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09 March 2016

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Suspected master is blocked for stealth vandalism and personal attacks. Edits primarily involved changes in ages, dates, and chronology, e.g., , , , , , ; nearly always unsourced and often to the point of being unusual or redundant. Interested mostly in music BLPs and aviation. Suspected sock is also unusually interested in ages, dates , , , , , and years ,. Like the suspected master, the focus is on making questionable unsourced additions to music articles, occasionally aviation articles, and nearly all the edits are made from mobile platforms.

Also, their behavior in the MH-17 article overlaps. Suspected master added crew ages and mention of passengers under 18,, ; suspected sock reinstates one edit and mimics others with and.

LiamDino98 is more of the same. Token diff:. Geogene (talk) 01:50, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

LiamDino98 changes "as of 2014" in an article to "as of 2015". The very next edit in the article's history is SuzieShark updating to "as of 2016". Of note is the fact that SuzieShark's update took place on 2 January, and the article has not been edited since then. Liam-dino extensively edited the same article earlier, but I'm not sure if they did anything with that specific text. Geogene (talk) 22:44, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Sequential "as of" updates of the same locus of LOT Flight 5055


 * Adding dates, years to photo captions of crashed aircraft

Liam-dino    

SuzieShark  

(and this one is a person not an aircraft, but comparably morbid) 

LiamDino98

Geogene (talk) 22:56, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Unfortunately stale for a CU with respect to master and LiamDino98. Behavioral evidence is strong but not certain: The edits look quite similar and the average edit times and patterns roughly the same, but the intervening months make it less than certain. What are your thoughts? Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 03:09, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * LiamDino98 blocked as an obvious case. Sam Walton (talk) 09:40, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - I think there's enough evidence to call them ducks. The editing is really similar (minor changes to dates, editing similar articles – in particular between master and SuzieShark, see ). Their average editing times are also very similar, at 16:43, 15:47, and 15:17. I think there's enough to call SuzieShark a duck. Therefore, (or any other admin, perhaps), could you block and take any other necessary action? Thanks. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 00:46, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * . I'll leave the tagging up to you. I initially intended just stepped in to get the block in since the account was still editing. However, when I was looking at the article, another account caught my eye. . Same pattern appears: mobile editing; fixation on flight articles; edits articles about fictional characters; short minor changes to music/musician related articles. The account is stale but I think is clear in this case as well. I believe [this] is reasonable grounds for a CU here to look for sleepers considering this new evidence.  Mkdw talk 03:06, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I've declined the CU request. Only SuzieShark is not . Based on the behavior, I see no justification for a sleeper check based on one account.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:02, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem. I thought perhaps that because we were able to tie a number of accounts to a master around a timeline last year, and that we now have one account non-stale account where they've re-emerged, that it would be enough to warrant a check on a master previously connected with creating multiple successive sock puppets. You're correct that there isn't anything "current" that indicates upon this return that they've resorted to more sock puppetry, and merely only their return. I'll let the other trainees close up this case. I only came in really for the initial block. Mkdw talk 19:18, 13 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Tagged with Liam-dino as master. Thanks, . Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 05:36, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Can one of the trainees working on this case please fix the structure? The subsectioning is incorrect. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:02, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Mkdw talk 19:14, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems like everything is done here, tagging as close. Sam Walton (talk) 21:39, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

29 March 2016

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All mobile edits, changes the recording dates of album article infoboxes, , , birthdates , year of photographs. Looks like a vandalism block will soon be forthcoming, but I'd like a check for sleepers. Geogene (talk) 20:33, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Here are examples of the same type of edits from a previous sock:, ,. Geogene (talk) 20:40, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * – for sleepers. Diffs check out. Almost willing to call it a duck, but a comparison to will be nice as well. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 04:44, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Best you can get here is that it is heavily possible. Courcelles (talk)
 * All I have to add is that the behavioral similarities plus CU result make it clear in my own mind that Roxy is another sock, but I'll leave the final decision up to an admin. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 00:54, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - Block sock and close.  QEDK ( T  &#9749;  C ) 18:40, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:24, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Like previous socks of this family, makes unsourced changes to dates, ages, and chronologies in Liam Gallagher, pop music, and aviation disaster articles. ,, , , , , , ,. Also, all-mobile edits. Geogene (talk) 23:39, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * I have compared the editing history with those of the master and known sockpuppets, and the number of similarities is enough to establish this beyond any doubt, so I have blocked the account. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:38, 24 November 2016 (UTC)