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22 February 2015

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User:Taospark was recently blocked for edit warring against multiple users on Covert United States foreign regime change actions and basically playing WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT games on the talk page (to the extent they engaged in discussion at all). This IP has appeared recently, soon after Taospark's block in order to continue the edit war with edit summaries like "I agree with Taospark", and others which essentially repeat Taospark's previous edit summaries and comments. For example: which reflects Taospark's previous comments that I was "disappearing" (undue, off topic) material from the article. This comment is strange, and telling; the IP denies being Taospark, accuses others of "assuming I'm Taospark" and that editors are discussing sockpuppetry instead of content (!). The funny thing is that NO ONE had yet accused (until this SPI report) the IP of being Taospark, NO ONE had assumed they were the same person and sock puppetry is not discussed on the talk page at all! This is a bit of a "protest too much" AND it looks like a preemptive denial of an accusation that hasn't been made - probably in the expectation that such an accusation would naturally suggest itself to a reasonable person. Welp, here is the reasonable SPI request.Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:19, 22 February 2015 (UTC) Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:19, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

My very vest wishes is right, the IP does look like a sock of JP (long term abuse). The Taospark account was/is a bit sketchy too - created in 2008, then dormant, then pops out to edit war, so it would fit that that is JP as well.Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:59, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah, no. You've taken extreme bluster when I noted your acting in concert with 2 other users to maintain an edit war with multiple users including to skirt the three-reverts a day rule; this includes your attempts to gut the article in question going back to November which did not have consensus but your own retaliation does nothing to change your own actions.


 * Or the fact that you've yet to enter the mediation I requested due to your repeated deletion of relevant and properly sourced content. - Taospark (talk) 15:36, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * Wait a minute... Based on the geographic location, political bias and edit warring behavior, first IP may be a sock of User:Jacob Peters. So might be the original User:Taospark. My very best wishes (talk) 03:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment: Filer is a (now) blocked sockmaster. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 02:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * did you get the cases mixed up? No-one here is blocked right now. Stickee (talk) 02:56, 25 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I did, and offer my sincerest apologies (wiping the egg off my face, now). -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 03:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
, please provide a diff of the master saying you were "disappearing" material. You should have provided the diff without my asking, but I tried to find it on my own, couldn't, and tired of looking.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:45, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * No response, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:45, 6 March 2015 (UTC)