Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mercurius1/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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All 4 accounts share either exactly the same edits in the the same articles or the same pattern of edits in the same article spectrum. (both edits aim to dispute his likely Armenian origin)
 * Anastasius I Dicorus: Deji, Mercurius1, Just another
 * Romanos I Lekapenos: Deji, Mercurius1
 * Mithridatic dynasty: Deji, Mercurius1 (both edits aim to dispute their connections to Persia)
 * Heraclius: Mercurius, Deji (Deji re-added content first added by Mercurius)

Many other edits follow the same pattern and both Deji/Mercurius  were used for the same reverts. Ahmet Q. (talk) 23:09, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' There are 3 IP ranges which occupy the same ecological niche as Mercurius1/Deji and they support the work these accounts and vice-versa: . A search for IPs in the entire range will show all their edits. IP added content, Deji readded it after it was removed. All three IPs active at Sin Boy: two are collaborating in revert-warring and all three are replying to Ia0f2017 on the talkpage. The editing pattern at play is that the IPs and the accounts are used to push the same narratives via tag-team edit-warring and add back the same edits - every few weeks - after they have been removed in the hope that next time their edits won't be noticed. Almost all their edits involve claiming Greek origin for individuals who aren't described as of Greek origin. See Thales of Miletus. All edits by accounts (Mercurius1/Deji) and IPs try to diminish claims of non-Greek ancestry and overstate claims of Greek ancestry:. The Mercurius1/Deji accounts are similar in many ways: "Fixed some wording", "Added more info" and many other summaries.
 * Side comment:The insistence of the IP to prove that Thales of Miletus was not a "full-blown Semite" fits the political narrative of another edit where they try to show that Greeks were considered "Aryans" by Hitler.
 * should be added to the list of suspected accounts. It's another account which was used in the same string of edits at Anastasius I Dicorus.
 * As all accounts/IP ranges are active, a CU should be be able to find all possible links between them.--Maleschreiber (talk) 15:31, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * The IPs are useless here because a CU will not link them with accounts, and I do not think that the IPs are Deji. The two guy accounts are not Deji, or at least Just another normal guy is obviously another person due to a certain detail. There is further evidence that Deji and Mercurius should be the same person, more evidence than listed above. In any case, a CU will clarify this. Mercurius is an older account than Deji, so if the two accounts are being used by the same person, then Mercurius is the master account and Deji is the sock one. Mercurius and Deji have a long history of helping each other, and this SPI to clarify things is long-overdue. Ktrimi991 (talk) 16:37, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Now that I saw them more carefully, the Heraklion, Crete IPs (not all IPs mentioned above) should be Deji. Not only the IPs back Deji's edits, but like Deji and Mercurius they edit using the Visual Edit version on the phone. The edit summaries too are typical of Deji. It is disappointing, as I gave some advice to Deji 3 days ago about how to avoid an AE block due to an 1RR breach. If the CU confirms the link between the two accounts, based on the long term socking with both accounts and IPs, I suggest indefinite blocks for his accounts. Ktrimi991 (talk) 16:57, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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 * I've moved the case to reflect the fact that Mercurius1 is the older account. Mercurius1 is ✅ to Deji Olajide1999; blocked, tagged. Other accounts are ❌ as far as the logs go.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:35, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I won't rule out some sort of meatpuppetry for JANG and ERG, but with anything with ethnotational stakes it's common to get multiple people pushing very similar POVs even on niche topics. Closing, without prejudice to a re-filing if evidence of meatpuppetry can be shown. (Also, noting for the record as a suspicious account POV-pushing in the opposite direction.)  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 09:18, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
was an account which engaged in bibliography misuse and POV pushing to promote the idea that various figures throughout history were Greeks. This included figures of antiquity, the Byzantine medieval era and modern figures - including individuals from historical minorities which have lived in Greece. This spectrum of interests included proving that the ancient Macedonian language was Greek. The account was created on April 4, 2021. This was a sock of Mercurius1 as shown in the previous report. The filing editor provided lots of evidence which showed the close links both in terms of exact edits and the very specific ecological niche - beyond what is commonly expected among people who share the same ethno-national narratives - which both Mercurius1 and Deji occupied. I expanded the report with more evidence including the widespread use of IPs by Deji to to circumvent policies like 3RR in edit wars. Deji was blocked on October 23, 2021. The sockmaster account continued to use IPs to target the same articles as he did as Deji and I have found and reported them many times. was created on September 17, 2021 and remained inactive until November 27 2021 when the account's very first edit was to post in a merge proposal. It is evident in this very first edit that Piccco has very good knowledge of wikipedia policies like merge and this likely suggests that this is not a new editor, but a returning one. The Piccco account included other editing patterns to his portfolio, but they kept returning to the same ecological niche as Mercurius1/Deji and even re-added the same exact edits which Deji had first added.


