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Filed for the record. This is an LTA case I've been tracking. Here's a few characteristics:
 * Makes a rapid series of edits to userspace to gain autoconfirmed status. These posts are often in Portuguese, often use the edit summary "summary", often are very small (add/remove a single character), and sometimes falsely claim to be an administrator on enwiki or another project.
 * After gaining autoconfirmed status, rapidly uploads obvious copyright violations. These copyvios are often full-length episodes of anime or full-length songs, but the material can vary. Uploaded files often have highly-similar file names, with the sock uploading an entire season of an anime or something with near-identical file names except for the iterated episode numbers.
 * Often starts their account on ptwiki before editing here.

~ Rob 13 Talk 03:14, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * See my population of Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Commons:Category:Sockpuppets of Principe Enthony Stark. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 06:35, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:51, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

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Closely related user-names and similar pattern of uploading copyrighted images, same genre etc. See also this ANI discussion. Blocking per WP:DUCK but would like confirmation Ad Orientem (talk) 15:57, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

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Moved cased page to name of oldest account. Socks tagged. TDL (talk) 20:33, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Confirmation not needed. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:29, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK - uploading non-free files of same genre. As sockpuppets were created before sockmaster was blocked, presumably to achieve autoconfirmed to upload files, requesting CU to identify any additional sleepers. &mdash; Train2104 (t • c) 22:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

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I've added 3 (possible) socks after seeing the name of the globally locked account. User uploaded upload tutorial showing Catalan WP, this is the AN thread over there. Cross-wiki WP:ZERO abuse, which would make sense given report of vast ranges. &mdash; Train2104 (t • c) 03:14, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * And more. &mdash; Train2104 (t • c) 14:04, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Added one &mdash; Train2104 (t • c) 21:41, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * Sleepers check needed,  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:42, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * These are socks of globally locked . I also found and blocked it. I think these may be tied to this sockfarm on Commons. The ranges involved are vast., could you take a look? I saw your name pop up on one of the rangeblocks related to this SPI.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  00:13, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * While waiting for Amanda's input I have also blocked:

-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 00:18, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Update:I've now also blocked:


 * I really need a checkuser more familiar with this master to rerun the check as there are likely many more accounts and possible sleepers. It looks like they're fudging the UA data so it's hard to pinpoint the socks without being more familiar with their pattern.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * So just going through one range, 75 blocks have been issued or re-issued. The problem is that they have many ranges at their disposal. For now, i've hardblocked entire ranges with . That's until we can filter through anything else. Any UA that you find on the range that is linked to one of these accounts, everything with that UA can be blocked with that template because of the nature of the edits that we half to prevent from these ranges. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 23:46, 2 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Blocked the last two added to the report. Closing now based on Amanda's comments directly above.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:38, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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Portuguese copyvio uploads (Angola Facebook case), may want to check for additional ranges to block. &mdash; Train2104 (t • c) 19:53, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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Just added a likely sock. Perhaps the user(s) are aware of this SPI. – Train2104 (t • c) 20:58, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please, check and look for sleepers.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:21, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * . No apparent sleepers. -- Avi (talk) 18:40, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Added and blocked . All other confirmed accounts are already blocked or glocked, and the range is too broadly used to consider a range block. -- Avi (talk) 15:43, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:16, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:16, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

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More copyvio uploads and junk edits.

This case should be merged with Sockpuppet_investigations/Principe Enthony Stark. – Train2104 (t • c) 18:41, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:57, 4 May 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:06, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked. UJ55KYA is globally locked. I agree that the Principe Enthony Stark case should be merged with this one. Katietalk 15:41, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 02:24, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * is not blocked or globally locked. Is this account part of the confirmed set, Katie?
 * Huh. I usually run the SPI script after I do these comments, but maybe I got distracted and didn't run it this time. They're both locally blocked now – thanks. :-) Katietalk 17:58, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Cheers. Everything looks good. Closing.