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15 June 2013

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Makecat has been blocked for sockpuppetry at zh.wikipedia: zh:WP:VPM, zh:维基百科:用戶查核請求/2013/5, zh:User_talk:Bencmq, zh:Wikipedia:持续出没的破坏者/Makecat, m:Special:Log/Bencmq, zh:WP:互助客栈/其他/存档/2013年5月. I've taken a look at all the centauth pages of all the socks I saw, and there were some enwiki VOA blocks (though I have no way of knowing whether those VOAs were ✅ or not as I do not understand zhwiki's CU/SPI system or Chinese), so this may require investigating to protect the interests of the project. Several accounts were blocked on Meta (and a few other random Wikipedias) and/or globally locked. This will obviously require coordination with the zhwiki CUs. Rschen7754 12:24, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * - in the strictest sense of the word, as I do not know if there will be enough evidence to run a check, yet CU attention is required as zhwiki CU info is obviously necessary. Rschen7754 12:25, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * While the zhwiki CU activity warranted a cursory check, I see nothing untoward in Makecat's user contributions on enwiki that justifies looking in any deeper. &mdash; Coren (talk) 13:02, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * From what I could tell it was mostly goodhand/badhand socking, but I've asked Bencmq to comment. --Rschen7754 22:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * "Mostly goodhand/badhand socking" that is right, but not so much 'goodhand' part for the last few months. Checking the main account alone is unlikely to find anything since most of the socks come from proxies while the main account usually don't. --Ben.MQ (talk) 04:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing per Bencmq. Rschen7754 01:53, 17 June 2013 (UTC)