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Thegameshowlad was blocked a couple of months ago for good-faith disruption by incompetence, Gameshowandsportsfan2007 is a duck quacking. Similar username, both userpages say they live in northern England and intend to contribute to sport and game show pages. Same "hilarious" spelling of "correct" as "erect" in edit summaries 1 2, same use of "grow" to mean expand an article 3, 4. Both chose an admin to irritate: 5, 6 and in that page's archive, both tweaked those admins' userpages 7, 8. Both made inappropriate page moves: the first mentioned a desirable page move in their summary while reinstating another move, the second proposed it 9, 10. Requesting Checkuser because Thegameshowlad had previous accounts, already blocked. Struway2 (talk) 13:51, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * Comment - I did think Gameshowandsportsfan2007 was not a new editor when I first came across them, but assumed it was an IP registering, not a possible sock. The evidence put forward by Struway looks like DUCK to me. GiantSnowman 14:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:03, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I've extended the block on the master to indef for block evasion. Eagles 24/7 (C)  22:03, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Nothing left to be done, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:06, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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Obvious sockpuppet, already blocked for behavioral evidence. Requesting CU for additional sleeper accounts since this account was created only a few days after the last one. Eagles 24/7 (C)  02:38, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * To add some evidence, the last sock moved North Korea national football team to Korea DPR national football team, then got reverted and started a move discussion on the talk page. Two weeks later (and four days after the last sock was blocked), the new sock changed the names in the article in opposition, and !voted "oppose" in the now-closed move discussion for the name change. Use of curly quotes and bothering GiantSnowman: first sock, new sock. Creating draft pages for UEFA European Under-21 Championship seasons sockpuppeteer, new sock. Eagles 24/7 (C)  20:46, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:02, 26 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Looks like there is nothing to do here. Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 18:28, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

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Brand new account created yesterday after his previous sockpuppet was blocked.

Account supposedly created to help out with spam and vandalism, something Thegameshowlad has repeatedly stated that he intends to do, for example in his attempt at a RfA. User does not use the standard vandalism warning templates and instead leaves personalised messages, the same as his other accounts,. His Gameshowandsportsfan2007 account was using doublecheck.wikiloop.org to find vandalism, something Spamfighter247 managed to set up and use within 7 edits of joining , and before they asked on the teahouse what antivandalism tools are available. His spam fighting campaign has had the exact same WP:CIR issues as his previous accounts and involved reverting several edits that were blatantly not vandalism.

The account has edited one article, 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which was frequented by 2 of his previous sock puppets. Their edits there involved tweaking a paragraph that was added to the article as the final edit of the Gameshowandsportsfan2007 before they got blocked. ,.

Looking at their contributions you'll see the same style of aggressive edit summaries against edits they deem to be vandalism and the same inconsistent use of rvv to mean revert, rather than the much more common rv.

The user has also identified themselves as living in the UK.

192.76.8.81 (talk) 17:00, 28 November 2020 (UTC)


 * The editor has just edited their second article while I was writing this, 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), also an article edited by his previous socks..
 * 192.76.8.81 (talk) 17:16, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked per behavioral evidence. Still need a CU for sleepers. Eagles <b style="color:#004C54">24/7</b> (C)  18:06, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅. No sleepers that I could find.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:23, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Nothing else to do here. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK. Another new account created after his previous sock puppet was blocked. Very similar username to his previous accounts and very similar editing interest - football and british TV shows.

One of Soccerkid999's first actions here was to find an experienced user to pester, in this case Chanheigeorge, mirroring his previous persering of Eagles247, Giantsnowman and Ser Amantio di Nicolao.

There is significant editing overlap on a number of extremely obscure articles edited by his previous socks, e.g. 2020–21 UEFA Futsal Champions League. Compare this edit and summary from Gameshowandsportsfan2007 to this edit and summary from  Soccerkid999. Other obscure low edit count articles with editing overlap include 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup and UEFA Women 27s Under-17 Championship.

This account has also edited 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) to insert information about seeding, something he has done with 2 of his previous socks, ,.

Finally this new account exhibits the same behaviour of making test edits in live article space then self reverting when it doesn't display correctly, e.g. ;.

Pinging who dealt with some of his previous socks and has experience with this user. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 12:08, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Indef'd and tagged.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   14:03, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Nothing left to do, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:05, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Another account that was created after his last sock puppet was blocked.
 * Very similar username to his previous sockpuppet (Soccerkid999), same area of interest (football and rugby).
 * Pretty much immediately headed off to the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship article edited by his previous 4 sock puppets.
 * Same WP:CIR issues as his previous accounts, making large edits to articles with broken formatting that are immediately reverted, and changing facts in articles without giving any sources.
 * 86.23.109.101 (talk) 22:42, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagged and tagged. Closing SPI...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:31, 10 December 2020 (UTC)