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12 December 2012

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This is regarding edits made to the article K-pop on December 12. At 06:36, User:Party4321 changed a section heading from "Musical and visual style" to "Characteristics" (link), this edit was reverted by User:Teemeah (link) at 08:50. At 16:02 User:Alexandernoses changed the section heading back to "Characteristics" (link) and was reverted by User:Teemeah again (link). Other strikingly similar edits include this by User:Alexandernoses and this by User:Party4321, both made on the same article on the same day. Further evidence of sock puppetry because User:Alexandernoses's account was created on December 12 at 06:47 (log) barely 2 hours after User:Party4321 made his first ever edit to the article K-pop at 04:28 (link). Hope I didn't miss any importnat information for my first sockpuppet report. A1candidate (talk) 17:41, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: A further check on K-pop's edit history, leads me to believe that there is a chance that the above 2 accounts (which are both very recently created) as well as a third accunt User:84BKA and Ip address User:125.88.74.95 may in fact be sock puppets of User:Whatthedog, which was blocked indefinitely for other sock puppets such as User:Yugi0008 and User:Frogdanc. All accounts have similar edits to the article K-Pop with Japan-related views, such as this edit about some Japanese magazine (User:Alexandernoses), this edit regarding the same Japanese magazine (User:125.88.74.95) this edit about the genre's decline in Japan (User:84BKA), as well as this edit which removes the heading "Japan", (User:Whatthedog). Interestingly, User:84BKA, when spelled reversed, is actually the name of the Japanese band AKB48. Furthermore, User:Party4321 has a history of editing other Japan-related articles before editing K-Pop (link), which leads me to believe there's a good chance that all accounts are from the same person. This seems too much to be a coincidence, but then again I guess I should have made this report at Sockpuppet investigations/Whatthedog instead. -A1candidate (talk) 19:04, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Update 2: There's compelling evidence that User:CactusJack1 is a sock puppet of Party4321, his edit over here is exactly the same as this edit by User:Alexandernoses, further evidence is that User:CactusJack1's account was created on 13 December (log) after his other 2 accounts were blocked on the 12th. There is also a chance that 125.88.74.95 is related to the above accounts because his first and only edit over here was made in the same section as the other accounts, although I may be wrong on this one. -A1candidate (talk) 06:58, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * This looks like newbie mistakes than actual malice, so I'd rather see someone talk to them rather than block. Netherless, ✅ the two name accounts above and . Courcelles 18:36, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * (Also, this was a very good first SPI report. Everything I needed to see to evaluate it, nothing I didn't.  Good work) Courcelles 18:36, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the socks. Master blocked for 2 weeks; I've also left a comment on his talk page to explain. Closing. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 19:19, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Whatthedog is stale, but 84BKA is totally ❌ to Party4321 -- different continent entirely. Courcelles 04:57, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've just blocked because . I've also changed Party4321's block to the two weeks mentioned, since indef seems to have been accidentally applied, and that was possibly what triggered the creation of another sock account. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:29, 13 December 2012 (UTC)