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Both vandalising same articles and obviously similar usernames. Puppeteer already banned. Equine-man (talk) 20:51, 5 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Why does this need CU? -- RoySmith (talk) 21:04, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * In case any other socks floating around. I reported another editor earlier, and said CU probably not needed, one was done and additional socks were found. Apologies if not needed. Equine-man (talk) 22:13, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, I didn't mean to be curt, but it helps to explain why you want CU. In this case, if you had reason to believe there were sleepers, "please do a sleeper check" would have been sufficient. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:56, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * , closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:55, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * . You should only request CU if you see a reason for it. Sometimes, you might not see a reason, but a clerk or checkuser will see one, and a check will be run. That's okay. It doesn't mean you were wrong to not request a check. We do sometimes do "sleeper checks", where we've caught some ducks but think there may be some other sox, but we only do that if there's reason to think sleepers exist. Reasons might include:
 * There's at least two sox with overlapping timelines
 * A sockmaster has a history of sleepers
 * A few sox have been caught without a check being done (rule of thumb is third filing)
 * Hope that clears things up. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:00, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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Very similar username and asked to unblock another sockpuppet, I LOVE SOUTHWEST AIRLINES on simplewiki here. --Ferien (talk) 20:25, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * - for training. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:35, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Tagged as suspected. for unlocked accounts. Closing. --Jack Frost (talk) 00:16, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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Extremely similar edits on the same article. SOUTHWEST:, COIN:.

The talk page consists of the sentence "Please unblock my other accounts." Does this even need a CheckUser? Knuthove (talk) 22:35, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * - for training. --Jack Frost (talk) 23:17, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * . Both already blocked. Tagged & . Closing. --Jack Frost (talk) 08:14, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Requesting to be unblocked on the talk page, their username is about loving things in all caps and the same message is also on simplewiki where they sometimes like to spend their time, but also note how they are not affected by an autoblock on simplewiki and I don't think they are affected by an autoblock here either. --Ferien (talk) 22:00, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * All previous accounts are stale, so CheckUser won't tell us anything. The reported account is already blocked, so nothing left to do here. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:03, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on some CU log data, I can say that I LOVE SAGUAROS is on technical data alone (plus of course, the upper case stuff).  I was also able to  them to  who is already glocked so I'll request glock for this one and flip the XWIKI bit. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)