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18 August 2013

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Self-admitted. The long rant on Talk:Aryan containing all the same identifiers as the previous socks (a theory about Aryans being Irish). Saddhiyama (talk) 09:38, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I have blocked the user (as well as User:Cloudassault) for persistent addition of unsourced material and original research to articles, revert warring, and sockpuppetry. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 17:13, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

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More socks: -- Neil N   talk to me  14:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

36.37.134.95 spammed a complaint about Redbranch1984 being blocked to everyone on the dispute resolution noticeboard volunteer list, which was of course quickly mass-reverted. I will keep an eye out for any new IPs that try the same thing and report them here. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:00, 20 August 2013 (UTC)


 * - Blocked. -- Neil N   talk to me  12:17, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * - Not blocked yet. -- Neil N   talk to me  12:26, 21 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Add 111.90.189.42 as another sock. Perhaps a rangeblock is in order? --Saddhiyama (talk) 09:09, 22 August 2013 (UTC)


 * See also Sockpuppet_investigations/Prestigiouzman Fiddle   Faddle  23:27, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * IPs blocked. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:59, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

22 August 2013

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Only edits are attempts at restoring the edits of previous socks. Perhaps some kind of rangeblock is in order for this one? --Saddhiyama (talk) 09:28, 22 August 2013 (UTC) Saddhiyama (talk) 09:28, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * I endorse this report. The IP's contributions are concerned exclusively with restoring content added by previous sockpuppets. —Psychonaut (talk) 18:46, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the IP. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:17, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

18 August 2013

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Self-admitted. The long rant on Talk:Aryan containing all the same identifiers as the previous socks (a theory about Aryans being Irish). Saddhiyama (talk) 09:38, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I have blocked the user (as well as User:Cloudassault) for persistent addition of unsourced material and original research to articles, revert warring, and sockpuppetry. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 17:13, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

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More socks: -- Neil N   talk to me  14:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

36.37.134.95 spammed a complaint about Redbranch1984 being blocked to everyone on the dispute resolution noticeboard volunteer list, which was of course quickly mass-reverted. I will keep an eye out for any new IPs that try the same thing and report them here. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:00, 20 August 2013 (UTC)


 * - Blocked. -- Neil N   talk to me  12:17, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * - Not blocked yet. -- Neil N   talk to me  12:26, 21 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Add 111.90.189.42 as another sock. Perhaps a rangeblock is in order? --Saddhiyama (talk) 09:09, 22 August 2013 (UTC)


 * See also Sockpuppet_investigations/Prestigiouzman Fiddle   Faddle  23:27, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * IPs blocked. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:59, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

22 August 2013

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Only edits are attempts at restoring the edits of previous socks. Perhaps some kind of rangeblock is in order for this one? --Saddhiyama (talk) 09:28, 22 August 2013 (UTC) Saddhiyama (talk) 09:28, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * I endorse this report. The IP's contributions are concerned exclusively with restoring content added by previous sockpuppets. —Psychonaut (talk) 18:46, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the IP. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:17, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

27 October 2013

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To be fair, any weird edit to articles on Ireland and the Irish lead me to suspect User:Prestigiouzman and this this sockmaster. I'm more convinced about 110.... than 79... but the track record suggests CheckUser to be valid Fiddle   Faddle  11:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Fulfilling this CU request would publicly connect accounts to IP addresses, which would violate the privacy policy. Rschen7754 02:39, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The more likely sock has been blocked. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:38, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

27 October 2013

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To be fair, any weird edit to articles on Ireland and the Irish lead me to suspect User:Prestigiouzman and this this sockmaster. I'm more convinced about 110.... than 79... but the track record suggests CheckUser to be valid Fiddle   Faddle  11:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Fulfilling this CU request would publicly connect accounts to IP addresses, which would violate the privacy policy. Rschen7754 02:39, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The more likely sock has been blocked. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:38, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

27 November 2013

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At first I determined that this account would be likely to be a sockpuppet of, but that user seems also to be a sock of this sockmaster.

The behaviour and editing patterns are those of Prestigiouzman, editing Irish and Aryan articles with unusual content. There is very loud quacking here, and checkuser may thus not be required, but, because of the bundle of socks I am asking for it anyway.

