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14 April 2011

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Landalva was indefinitely blocked on 13 April for failure to co-operate, as per an ANI discussion. The main point of the ANI issue, which I raised, was with regard to removal of maintenance tags on articles created by that user. 24 hours later, a new account called SKSAKS was created and began adopting similar behaviour here and here to the same articles. Those were immediately reverted by various editors, and soon after the IP 110.224.9.30 moved in with further similar behaviour at. This looks suspiciously like at attempt to get round the block when, in fact, all Landalva needed to do in order to be unblocked was to agree a collaborative pattern of behaviour. Sitush (talk) 19:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Update - unblock of Landalva by Thumperward, noted below, has backfired. Landalva has gone back to removing maintenance templates etc, see here & here- Sitush (talk) 04:17, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

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 * Looks like a blatant Duck to me - they're rather obscure articles which very few people are likely to edit, and the behaviour is exactly the same. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 20:14, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I've unblocked the parent account following an email request. Given the short lifespan of the parent and socks here I hope this can be chalked up to a user clue deficiency. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 21:32, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I've indef blocked the parent account again, as he went straight back to the same problematic behavior - edit warring to remove maintenance templates -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 08:04, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * And I've now indef blocked SKSAKS for returning while Landalva was blocked and continuing to remove the maintenance templates, and I've semi-protected Adarsh shreeramleela samiti khanpur ghazipur as he edited it from an IP too, 110.224.10.49 -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:21, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Everyone's blocked and the IPs have been quiet, so I'm closing for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:19, 22 April 2011 (UTC)