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There may be sockpuppets of User talk:LatinCultureTodat who was blocked in 2013 because it was using Wikipedia mainly for publicity and/or promotional purposes of Giannina Braschi, specifically promoting the book United States of Banana, she wrote.


 * 1) The three accounts are heavily vested in Giannina Braschi and Latin literature articles.
 * 2) They add text related to Giannina Braschi and refs to articles, to promote her and her book.
 * 3) All three create inappropriate link piping resulting in miscapitalization / incorrect SENTENCECASE in the See also
 * 4) The "1978" is part of the usernames - even an editor from 2013 User talk:Ramona1978  came in to suddenly support Giannina Braschi ' s book with this diff when someone proposed its merger

Evidence # 1: adding See also sections with inappropriate link piping resulting in miscapitaliztion
 * User talk:Dorado1978 to Down These Mean Streets with this diff
 * User talk:AmLit1978 to William Carlos Williams with this diff
 * User talk:Latinxtranslator1 to Giannina Braschi with this diff and to this article: Chiricú.  The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 02:12, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Evidence # 2: adding Giannina Braschi text and links to her book:
 * User talk:AmLit1978 to:
 * Walt Whitman with this diff:
 * Mariquita with this diff:
 * 'Pataphysics with this diff:
 * PROMESA with this diff:


 * User talk:Dorado1978 to Soy boricua with this diff


 * User talk:Latinxtranslator1 to Puerto Ricans with this diff

The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 02:34, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * - There might be enough in the evidence presented above to block the three suspected socks on behavior alone, but CU could provide confirmation. Connecting them back to the alleged master might be more difficult, but let's see where CU takes us. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:27, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * PS: the timecard augury is auspicious as well. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:30, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are to one another:
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Only reason these aren't confirmed is that there's a possibility that it is a shared IP. Named master is . TonyBallioni (talk) 02:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)


 * The only real question here was whether this is a new sock group or the same person as the master from a bunch of years ago. I found a few behavioral similarities (ask me off-wiki for details) beyond the obvious stuff that convince me it's the same person.  Between the "almost confirmed" from CU and the behavioral evidence, I feel comfortable calling everybody proven.  I'll also re-block the master so the log message gets updated to point here.  -- RoySmith (talk) 04:15, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Also cleaned up a mess of G5 pages, and tagged a few more for G5 in cases where I wasn't sure the "no substantial edits by others" criterion was met. I note that in a few cases, these pages were edited by several of the socks, which seemed a little odd.  It's just barely possible, especially in conjunction with the CU suspicion of a shared IP, that this is something like multiple people working at the same PR firm's office, in which case, meat rather than sock.  But, I'm not going to sweat that. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:39, 22 November 2020 (UTC)