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11 May 2013

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Mediolanum is currently blocked for making legal threats, the suspect socks only edits are to the talk page of Potential superpowers. This diff is all that is needed, Mediolanum has also said the article is well written and that adding Russia or Brazil would be propaganda, Mediolanum also says "scientifical" I can hunt up the other diffs if required but this is so obvious I see no need to. Darkness Shines (talk) 14:44, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Added GLawrence1972 based on this Darkness Shines (talk) 15:49, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Behavior is obviously the same, so WP:DUCK applies. Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 07:54, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Reopened to check for sleepers. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 08:44, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅. No obvious sleepers. T. Canens (talk) 08:52, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing. Rschen7754 08:53, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

14 May 2013

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All the same as previous socks, Mediolanum + socks had insisted that Potential superpowers was "well written" and should not have Brazil nor Russia in it, the IP socks continue in the same old way. 89.97.225.73 151.40.60.108 151.40.59.151 Darkness Shines (talk) 10:36, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've semiprotected the article's talk page to chase off the IP sockpuppets. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:20, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

16 May 2013

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Same style, same grammatical structure in the comments, & once again related to the potential superpowers article and the inclusion of Russia & Brazil. Made a comment on my talk page claiming I'm wrong since (apparently) I work for the KGB/FSB/etc. Main comment diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Therexbanner&diff=prev&oldid=555431177 Therexbanner (talk) 22:47, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * , closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:06, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

21 May 2013

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He kinda admitted it here I have told him I do not know how many times to login to his account and request an unblock and stop socking, he just does not seem to get it, Darkness Shines (talk) 20:40, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Maybe I'm dense (a distinct possibility) but I don't see how that one edit admits anything. I would need more context than you have provided.  Dennis Brown - 2¢  - © - @ - Join WER 22:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * - - Well, definitely enough evidence for a check in my opinion. King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:38, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * PeacekeeperMinuteman2 is ✅ as User:Mediolanum --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 16:34, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 22:50, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

02 January 2014

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All the same as previous socks, Mediolanum + socks making havoc in Potential superpowers and related topics: controversial changes, edit-wars, naughty discussion, legal threats. Also, Glc72 sockpuppet has been blocked with an expiry time of indefinite (Making legal threats). Subtropical-man (talk) 13:53, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * Clerks are requested to see User_talk:Subtropical-man to possibly clean up IPSock tags added by Subtropical man on the IPs in question. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 14:39, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I commented there, but no, dynamic IPs should not be tagged. By definition, each IP is only used for a short period of time by any given user, so tagging them is akin to putting a sign on hotel room doors saying, "This hotel room may have been used by John Doe." ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:31, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * A rangeblock of 151.40.0.0/17 would cause too much collateral damage, and blocks of individual dynamic IPs is ineffective, so semi-protection of the affected articles is the preferable route. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:43, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Additionally, Glc72, an obvious sockpuppet, is already blocked, so there's not much else to be done here. Closing. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 18:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

04 February 2014

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Same focus on declaring Italy as a "great power".  Neil N  talk to me  06:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * I must say... Wow!  Occult Zone  ( Talk ) 18:20, 2 February 2014 12:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Edits reverted, pages semi'd IP blocked. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:25, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

06 February 2014

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Same focus on Italy as a Great Power. Same "sign off". ,  Requesting checkuser as there are other new editors floating about.  Neil N  talk to me  15:21, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ plus . In spite of my previous comments, I have anonblocked the range for a month. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:50, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Both confirmed socks tagged and blocked indef, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:53, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

28 July 2014

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This is a clear WP:DUCK. Other editors have also pointed out the socking going on here, even on User:Sergecross73's talk page right here. Although an editor also tried to connect/accuse User:Antiochus the Great of socking (which is not true as far as I know) being Mediolanum. Mediolanum's main objective seems to be removing Russia, Brazil and (to a lesser extent) India from the Potential superpowers article and promote a Italian / EU bias, and directly/indirectly brings up or uses Italy in their arguments. He also has a certain distinct grammar style.

