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Nike058 has been blocked twice in the space of a week for continued disruption to cricket articles (failure to cite reliable sources). Soon after this editor is blocked, IP editors performing the same pattern pop up on the same cricket articles, doing similar edits. Nike made this edit and the following day (IE after he was blocked), the IP editor is editing the same article. Now the issue here is that the IP editor changes address on a very frequent basis. They perform similar, unsourced, edits across a small subject area (cricket). Many of these IP addresses have been blocked, but they return the next day, with a different address. Here's a list I've been keeping:


 * - blocked
 * 
 * ,, warned
 * , < BLP issues
 * 
 * 
 * warned again, continues anyway, still continues, reported + blocked
 * 
 * , warned
 * - same user, exact same poor formatting style, more, more, warned, continues, reported + blocked
 * badly formatted, reported + blocked
 * , reverted, unsourced, warned, blocked
 * , reported+blocked
 * CIR (reported+blocked)
 * BLP vio
 * warned again, continues anyway, still continues, reported + blocked
 * 
 * , warned
 * - same user, exact same poor formatting style, more, more, warned, continues, reported + blocked
 * badly formatted, reported + blocked
 * , reverted, unsourced, warned, blocked
 * , reported+blocked
 * CIR (reported+blocked)
 * BLP vio
 * BLP vio

Basically this editor isn't really bothered that their sockmaster account is (currently) blocked, as they return to edit without logging in. This is a long-term issue that has been going on for some time now. I'd appreciate if someone could look into this.  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 08:29, 8 February 2017 (UTC)  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 08:29, 8 February 2017 (UTC)


 * - please see the following:

Nike058 made two edits to this article at 16:52 and 16:53 (both mobile edits). The very next edit to the article at 16:56 was by one of the IP addresses, followed by another one at 17:09 and one at 17:10.

On this article, the IP made this edit at 05:02 on 3rd Feb, followed by 4 more edits in succession. Nike's block log shows his first block of 31hrs from late on 1st Feb. Once the block has expired, Nike edits the article.

Similar on this article, with Nike editing pre-block here, then the IP edits here and here while the block is live.

On this article on 8th Jan, Nike made this edit, followed by three more between 01:36 and 01:40. The very next user to edit (at 03:38) is this IP sock, who made six more consecutive edits up to 03:55. The very next edit after that comes at 04:21 by Nike, with the next three edits starting with this going back to the IP editor. Again, all these are made via mobile edits.

On this article, also on 8th Jan, their are eight consecutive edits starting with this, switching back to the IP here, before going back to Nike again. All on a low-value stub in the space of a few hours.

Basically the logged-in editor is jumping between multiple IP accounts (regardless if the master account is blocked or not). Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 11:55, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Can you provide some evidence (diffs) that connect Nike058 to those IPs? All you said is that one IP edited an article that was previously edited by Nike058. That's no evidence.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  10:56, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Master's block extended to a week. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:05, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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Despite the sockmaster being blocked and then the block extended during the block, they continue to hop IP accounts in the range of 2405:204: to make edits to cricket-related articles. Each one of these accounts was active in the in the last few days during the duration of the most recent block. The last four accounts were all active in across a spell of time starting today at 02:47 and ending at 10:03.

As they are editing the exact same type of article the sockmaster was editing and showing the same pattern of IP hopping across this range of articles on a daily basis to evade the block, I request that the main account is blocked again (ideally indef) and there's a rangeblock put across these IP accounts, if possible. I'll drop a note on the talkpage of the admin who dealt with this last time too.  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 07:59, 17 February 2017 (UTC)


 * These two accounts became active after this SPI was raised:



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 * I indeffed the master and blocked the IPv6 /37 range for two weeks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:35, 17 February 2017 (UTC)