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The "56fc" ip adds a batch of WP:OR and WP:SYNTH to the article about the 1946 film Beauty and the Beast. After two editors remove it M-S restores it. The main evidence is that M-S uses the same edit summary that the "56fc" used. To be fair the "5b4b" has only made one edit. In situations like this I have seen 100s of examples of an editor making an edit - then logging out and making an innocuous edit to try and make those looking at the page miss first one - so I decided to error on the side of caution. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 18:17, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

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I warned Mare-Silverus for edit warring while logged out. I'm hoping that will be enough. I'll also protect the article for 24 hours to discourage further edit warring. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:42, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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The Sockmaster has used IP accounts to repeatedly insert thousands of words of his/her personal theories and analysis into the Bennet family article, rendering the page an incoherent mess. In doing so, the sockmaster has thwarted multiple attempts by various editors to clean up the article (diffs - ,,,,,,,,,). There are over seventy associated IP socks which have been active on Bennet family, mostly variants of 2A02:C7D:BC32:7E00 and 2A02:C7D:BC6B:7D00. They appear to alter on a day-to-day basis, however several of them have continued editing after receiving warnings or being reverted so the sockmaster is clearly aware of the disruption he/she is causing. For clarity's sake, I have only included diffs for the most blatant examples of thwarting cleanups.

The Sockmaster has reverted editors attempting to clean up his/her anonymous edits ( and ; and ;  and ;  and ) - all accounts add vast amounts of WP:OR, WP:SYNTH and gratuitous overlinking to Bennet family and other Pride and Prejudice-related articles (a quick glance at the edit history of the article Darcy will provide other examples of the sockmasters edit-warring) - the socks appear to all be from the same region the Sockmaster.

The Sockmaster has ignored numerous userpage requests since 2005 to not add personal theories and analysis to articles, has ignored attempts to open dialogue on Talk:Bennet family in August and September and has ignored warnings not to use sockpuppets in addition to receiving final warnings not to disruptively edit. 88.145.199.86 (talk) 00:44, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * Everything is way too old here. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:20, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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I'm an admin at EN Wikt, focusing on Japanese entries. I've long been cleaning up after an IP user geolocating to the UK, who has been very active in Japanese-related topics, while evidencing no apparent ability to understand the language. It seems they rely on English-language sources only, and many of these appear to be pop-culture materials, manga, or anime, not actual reference works. See, for instance, various threads in my Wiktionary Talk page archives starting from wikt:User_talk:Eirikr/2013.

This user later registered the Mare-Silverus account, and continued the trend of problematic edits to Japanese-related entries -- and/or a relative hijacked this account to do so, as described at wikt:User_talk:Eirikr/2019. That same year, this user and/or relative were also discussed on my Talk page at wikt:User_talk:Eirikr/2019 and wikt:User_talk:Eirikr/2019.

The named account's editing remained problematic, and the user(s) did not engage numerous attempts to discuss with them, as recorded at wikt:User_talk:Mare-Silverus. This ultimately led to a permanent block at EN Wikt.

A fellow admin at EN Wikt, who is also a checkuser, later reached out to me to let me know that the newer account GinNike0000 was a sock for this same user, as described at wikt:User_talk:Eirikr and (currently) at wikt:Wiktionary:Requests_for_checkuser.

Reviewing edits here at EN Wikipedia made by Mare-Silverus, GinNike0000, and various IP anons, I see a continuation of the same patterns -- much of what they add is borderline, or problematic, or flat-out wrong. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 02:05, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * GinNike0000 is ✅ to Mare-Silverus. I must admit, I'm mystified why somebody who's been around for almost 18 years would start socking.  I'm going all-in on AGF and indefing the sock, no tags, and a week for the master.  But,  please understand that what you're doing here can't continue.   -- RoySmith (talk) 18:28, 11 March 2022 (UTC)