 * Selected edits:
 * Hellenic languages: Deji (July 10 2021), Piccco (May 7 2022) reinstated the same exact edit
 * Ancient Macedonians Deji, Piccco  . Earlier edits by Mercurius1 are part of the same narrative.
 * Ptolemy I Soter: Deji, Piccco . Both accounts re-added the term "Greek" in the first sentence of the article.
 * Constantine the Great: Deji added category(September 5 2021), Piccco restored category (July 14 2022). This is the same exact edit.
 * Hypatia: Deji, Piccco . Both removed the term "Egyptian".
 * Constantine P. Cavafy: Deji Since he lived in Alexandria, I think "Alexandrian Greek" fits better. (Deji replaced the term "Egyptiot Greek" with "Alexandrian Greek"), Piccco (Picco replaced the term "Greco-Egyptian" with "Greek"). The point of both edits was to remove any reference to the connection of the figure's identity to Egypt.
 * Full list of articles edited by both: It includes the promotion of the same exact narratives in all listed articles and even some niche interests like focusing on the MOS of articles like Helios.

I have requested for a CU although I'm not certain if it is doable since ~2 years have passed since the last report. If a CU is not possible, I can list more evidence about the connections between the two accounts. Maleschreiber (talk) 15:54, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Additional comments:
 * Piccco's very early edits in Greek wikipedia show that they are an experienced editor in many aspects and not just a fast learner.
 * When writing their defence comment, Piccco included the statement  which they later removed and posted the edit summary: . The report doesn't include any evidence about this article, yet Piccco defended themselves against a potential link which wasn't even brought up. When they saw that they didn't have to defend against such an argument, they removed their comment.--Maleschreiber (talk) 22:48, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Mercurius/Deji often changed the phrase "Byzantine" to "Byzantine Greek" or attempted to promote a Byzantine origin for historical figures: and because the sources were very dubious or didn't even discuss Deji's claims, many times they were removed. Then Deji/Mercurius simply logged out and edit-warred as an IP to add back their edit: . At Laskarina Bouboulina, one of the many IPs which have been linked to IP ranges used by Deji/Mercurius in the past added that her mother's family had a "Byzantine Greek" origin (July 11 19:03). It was removed  initially removed because it didn't even mention the term "Byzantine Greek" and after some opposition and clarification that the source didn't discuss what the IP claimed, it wasn't reinstated for the rest of the day by any IP but Piccco - who before this edit had shown no interest in this article - reverted much of it back and tried to keep at least the term "Byzantine" present in the article  (July 12 15:09) a day later. The type of edit which Piccco reinstated is a commonly repeated trope in Deji's edits. Deji:   This is Piccco's only edit in this article. The commonalities between Piccco/Deji are much higher than what we can expect from people who share the same ethno-national narrative. These accounts occupy a very specific shared niche which is not shared by other editors and it includes even one reinstating the other's edits - edits which nobody reinstated for over a year. --Maleschreiber (talk) 20:29, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Piccco stated that his IP is not related to the IP which has been linked to edits in the same range as Deji/Mercurius. As noted in the previous report and as I've noticed in many reports about Deji, they have used many differents IPs, proxies and even engaged in meatpuppetry to evade their block. As we speak, there's an active IP at Laskarina Bouboulina which most definitely belongs in one of the most prominent IP ranges used by Deji and it is located in an entirely different country than at least 2 other IPs, but there's no doubt that it is used to evade Deji's ban because it has been used many times to support or reinstated Deji's edits.
 * Piccco's defense seems to be that these topics are very popular and common among Greek editors, but they're not. There are roughly 50+ active Greek editors right now and the vast majority of them have never shown any interest for such topics and even the few who are interested hold - slightly or greatly - different narratives to each other despite partial agreements in some topics. As such, Piccco's claim that is very inaccurate. The vast majority of editors from Greece have never shown any interest in removing the Arvanite origin of historical figures, they don't oppose Albanian variants of names by default (some have even supported their use) and they haven't consistently pushed to promote a Greek origin for Byzantine figures. The specific POV which Piccco/Deji/Mercurius consistently attempted to promote doesn't reflect any universal "Greek POV", but their own very specific POV. Deji occupied a very specific niche which I've seen many times replicated by the various sock IPs and now I see replicated in Piccco's editing pattern. This is the basis of the report. Piccco is not being associated with Deji in this report just because they both happened to edit really popular topics among Greek editors. The number of active editors from Greece in such topics is very small and one of the prominent ones was Deji who in an already very small group occupied the same niche as Piccco. The report has nothing to do with Greek editors and topics which are or aren't popular among them.