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20 October 2014

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As Shingovertheworld1's first edit, the user recreated Artificial Joy as a copy/paste from the previously deleted version created by Subtitlemeplease. Editor has then gone on a spree reverting all of my edits to related articles without explanation. Brand new editor clearly has a grudge against me, and is also familiar with Wikipedia editing in general. Grayfell (talk) 23:10, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Editor Hellotheragain1979 shares Sockmaster's specific interest in a group of bands related the the medium obscure musician Robt Ptak (most of editing history), as well as promoting a UK locksmith company (diff 1, diff 2) which Subtitlemeplease says is his/her employer (diff) Hellothereagain1979 has also added links to a website "subtitlemeplease.com", which is pretty quacking (diff). Grayfell (talk) 23:18, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Oy. User grayfell12 was created 3 minutes after 81.111.130.101's edits to Size 14 were reverted. IP geolocates to the same place the sockmaster has admitted to being employed. This user copy/pasted my userpage as its first edit and then vandalized a bunch of pages related to multi-level marketing, an area I've edited heavily in the past. Both Shingovertheworld1 and Subtitlemeplease have a history of petty insults towards me, so this seems consistent. grayfell12 has been blocked for vandalism. I've asked the blocking admin to make it indef, I'm just adding this for completeness. Grayfell (talk) 21:58, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * ,, and  are ✅ to each other and are  .  is .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:36, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged all the named accounts. Hellothereagain1979's block is based on duck. The IP is stale enough to leave alone.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:39, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

22 November 2014

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Both IPs continue to restore questionable info to articles related to US pop-punk musician Robt Ptak, often as copy/pastes of previous versions written by other sockpuppets, or reverts. 62.49.183.42 is also copying my edit summary for a couple of edits (reverting addition of dead link templates, summary accuses me of being a sock). Sockmaster has a past history of mocking me, and a couple of the banned accounts were obviously intended as impersonations. Some of these edits are erratic, like self-reverts, and reverting CommonsDelinker.. 62.49.183.42 also shares Sockmaster's interest in locksmithing, and adding links to his/her employer, the British Master Locksmiths Association. If it's useful, Articles for deletion/Artificial Joy has more context. 81.111.130.101 was also discussed in the archived investigation, but was considered stale. Grayfell (talk) 01:09, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * Both IPs blocked for 31 hours. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:32, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

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This was pretty obvious before, but it seemed like they got the hint so I put-off doing this. Unfortunately they picked-up with spamming again... User has similar focus on promotional editing to Master Locksmiths Association (most of edit history). As before, assumes I have an ax to grind because I remove spam/PR/copyvios. User has a similar interest in pop-rock/punk/ska bands, also.

Key lock01011 has also added a lot of material to other locksmithing pages, but many of them are non-productive, such as adding unreliable refs even as they remove spam from other pages. Grayfell (talk) 21:11, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:04, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Sock indeffed with tag. Also, I've hardblocked 62.49.183.42 for three years. This is a persistent, static IP that this person has been using. Closing.