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19 January 2015

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Both Salah44 and Trobinson66 have been heavily involved in editing the article Danilo Saveljič, which is currently at AFD and looks set to be deleted as a hoax (there had been a previous AFD in 2007 which yielded a similar result). Both accounts also have often edited Bears FC (the team for which Danilo Saveljič is asserted to play), they have similarly formatted user pages, and have shown a tendency to delete comments/discussions they find inconvenient (blanking the old AFD and its talk page, removing someone else's comments from a user page, or from an article talk page), again all in connection to Danilo Saveljič.

Following the recent second deletion nomination of the Danilo Saveljič article, Salah44 was one of three accounts to blank the article this morning (the others being Tendyro and Mariolocouu). Also this morning, I received a communication on my talk page from a new account called Bahamianprince asking me to leave the Bears FC article alone, giving me what they claimed were official email addresses for the club in order to verify the correct info – one of which (fcbears@bahamamail.com) had previously been claimed as User:Trobinson66's address.

This appears to be a case of using sockpuppets to spread hoax material on Wikipedia. Bogic's connection to the case may seem a little more tenuous behaviourly; while they created the Danilo Saveljič article, I haven't otherwise spotted the more problematic behaviours seen in other accounts. However, I do note that Bogic, Salah44 and Trobinson66 all have user pages mentioning an involvement in informatics, which seems an odd coincidence.

I'm requesting checkuser this time in case there are further socks and misinformation that may have been missed. VeryCrocker (talk) 14:32, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * per the provided evidence. Mike V • Talk 21:51, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Short and sweet version: Bahamianprince (1), Trobinson66 (2, 3, 4), Tendyro (5, 6, 7, 8), Mariolocouu (9, 10, 11, 12), and Salah44 (13, 14, 15) have all removed players and/or content related to the AfD, as they've expressed that the content is incorrect. Trobinson66 (16), Bahamianprince (17) both list the same contact address. The evidence against Bogic isn't that strong, as he only created the article and then Trobinson66 and Co. picked up from there. However, I think the evidence presented for the other five accounts meets the threshold for a check. It would be helpful to sort out if this is sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry. Mike V • Talk 19:06, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree that the evidence linking Bogic is not very strong. Also comparing the behavior between Bogic and the other five accounts, I don't believe they're related. As a result, I didn't run a check on Bogic. Anyways, and  are ✅ socks. The other accounts Tendryo and Mariolocouu, are . Elockid   ( Talk ) 03:20, 24 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I've blocked and tagged the five accounts. Mike V • Talk 03:27, 24 January 2015 (UTC)