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Since August 2015, Rtjfan has been repeatedly adding unsourced content, removing sourced content, and creating articles without any indication of notability. Similarly, since November 2015, 208.95.211.102 has been repeatedly adding unsourced content, removing sourced content, and creating articles from redirect without any indication of notability. On 28 February 2016, 208.95.211.102 got blocked for 36 hours because of persistent addition of unsourced content. Rtjfan and 208.95.211.102 have not stopped their disruptive editing at hip-hop related articles in spite of multiple warnings, and I suspect that Rtjfan and 208.95.211.102 are connected.

For example, after another editor reverted 208.95.211.102's creating an article about Wiki (rapper) from redirect, Rtjfan created the article again. On 4 June 2016, 14 minutes after 208.95.211.102 created a red link to Elimination Chamber (song), Rtjfan created the article. On 5 June 2016, 2 minutes after 208.95.211.102 removed discography from Post Malone, Rtjfan created Post Malone discography. On 6 June 2016, 6 minutes after 208.95.211.102 created a red link to MellowHypeWeek, Rtjfan created the article. On 16 June 2016, 5 minutes after 208.95.211.102 created a red link to Steve Lacy (musician), Rtjfan created the article.

From the above evidence, I suspect that Rtjfan and 208.95.211.102 are operated by the same person. 153.206.104.175 (talk) 02:22, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

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Evidence shows, at best, a user occasionally forgetting to log in, but that in itself is not a violation of the sockpuppetry policy. If there are specific difficulties with the user, please try discussing with them, or post in a forum such as WP:RSN or WP:ANI. Nothing to do here; closing. Ivanvector 🍁  (talk) 13:56, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

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After the account got blocked as Rtjfan's sockpuppet at 23:24, 26 November 2016 (see the report at AN/I), the  account was created at 04:24, 27 November 2016. ARtking's last edit was at THC (production team), as was Solosw34rs' first edit (diff1, diff2). As with Rtjfan, both ARtking and Solosw34rs have frequently edited hip hop music articles, including Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide, Hak (musician), and Barbell (song). Solosw34rs is adding unsourced content to articles and creating unsourced articles in violation of WP:V and WP:BLP, which is regarded as a problematic behavior as per AN/I. Additionally, most of the time, these accounts' edits are tagged "Mobile edit, Mobile web edit". 153.206.176.169 (talk) 10:18, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Katietalk 16:20, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ - blocked, tagged, closed. Katietalk 16:24, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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After got blocked as Rtjfan's sockpuppet at 16:24, 3 December 2016, the  account was created at 18:54, 4 December 2016. Solosw34rs' last edit was at Run the Jewels 3, as was TellSatanBePatient's first edit (diff1, diff2). These accounts have frequently edited hip hop music articles, including THC (production team) and Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide. They tend to create unsourced articles with no indication of notability. Most of their edits are tagged "Mobile edit, Mobile web edit". 153.160.239.89 (talk) 09:22, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:43, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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After the one-month CheckUser block on 208.95.211.102 expired on 10 January 2017, the user has become active again. When I reported the user here in June 2016, no admin action was taken since Rtjfan was not blocked at that time. But now, Rtjfan is indefinitely blocked and the user seems to be evading the block as 208.95.211.102. Using Editor Interaction Analyser, I suspect that 208.95.211.102 is Rtjfan's sockpuppet. 208.95.211.102 is currently editing Despot (rapper), Secret Circle (supergroup), V (Captain Murphy album), and Faces (mixtape), all of which are also Rtjfan's obsessions.

