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06 February 2016

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User:Sakultah is circumventing his “zero tolerance regime” with the sockpuppet account user:Tr19ss. User:Sakultah is a very narrow POV pusher who edits the Syria war map only in favor of one specific party. He constantly engaged in edit warring and broke 1RR many times: So every time he was blocked for 1RR violation, he came back and edit warred again and got blocked again. After his latest block, he was put on a “zero tolerance regime” by admin user:Amatulic who wrote him: “Start communicating on the article talk page about your proposed change, and seek consensus. If your actions force me to block you again, it will be permanent, and I'd rather not do that.” User:Sakultah never edited Wikipedia again after his latest block expired. Instead, the account user:Tr19ss was created on 12 November 2015 (2 days after user:Sakultah’s last block). So knowing that he had been given a “last warning”, he created a sockpuppet so that he can resume his edit warring with a “clean record” so to speak. Already, the sockpuppet (user:Tr19ss) has broken 1RR two weeks ago and he has received only a “warning” by an admin, because he has a “clean record”. Admin user:Amatulic has summarized this person’s attitude by saying: “We have a case of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. The user simply resumes the disruptive activity after the block lifts, based on the edit history. He did that after my previous block lifted. The next block will be permanent.”
 * Account created on 4 September 2015
 * On 26 October 2015 (after 50 edits) violation of 1RR on Syria war map: 72 hours block.
 * On 4 November 2015 (after 24 edits) violation of 1RR on Syria war map: 5 days block.
 * On 10 November 2015 (after 4 edits) violation of 1RR on Syria war map: 2 weeks block.

Take a look at the history of contributions of the sockmaster (user:Sakultah): Notice how the second part of it (about 50 edits over 3 weeks) is '''a block of consecutive edits to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map with no edit summaries (all in favor of Syrian government). The other edits are all related to Turkey.''' He was noticed on the map because he is the only editor that edits often (all in favor of the government) without ever using edit summaries. Now Take a look at the history of contributions of the sockpuppet (user:Tr19ss): Notice how the beginning of it is '''mostly a block of (about 30) consecutive edits (over 3 weeks) to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map with no edit summaries (all in favor of Syrian government). The other edits are all related to Turkey.''' He was noticed on the map because after user:Sakultah disappeared, he was the only editor that edited often (all in favor of the Syrian government) without using edit summaries. After a while, he started putting edit summaries after we kept complaining about it and admin Callanecc asked him explicitly to do so.

I am asking for the sockpuppet (user:Tr19ss) to be indefinitely blocked because an editor should not be allowed to circumvent a “last warning” by creating a new account and continuing to edit war. I am also asking for the sockmaster (user:Sakultah) to be indefinitely blocked because he was given “one last chance” and he blew it by creating a sockpuppet and using it to continue edit warring. Tradedia talk 01:18, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:28, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

14 February 2016

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User:Sakultah is evading his indefinite block with the sockpuppet account user:Tr1923. Luckily, he chose a user name that is very similar to his last sockpuppet (user:Tr19ss) so I was able to notice him immediately.

Further, compare the history of contributions of his last sockpuppet (user:Tr19ss) with that of his new sockpuppet (user:Tr1923). In both cases, he starts with edits to articles about Turkish geographic places, then he moves on to edits to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (all in favor of Syrian government). Tradedia talk 21:57, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:10, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

29 February 2016

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User:Sakultah is continuing to evade his indefinite block with the sockpuppet account user:Ayazzzz. This account was created 3 days after his last sockpuppet (user:Tr1923) was blocked by user:Bbb23. After the block of his last sockpuppet, I was waiting for a new sockpuppet to show up at Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map. As soon as I saw an edit by a user that I had never seen before, I suspected him. This was especially because his 2 edits on the module were in favor of the Syrian government (just like all the edits by the sockmaster & all his sockpuppets). Moreover he used the favorite source of the sockmaster (and his sockpuppets) which is almasdarnews.com. Notice how all 4 of the last sockpuppet’s edits to the Syria war map were all using almasdarnews.com as a source.

The smoking gun and confirmation of my suspicions came when I clicked on his user contributions and saw that ''he started them with edits to an article about a Turkish geographic place. This was also the case for the sockmaster, the first sockpuppet and the second (and last) sockpuppet.'' Then he moved on to edits to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (just like the sockmaster & all his sockpuppets). Tradedia talk 04:19, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged, as well as:
 * Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

13 March 2016

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User:Sakultah is continuing to evade his indefinite block with the sockpuppet account user:TR3519. Luckily, he chose a user name that is very similar to his sockpuppets (user:Tr19ss and user:Tr1923) so I was able to notice him immediately. This account was created 3 days after his last sockpuppet (user:Ayazzzz) was blocked by user:Bbb23.