Furthermore, he already admitted it/confessed right here. If you look at the Archives, nothing has changed since more than a year ago when this started. Supersaiyen312 (talk) 11:44, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

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 * and are technically  to be Mediolanum. The behavioural evidence seals the deal. --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  23:23, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Both blocked and tagged. IPs are stale. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:14, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

2 August 2014

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Once again, more WP:DUCKs.

On Talk:Potential superpowers, 151.40.123.24 begins discussion.
 * 151.40.60.44 replaces and edits/continues previous IP's discussion an hour later.
 * 151.40.11.36 replaces and continues, and even admits it "I'm just trying to rise the level of this really poor Talk."

On List of states with nuclear weapons, 151.40.60.44 begins edits, again focusing on Italy.
 * 151.40.11.36 restores prevous IP's edits.
 * 151.40.119.134 restores edits.

Same grammatical structure in comments, & once again related to the potential superpowers and Italy / EU. Supersaiyen312 (talk) 16:30, 2 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm adding three more based on these. Supersaiyen312 (talk) 15:34, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Addng 1 more. Supersaiyen312 (talk) 20:18, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Adding another one. It's mostly focusing on List of states with nuclear weapons now. Supersaiyen312 (talk) 05:17, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Add 5 more Supersaiyen312 (talk) 18:50, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * I've protected a few common targets, if they continue we'll need to rangeblock. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * No disruption since protection expired on the affected articles. Mike V  •  Talk  03:33, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

30 October 2014

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Same IP range, same fixation on Italian symbols and Italy as a great power. Specific diffs can be supplied if requested. Neil N  talk to me 22:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * Checkuser will not disclose the connection between a user and an IP address per the privacy policy and these IPs can be temporarily blocked right away.  Occult Zone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 01:58, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

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Clearly the same person, but blocking the individual IP addresses would achieve nothing. However, I have checked the editing history of the IP range 151.40.0.0/17, and found, contrary to an opinion expressed by another editor, that the substantial majority of editing in the range is clearly from this editor, and the few edits that may be from other people also contain a significant proportion of edits that are unconstructive, so the amount of collateral damage from a range block is likely to be minimal in comparison to the benefit. I initially blocked for two weeks, but I then noticed that the same range has previously been repeatedly blocked for longer periods than that, indicating that the extent of the problem from that range is far larger than was evident from looking only at the recent editing history, so I investigated further back, and I have increased the block length to six months. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:15, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

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Seeing the topics he edits, the spelling of English he has, and the arguments he use (vandalising, anti-italian, etc) makes him a potential clone of User:Sad9721 and User:Ambidibody, which were sockpuppet suspects of User:Mediolanum. the same arguments and English spelling and accusing anyone of vandalism while deletes the sources or simply deletes the data of the page exactly the same as the user Sad9721 (Mediolanum sockpuppet) did months ago
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and much more editions on the same page, which can be seen in the page (List of European countries by average wage), he just changes with redundant sources or even without sources and with fake data, for example he used a website which is totally unrelated, and he changed as he wanted the wage on Italy using that source. I warned him on his talk page and he fastly deleted that which instantly made me suspicious to be a clone of the above mentioned users, as it's the same behavior.

This user is suspected to be the same user as Sad9721, a user which was banned from Wikipedia doing the same redundant editions on the same topics/articles (being the same sockpuppet as Ambidibody and Mediolanum, a user with 60 potential sockpuppets). This time is List of European countries by average wage. He accuses anyone which deletes his redundant changes for being "anti-italian", keeps the same mood even after being warned and finally he deleted the data just exactly Sad9721 did. Those users always [] edit practically the same articles and topics with the same mood and English spelling, maybe another few ones to pretend to be different but most of editions are in the same articles as always, well related to Italy, to the economy of Italy or the List of European countries by average wage, as well as other pages like the global powers or anything related to the classification of the economy/credit where Italy also appears inside. TechnicianGB (talk) 19:02, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

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All accounts are. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:45, 7 March 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeffing sock, tagging and closing.