Additionally, the Ocirocir2 account was created on 11 January 2017. Ocirocir2 keeps adding unsourced content to articles and creating unsourced articles in the same way as Rtjfan,, , and did. At least two articles Ocirocir2 created has been speedy deleted until now. As with Rtjfan and the previous sockpuppets, Ocirocir2 is obsessed with American hip hop articles, including Despot (rapper), Lil Me, and God Bless Me (see also these articles' revision histories). 153.166.45.47 (talk) 04:49, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:41, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

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and the sockpuppets such as, , , and  persistently added the unsourced material to articles and created the unsourced, mostly non-notable articles. Recently, Nibbanibba and 24.50.144.157 keeps doing the same things at the same field. It seems that they are Rtjfan's block-evading account and IP. For example, Telephone Calls was created by Rtjfan and re-created by Nibbanibba. Adult Swim Singles Program 2016 was created and frequently edited by Rtjfan ; Adult Swim Singles Program 2017 was created and frequently edited by Nibbanibba. Editor Interaction Analyser indicates that Rtjfan, Nibbanibba and 24.50.144.157 have edited the same articles many times. 153.204.79.69 (talk) 06:25, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:55, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

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According to Editor Interaction Analyser (1 2 3), Donttellmewhattodo69 and 199.89.61.126 frequently edit the same hip hop articles that have been previously edited by, which is Rtjfan's sockpuppet confirmed and blocked on 10 June 2017. For example, their most favorite artists seem to be Ratking (group) and its members, namely Wiki (rapper), Sporting Life (musician), and Hak (musician). Most of the times, these four articles have been edited by Rtjfan and his/her sockpuppets. An article about Wiki's 2015 mixtape, Lil Me, was created by Rtjfan (4). Similarly, an article about Wiki's 2017 studio album, No Mountains in Manhattan, was created by Donttellmewhattodo69 (5). They keep persistently adding unsourced content and have been warned by other users, including Binksternet, Materialscientist, Magnolia677, and Oshwah, not to do so.

At the previous SPI, it was revealed that Rtjfan's edits come from Packerland Broadband in Wisconsin. Other IPs such as and  are stale, but are likely the same person. Perhaps range block needed too. 153.175.145.206 (talk) 05:16, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * Donttellmewhattodo69 has certainly been adding a lot of unreferenced BLP material such as birth date and birth place. I warned him about socking after seeing his work at Playboi Carti, which followed adding associated acts in a manner similar to serial sock puppeteer . At the MusicLover650 SPI case, Risker found that Donttellmewhattodo69 and Dkvo were not socks of MusicLover650. Binksternet (talk) 12:42, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

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is a very (bordering ✅) match to Rtjfan. , but to save others looking it up, the listed IP is indeed a Packerland/Wisconsin address. Yunshui 雲 水 12:41, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like we're good here, closing. GABgab 15:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

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As with the previous IP socks of Rtjfan (see Sockpuppet investigations/Rtjfan/Archive), 24.50.145.9 comes from Packerland Broadband in Wisconsin. Editor Interaction Analyser indicates that 24.50.145.9 edited the same articles Rtjfan edited before. For example, Nasty Nigel (rapper) was created by Rtjfan and was edited mostly by his/her socks such as User:ARtking and User:Nibbanibba. Also, Rtjfan and 24.50.145.9 added unsourced BLP content such as birth date and birth name on American hip hop-related articles (diff diff). 153.174.0.76 (talk) 11:50, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * The IP edits are too old. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:53, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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As I reported here on, the IP is likely a block evasion of Rtjfan. Although the case was closed on 13 December 2017 since "The IP edits are too old" (diff), the IP became active on 15 December 2017, editing in the same area as before. 153.206.238.62 (talk) 11:45, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * Checkuser comment. I'm a bit baffled here. Checkusers aren't going to confirm whether an IP is linked to a long-indeffed user; we don't have the CU data on Rtjfan since it's been more than a year since he's been blocked. I note that several of the edits by the IP are still in place, so that raises the question of how disruptive they really are. Declining CU; another admin may want to look at behaviour. Risker (talk) 16:33, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No edits for a month. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:24, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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It seems that Rtjfan have made a new account and continue to creating unsourced articles   just like as before. This account may not be the editor that was blocked but the edits are tag as mobile just like Rtjfan. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 12:56, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * Checkuser comment: These are bog-standard "new" articles within the scope of popular music; there's really nothing differentiating them from articles created by other users. Many of them have been improved and others have been managed appropriately by the community.  That the edits are made from mobile technology is pretty much irrelevant, given the increasing prevalence of mobile editing and changing technology. There's nothing linking these edits to the prior sockmaster. As noted in the last entry into this SPI archive, there's no viable checkuser data to check against. Another admin might want to look at behaviour, although it is discussed above; however, there is no basis for checkuser.  Risker (talk) 17:26, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing with no action per Risker's analysis, which I agree with. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:23, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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As with, which got blocked in 2016 and 2017 for "CheckUser block", 208.95.212.162 is a Packerland Broadband IP from Wisconsin.

