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New account created after blocking of User:Pellingjohn, similar editing pattern, vandalism only account (WP:NOTHERE), ignoring warnings from other users by talk page blanking. Polyamorph (talk) 09:25, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock now blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:05, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * (created 2019-09-12; blocked 2019-09-24) and (created 2019-09-26; blocked 2019-09-28) exhibit similar pattern of edits that remove text, images, and/or references, as well as replacing dab pages with redirects or copying text on top of dab or redirect pages.  All of their mainspace edits are reverted by other editors.  In addition, both users revert warnings placed on their respective talk pages. – Archer1234 (talk) 23:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * There is nothing to do here, as this is a duplicate report: a report on Hapuzat, filed by, had already been dealt with and closed when this report was made. However, for the record I will state here that these two accounts are by no means the whole story. I blocked Pellingjohn on 24 September, at which time I was aware of one other account and several IP addresses that he had used, and I suspected that there had been other accounts too, though I don't now remember what made me think so. I also don't remember the name of the other account I knew of, but in the course of searching to try to find it I discovered the account , which is the same person, and which has not edited since October 2013. There are such strong similarities in editing both in main space and in user space (including one or more pages since deleted) to leave no doubt that it is the same person. With accounts going back that far, one has to wonder if there are other, unrecognised, sockpuppets.
 * Technically this case should be refiled under SAS343, as the oldest known account, but whether it is worth doing that will be for a clerk to judge.
 * I am also correcting the formatting of this report, which was not done properly., if you ever file any sockpuppet reports again, do so by going to Sockpuppet investigations and following the instructions given when you click on the link where it says "How to open an investigation". This is not just a matter of cosmetics; the way you did it did not cause the page to be added to the list of open cases at Sockpuppet investigations, and because of that it is very likely that nobody would ever have seen the report had it not been that I came here to check because of a ping from Polyamorph to me on another page. (This time it wouldn't have mattered, as the sockpuppet had already been dealt with, but obviously another time it may.) JBW (talk) Formerly known as JamesBWatson 19:03, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * IP addresses used by this editor include 203.220.30.241, 194.223.169.142, 14.202.204.226, 14.203.190.167, but there are likely to be many more. JBW (talk) Formerly known as JamesBWatson 19:39, 30 September 2019 (UTC)