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14 January 2014

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MattAtMallu (suspected sock) started over 10 hours ago with first edit being an unexplained revert on User:TheRedPenOfDoom, similar to earlier Muthalathu (sockmaster) unexplained reverts on the article.
 * While both accounts sometimes explain edits, the suspect sock seems to be practicing a number of unexplained reverts on the same articles as the suspect sockmaster e.g. then
 * Comparable Boban Samuel edits -
 * Inappropriate recent 3rd-party refactoring of User talk:108.173.141.99, first by Muthalathu then another apparent user page refactor less than 4 hours later by MattAtMallu
 * Finally, note user the name similarities (WP:DUCK) Dl2000 (talk) 03:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Endorsing per behavioral evidence above. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:08, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. Tiptoety  talk 05:46, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the puppet indefinitely and the master for a month. I was aware of this problem late last night before seeing this report based on a report at WP:AN3. I strongly suspected the sock puppetry and almost logged back into Wikipedia to either file a report or just block based on the evidence, but I was too tired. I chose a month for the master because of significant disruptive editing in multiple articles. I also blocked for one month.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:12, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * , given that you were clerking this, please feel free to change the duration of the master's block if you disagree with it. Bbb23 (talk) 15:14, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * No objections, thanks for handling this. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:53, 15 January 2014 (UTC)