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!Vote stacking at Articles for deletion/Insyde.

MultiMrWeb has no edits for ~4 years and returns on 16th July to edit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insyde. GingeBro first edits on 16th July starting with Insyde and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insyde.

At 15:15, 16 July 2019 GingeBro comments about releases on AWAL. 11 minutes later at 15:26, 16 July 2019 MultiMrWeb comments about releases on AWAL. The next day both come back and edit the afd again,. Both minor changes to their previous edits.

On 17th of July 71.156.30.174 posts a second keep vote, "The musician does qualify by WP:NSINGER standards, but doesn't have many strong references from reliable sources. If not kept, then I request it to be moved to the Draft space for further improvements." Then quickly removes it. 7 Minutes later GingeBro restores it, "The musician does qualify by WP:NSINGER standards, but doesn't have many strong references from reliable sources. If not kept, then I request it to be moved to the Draft space for further improvements.". Quack duffbeerforme (talk) 03:41, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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Both are ✅. Indeffing both: the master is not here to build an encyclopedia and has COI and UPE written all over him. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  20:20, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 22:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * Comment - I was randomly blocked, no explanation, so I go to the library so I can have a different IP and of course, someone assumed that it was me that was making those changes. I was reverting vandal edits and the timestamps are literally identical, so I was in 2 locations using one hand to write an article and the other to make vandal edits? I don't think so. I already talked to and agreed with Handoto several weeks ago about this and agreed there was not enough notability in this case. Wikipedia sure is good at banning just anyone without evidence 🤷‍♂️ - UseTheWiki at 5:39 PM Central Time on 10/7/2019
 * Comment - I was randomly blocked, no explanation, so I go to the library so I can have a different IP and of course, someone assumed that it was me that was making those changes. I was reverting vandal edits and the timestamps are literally identical, so I was in 2 locations using one hand to write an article and the other to make vandal edits? I don't think so. I already talked to and agreed with Handoto several weeks ago about this and agreed there was not enough notability in this case. Wikipedia sure is good at banning just anyone without evidence 🤷‍♂️ - UseTheWiki at 5:39 PM Central Time on 10/7/2019




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Hijacked Insyde again, similar username to master and IP edit warring to keep inserting promo nonsense into hijacked article. Praxidicae (talk) 16:00, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * . I've also blocked the sleeper sock . Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:11, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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New account Thewikiissacred created with similar name of sockpuppet account UseTheWiki. Both have same https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?target=Thewikiissacred&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=&end=&limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions to disrupt and publish exact same promo nonsense article that was already discussed for deletion and found many voters as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_MultiMrWeb. Article was then en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Insyde&diff=920084543&oldid=920084514&diffmode=source into the Insyde redirect page, all while multiple copies of drafts were being deleted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=&page=Draft%3AInsyde+%28musician%29&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype= and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=&page=Draft%3AInsyde&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=. Similarly, this account again created and attempted to move the nonsense draft to en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Insyde_(musician)&diff=937944179&oldid=937943891&diffmode=source at 04:50.

With the same intentions, Rkelliot was https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?target=Rkelliot&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=&end=&limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions as a "promotion-only account" after creating another Insyde entry and editing the Insyde Software data entry.

IP user https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?target=71.156.30.174&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=&end=&limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions has had the exact same intentions as the already blocked IP https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?target=107.242.113.57&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=&end=&limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions – ᕼᗩᑎᗪOTO (talk) 02:09, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

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The only account here that was used by me is UseTheWiki. I was (wrongly)banned for sockpuppeting someone else, I use a different IP address almost every time I log in, so IP bans wont work. I would also like to point out that the articles I have attempted to create are not "Nonsense" articles. I would like you to review the so-called "Nonsense" articles before passing a hasty judgement. I am simply going through the list of article requests and creating articles for people who are not included in the wiki that I believe should be in it, and meet requirements. Thewikiissacred (talk) 20:29, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * MultiMrWeb, GingeBro, and UseTheWiki were all ✅ to each other per the CU log. Thewikiissacred is to them and has admitted to it above, . Rkelliot is ❌. ST47 (talk) 20:47, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Close per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 08:35, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

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There appears to be an obvious correlation between HungryHighway and UseTheWiki, who was permanently blocked in 2019 (the master account being MultiMrWeb). There is this consistent push by many of the associated permanently blocked accounts to publish a self-promoted, non-notable page titled Insyde. For context, an article titled Insyde was created in July 2019. A quick deletion discussion occurred, and the result was delete. As it turned out, after an investigation, sock accounts had been used to try and push a keep consensus for the article. There have been multiple drafts, AfCs, disruptive overrides (here, and here) and blocks. Out of the blue, HungryHighway creates an account, and then re-publishes the exact deleted code under the new article name Inside (artist), in an attempt to bypass Insyde and Insyde (musician), and then similarly to the other accounts, edits the Insyde redirect. A quick deletion discussion occurred, and it was speedily deleted as a repost (and user duffbeerforme indicated a possible "block evading sock"). HungryHighway has again recently re-published the code again here. I strongly suspect that HungryHighway is a sock/ban evasion of UseTheWiki and the other MultiMrWeb connections based on these facts. – Handoto ( talk ) 17:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * - Everything in the archives is stale. But based on what I can see without running CU, this doesn't look like a sock to me.  I'm not following then re-publishes the exact deleted code under the new article name Inside (artist).  There is no Inside (artist).  There is a deleted Insyde (artist), but the content differs significantly from any current page I can find.  UPE, sure, but I'm not seeing socking.  I'll leave this open however to let somebody else take a look. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:29, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * the old draft is at Draft:Insyde (musician). Comparing it with Insyde (artist), they're definitely about the same person, and have quite a few similarities, but I'm not sure there are enough similarities for me to block the author of the new one as the author of the old one, absent any other similarities. Closing without further action at this stage.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:49, 29 October 2021 (UTC)