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21 May 2013

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All these editors are doing nothing much else except systematically changing date formats in articles. Some have been doing it for many years. The edits are near identical. All of them rarely or never leave edit summaries and none of them respond to warnings or communicate in any way. There is also a common theme in many of the usernames, breaking them up into cryptic-crossword-like puns. This was brought to my attention by a user because I had warned Robin partridge last year (who I have now blocked). More were then brought to my attention, and then a second batch. I had thought there was an arbitration ruling in force on systematic date changing but it no longer seems to be on the Arbcom list of current remedies. The editing seems to have started around the time of the "date wars", but in any case is a clear breach of WP:DATERET. Given what has come out of the woodwork so far, I am requesting checkuser as there are quite likely to be more sleepers and active socks that we haven't found yet.  Spinning Spark  14:34, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Diffs are convincing enough to endorse for a look and sleeper check. Dennis Brown - 2¢ - © - @ - Join WER 15:15, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The following are all ✅ matches to one another:
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 * Due to the extreme nature and duration of the warring, all are now indef blocked. Kipperfield is the oldest, with this behavior dating back to March of 2008, so leaving him as master.   Blocked, tagged, closing. Dennis Brown - 2¢  - © - @ - Join WER 17:26, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

24 October 2013

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For the record. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:04, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * and are a ✅ match to one another, and are highly  to be Kipperfield. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:04, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

06 January 2016

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This date warrior has a near identical MO to previous socks. Rapid editing doing nothing but changing date formats to Kipperfields preferred format (dd month yyyy), no communication, and uninformative, repetitive edit summary. The username also fits the same "cryptic clue" type name of many other socks.

The edit summaries say "consistency" but many of the edits were not inconsistent, they were just changed to the preferred format. Even where there was some inconsistency, the date is always changed to the preferred format regardless of the date format the article was created in, or the most common format commonly in the article, or the format in the lead.. And in this case the inconsistency was caused by one of Kipperfield's previous socks

Given the huge number of socks uncovered by the previous checkuser investigation, another checkuser is warranted. SpinningSpark 19:49, 6 January 2016 (UTC) Spinning

Oh, forgot to say, I have already blocked Loose eel, this report is mainly to find further socks. SpinningSpark 20:19, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Mike V • Talk 17:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Mike V • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 17:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * <b style="color:#151B54">Mike V</b> • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 17:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * <b style="color:#151B54">Mike V</b> • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 17:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * <b style="color:#151B54">Mike V</b> • <b style="color:#C16C16">Talk</b> 17:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

28 January 2016

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New account, all edits are to change date formats to put the day before the month. Peter James (talk) 15:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC) Peter James (talk) 15:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * The account is to those in the archives. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Single purpose account making the same pointless changes to date formats. Sro23 (talk) 19:03, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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Three of the four edits listed above seem legitimate, and the fourth not unreasonable.


 * 1) Angelo Dolci, the article had two mdy dates in a sea of dmy dates.
 * 2) Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson was an EB 1911 cut and paste, and might be expected to use dmy dates.
 * 3) Sabina Jeschke had a dmy date of birth from the beginning, but the inofbox was added without df=y.
 * 4) Viacheslav Belavkin had a mdy birth date and a dmy death date. According to STRONGNAT it should be dmy.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:50, 18 December 2016 (UTC).


 * I picked those diffs at random simply to prove a point. In hindsight, they probably weren't the best to use, but should it really matter whether a sock's edits are helpful or not? They're still evading a block. Anyway, I can think of plenty of instances where Kipperfield socks have indeed made seemingly pointless and even purposefully disruptive edits in violation of MOS:DATERET. Sro23 (talk) 02:07, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 16:22, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK same pointless date changes as other socks. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 18:56, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Appears to be the latest Kipperfield IPsock. This time they have the gall to cite MOS:DATEUNIFY, when all they're really doing is violating MOS:DATERET. Sro23 (talk) 20:27, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, Quinton Feldberg, 146.198.51.127 hasn't edited in literally six months. Blocking it now would be pointless. Sro23 (talk) 20:57, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

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Again, the examples given are legitimate: All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:58, 18 December 2016 (UTC).
 * 1) Hans Teeuwen had a dmy dob, and the infobox has been made consistent.  He currently performs in English in the UK so STRONGNAT could be said to apply.
 * 2) Antonio Cocchi also had dmy text, and the infobox has been made consistent.