At 03:42, 8 June 2018 (UTC), Martinluciddreamjr edited The New CALassic (diff); at 03:48, just 6 minutes after that, 208.95.212.162 edited the same page (diff). At 03:15, 28 June 2018 (UTC), Martinluciddreamjr edited Sophie (musician) (diff); at 03:18, just 3 minutes after that, 208.95.212.162 edited the same page (diff). At 06:26, 2 July 2018 (UTC), Martinluciddreamjr created Santana World (diff); at 06:33, just 7 minutes after that, 208.95.212.162 edited the same page (diff). At 04:26, 18 July 2018 (UTC), Martinluciddreamjr edited Members Only (hip hop collective) (diff); at 04:29, just 3 minutes after that, 208.95.212.162 edited the same page (diff).

At 00:54, 24 September 2018 (UTC), Codeinecastlejodyhighroller edited Draft:Bread (EP) (diff); at 00:58, just 4 minutes after that, 208.95.212.162 edited the same page (diff). At 21:19, 30 September 2018 (UTC), 208.95.212.162 edited Pi'erre Bourne, saying, "Going to make a separate article" (diff); at 21:28, just 9 minutes after that, Codeinecastlejodyhighroller created Draft:Pi'erre Bourne production discography (diff).

Rtjfan and Martinluciddreamjr often created articles about non-notable hip hop artists/recordings. For example, according to User talk:Rtjfan, User talk:Solosw34rs, and User talk:Martinluciddreamjr, Retch (rapper) has been repeatedly created by Rtjfan, (another sock of Rtjfan), and Martinluciddreamjr.

Also, most of their edits are tagged "Mobile edit, Mobile web edit". 153.228.5.217 (talk) 21:48, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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. Retagged and closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:17, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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Rtjfan and their sockpuppets have usually edited American hip hop musicians' articles. As a result of the previous SPI case, got blocked for 3 months on 15 October 2018. After the block expired, 208.95.212.162 edited Earl Sweatshirt and became inactive on 18 January 2019. One day later, ' account was created. With their second edit, Soapmanwunslips created Na-Kel Smith, an associated act with Earl Sweatshirt, on 19 January 2019. Rtjfan previously created an article about the same person under the different title, Na'kel, on 6 November 2016 (cf. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Na'kel).

Rtjfan and Soapmanwunslips have added birth years and middle names to multiple articles without citing a reliable source (diff, diff; diff, diff). , another sockpuppet of Rtjfan, added birth name, birth year, and birth place to Sporting Life (musician) without citing a reliable source (diff). Soapmanwunslips added birth name, birth year, and birth place to the same article without citing a reliable source (diff). 180.59.147.141 (talk) 14:37, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Wow, first IP report ever seen. Anyway, it is very obvious that it is a sockpuppet. &thinsp;3125A Talk! Edits!&thinsp; 19:56, 23 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't ARtking be added to the list of suspected socks too? --Stay safe, ◊ PRAHLAD balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 03:10, 24 May 2020 (UTC)


 * It's extremely clear that they are sockpuppets, as I just reviewed their contribs, and if not all, practically all are to do with hip-hop (especially American), DJs or modern musicians. XLK123 (talk) 09:54, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

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, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:23, 5 June 2020 (UTC)