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Doug Weller talk 16:23, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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A bit complicated. talk:MorningSunBright stated that their account was compromised after they were blocked for disruptive editing. They were allowed to edit from another account, StopPrejudiceNow. This name was found to be unsuitable, so she renamed to LightFromABrightStar. After continued editwarring and a warning by User:Deepfriedokra they started the same disruptive editing with CherryBlossomsInTheNight. I CU checked the last two and confirmed they were the same. . Doug Weller  talk 16:23, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I hadn't realised the age of the LightFromABrightStar account. I'm making sure the tags are right but the master here is LightFromABrightStar, so this needs renaming. Doug Weller talk 18:57, 21 September 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅. In future, could you please use the "clerk" case status for move requests? It helps make it clear that there's still work to be done on a case page even if the actual investigation is complete. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:29, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Retagged LFAB as the master, not a sock. Cabayi (talk) 05:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:40, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:42, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

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Same narrow topic interest, especially with other socks Laptua-skye and Interracial-is-best, particularly Chinese history; especially re-adding information to Spanish flu about effects in China (diff). Other overlapping topics include various articles on animal domestication (especially in China) and human haplogroups. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 19:49, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * I'm not a sockpuppet of LightFromABrightStar. Looking at the age of the account, it started in the year 2012, when I was nine years old. I am not old enough to have started an account that long ago. I am interested in Chinese history because I am Chinese.


 * The only reason that I edited Spanish flu is because I looked at Spanish flu: Revision history and Talk:Spanish flu was mentioning the effects of the Spanish flu on China, and I noticed that in between the editing wars that happened between multiple sockpuppet accounts, some actually high quality sources got deleted from the article.


 * The sources/information I added to the Spanish flu article, I got from this Reddit post from r/AskHistorians that I previously had read and upvoted several months ago. [Link ]


 * --Leppaberry-123 (talk) 21:18, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

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✅ to previous socks in the archive + and. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:35, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

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Same focus on topics as recent socks (Laputa-skye, Leppaberry-123), especially effects of the Spanish Flu in China; same pattern of username. Not even trying to be subtle about any of it. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 02:29, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅, . ST47 (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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IP is restoring text by previous sock: and,  and ,  and. Both geolocate to same place.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 16:54, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

I know the CU tool cannot be used for IPs explicitly, but given some of the comments at User_talk:Hunan201p, I would like to request a sleeper check. mentioned WorldCreaterFighter who is a prolific socker.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:31, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

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IPs will not be checked. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:48, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * IP edits are now stale. Closing. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:41, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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Water-aqua-123's username beers an obvious similarity to that of LightFromABrightStar's previous sockpuppet, Leppaberry-123. They have both made edits to China-specific articles, including edits that seem to be related to public interest in the recent Wuhan flu.

Furthermore, both have made edits at the obscure "Ashina tribe" article. Leppaberry-123 places citation tags on claims in the "Analysis of written sources and traditions" section at the Ashina tribe article, which were already cited earlier in the article, whereas the newer account (water-aqua-123) attempts to delete the entire section. Both account's user contributions also show an usual amount of China-related edits.

Water-Aqua-123's short contributions page shows his numerous edits to virus epidemics, bats as food (related to the rumors about the Wuhan flu outbreak), obscure articles like "Chinese in India", and the Ashina tribe article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Water-aqua-123

See Leppaberry-123's multiple edits to articles related to China/viruses in China, small mammals, the efficiacy of bear bile (traditional Chinese medicine), "Ethnic Chinese in Russia", the obscure Ashina tribe article, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Leppaberry-123&limit=100&target=Leppaberry-123

LightFromABrightStar is supposed to be banned from this website. -- Hunan201p (talk) 10:13, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:33, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

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See the contribs pages of Dynasty-Warriors-Fan and the most recently blocked sockpuppets (Water-aqua-123 and Leppaberry-123) of this master account. Note also the two hyphens in their usernames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dynasty-Warriors-Fan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Water-aqua-123

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Leppaberry-123

Both accounts have edited the "Bat as food" article with relation to the Wuhan flu epidemic in China.

Both accounts have edited pages related to Chinese people.

Both accounts have edited pages related to the ancient history of Turks/China's frontier wars in the western regions. Water-Aqua-133's sole edit, in this respect, is "Ashina tribe". However, their previous sockpuppet, Leppaberry-123 edited this article many more times. Dynasty-Warriors-Fan has edited "Xiongnu", "Han-Xiongnu war" and "Western Regions" -- all of which relate heavily to Turks.

Dynasty-Warriors-Fan has, like Leppaberry-123 and Water-Aqua-123, followed and edited things that I edited in relation to the origins of Turkic people, in this case, the Salar people page. Hunan201p (talk) 00:56, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅ ST47 (talk) 12:20, 3 March 2020 (UTC)