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ShirleyLucks has been attempting to add a "fourth place" finish to most of the recent seasons of the U.S. version of Dancing with the Stars—seasons 21, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 25 between 20:04 and 20:39, 1 December 2018, with similar changes to the main U.S. article from 20:40 to 21:33. Immediately before these edits, between 19:57 and 20:01, IP 76.116.212.88 made the same edits to the season 23 article.

I reverted these problematic edits over an hour after that, between 22:55 and 23:16, posting a note to ShirleyLuck's page on why the edits were problematic at 23:06; the post was deleted by ShirleyLucks at 23:50. At 23:52, IP 76.116.212.88 attempted to undo my reversion, but since pending changes is set up, it didn't take; the edit was reverted by the IP at 23:55. Then ShirleyLucks took over and undid my reversions of the season 16, 18, and 19 articles between 23:57 and 00:02.

At 00:04, a new account, TheDummyNerd, was created. Two minutes later, it started undoing the rest of my reversions: seasons 25 and 17, and the tried the main article at 00:08, but this last also ran afoul of pending changes, and was reverted back at 00:22. In the interim, it undid my reversion of season 21, which had been originally done by the IP.

This appears to be a clear case of using multiple accounts to try to insert questionable information into these articles and to try to keep it there (none of these seasons announced a "fourth place" standing; in fact, all of these couples had been eliminated prior to the final dances). If this information is not sufficient, then a checkuser can surely establish whether socking has been done. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:58, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

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✅ + . Blocked and tagged. . Please move to ShirleyTH.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:56, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:44, 4 December 2018 (UTC)