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I blocked the sock master account for disruptive editing on Naxxar and after trying to assert that he's a historian in this topic and that his edits were correct. Then, was created and immediately reverted my edit to the article. I indef'd this account and modified the block of the (now) sock master account to be indefinite. Afterwards, and  both were created and asked the same question on my user talk page (whether or not I was an expert in this same topic area of Naxxar and the time period - both were blocked by another administrator as sock puppets of . Then,  was created and made edits to Naxxar Entrenchment (and was shortly blocked as another sock puppet of. is another account as well. Creating this SPI retro-actively to begin documenting these sock puppet users and the events into the log, so that it can be used to track future disruption by this person (in the event things begin to become more difficult to track). It will be left open for now, since the sock puppetry is currently ongoing and in-progress - but will close once it simmers down.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   18:46, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

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Added multiple additional accounts. Home Lander (talk) 20:20, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Note: From what I've seen most of the users have appealed the block - TP access should be revoked in my opinion for repeated insufficient appeals and wasting admin time. RhinosF1 (talk) 20:38, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Merging my SPI report with the previous report and endorsing CU request to have the parent IP address / range of this user found and a CU block applied.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   18:48, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * All of the above are ✅ with two surprising exceptions - HeretoFour and the alleged master, Mark Peres, are technically ❌ to the other account and each other. This should probably be relisted under Naxxar Historian, which looks to be the first of these other account. I will update the tags accordingly. Yunshui 雲 水 22:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yunshui - I don't believe it! Check again! :-P
 * All jokes aside, I get to go and adjust the user's block back to 24 hours. Thank you for confirming the other accounts. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:16, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, hold your horses... CU can't prove a negative, and while there's no technical evidence, the timing is fairly suspect. Besides, the original user has claimed they don't want to edit here any more, so there seems little point in amending the block. Yunshui 雲 水 22:18, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yunshui - I mean... I guess that it's a fair point; CU results obviously don't prove innocence by any means - there's obviously other evidence I need to consider, too. I'll go back over the events and make a decision from there. Because someone indicates that they don't want to edit here doesn't mean that I no longer owe them a fair analysis and investigation of the events. If he says "fine, I'm out of here" and I later determine that there's not enough concrete evidence to hold this user under an indefinite block for sock puppetry, then I still owe that user a correction of administrative actions. It's the right thing to do and it doesn't matter if they've indicated that they're not editing anymore. Anyways, thanks again for looking into this. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:35, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Is there anything else you'd like to do here? Thanks, GABgab 17:35, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
 * GeneralizationsAreBad - No. There's nothing else that needs to be done other than what's already done. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:41, 26 January 2019 (UTC)


 * OK. Tagged and closing. GABgab 17:42, 26 January 2019 (UTC)