Regardless of the outcome of this report there is some clerical housekeeping to do with Prestigiouzman's sock reports vs this sockmaster's. Fiddle   Faddle  11:36, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * Unfortunatelly, Redbranch1984 is, and there is nothing in the logs to let me make any connection there. is a ✅ match to  (SPI). ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:34, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Good enough for me. Blocked and tagged. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  15:59, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Please consider whether it is feasible and/or warranted to merge these cases. Thanks ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Cases have been merged. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:12, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

06 December 2013

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Primarily active on talk pages Aryan and Aryan race and related articles. Most revealing was their first edit which was a proposal to redirect Aryan race to Irish people, the main obsession of Redbranch1984 (this is elaborated in this edit). Irish nobility was another interest of the sockmaster, again this reflects in the name of this editor. --Saddhiyama (talk) 11:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC) Saddhiyama (talk) 11:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I do not know who user redbranch is,,i created my account only a few days ago--Nobleass (talk) 14:12, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ along with and . I had already run the check and blocked and tagged the socks prior to seeing that an SPI had been opened, so I don't think there's anything left to do here.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:38, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

12 December 2013

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 * The same kind of crypic cod-Buddhist slogan on his user page
 * The same editing inteerests: Irish racial purity and Buddhism
 * The same flippant, quickly turning defensive, writing style on his talk page Nicknack009 (talk) 14:14, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * ✅ - no sleepers found this time around.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:12, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged, closing. Legoktm (talk) 20:00, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

29 December 2013

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With only one real edit (reverting another editor), diffs aren't determinative. But if you look at you find Prestigiouzman, Prograceman, Sleeveman, and now Totalrecallman. Hardly trying to keep it a secret. Probably no sleepers as before but if we do a CU check to confirm that and to confirm this is a sock, we have more recent data. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 16:09, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * It is highly that this is Redbranch1984. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 19:36, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Confirmed sock tagged and blocked indef. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:11, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

02 August 2014

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I was going to say puppet of Prestigiouzman but as he is a puppet, it folds on. As with previous Redbranch puppets Daffodillday is unhelpful, rude and into genetics. To keep it short Presti adds inforamtion of Righdamhna, a point of it being a redirect he wars o try to keep. Daffodilday adds it to a list and wars to keep it in. Sleeveman(another of RB1984 puppets, adds poorly referenced material and wars to keep it in as does Daffodillay. Other behavour evidence is there, if needed I will add. Murry1975 (talk) 18:27, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * I had an immediate suspicion but could not remember who the sockmaster was. Fiddle   Faddle  18:34, 2 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I wonder, since Redbranch is stale, whether a sleeper check might be performed. This sock keeps popping up like fungus. Are any of the more recent socks current enough for comparison? Fiddle   Faddle  12:20, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

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. CU data would be stale. , other diffs would be helpful.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:56, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I have now spent a long time looking at many of the already-blocked puppets and their editing history and comparing it to Daffodillday's. It's exhausting. Overall themes. The intersection of interests in articles is obvious: Irish articles, Aryan articles, connection between indo and aryan articles, and genetic articles. The writing styles are similar. Long abstruse, seemingly erudite prose, with a great many misspellings, poor elocutions, and other errors. At the end of the day, it mostly sounds like someone trying to sound intellectual but failing and producing gibberish.
 * Now a few diffs, and some may overlap a bit with Murry's report. These are in no particular order of importance. Some are substantive and some are behavioral/stylistic. In this edit on my talk page Daffodil spells sockpuppet as "sockpuppit". In this edit Prestigiouzman misspells it the same way in his unblock request ("sockpuppitry"). There seems to be a lot of interest in the name Cox. Here Daffodil not only edits a person with Cox's last time but detours into the surname itself. Also note the reference to the Tuathas. In this edit Prestigiouzman edits an article about a Tuatha. In this edit Waterman0201 edits the Cox surname article. Prograce has also edited the same page. Daffodil created a hoax article, Hiberno Irish. He includes Cox as a Hiberno Irish surname. Then there is the Tanistry/Righdamhna business, which I think Murry refers to. In this edit Daffodil changes a link from Tanistry to Righdamhna. Righdamna redirects to Tanistry. If you look at the history of the page, you'll see that Prestigiouzman went ballistic trying to make the page an article instead of a redirect. Why would anyone else other than the same person change the link?
 * Finally, there's my favorite, the "darling" business. In this edit Daffodil calls "darling" (I'm sure they loved that). In this edit, Sleeveman calls  "darling". I'm done and I'm blocking.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:41, 3 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Indeffed and tagged. Bbb23 (talk) 14:45, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

04 August 2014

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In at WP:ANI, Qeez5 has admitted to being, so is using the new account to evade the previous block. David Biddulph (talk) 15:44, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Indeffed and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:04, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

26 August 2014

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Allegedly Irish surname fascination again with Cox. See this reversion of their edit. Fiddle  Faddle  07:17, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * Page semi'd. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:32, 27 August 2014 (UTC)