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 * the unblocked non-stale IP matches geolocation of the blocked IPs and the edit pattern is certainly the same. Please block 3 months to match the other IPs' blocks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 23:39, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:05, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I did a very quick scan of edits on the same /24 and it appears that this IP is the only one recently in use by the master. Nothing more to do at this time. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:15, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

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An obvious sock, the account's sole purpose seems to be to mess around with date formats, citing MOS:DATEUNIFY, just like before. Historically many, many sleeper accounts were discovered, which is why this time I request CU. Sro23 (talk) 02:19, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

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✅ to previous socks. No other accounts seen. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:50, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

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Another date warrior, as usual with a unique username as well. Sro23 (talk) 23:24, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK Quinton Feldberg (talk) 23:06, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

,. Master:, Quinton Feldberg (talk) 18:19, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

See Special:Contributions/Pru Freda. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 18:21, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Account's sole purpose is to change dates to their preferred format. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 18:27, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  17:20, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * - Please compare to confirmed sock .  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:03, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:33, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
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 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:33, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:33, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
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 * Socks blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:30, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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Quinton Feldberg (talk) 19:50, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

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 * The IP edits are too old. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 23:16, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

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Quinton Feldberg (talk) 16:46, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * 3 months. GABgab 17:00, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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And the next day he's at it again. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 17:04, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Maybe run a sleeper check againt his latest sock as well? Quinton Feldberg (talk) 21:30, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked for 5 days. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:15, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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Quinton Feldberg (talk) 22:21, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * 2 weeks. GABgab 22:58, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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Quinton Feldberg (talk) 19:18, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked for one week, closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:12, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

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It looks like a duck to me  Quinton Feldberg (talk) 22:07, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Can someone please just hurry up and CHECK already? The June 5 batch isn't gonna remain non-stale forever! Quinton Feldberg (talk) 05:27, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please check for sleepers (the June 5 batch is not stale). Thanks, GABgab 22:17, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The one account in that batch that edited in June is when I just looked. A quick look shows that this account is on a busy range that, according to the CU logs, has been used by Kipperfield before. However, that range doesn't seem to have been checked in June, so I suspect that even if the batch weren't stale it wouldn't have added much. I don't have the time to do a full behavioral comparison for the sleeper check right now, so leaving this open for some other CU with some spare time on their hands. T. Canens (talk) 05:42, 3 September 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ and - no other socks that I can see -  A l is o n  ❤ 07:47, 3 September 2017 (UTC)


 * - Please block sockpuppet. relax, this is no emergency. Please no more mass pings. It's disruptive. Sro23 (talk) 13:55, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 16:21, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

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It looks like a duck to me  Quinton Feldberg (talk) 17:23, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 00:39, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

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Quinton Feldberg (talk) 19:34, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, but two things:, please include more information in your reports, such as a set of diffs that show a connection between the suspected sock puppet and the master. It's not fair to make me go look through the archives to find out what's going on.  Second, I suspect the IP address might be turning stale, so it's possible this block won't have any effect. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:00, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Might be time for an LTA page for this guy. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 04:01, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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Same pointless date changes. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 21:54, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * . GABgab 00:06, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK; persistent date-warring just like previous socks. Requesting CU as sockmaster is known for operating multiple accounts simultaneously Sro23 (talk) 19:27, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - behaviour is a pretty likely match, I don't know of many users this obsessed with date formats. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:43, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * CU evidence suggests it's that Little Anne Doffen is a Kipperfield sock, but no more than that. This one will need to be called on behaviour. Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水  13:29, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I was going to say that Little Anne Doffen and are . NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 14:30, 10 November 2017 (UTC)


 * - Little Anne Doffen and Living proof are both WP:DUCKS date-warring in the same characteristic manner . Please block both sockpuppets, thanks. Sro23 (talk) 17:20, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Both users are . TonyBallioni (talk) 17:44, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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Same date changes as previous socks. \\\Septrillion:- &#8237;  10 Eleventeen 18:28, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

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The case is. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:07, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Sro23 (talk) 03:15, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:03, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:05, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
 * is to.
 * Already blocked. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:33, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

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Same date changes as previous socks. Balkywrest (talk) 17:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC) Balkywrest (talk) 17:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

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Insufficient evidence of anything much. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:06, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

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For the record. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:46, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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✅, . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:47, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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Please oh please (talk) 21:13, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * One might say the same about . Who but an excapee from Wiki-gaol could have posted that screen shot-- <b style="color:black">Dloh cier ekim </b> (talk) 22:05, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Clearer link-- <b style="color:black">Dloh cier ekim </b> (talk) 22:08, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Blocked the filer per the Commons upload. About to check him. I'll look at what he reported after I'm done there. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:10, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * - is ✅ to Please oh please. Editing on a likely proxy or compromised host, so not going to try to sort out who they are beyond that, though on behaviour they're the UTRS troll., you're familiar with this case, you may want to look at this, so placing it on hold in case you do. You or anyone else should feel free to close it. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:26, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to previous socks in the archive:
 * . Please oh please is ❌. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:27, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * . Please oh please is ❌. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:27, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * . Please oh please is ❌. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:27, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * . Please oh please is ❌. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:27, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:45, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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✅ . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:45, 6 May 2020 (UTC)