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Usual Serbian tub thumping

Overlapping interest in Serbian Orthodox Monastery sites, as John Gotten and his socks.

https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=John+L.+Booth&users=JohnGotten&users=The+Slavic+Serf&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=enwiki

Going through changing languages to Serbian/cyrillic

John Gotten - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krka_monastery&diff=prev&oldid=985143412

The Slavic Serf - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veliki_Ostros&diff=prev&oldid=1013307582

Going through swapping out "/" in language bits of names

John L. Booth (another John Gotten sock) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Life_of_Stefan_Nemanja&diff=prev&oldid=1008940274 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J%C3%A1nos_Damjanich&diff=prev&oldid=1010223482

The Slavic Serf - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lov%C4%87en_Brigade&diff=prev&oldid=1012663823 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greens_(Montenegro)&diff=prev&oldid=1012663525 Pipsally (talk) 16:38, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Isn't it that while it turns out that this account is a sock of someone, it is not obviously a sock of John Gotten so it's been given its own SPI backPipsally (talk) 17:26, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * ❌ but ✅ to --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 10:43, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , closing. Sro23 (talk) 12:18, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved case to The Slavic Serf. Sro23 (talk) 12:19, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , I'm curious why this was moved to The Slavic Serf. JohnGotten appears to be the oldest account. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:33, 24 March 2021 (UTC)


 * - to resolve the case name issue before archiving -- RoySmith (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * If I remember correctly, this was first filed under JohnGotten, but The Slavic Serf and CrnogorskiKralj were determined to be unrelated to JohnGotten but confirmed to each other. Sro23 (talk) 21:27, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , OK, I see what you did there. When Amanda wrote, " Unrelated but Confirmed to CrnogorskiKralj", that was when the case was still filed under JohnGotten. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:39, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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Not much page overlap with only 2 common pages (given the edits are only 1 day apart), but very similar behaviorally:


 * Removal of "capital of" text from articles - TEE: Special:Diff/1013837071 TSS: Special:Diff/1013545641
 * Addition of Serbian Cyrillic to articles - TEE: Special:Diff/1013837366 TSS: Special:Diff/1013548310
 * Changing Serbian and Cyrillic to Serbian Cyrillic in a few instances (similar to above bullet) - TEE: Special:Diff/1013843130 TSS: Special:Diff/1012398651

Additionally, both have somewhat similar usernames, but this might not matter as much. ANM🐁(Talk/Contribs) 18:58, 23 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Also, like TSS, all edits are marked as minor with no summary. ANM🐁(Talk/Contribs) 19:31, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * comment the "capital of" stuff is weird. Sometimes it's an addition, sometimes a removal. A particular bugbear either wayPipsally (talk) 19:12, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Sro23 (talk) 22:32, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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Edit pattern clearly suggests The Slavic Serf sock master. Naming convention suggests a JohnGotten sock. Clearly one or the other, probably both. Pipsally (talk) 18:48, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Adding an IP restoring the edits - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/69.159.71.49

the best way to add an IP is with the checkip template, like this:



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 * .  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   04:58, 27 March 2021 (UTC)


 * based on overlap with master and confirmed sock and timing of account creation vs previous block. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:23, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * PS, there's only a few edits from the IP, so taking no action there. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:27, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

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Total ducking here, but what's more, there's an enormous amount of IP socking as well, and I will apply a number of IP blocks as well. Drmies (talk) 02:52, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

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