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Usernames both ending in number 14xx. Similar edit history. Account creation dates are two months apart. Both users edit on the Android app. Similar edit summary behavior.  Hiwilms   Talk   12:52, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

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See below. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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MetrMax1440 was blocked indefinitely last June 16, and a new user (Lucky Star 1437) appeared with the same writing style exhibited in edit summaries started editing six days later, at June 22.

I) During their time of activity, MetrMax1440 edits in LRTA 1200 class, sometimes leaving edit summaries in ALL CAPS to "keep" his contributions despite violating WP:Verifiability for repetitive adding of challenged and unsourced content.
 * 1) One time, Higad Rail Fan removed an interior shot as part of cleaning up an article, but MetrMax1440 partially reverted their edit and left an edit summary suggesting annoyance, a violation of WP:AGF.
 * 2) MetrMax1440 left another edit summary here, before it was rectified with supporting evidence by Hiwilms.
 * 3) A few days after, MetrMax1440 added unverifiable information, later claiming to have found it from a Facebook post without citing any source. The series of edits (prior to and this diff) was partially reverted by Hiwilms, and subsequently MetrMax1440 placed the challenged content, leaving an edit summary in ALL CAPS. At that point, Drmies took notice of the "yelling" edit summary and thus MetrMax1440 removed the edit summary. This edit was reverted by Hiwilms.
 * 4) Six days had passed, at the same time MetrMax1440 was blocked.

II) Lucky Star 1437 came back to editing LRTA 1200 class a few days after MetrMax1440 was blocked. Curiously, Contributions/Lucky_Star_1437 edited only at the article LRTA 1200 class, and had retained the same style of "yelling" edit summary.
 * 1) Higad Rail Fan resumed editing the same article LRTA 1200 class, as they wished to maintain the same article layouts with other Philippine rolling stock-related articles even for the meantime given these are low-importance start-class articles that do not necessitate consensus  Higad Rail Fan's edit history in diffs are as follows. Lucky Star 1437, like the original account, leaves a yelling summary. LSGH reverted the former's edits, as again these are challenged content.
 * 2) The latest edit of Lucky Star 1437 was a personal attack—obviously—to a user's previous edit. It (Higad Rail Fan's edit) involved the removal of the train's configuration as that was just not the most important aspect of the article, and that the user's writing only caused disruption in maintaining the article LRTA 1200 class.

Lastly. Checkuser; should user (Lucky Star 1437)'s case is proven true, the anti-vandalism users might find a better way to prevent the user from making further disruptions, regardless of an article's importance rating.

P.S. By the time HRF wrote this, they did not see that there was a similar complaint earlier, though this shall remain as this contains the diffs to support the SPI. 13:56, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Higad, are you speaking of yourself in the third person? Drmies (talk) 14:34, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * For the narrative, yes.  15:35, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I was just doing some casual patrolling at RC when the edits of Lucky Star 1437 showed up. I reverted his first two edits there (see this and this) because there was no reason to change the names of the subheaders, but I left out the third edit since I thought the content that he added was removed by someone else. Thanks to those who brought up the case here, but I do not know yet if copyvio or other issues are also at play. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 16:33, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

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Blocked as an obvious sock. , this is just a ping to show you I care, and also because you blocked User:Pj1437, and now I learned that all of this is really the work of User:Phillip1437A. Yep, that's the same screamer. NinjaRobotPirate, I'm wondering...you're smart, and I looked at the range that LuckyStar was on, but the range I looked at was way too big. You are cleverer than me, and maybe there's a rangeblock that we can place without destroying the world? Drmies (talk) 14:44, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow. That's crazy busy.  You can get around that by checking smaller ranges (for example, checking individual /24s until you've effectively checked the entire range you originally wanted), but that's tedious.  There isn't really a lot that can be done in cases like this without causing collateral damage.  The case could be moved to Phillip1437A, though. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)


 * case moved per the clerk request. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 19:19, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Closed. I think we're probably done for now. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:48, 24 June 2020 (UTC)