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31 July 2015

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Same copyvio edits. Hijacking Foreign relations of Korea disamb page in order to recreate preferred version of locked Foreign relations of South Korea article. Escape Orbit (Talk) 21:35, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * has already had three sockpuppets blocked;, and.

A number of reverting difs on Foreign relations of Mexico, including these two;


 * Foreign relations of Mexico - 13:02, 7 July 2015 by Scottish12345678
 * Foreign relations of Mexico - 08:33, 14 July 2015 by 180.189.88.158

Difs from Foreign relations of Spain (its history features a tag team of, and ;


 * Foreign relations of Spain - 11:52, 27 July 2015 by Irish12345678
 * Foreign relations of Spain - edits 6th July 2015 by 180.189.88.158

There are literally hundreds of similar edits across all five of these accounts. Foreign relations of South Korea in particular has been heavily edited. Once this article was protected, attention switched to hijacking Foreign relations of Korea to create a fork.

Here is the editor's preferred old version of Foreign relations of South Korea, as created by. Note overlinking on words like US dollars, month names, and every mention of South Korea, Republic of South Korea and KOR, along with every mention of every other country. Note the heavy use of sourcing from http://www.mofa.go.kr/ENG/, (including replication of copyright material from there). Note the ungrammatical phrase used in a number of places; "It was at the first time with a country of the Asia." Now here is the result of edits to the disamb page Foreign relations of Korea by. It is essentially the same page with the same distinguishing features. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Escape Orbit (talk • contribs) 16:16, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Addition of a new sock;.


 * Foreign relations of Iran - 07:08, 3 August 2015 by Skyvivace
 * Foreign relations of Iran -15:29, 30 July 2015 by Tribetribe
 * Foreign relations of Singapore - 11:05, 3 August 2015 by Skyvivace - a typical example of additions on a page previously edited by

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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)  09:54, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - Block the IP for a month (It seams to be static).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:36, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked IP, blocked Skyvivace. --Neil N  talk to me 02:24, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

12 August 2015

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Further socks of. Same pattern of editing, same overlinking, same single topic, same single source. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 14:10, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Typical edit by
 * previous edit by sock
 * revert back to favoured version of Foreign relations of Sweden by
 * creation of favoured version by socks, and
 * revert back to favoured version of Foreign relations of Netherlands by
 * creation of favoured version by sock and
 * revert back to favoured version of Foreign relations of Netherlands by
 * creation of favoured version by sock and

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 * - To compare Niceoldman2 and Beautypeople to Scottish12345678.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * - self-endorsed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and very to be :


 * All the accounts are blocked.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:24, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I tagged them. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * , do you think the master's block could be upped to indef based on the block evasion, and also should the master be tagged? I would also be inclined to tag the Irish account as a sock unless you object. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  19:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC)


 * No objection. Feel free to indef Scottish12345678 and to tag appropriately.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  21:54, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I have tagged the already blocked and  (without CU-confirmed). I've re the master indefinitely. ☺ ·   Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  03:33, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

15 November 2015

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This IP has been blocked before as a puppet of Scottish12345678. Has returned after temporary block to continue exact same edits, with same problems Escape Orbit  (Talk) 14:54, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * I blocked the IP for 3 months. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:41, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

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This IP is back to editing after two previous blocks as User:Scottish12345678. They continue to edit "Foreign relations" related articles just as the master account. 172.56.42.183 (talk) 02:23, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked. TDL (talk) 00:47, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

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Same MO, same articles. This IP has already been previously blocked repeatedly for this sockpuppetry and is now again active. Escape Orbit (Talk) 15:29, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * 1 year. GABgab 16:34, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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Same behavior that resulted in the previous sockpuppetry investigation on this IP address from before. Some examples: 1 2 3 4 5

... And many many more Rockstone   talk to me!   21:30, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * Now blocked. GABgab 09:21, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

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Sorry for reopening this, but I found another sock. Evidence: 1 2 3... and others  Rockstone   talk to me!   19:03, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * While the reported IP is now too old, I blocked a more recent IP, 175.120.192.1. Closing. GABgab 19:30, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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I'm more or less certain that 175.120.192.1 is a sockpuppet of Scottish12345678. Every edit is performing the same type of edits that got him in trouble last time. See, ,. He's deleting and changing references so that they reference the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his writing style is identical to Scottish12345678. Rockstone  talk to me!   18:21, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

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Found another sock. See here and here Rockstone   talk to me!   Also geolocates to South Korea. 08:22, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * IP edits too old. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:42, 6 June 2019 (UTC)