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KindMind began edit warring on Ismail ibn Musa Menk from their initial round of edits on 1 March, 2018. The tendentious behavior continued for nine days, with a checkered history of being reverted (for good reasons) by User:KNHaw, User:GorgeCustersSabre, User:Kleuske, User:Emir of Wikipedia, and User:MontyKind. MarkusJannssen, the suspected sockpuppet, began the same pattern of tendentious edits with early timestamps on 10 March, pushing the same views until being reverted (again with good reason) by User:Dorsetonian. Although their spelling and punctuation habits are slightly different, there are some odd similarities. Both have the tendency to capitalize the first letter of common nouns, for example, "Humanitarian" (the edit summary here and the talk page comment here. The POV the two accounts are pushing is the same, and the timing is quite suspicious, as other editors have also noticed. When asked whether or not the two editors are the same person on Talk:Ismail ibn Musa Menk, MarkusJennssen stopped editing and KindMind started again without acknowledging the question addressed to both of them in the second of the above diffs of other editors taking notice. I think it's a fair to suspect that the sockmaster created an account to push a certain POV, found strong opposition from the community of editors, and then created a second account under the mistaken belief that the community of editors was simply edit warring against the sockmaster's edit warring and that flooding the page with edits would get what they want. It's an ineffective strategy in violation of site policies, but the fact that the sockmaster account ended with legal threats is an indication that they don't understand Wikipedia very well. MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:00, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * - This looks like one person to me. Given the legal threat, please block both accounts indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:07, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sir Sputnik - ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   16:10, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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Look what's back and with an older account moving it around and editing it out of the blue too. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  20:36, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * See also this where Nut removes the warning from AleMolina's talk 1. CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  20:45, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * User:LebaneseBoxing has just recreated Ali Srour exactly (I think) as it was before. This is another page Kindmind's socks have been active in creating. Dorsetonian (talk) 11:05, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The above concern raised in a separate report, along with User:Inhg95. Dorsetonian (talk) 10:04, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * Both sock accounts have been indef'd.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   20:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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Immediately following block of, up pops Sampanoura inquiring about creating it again. CU for sleepers. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  18:43, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * Should this be merged with ? Also due to the original block being due to a legal threat also, do they need to appeal to Arb? They've been in -help today asking and I've just directed them to the normal appeal instructions. CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  19:09, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ and blocked. Courcelles (talk) 19:05, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It looks like both your suggestions are in order. Especially with all the socking after the NLT block, Arb or funct-en would be the appeal venue. Courcelles (talk) 19:20, 27 March 2018 (UTC)


 * - Could an admin clerk please merge this into Sockpuppet investigations/Kindmind? Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:51, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:33, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

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Background:


 * User:MarkusJannssen is a blocked sockpuppet of User:Kindmind.
 * MarkusJannssen uploaded File:AliSrour.jpg, an image of Ali Srour and (I presume) created the page - it's been deleted before and I can't see the history.
 * User:Milk4Ever has definitely created AliSrour (see speedy notification on User talk:Milk4Ever) and is blocked as a sock of MarkusJannssen.
 * User:Sampanoura has aparrently created AliSrour (see warning about removing CSD tags from their own article at User talk:Sampanoura) and is blocked as a sock of Kindmind.

Likely new sockpuppets of Kindmind: LebaneseBoxing and Inhg95: Dorsetonian (talk) 10:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * User:LebaneseBoxing has recreated AliSrour in the same form as it was before.
 * User:Inhg95 has contributed to the current incarnation of AliSrour and their only visible contributions - which came earlier - were to discuss creating the page e.g..

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:38, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * See below.
 * Nothing further to do here. Closing now.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:26, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

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See Draft:Eliya Cioccolato CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  13:47, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * * Also User:Eliya Cioccolato/sandbox and User:Ilhanlyla/sandbox. All three pages are essentially the same (though the two I added date back to October 2017). Dorsetonian (talk) 15:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:45, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Given the admission of several of these socks at various stages of this SPI, I think this is more likely to be UPE which is causing the difference in technical data...not that it changes the CU but probably worth noting. CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  19:42, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. This looks like UPE meatpuppets working together.

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:38, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Asjil is to MarkusJannssen - same country.
 * Inhg95 and LebaneseBoxing appear ❌ to each other or any other accounts in this case.
 * Nutflatro is ❌ to any other accounts.


 * Nothing further to do here. Closing now.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:26, 24 May 2018 (UTC)