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10 March 2015

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These users all vandalized this article by blatantly adding certain 5SOS members, Niall Horan, and Justin Bieber. I'm not even sure if Maddieveasey is the sockmaster or of they are all sockpuppets of Michaelbraps. I swear the sockmaster seems to be 5SOS and One Direction fans. Snowager -Talk to Me!  01:06, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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I've also got down this anon IP here, as he/she is a 1D fan, probably giving the IP a chain to the sockmaster. This user appears to be IP-hopping as well.Snowager -Talk to Me!  01:17, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I have also fetched down these suspected socks here, adding the same vandalism to the article. The Snowager -is sleeping  18:47, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

This user must be obsessed with 5SOS as well, reaching out for something new; so it probably gives me a link to Michaelbraps. The Snowager -is sleeping  05:12, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * - Yes, the have all added 5SOS members and Justin Bieber to the "Daddy (nickname)" article . I'm endorsing the CU to check for sleepers, but also to check connection between this case and Michaelbraps case (those were also obsessed with 5SOS, mostly adding their members to Spice Girls article ).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:03, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Parzare = Dr.valentine2000
 * Animosity 23 = Wordworld2578
 * Ococomy272 = Ococomy
 * Otherwise no relation. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  19:09, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Of these three pairs, the first and third's second account has no edits. The second pair sees Wordworld2578 editing in February, and Animosity 23 the next month: with no overlap, it is just as likely to be a forgotten-password situation.
 * Considering 1D/5SOS/Bieber are pretty popular topics amongst teenagers (and that's one heck of an euphemism) I'm not at all surprised to notice a large number of new accounts performing similar types of vandalism -- after witnessing the infamous #cutforbieber, I'd say a spree of fangirls vandalizing Wikipedia is relatively tame; the accounts can be blocked after being warned appropriately is abuse continues but it doesn't appear that there are blockable violations of our WP:SOCK policy. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  19:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)