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All of these accounts have been caught uploading fake versions of Philippine government seals. The fake seals usually replaces the sealion with a "winged lion" (see sample logo here and compare it to the original seal (here) as mentioned by User:Sec HarryRoque here. All of the seals were uploaded in Common in PNG format, replacing the SVG version of the real logo. Also, a pattern can be seen on their usernames. All of the names are members of the Philippine cabinet (Martin Andanar, Harry Roque and Wendel Avisado). - WayKurat (talk) 11:10, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Any admins that can check this SPI? This has been open for 12 days. I have found another sockpuppet account, this time, named very similar to the master account. This user has been notoriously uploading fake versions of Philippine government seals/logos, usually replacing the sealion with a "winged lion". -WayKurat (talk) 05:49, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * This is clearly either the same person or some group of people closely collaborating (for some purpose I can't fathom). Indef/tag everybody.  Oddly enough, there's no temporal overlap by any of the accounts; by normal rules, we'd call that not socking, but with this many accounts, cycled through this quickly, with apparently non-useful edits, this is basically NOTHERE behavior.  If there's some legitimate purpose here, they can ask to be unblocked and explain what's going on. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:21, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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Not only this account is named after the head of the PCOO, as seen on the blocked sockpuppets before, this account was caught uploading fake "winged lion/griffin" versions of the PCOO logo (see edit here.), similar on how the other sock accounts were doing. - WayKurat (talk) 12:58, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * indef and tag Jose, semi-protected Presidential Communications Group for 3 months, but I suspect we'll need to resort to ECP soon. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:13, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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The user shares the same as the Bureau of Customs chief, with the only edit replacing the lion on the seal (see below) which has been noted by other users in this noticeboard. I doubt these were ever official since I did not see the version of the seal/flag used on the custom's official online platforms (Facebook, website, etc.)Hariboneagle927 (talk) 03:16, 12 July 2021 (UTC) Hariboneagle927 (talk) 03:16, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * -- RoySmith (talk) 03:29, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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User is at it again. Like the previous blocked sockpuppet accounts, "PHGovernment" is purportedly represents the Philippine government. PHGovernment uploaded yet another unofficial version of the Philippine Legion of Honor (File:Philippine Legion of Honor.png) with the same style of merlion the sockpuppets had tried to push before. The IP was used to replace PHGovernment's of the order's image. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 12:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * Tagged, block hardened. IP old, not blocked. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:58, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

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Though these accounts have been long been dormant, the pattern of uploading fake version of Philippine government seals, specifically the Department of Education (Philippines) that replaces the sealion with a "winged lion" or merlion can be seen here. After uploading the fake seals in commons as seen and. The vandal proceeds to replace the original DepEd seal in the en.wiki article as seen here, here and here. I would also like to seek assistance if we can run a checkuser on this vandal. We have seen a lot of dormant and abandoned accounts from this vandal for the past several months and we just recently discover them. - WayKurat (talk) 05:03, 15 August 2021 (UTC)


 * @WayKurat just to comment on the CU aspect, per WP:BLOCKPREVENTATIVE, if an account has long been abandoned, there's not much point in blocking it, or putting in the effort to investigate it. Clerks will often ask for a "sleeper check", but mostly when there's reason to suspect there are undiscovered accounts which will be put into use sometime soon. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:50, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. They're one-offs so I don't think CU is worthwhile here. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:01, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

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Suspicious behavior. Only contribution is uploaded a modified version of an existing government seal (the uploaded version uploaded by the user is not actually in used in any Bangsamoro government channels) and user name is named after an incumbent official. Similar to the naming schemes used by the Pcoo1898's previous sockpuppet. File:Seal of the Bangsamoro.png is the "improved" version of Seal of Bangsamoro.svg. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 08:18, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * One edit six months ago. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:42, 19 September 2021 (UTC)