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19 November 2012

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Edits exclusively articles on Armenian topics, predominantly footballers. Recreated Norayr Gyozalyan. Use of profanity at Serzh Sargsyan and on my talk page. All of which is consistent with behavior of and socks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:03, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Nothing to do here&mdash;the accounts are already blocked and the sock tagged. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:21, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

14 March 2013

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Every edit this user has made have all created new articles. Every one of them was previously created by User:KunoxTxa and socks, except William de Oliveira Pottker, which was presumably to get around the create protection on some of the articles. Sir Sputnik (talk) 04:38, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * Comment - Vandalism to the articles on Yura Movsisyan and in particular Henrikh Mkhitaryan are further behaviour indicative of sockpuppetry. Sir Sputnik (talk) 07:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * . Blocked, tagged, closed. NativeForeigner Talk 18:52, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

02 June 2013

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Both UrartuYerevan and PidaratsGandonashvili have followed patterns of rapidly adding unsourced content about Armenian football players. UrartuYerevan started editing after PidaratsGandonashvili was blocked for block evasion. Way 2 veers 02:25, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, closing. I will note that this should be filed under Sockpuppet investigations/KunoxTxa. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 06:43, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

02 June 2013

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Has followed a pattern of rapidly adding content about Armenian football players similarly to other suspected KunoxTxa sock puppets UrartuYerevan and PidaratsGandonashvili. The pages created by this user for different football players are identical in content. (see Furman Melkonyan, Eduard Avagyan, Raffael Grigorian) Way 2 veers 21:37, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * This is a very obvious duck. I posted at ANI for a block since this user is so prolific. - MrX 21:42, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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I'm not a sockpuppet. I'm just trying to contribute to my people by creating articles on them. If I'm doing anything wrong, please let me know. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by QunoxTxa (talk • contribs) 21:39, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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Everybody involved is already blocked for vandalism and the linkage is obvious.&mdash;Kww(talk) 01:20, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

4 June 2013

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 * Per Duck . I open this because of this contested removal. Just in case for delete the pages s/he created. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!  See terms and conditions.  03:04, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * Checking is superfluous; user has already been blocked (and the articles he created speedied). Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:55, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

08 July 2015

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Long term harassment of Ninetoyadome. All accounts are already blocked. Requesting a check into the feasibility of a range block on behalf of Ninetoyadome, though I suspect that I know the outcome. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:24, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:24, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * All accounts listed above are ✅ to each other. A range block is a bit tricky to accomplish here. Mike V • Talk 15:10, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

15 August 2015

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While this editor has displayed none of the vandalous or vitriolic behaviour of previous socks, their only edits to date have been to recreate the article on Arsen Piloyan, which was previously created by a KunoxTxa sock. Add to that the timing, mere hours after, , and were blocked, and it begins to lock rather suspicious. Given that the account was registered over a year ago, and has been dormant since then, a CU check for additional sleepers would also be helpful. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:13, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * . Recreating article previously created by .  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:12, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * ❌, as far as I can see. T. Canens (talk) 21:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing this case with no action.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:45, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

16 August 2015

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user directly stated that he/she is a sockpuppet of this suspect. Mop Seeker  Fox  Three!  20:32, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:10, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

18 August 2015

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Only edits are creating a bunch of pages stating:
 * This is KunoxTxa.
 * The "suspected sockpuppets of KunoxTxa" are all mine, not just UrartuYerevan, Granatich and PidaratsGandonashvili. Fix that. Sh1fter isn't me.

along with some other trolling. Not that I necessarily trust a troll at his word about his other trolling, but I did block this new account as a self-declared sock. DMacks (talk) 05:18, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * The feasibility of a rangeblock was explored about six weeks ago, and deemed to be too complicated. I think this needs to be revisited. With twenty-four vandalism only socks registered in the past six weeks, we've gotten to a point where some amount of collateral damage caused by a rangeblock is preferable to allowing this disruption to continue. Sir Sputnik (talk) 05:28, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * Range block was refused by CheckUser last month. I don't see what has changed since then. I'm closing this now, as the sock is already blocked.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  19:47, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

10 December 2015

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See user contributions and WP:DUCK username. I'm requesting CU to check for possible sleepers. GABHello! 20:19, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for my stupidity in formatting and submitting this investigation. It's been a while since I've been over at SPI, and I'm rusty. GABHello! 20:43, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * New account is an obvious sock, and already blocked. CU conducted given history of socking, but no apparent sleepers for this one and older accounts are all stale. -- Euryalus (talk) 07:14, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:48, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing.

15 May 2016

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This is an account that so far has only been used to vandalize articles on FC Ararat Yerevan and Alashkert FC, both of which KunoxTxa has vandalized frequently in the past, and their username suggests they intend to continue their vandalism. While the master account and previous confirmed socks are almost certainly stale, there are recent very obvious but unconfirmed socks to check against, notably Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:18, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

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Well nevermind. It seems that as I was typing up the SPI report, this editor admitted their identity and was promptly blocked. Though a CU check for sleepers might not be the worst idea. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:29, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

16 May 2016

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FourthReichOverlordKunoxTxax made this edit to FC Banants. Clearly saying they're evading a block. — MRD2014 (formerly Qpalzmmzlapq) T C 16:52, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

KunoxTxatheFuhrer has a very similar username to the sock master, making edits to FC Banants saying things like "I cannot be stopped" — MRD2014 (formerly Qpalzmmzlapq) T C 17:11, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * Added a rather obvious sock. RickinBaltimore (talk) 17:36, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * All already blocked. Noting here to pick up the CU trail as the last archived case was May 2016. Geolocation matches previous socks. Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:22, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * As above,-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:22, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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Uncreative username; Azerbaijan-related vandalism.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  17:38, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * Account blocked right after filing. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 17:43, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

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Similar user names and both vandalized same articles  Flow 234 (Nina)   talk  16:01, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

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This is very obviously. With all these accounts already blocked, I would recommend closing this with no further action, since this guy seems take some perverse pleasure in seeing their sock cats populated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:02, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked by Drmies. this should probably be merged into KunoxTxa's case. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:22, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ and tagged.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:56, 26 September 2017 (UTC)