--Maleschreiber (talk) 22:32, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I was searching for older edits of Deji/Mercurius and it is interesting that when Mercurius restored their own edits (as Deji) they tried to mask his activity by claiming that he just saw an edit and restored it. Mercurius: I saw a previous source claiming Greek heritage by "Deji-Olajide1999", which was deleted for no reason, so I added it back. The edit is a claim to Byzantine/Byzantine Greek origin like the one which Piccco reinstated. This is in many ways what Piccco has been saying for the edits of Deji he restored:.
 * At Anastasius I Dicorus, Mercurius/Deji went back to restore this same edit as an IP  (August 2021). November 2022: the same IP range which has been used many times by Deji  tried to remove the Arvanite origin of Melina Mercouri from the article and replace it with a Greek origin - a very common type of edits for this editor. The edit removed the term "Arvanite" and replaced it with the term . The removal was spotted very quickly and the edit was restored. July 2023 Piccco removed the term "Arvanite" and replaced it with the term  . This type of back-and-forth was very typical for Deji. If removing a term didn't work, they tried to make it as invisible as possible in subsequent edits. There is a series of edits in many of these articles which ties all accounts/socks and the IPs which they have used from time to time.--Maleschreiber (talk) 01:21, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Statement by Piccco
All I wanted to point out is that I am definitely NOT anyone's sockpuppet and I have absolutely zero connection with any of the accounts mentioned above. Eventhough, I have indeed edited some Greek related topics from a certain pov, that is not the only thing I have been doing in wikipedia since I joined. I also wanted to point out that I am aware about the danger of sockpuppetry; I have seen other accounts being blocked because of that and at that point I wouldn't do something so naive like risk losing my account by engaging in edit wars with a sock.

* Note I am willing to have private communication with a wikipedia admin in case they needed me to provide personal information, like my locations, my IPs, the devices I use, or anything that they might want to know about me. I can provide solid evidence based on personal documents that I couldn't be associated with that individual. Seems like Deji edited from Heraklion, Crete and the IPs above edited from various other locations. Yet, since I joined in Setp. 2021 I have been editing all this time from a very specific location completely different than his. Piccco (talk) 18:35, 26 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I had initially created an account in Greek wikipedia, where I edited exclusively on sexuality/anatomy related topics and soon on a big variety of other topics. I initially wasn't planning to move to english wikipedia, so at my first edit on the merging proposal, I had some experience on how wikipedia works. For the longest time, I was more active on the greek WP, where since I joined I have created 72 articles. Meanwhile, both Deji & Mercurius exclusively contributed in english and were never interest in participating in the greek WP, where both accounts had 0 edits.


 * My main interests in both greek and english wikipedia were human anatomy, specifically reproductive anatomy and sexuality. This is obvious by my activity in both wikipedias, especially the many anatomy articles I initially created in el:wiki. Last year I was almost exclusively editing in WikiProject Anatomy and WikiProject Sexology and sexuality; for example, you can find numerous discussions I was engaged in for almost a year at the Talk:Foreskin/Archive 4 etc. discussing about topics that the other accounts had never shown any interesest in. Among the many edits I made in one article, I added a whole section regarding the embryonic development of the reproductive system. Later that month I was discussing with an illustrator about a potential infographic in that section. I had made many other edits in articles of similar nature. On a personal message I left to a user on January 2023, I tell him that my main motive on wikipedia was to edit in anatomy articles.(!) I have wasted too much time and effort over topics that the individual behind Deji/Mercurius was virtually uninterested in and he hadn't made not even 1 minor edit in 1 anatomy-related article.


