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The focus of all the edits are on South African entertainment-related articles, including music articles (albums, songs, singers) and films. There is also a large amount of collaboration creating new pages, mostly drafts, but also articles.

The username similarities are obvious, in groups such as ones that start with "The", ones with "Xhosa" in them, "King" names, "Meehan" series, and the two with "**it" in them.

There are also a significant number of the socks whose edit summaries are nonsense characters, e.g., TheXhosa598 ("Hh"), TheZulu401 ("Vv"), and others.

The devices/editors used by all the accounts are tagged as "Mobile edit Mobile web edit Visual edit".

The King Of the Nation 3098 was indeffed for vandalism on November 29 (noting for G5 purposes).

Finally, the page intersection is enormous, depending on how many edits they've made.

I am requesting a CU for a number of reasons: (1) to confirm the ones I've found; (2) to look for others (as I was going through the histories of each account, I kept finding more and more, so it would not surprise me if others were found; and (3) just in case there is an older master. Bbb23 (talk) 17:01, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

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This is a highly disruptive editor, creating multiple low quality articles relating to South African music, most of which are then moved into draft space by other users. Even then the main account recreates the article in main space while the draft space article still exists, e.g. Imizamo Yami. This is where the sock accounnts come in to make further edits. It is 100% clear to me, given the similarity in the username structure, and the focus on the same articles, that socking is going on here.

This article's history is a great example of lots of them being involved.

I think I have found most of them, but I suspect that with time (or with your admin tools) we could uncover others. It don't think any of the accounts are here to build a better encyclopaedia and we are best off being shut of all of them. 10mmsocket (talk) 11:00, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * - per above. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 19:38, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I've added 's comments from Sockpuppet investigations/The divider846 (which I will shortly delete). The only account 10mmsocket lists that I didn't is .--Bbb23 (talk) 14:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)


 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:43, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * All ✅., , , , , look like sleepers.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:08, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I think that's it. Closing. Girth Summit  (blether)  16:11, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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Similar usernames to previous socks (i.e. format "The * [Number]"). An interest in South African musicians, and overlap with socks on articles DJ Maphorisa and Mafikizolo. Edits are once again exclusively made using the mobile web editor. CU to confirm and look for other accounts if confirmed given the number present last time. Pahunkat (talk) 22:25, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Added Terminators583 and Evacuatep559. Same type of article, same type of edit and a username ending in a number. --10mmsocket (talk) 07:57, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to . Also found and ✅ . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:46, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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Same editing pattern on South African music articles, including creation of new articles that get moved to draftspace. I've blocked and tagged the user but I've requested a checkuser in case there are more socks in the drawer. Graham 87 15:17, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * Given the CU data and the behavioural similarities, I'm calling ✅, along with,  and . Will block/reblock, tag and close.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:45, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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Behavioral evidence is clear; CU confirms well enough (person updated OS slightly). The problem is that the IP range is pretty big and pretty busy, so a hardblock is really out of the question. Fortunately they're not that smart. Drmies (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * Tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:30, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

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Overlap on Yanga Chief with, compare to  and  - edit is practically identical. Also has edits tagged as using the mobile web editor like previous socks. Pahunkat (talk) 18:55, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ to past socks, and has been blocked. In addition:
 * Group 1 are ✅ from previously confirmed socks such as and ; :


 * Group 2 are ✅ from . Many of the accounts have not edited, and I will leave it up to the clerk to determine action with these.
 * - this account is logged but was not created.
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:18, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
 * - this account is logged but was not created.
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:18, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
 * - this account is logged but was not created.
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:18, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
 * - this account is logged but was not created.
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:18, 9 January 2022 (UTC)


 * All socks blocked and tagged. The ones that have made edits are pretty obviously The King349, and the no-edit accounts have similar usernames to the ones that do have contribs (e.g. New boyz96 vs New boyz969). Closing. Sro23 (talk) 23:10, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

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Another one in the chain trying to overwrite Hamba and Jerusalema (Remix). Obvious WP:DUCK. Jalen Folf  (talk)  06:05, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:05, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

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Repeated an attempt to speedy delete. Obvious WP:DUCK to previous socks. Jalen Folf  (talk)  18:45, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Requesting this case be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Bhinegar per template on Gioguch's user page. Jalen Folf   (talk)  21:16, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * - can an admin clerk please histmerge this to Sockpuppet investigations/Bhinegar? Thanks, Spicy (talk) 19:16, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Done. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:36, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Coming back to this - now that this account has made more edits, I don't think this is a sock of Bhinegar. Bhinegar was a troll who did various trollish things, while this account seems to be rapidly creating promotional articles on South African musicians. I think that Amilokuhle is actually a sock of WP:Sockpuppet investigations/The King349; same general editing pattern, and see overlap on Makhadzi, Rethabile Khumalo, DJ Maphorisa, etc. - please compare to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/The King349 to determine if the case should be moved, and check for sleepers if it's them, as they tend to have a few. Thanks,  Spicy (talk) 15:35, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 18:55, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Amilokuhle is ✅ to The King349, blocked and tagged as such. From the hints in the logs and notes, Amilokuhle appears to be ❌ to Bhinegar. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:11, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved case section to The King349. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:45, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

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Creates Draft:Siyafana which was previously created by socks as Siyafana. Edits Nomcebo Zikode where the recent history is a real sock fest. – NJD-DE (talk) 15:54, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:50, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, along with and . Blocking etc.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:53, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

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Proforma report documenting results of CU check performed after some comments on my talk by one of these accounts. Girth Summit  (blether) 10:38, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * All ✅ to one another, and to previous confirmed socks.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:40, 6 February 2022 (UTC)