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R&BFandoms93 and Musicprofan started editing Wikipedia in December 2020 and RB&Soulfan started editing in March 2021. R&BFandoms93's first edit was to change the recorded date of Spotlight (Jennifer Hudson song),, Musicprofan's first edit was to change the recorded date of Spotlight, and RB&Soulfan's second edit was to change the recorded date of Spotlight,. Musicprofan and RB&Soulfan have made similar unsourced date changes to other song articles including both making them to Tik Tok (song), Down (Jay Sean song) and Damaged (Danity Kane song). They have all been warned about adding/changing information with a reliable source after their changes are contested, edit warring, and sockpuppetery, but they continue to make these unsourced changes. Based on their edit summaries and talk page discussions, they believe their changes to be correct, but cannot provide reliable sources for these beliefs. They have similar sounding names, started about the same time at the same article and edit war to make the same changes without sources. Aspects (talk) 23:23, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:39, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:39, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:39, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:39, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:39, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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An hour after User:Oshwah, closed the first sockpuppet investigation and blocked the sockpuppets, an IP address, User:2601:240:DC80:3670:F4AF:CC0C:5B84:65F5, made unsourced date changes, to Spotlight (Jennifer Hudson song). This is the same base article the sockpuppets edited with the same unsourced date changes. Aspects (talk) 17:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * See 31 March 2021. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:03, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Another IP address popped up changing the release dates,, at Spotlight (Jennifer Hudson song). Both this and the IP address both geolocate to Chicago and are likely socks of the blocked user(s). Aspects (talk) 01:00, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * See 31 March 2021. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:03, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Another IP address that changed the release dates, at Spotlight (Jennifer Hudson song). All three IP addresses geolocate to Chicago and are likely socks of the blocked user. Aspects (talk) 00:23, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * See 31 March 2021. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:03, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

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Two more IP addresses changed dates without references, and, at Spotlight (Jennifer Hudson song). All five IP addresses geolocate to Chicago and are likely socks of the blocked user. Aspects (talk) 00:14, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * All of these are in one /64: Special:Contribs/2601:240:DC80:3670::/64. Since the editor is actively moving between a named account and an anonymous account (and, in particular, switching to the named account after the page was semi-protected), I'm considering this to be bad-faith logged-out editing. Blocked the /64 for a month. Since the master went back to edit-warring over the album's release date following their unblock, I don't think there's anything to salvage here. Indeffed the master. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:06, 2 April 2021 (UTC)