 * Regarding the recent edits on the ancient Macedonians; User:Unknownsoldier had added a quote which I couldn't verify in any source and I just wanted to replace it with a sentence that could actually be verified in the literature.


 * Regarding last year's edits on the Hellenic languages; I specifically remember that I had added back what the other user (apparently Deji) added, because I noticed that someone reverted him and I thought it was vandalism against the greek pov. Note that at that time I wasn't experienced enough to write my own text, and thus not very active as well, so I just copied and pasted what I saw from the other editor.
 * Additional comment: When I made the edit in the Hellenic languages, Deji's and FuturePerfects small 'edit war' was the first thing that someone saw in the edit history. The Macedonian language is an issue, controversial for some, that constantly keep attracting the attention of many users, either Greek or from neighbouring countries, with pushing their own POV (sometimes even by attacking others). It was also not mentioned that right after my edit, User:Demetrios readded a similar text rephrased and sourced (something that I couldn't have done at that time). Yet, Demetrios and I have zero connections. It is very common for users of similar interests, especially from the same ethnic groups, to follow the exact same narrative and POV when editing an article without this meaning that they have any type of connection between them. For example, User:Khirurg noticed that unrelated Albanian users have also shown this exact editing bevaviour. (See also, the Pyrrhus of Epirus example below)


 * Regarding the ethnicity of individuals, similar per above. All of these edits, do not exclusively reflect Deji's opinion, but the general Greek POV . In regards to Hypatia, for example, her ethnicity was always a matter of debate in her article, with many minor users or greek ips editing the exact same part (1, 2). In fact, the issue was even briefly brought to the talk page last year. It is far from being an issue that concerned exclusively two wikipedia accounts. Same with Ptolemy Soter. Same with Cavafy. Same with Byzantine Greek (eventhough my account never made such edit so I dont know why the editor keeps mentioning that?)
 * Many of the articles that our activity seems to overlap are particularly popular among greek editors. It was mentioned that There are roughly 50+ active Greek editors right now and the vast majority of them have never shown any interest for such topics and even the few who are interested hold - slightly or greatly - different narratives to each other despite partial agreements in some topics. However, do we really know that? Did we run through the edit history of all the greek editors ever? Some people may have stronger opinions on issue No.1, others on issue No.2. But even if that were true, out of all the editors from one nation, can't there be at least two people who may have a similar niche on some matters? As shown so far, there can be more than two. Maleschreiber confirms me, ...vast majority... does not exclude a minority of editors.


 * In regards to the use of '+',, or 'fix' (mentioned below by Ktrimi), not only did I use them few times (since an edit summary is meant to be short & comprehensive) but in fact I specifically started to adopt them from editors who edited the same anatomy articles the same time as me (and we engaged in conversations): brackets-Oct.22, Oct.22, "fix"-Nov.22, brackets, "+" -Nov.22, brackets-Jan.23, brackets-March23. That's like accusing someone for using 'rv'

I am positive that a CU will show that I am not connected with other accounts in wikipedia. I definitelly wouldn't wanna lose my account due to a false accusation. Sorry again for the disruption. Piccco (talk) 10:39, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

'Experienced editor'
 * Before I started editing I was literally watching YouTube tutorials on how wikipedia works. Yet, in September 2021 eventhough I was able to create an article, I still didn't know how references worked. For example, I had used links to wikipedia articles as references(!) thinking that was just fine. I literally added the link to the english article, where I copied the text from, inside a . Meanwhile, in summer 2021 Deji had created 2 articles in the english WP, where it is obvious that he knew very well how to use references and sources.(!)
 * It took me 5 tries at the Helios article just to make a minor change in the lead(!) as my initial edits resulted to this; Inability to use the lang-template. I hadn't yet discovered the "visual editing" and I was just messing with the code. Compare how Deji made his edit in 2021 with 1 move.
 * For a long time, I was still pretty ignorant regarding many wikipedia policies; for example, in May 2022 an editor warned me because I was literally marking all of my edits as minor; obviously a risky behaviour that an experienced user wouldn't engage in. Then I responded by saying that "I don't log in too often".


