the need, of course please do. Jytdog (talk) 23:26, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

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Very. Blocked and tagged. The master's block is now indefinite. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:54, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

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The master was blocked for socking back in late June. The master is obsessed with male infertility caused by varicocele and conflates the two, and their edits focus on content about "lifestyle changes" to reduce the risk of infertility... (not all varicocele causes infertility).


 * here and here and are typical Joltzipper edits, conflating varicocele and infertility
 * here on Sept 2 is the '1413 arguing that surgery doesn't resolve variocele (it does, but not necessarily infertility that may be present)
 * here is the edit by 'cc5c IP, giving varicocele its own section in the male infertility article
 * here is the named sock following up on that (their first edit)
 * here on Sept 30 is the '364b IP making a typical Joltzipper edit
 * here on Oct 13 206.108.148.100 restores that
 * here 206.108.148.100 again restores that at 23:20, 14 October 2017‎
 * here, 1 minute later (!) Bob sos shows up and makes 4 edits, one of which has the edit note es, lifestyle changes can help improve varicocele related infertility.

That is Joltzipper. Jytdog (talk) 00:42, 15 October 2017 (UTC)


 * They said here: right... I am Joltzipper... but, I don't understand why I can't edit a fucking wikipedia page... I didn't make any wrong edits. You're basically telling me that Jytdog or whatever has total control over the varicocele wikipedia page... it's pretty fucking retarded. pretty retarded that my joltzipper account was banned in the first place as well. ... Jytdog (talk) 19:07, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * About whether this is the same individual as Cathry, I could be wrong, but I'm guessing not, that it's an impersonation of Cathry instead. Partly, that's because the language on User talk:Bob sos does not sound much like Cathry's English-as-a-second-language, and partly because I'm pretty sure that a Cathry sock would have trolled me as well as Jytdog, because I had proposed Cathry's site ban. --Tryptofish (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * 206.108.148.100. Pinging re Bob sos and . Thanks,  GABgab 02:22, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * @GeneralizationsAreBad: Are Joltzipper (indef blocked) and Cathry (community site banned) two different users? When Bob sos forged a signature of Cathry in an early edit, that's where I drew the link between them. Cathry did edit the Varicocele article also, but I see far more edits there by Joltzipper. —C.Fred (talk) 02:31, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Given their editing timelines and divergent interests, I'm inclined to agree that Joltzipper and Cathry are not the same person. As for Bob sos, the evidence above shows a pretty clear link to Joltzipper. I wouldn't read to much into the forged signature. Since that edit tried to imply a connection two editors (Cathry and Chris Troutman), it's far more likely that they are neither. With the IP's stale and Bob sos already blocked, I'm closing this case and retagging Bob sos accordingly. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:41, 6 November 2017 (UTC)