As usual, he starts with edits to articles about Turkish geographic places, then he moves on to edits to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (all in favor of Syrian government). Moreover he used the favorite source of the sockmaster (and his sockpuppets) which is almasdarnews.com. Tradedia talk 12:55, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅ --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 14:25, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

26 March 2016

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User:Sakultah is continuing to evade his indefinite block with the sockpuppet account user:TCSXXX. Luckily, he chose a user name that is very similar to his sockpuppets (user:Tr19ss, user:Tr1923 and user:TR3519) so I was able to notice him immediately. This account was created 1 day after his last sockpuppet (user:TR3519) was blocked by user:DeltaQuad.

As usual, he starts with edits to articles about Turkish geographic places, then he moves on to edits to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (all in favor of Syrian government). Moreover they all used the favorite source of the sockmaster (and his sockpuppets) which is almasdarnews.com. Tradedia talk 19:24, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Technically very plus the behavioral similarities to boot makes this quite clear. I've blocked and tagged the account. Mike V • Talk 23:02, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

03 April 2016

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User:Sakultah is continuing to evade his indefinite block with the sockpuppet account user:BLACKİCE111. This account was created 2 days after his last sockpuppet (user:TCSXXX) was blocked by user:Mike V. After the block of his last sockpuppet, I was waiting for a new sockpuppet to show up at Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map. As soon as I saw an edit by a user that I had never seen before, I suspected him. This was especially because his edit on the module was in favor of the Syrian government (just like all the edits by the sockmaster & all his sockpuppets). He basically increased the size of a town right after it was taken over by the Syrian government.

The smoking gun and confirmation of my suspicions came when I clicked on his user contributions and saw that he started them with edits to the article Çorumspor, which is “a Turkish sports club playing in the Turkish Football Federation Second League.” Notice how his next to last sockpuppet (user:TR3519) started with edits to the article Çorum, which is the city in which Çorumspor sports club is based. Tradedia talk 14:56, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * - per provided evidence.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:20, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Courcelles (talk) 16:53, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - Sock needs blocking. QEDK ( T  &#9749;  C ) 06:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * . Closing. BethNaught (talk) 10:54, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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User:Sakultah is continuing to evade his indefinite block with the sockpuppet account user:MANAS1923. Luckily, he chose a user name that is very similar to a previous sockpuppet (user:Tr1923) so I was able to notice him immediately. As usual, he starts with edits to articles about Turkish geographic places and Turkish soccer teams, then he moves on to edits to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government). Tradedia talk 08:53, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Here is a more detailed explanation of my case. Trust me as this is my 7th SPI report about this sockmaster (previous 6 were all with the same logic and blocked by checkuser).


 * A) Confirmed sockpuppets:


 * Confirmed sockpuppet user:Tr19ss
 * His first 10 edits are about Turkish geographic places and Turkish soccer teams.
 * His 79 last edits are mostly to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government).


 * Confirmed sockpuppet user:Tr1923
 * His first 10 edits are about Turkish geographic places.
 * His last 4 edits are to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government).


 * Confirmed sockpuppet user:Ayazzzz
 * His first 10 edits are about Turkish geographic places.
 * His last 2 edits are to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government).


 * Confirmed sockpuppet user:TR3519
 * His first 12 edits are about Turkish geographic places.
 * His last 5 edits are to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government).


 * Confirmed sockpuppet user:TCSXXX
 * His first 9 edits are about Turkish geographic places.
 * His last 5 edits are to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government).


 * Confirmed sockpuppet user:BLACKİCE111
 * His first 10 edits are about Turkish soccer teams.
 * His last edit is to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government).


 * B) Suspected sockpuppet user:MANAS1923:


 * His first 500 edits are about Turkish soccer teams.
 * His last 16 edits are to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (in favor of Syrian government). Tradedia talk 11:45, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  15:29, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The technical data is old. Based on a check of MANAS1923 and the April 2016 CU logs, the new account is .--Bbb23 (talk) 18:14, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Sock indeffed and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:14, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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Five days after his last sockpuppet account (user:MANAS1923) was blocked, user:Sakultah continued to evade his indefinite block with the sleeper sockpuppet account user:Skyline12399. He has returned to his favorite “Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map” two days ago. However, since the module is now 30/500 protected, the sockpuppet account user:Skyline12399 had to make strange edits to artificially get his edit count to 500 before he edited the module. This behavior is what made me notice him since it is very similar to the behavior of his previous sockpuppet account (user:MANAS1923). I make this explicit next:


 * 1. Previous sockpuppet user:MANAS1923: He makes artificial edits to soccer team articles to get to 500 and then makes edits to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map. How do we see that his edits to the soccer team articles are artificial and meant only to get him to 500 edit count? Well, take the example of the 185 edits on article “Beylerbeyi S.K.” (among others) between 10:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC) and 14:09, 21 May 2017 (UTC). Just take a look at 6 consecutive edits (among many many others) in this series:


 * Revision as of 13:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player / no= / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Kaan Dorak
 * was changed to
 * Fs player / no=2 / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Kaan Dorak
 * Revision as of 13:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player / no=2 / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Kaan Dorak
 * was changed to
 * Fs player / no=24 / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Kaan Dorak
 * Revision as of 13:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player / no= / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Metehan Çaka
 * was changed to
 * Fs player / no=2 / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Metehan Çaka
 * Revision as of 13:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player / no=2 / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Metehan Çaka
 * was changed to
 * Fs player / no=25 / nat=Turkey / pos=DF / name=Metehan Çaka
 * Revision as of 13:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player / no= / nat=Turkey / pos=FW / name=Erhan Göç
 * was changed to
 * Fs player / no=2 / nat=Turkey / pos=FW / name=Erhan Göç
 * Revision as of 13:56, 21 May 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player / no=2 / nat=Turkey / pos=FW / name=Erhan Göç
 * was changed to
 * Fs player / no=27 / nat=Turkey / pos=FW / name=Erhan Göç
 * As you can see, he is deliberately trying to artificially increase his edit count by making two edits when any reasonable editor would have made one edit.


 * 2. Suspected sockpuppet user:Skyline12399: He makes artificial edits to soccer team articles to get to 500 and then makes edit to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map. How do we see that his edits to the soccer team articles are artificial and meant only to get him to 500 edit count? Well, take the example of the 288 edits on article “F.C. Iranjavan Bushehr” (among others) between 10:13, 3 June 2017 (UTC) and 12:08, 3 June 2017 (UTC). Just take a look at 6 consecutive edits (among many many others) in this series:


 * Revision as of 10:23, 3 June 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player /no=/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Hamid Heidari
 * was changed to
 * Fs player /no=2/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Hamid Heidari
 * Revision as of 10:24, 3 June 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player /no=2/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Hamid Heidari
 * was changed to
 * Fs player /no=22/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Hamid Heidari
 * Revision as of 10:26, 3 June 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player /no=/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Alireza Khajeh Monafred
 * was changed to
 * Fs player /no=4/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Alireza Khajeh Monafred
 * Revision as of 10:26, 3 June 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player /no=4/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Alireza Khajeh Monafred
 * was changed to
 * Fs player /no=40/pos=GK/nat=Iran/name=Alireza Khajeh Monafred
 * Revision as of 10:27, 3 June 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player /no=/pos=DF/nat=Iran/name=Gholamhossein Moji
 * was changed to
 * Fs player /no=8/pos=DF/nat=Iran/name=Gholamhossein Moji
 * Revision as of 10:27, 3 June 2017 (UTC):
 * Fs player /no=8/pos=DF/nat=Iran/name=Gholamhossein Moji
 * was changed to
 * Fs player /no=80/pos=DF/nat=Iran/name=Gholamhossein Moji
 * As you can see, he is deliberately trying to artificially increase his edit count by making two edits when any reasonable editor would have made one edit.


 * In addition, you can notice that the edit he made to Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map right after he attained the 500 edit count, was in favor of the Syrian government and used the favorite source of the sockmaster (and his sockpuppets) which is almasdarnews.com (this was already noted in the reports that lead to the blocking of sockpuppets user:Ayazzzz on 29 February 2016, user:TR3519 on 13 March 2016, and user:TCSXXX on 26 March 2016).


 * Moreover, you can notice that he chose a user name (Skyline12399) that is similar to the previous sockpuppet (MANAS1923) in that they both end with a series of numbers that contain 1, 2, 3 and 9.


 * Finally, you can notice that user:Skyline12399 was previously blocked for WP:1RR violation at Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map. The sockmaster (user:Sakultah) was also blocked 3 times for WP:1RR violation at Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map. Tradedia talk 21:20, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:47, 15 June 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * - to confirm socking. This is clearly gaming the 30/500 which will make things easy to recognize.
 * is ✅ to (from the archive).-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:03, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * - Please block the sock. Thanks, GABgab 21:13, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeffing, tagging and closing.