 * In fact, due to my being inactive for a long time, I continued to be ignorant on basic wikipedia practices even until autumn 2022, when in a discussion on October 2022, I am asking I don't know how rfc works exactly, could anyone explain?(!) and then I thank the editor for letting me know.


 * It is obvious that since I joined wp, I was interested in different topics, I made silly mistakes and I asked layman's questions.


 * A comment: It's interesting that in June 2023, I left a message to the talk page of Unknownsoldier, asking him to make balanced edits and not push the greek POV too much.(!) Based on the editor's description of Deji, that definitely doesn't seem like something Deji would've done.

Additional comments
 * Alexander wasn't explicitly brought up, but I was accused of having edited similar articles 1 and I noticed that this was the only article where I had made a lot more edits than Deji; since the edits where also relatively recent, I felt like I had to explain what I did, but seeing the responce was already extensive, I didn't feel like this comment really added anything.Piccco (talk) 00:08, 22 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Bouboulina is a very popular figure among greek people and eventhough I had not edited in the past, I was obviously aware of her. Yet, the part that I reinstated (Byzantine btw, not Byzantine Greek) had previously been reinstated by another greek editor as well. It was first introduced by an IP editor and I have no problem to be checked and see if I have any connections with this IP! Note I was keeping an eye on the Greek-Albanian disputes for some time now, but as minor account I was for a long time scared to intervene in fear of making things messier. I only did recently with some edits and that's the result! Apparently anyone who edits with the Greek POV in touchy subjects and is not an old established account is suspected as a Deji shock. Actually my edits did not differ at all from those of the big and stablished greek editors; with my accuser's logic, I could've been accused of being those editors' shock as well.


 * Comment on IPs The accusations on bullets 4 & 5 from the 'additional comments' are too abstract and are based solely on hypotheses and personal guesses. We can't be talking about the random IPs that edit greek-related articles; some of them even edit from different countries! and the topic is irrelevant to what was discussed before. Globally there are around 15 million greek people; not everyone who edits from the greek pov (either account or IP - and happens to remind us of Deji) must be Deji. As I've said, some of my recent edits & pov were also similar to those of big & established greek editors, which the editor above wants to ignore. We are not all Deji. Notice, for example, the repeated edits from Albanian IPs in Pyrrhus of Epirus making the exact same edits (some examples 1, 2, 3...). Of course, all of them are different people simply supporting the same idea. An extremely common phenomenon in WP, seen from people of every nation and I dont know why we assume that all the greek IPs who engage in this type of pov editing are the same person, and is always Deji. Now as for my account, I could easily be checked for that. Piccco (talk) 22:00, 23 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Comment on Arvanite Regarding the edits on Anastasius I Dicorus and whether those IPs are or aren't(!) actually Deji, this is completely irrelevant to me since I have never edited this article and it is not even confirmed that these IPs actually were the same person, let alone Deji. In regards to Mercouri, the Arvanite origin was readded in the page in July 23. What he did not mention is that this addition, prior to me, was reverted to the previous version by another editor as the quote in the reference was misquoted and didn't make sense! When I edited, among the other things I added, I kept the word 'prominent' (according to the previous version) and expanded on their Athenian origin without removing the Arvanite origin. Thus the accusation above is actually false. Note that the IP that removed this information in November is not confirmed to be Deji, so jumping to the conclusion that all of these IPs are Deji (let alone me) is completely arbitrary and definitelly a hypothesis! Once again, I'm not scared of being checked to prove that those IPs have no connection to my account. Otherwise the editor above will just keep jumping to conclusions that every IP is not only the same person, but its also Deji, and it might also have some connection to my account, which is not true. Piccco (talk) 03:03, 25 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Others
 * Comment: Due to college I have lived in two close-range cities and thus I have edited from both locations. Due to their proximity I'm not sure whether the IP actually shows the difference or if it might overlap, but I thought I might have to mention this as well.


