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I noticed a questionable deletion on Proto-Indo-Europeans today. The informations about WHG were deleted by user X.Mia without any explanation. I've looked the revision history of the page and noticed that the same content was deleted by an ipv6(again without any explanation) before. I, then, had a look at the articles which were edited by the same questionable ipv6 and noticed this. In addition, the new account seems familiar with templates, which makes me think that, he/she is not actually a new editor in Wikipedia.

I also noticed that the similar problematic edits were made by the same ipv6 range (2601:8c:4106:3df0:...) multiple times across articles. The ip range can be checked to see other edits of the editor. Probably the user creates temporary accounts to edit wikipedia as the ip range having a bad reputation. 216.189.148.184 (talk) 11:49, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

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 * I don't see any signs of abuse as the sockmaster in question did not even edit the Proto-Indo-Europeans article at all, according to their contribs. It's not clear to me whether there's abuse. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 17:32, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Requesting CU. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 17:40, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The sockmaster in question and the suspect X.Mia are connected to the same ipv6(s), hence also each other. Evidences have been provided. 216.189.148.184 (talk) 18:48, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:57, 4 July 2017 (UTC) you said that "the ip filed this case and then used their account to assure that they wouldn't file a case". It simply cant be, because the link is from 4 June, today's date is 4 July. I think you confuse the dates. 216.189.148.184 (talk) 20:37, 4 July 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  20:59, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not taking action here because the IP filed this case and then used their account to assure that they wouldn't file a case. Both sides appear as socks from the way this has occurred. The filing IP may not be there physically but they come across as one of the socks from the Turkish Wikipedia.
 * I did confuse the dates and that did put me off. My apologies. The IPv6 range in question may be seen here for reviewing editors.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:28, 6 July 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:53, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * - to determine extents of socking.
 * Mattoms and X.Mia are ❌. X.Mia is ✅ to . X.Mia has made one edit that does not appear to be disruptive. FinKoz has made two substantive edits (a third to his userpage) that also do not appear to be disruptive. At the same time, I see no need for the person to have two accounts. I would either block the sock (X.Mia) without a tag, or ask the person which account they prefer to keep and block the other one.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:58, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the alt account w/o tag and closing.