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27 October 2012

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SNIyer12 was blocked for a pervasive pattern of disruptive editing. Now all of a sudden we have "SNIyer1234" editing on similar pages. Coincidence? I think not. Sockpuppetry for the sake of block evasion. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:38, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

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appears to have been blocked indefinitely by for block evasion.—Bagumba (talk) 07:33, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Note that there is heavy overlap of files edited, and SNIyer1234 was created days after SNIyer12 was blocked.—Bagumba (talk) 07:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Master and puppet tagged, and both indef blocked. Nothing left to do.—Bagumba (talk) 08:06, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

16 May 2015

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Procedural report before blocking as a WP:DUCK. Shares SNIyer12's interest in sports including baseball, basketball, and hockey, as well as with articles on rivalries. SNIyer12 had a keen interest in adding trivia. A common edit to Chicago Bulls, adding a trivial link to Bugs Bunny piped to "Hare Jordan", makes me confident this is the same editor:


 * BugsIyer:
 * SNIyer12:

One can look at the history of to see that SNIyer12 had a slow edit war over the inclusion of the Template:Chicago Bulls into the cartoon article. —Bagumba (talk) 01:55, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

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Sock tagged and indef blocked.—Bagumba (talk) 01:59, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

19 May 2015

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Procedural report of IPs that have already been blocked as WP:DUCK by User:Djsasso per IP talk pages e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:72.23.80.232&oldid=663111647. IPs are based out of Ohio. See IPs' contributions for more evidence. —Bagumba (talk) 22:14, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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Nothing to do, mark for close.—Bagumba (talk) 22:14, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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Largely based on behavioral evidence. The IP had exactly one edit nine years ago until it suddenly began a series of edits largely concentrated on sports rivalries (such as ) that have been trimmed back before, and on baseball and hockey topics that are pointless edits. Most notably, the IP is not editing like a new editor at all, and is editing just like SNIyer12, who was indeffed for sock puppetry to avoid a previous block for these exact type of edits. oknazevad (talk) 00:20, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * If I may butt in here, I've seen some editing recently that makes me believe that this IP is SNIyer12. This is the first time I can recall posting to an SSI in my Wikipedia career, so please forgive me if the formatting isn't perfect.
 * Yesterday and today, 96.242.20.185 made several edits to History of the New York Yankees. The early ones were formatting issues, and while not perfect it at least seemed like the IP was trying to be helpful. However, today this edit was made, introducing some irrelevant content related to baseball strikes. Lo and behold, SNIyer12 made this edit in October 2011. The addition is almost exactly the same as what was put into the article by 96, and one of the references was even the same. While I always seek to assume good faith, my limits are stretched when I see something like this. It would be highly unusual for two random editors to make such similar edits.
 * Before his indef, SNIyer12 made a bunch of edits related to the 1993–94 New York Rangers season and that season's Stanley Cup Finals. Someone at the hockey WikiProject once said that the user was "obsessed" with the topic, as well as that season's Knicks team. In 96's recent edits, I see this, which adds links to the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals and NBA Finals articles. This is consistent with the behavior patterns noted by the hockey project.
 * SNIyer12 had a lot of involvement at Yankees–Red Sox rivalry in the past: here is an example of their many contributions. 96 has had a burst of editing at the article here, here, and here. Of note is that SNIyer added a cite to a Dan Shaugnessy book in this batch of edits, and 96 added a cite to the same book here.
 * In general, I see a lot of editing by 96 related to sports rivalries. Major League Baseball rivalries, Mets–Phillies rivalry, and Curse of the Bambino were all edited by the IP. There's another cite to Shaugnessy here that was added to the curse page by SNI, and they had heavy involvement at the other articles as well. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 18:07, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

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Note that previous suspected IPs of SNIyer12 were mostly (all?) from Ohio, whereas this IP is from New Jersey. Will need more behavioral similiarites (e.g. specific style) than just the general topic of sports rivalries. For example, another candidate based purely on sports rivalry interest might be Sockpuppet investigations/Sportsgamaniacre, whose IPs were in Pennsylvania before.—Bagumba (talk) 02:07, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Also added 24.101.134.12 for consideration. It was blocked as a previous sock, but became active again immediately after the last block expired. The IP had said they would take the WP:SO, but no evidence is shown that they made a formal request, which anyways should be on their original registered account.—Bagumba (talk) 19:48, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Blocking 96.242.20.185 based on evidence by Giants2008, and 24.101.134.12 based on editing timeline with 96.242.20.185, as well as its own past history.—Bagumba (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Just asked to be unblocked on their User:Brownsfan677 sock. I have directed them again (as I have done countless times in the past) to request unblock from their SNIyer12 account. So they are definitely active again. -DJSasso (talk) 16:28, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Also just blocked 173.91.143.190 as him. -DJSasso (talk) 16:36, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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Procedural report of this IP WP:QUACKing again. Of note is the IP's affinity to 1977–78 Washington Bullets season, which coincidentally has been frequently edited since 2014 by multiple IPs also based in Ohio, many of which have been tagged by other users as suspected of being SNIyer12. For future reference, those IPs might provide further insight into their behavioral habits.—Bagumba (talk) 14:25, 29 January 2018 (UTC) —Bagumba (talk) 14:25, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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Yeah his location and behaviour is very well known. Was just thinking the other day I am surprised I haven't noticed any lately. Guess I will have to do some combing again to see what he has been up to lately. -DJSasso (talk) 16:11, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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IP blocked.—Bagumba (talk) 14:25, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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While this account seemingly has a more diverse set of interests than the previous socks I stumbled upon a while back, some key behavioral traits lead me to believe this is SNIyer12. In general, it looks like Snoopy is using different sources than SNIyer and previous socks, but some of the formatting is similar. Many of Snoopy's edits (including those linked above) have harvnb templates, and edits by SNIyer and socks do as well. Giants2008 ( Talk ) 00:55, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * One of SNIyer's IP socks added this edit to 2004 World Series with a quote by Pedro Martinez that Snoopy repeats here virtually verbatism. That is a coincidence that pushes my assumption of good faith to the breaking point.
 * I recall saying the last time I posted an SPI for SNIyer that the user was highly interested in the 1993–94 New York Rangers and the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals article. Early in Snoopy's Wikipedia career, they made this series of edits to the Finals page, indicating a continuing interest in that topic.
 * Both SNIyer and a sock made edits to History of the New York Yankees that involve the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. Snoopy made this edit, which also relates to the strike. In general, this user has been actively editing the article on the strike, as SNIyer did back going back over a decade according to the revision history.
 * I noted last time that SNIyer seemed interested in articles on sports rivalries. I see edits to Yankees–Red Sox rivalry (much of this string is Snoopy's work), one of the articles that SNIyer's socks were editing before.

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 * Blocked and tagged based on behaviorial evidence provided as well as overlap identified by editor interaction tool.—Bagumba (talk) 05:08, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I concur. This is a user I have followed over his "career" of socking and he has some very obvious halmarks to his editing. Good catch I was just thinking the other day that I hadn't seen him in quite awhile and wondered if he had stopped or gotten smarter. -DJSasso (talk) 14:20, 13 December 2019 (UTC)