 * Ktrimi991, I don't have any further comments to make on that specific matter other than I never used the Deji account. In fact, if I were him, I would've known my own editing patterns and I wouldn't have brought this up in the first place. Piccco (talk) 01:11, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments by Alexikoua
It's easy to conclude that Picco's main focus is unrelated to history articles: [] since the vast majority are articles that belong to the field of medicine and human anatomy. While Mercurius[] & Deji [] on the other hand were almost 100% dedicated to history topics.
 * The articles in the above examples are by vast majority high visibility ones and are editted by several editors that contribute to Greek/Classic history-related areas. It's certainly not atypical for people in the same geographic area to have similar viewpoints on issues like Ancient Macedonian, Markos Botsaris (I've also opposed the modern Albanian name as seen in tp as well as multiple other editors), Hellenic languages.
 * The main area of interest between Picco and Mercuris (+confirmed socks) is completely different:
 * The use of common edit summaries: Deji's included the word "fixed" [] while Picco included the word "fix" but in less than 2% of his edit summaries. ([]/[]). Nevertheless it's a very common word found in edit summaries and I'm using it often [] I also use "+" quite frequent [] I'm certain that several editors do so.
 * A common mistake with suspected sockaccounts is how can they learn so fast. However, several roockies in en:wiki came from various other wiki projects and this case is not an exception: Picco in el:wiki [] is active since Sep 21 and his primary field of interest there is unrelated to history related articles (contrary to Mercurius&Deji). I was also active in el:wiki and proccesses like mergers, indentations, wikilinks are the same.

Since the behavoral evidence is too abstract and weak I suggest to rely on CU evidence exclusively.Alexikoua (talk) 16:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Ktrimi991
It was clear since the beginning that Piccco was a sock account, though I first had the impression that the master was User:Deucalionite. The very first edit shows an editor quite familiar with editing. Familiar with the merger process, indentation, wikilinks etc. The SPI report above has too many words and is not focused on the main points:
 * Mercurius/Deji heavily edited on Visual Editor on the phone (Mobile version). So has Piccco done.
 * Picco is restoring some of Deji's edits. Deji added "So far, the surviving public and private inscriptions found in Macedonia indicate that the only dominant written language in Ancient Macedonia was a variety of Ancient Greek." So did Picco. They both added Macedonian as part of the Hellenic branch too with a question mark before. . Note how Deji's edit was immediately reverted, and Piccco went there to readd it a year later. Nobody else had tried to readd that content in the meantime.
 * Deji added a cat, Piccco readed it
 * There are other exact or very similar edits like one or two cases mentioned by the OP and on Markos Botsaris too where both have opposed the presence of Albanian name.
 * Deji had the habit to write "+" instead of "and" . Piccco has the same habit . Apart from in edit summaries, there are some talk page comments too.
 * Deji's trademark was "Fix" even when nothing was being fixed . Picco has the same trademark
 * Deji had the habit to divide the text in the edit summary with brackets (examples include:). Piccco has the same habit (examples include:).
 * There are other similarities but, if these are enough, I would like to keep them for the next sock. Ktrimi991 (talk) 23:56, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * for example, in May 2022 an editor warned me because I was literally marking all of my edits as minor. Good point. Like you, Deji too inappropriately marked many edits as "minor", even when adding more than 1000 bytes of text or entirely changing the meaning of some content . The more you talk, the more you produce evidence against yourself. Ktrimi991 (talk) 00:39, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I just went through this user's edit history and I've seen that almost all the edits that he marked as minor were actually less than 100 bytes, with the exception of Philhellenism being over 1000 bytes, which is an RV (still a mistake obviously). Unlike him, however, I actually took the note and I have completely stopped misusing the minor button for a long time now, I think even right after I was warned. Piccco (talk) 00:58, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Deji made non-minor edits and marked them as "minor"; you did the same thing until someone warned you. If you kept doing that after the warning you could be sanctioned, hence you stopped. When you were using the Deji account nobody warned you. Also, post your comments in your own subsection. That is how is proceeded with comments in an SPI. Ktrimi991 (talk) 01:06, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - the case is stale. . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:22, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Moved to open to get more eyes on it. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:28, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Please, refrain from posting further comments unless explicitly requested by a clerk, admin or checkuser. If you have any doubt, feel free to use my talk page. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 11:51, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The POV and topic overlap comes across something that could be a common nationalist theme. Piccco certainly does not look like a new user, but that does not link the account to Mercurius1 and it is not a policy violation per se. . MarioGom (talk) 22:43, 3 September 2023 (UTC)