Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tnaniua/Archive

Report date July 5 2009, 14:03 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Sbw01f


 * Hysohan was created shortly after Tnaniua was blocked for two weeks for edit warring. Hysohan immediately began editing in two articles that Tnaniua was involved in: South Korea and Developed countries. Moreover, his second edit was a revert, the same revert that Tnaniua was blocked for. Diffs:
 * Both accounts have attempted to remove or replace the same image from the same four articles. Tnaniua diffs: Hysohan diffs: Sbw01f (talk) 14:03, 5 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

The connection is rather blatant. Blocked and tagged both. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 13:27, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elockid
In the article, Developed country, there have been multiple reverts by what seems like different users. However, looking at the articles they are editing and comparing them with each other as well as the sockmaster, they seem to be related somehow.

Target articles are all the same with edits heavily on South Korea and South Korean topics as well as Developed country and economics. This is the same exact article that got Tnaunia blocked in the first place. Tnaunia edited the same target area heavily as the suspected sock sockpuppets.

Just as an example. Note the similarities in the language of each of these users:
 * Dare002
 * Tankiona

All three suspected socks seem to have a liking to stating "Revert vandalism" for any edits that don't follow the "discussion" (talk pages) topics. A common behavior for the sockpupetteer and Hysohan is to make everyone refer to the talk page when they revert. This seems to be what's happening here.

Also, take a look at how the sock puppeteer and the following mix up POV with vandalism:
 * Tninua: ,
 * Dare002: ,
 * Tankiona:

Hawkchoi hasn't participated in the edit war yet, but has the same kind of summaries as reverting vandalism and saying that you have to discuss. Same as Tnaniua.

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users

 * I don't know about a connection between Tankonia and Rayesworied, as I'm pretty sure Tankonia was around a good while before Ray. I will note, though, that Tankonia has been edit-warring across numerous articles (particularly with User:GraYoshi2x) for several months, although he has improved since his last block, and edit-warring isn't necessarily relevant to a checkuser request. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 05:14, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I removed Rayesworied after some thought. I admit, Tankiona is the weakest related and this could be a grudge thing. Just as a side note. Just added Tankiona just in case since he/she is also in the bunch. Both accounts (Ray and Tankiona) were created one month after the other and I think that you mixed up Tankiona with Ray. Ray from the log was here a month before Tankiona. Checkuser request isn't only Tankiona though. In the article, they all are reverting the to the same reversion. Elockid ( Talk·Contribs ) 05:23, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

From my talk page: "Hi! These users might be related to user:Tankiona. User talk:Hawkchoi and User talk:221.139.183.206, though they are not active now but the edit tendency was similar to T. Regards. Oda Mari (talk) 05:28, 14 November 2009 (UTC)" Elockid ( Talk·Contribs ) 05:35, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Though I keep away from editing Developed country these days, I've been watching the article. If I remember correctly, K PoV edits started from this edit. These editors were blocked for their K-PoV edits on Developed country too. These lasting PoV edits should be stopped. Oda Mari (talk) 06:40, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

CheckUser requests
Requested by Elockid ( Talk·Contribs ) 04:56, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Some edit warring going on in Developed country going on. I think I might have also mixed one up with Ziggymaster. Elockid ( Talk·Contribs ) 04:56, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

– While the registered accounts and IP quack loudly enough, I have strong suspicions that this may be banned user User:Rayesworied. The IPs given geolocate to the exact same location in Seoul. Looking at the recent socks of Rayesworied, we could use a check to make a connection and to sweep for any other sleepers. MuZemike 02:31, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Tankiona, Dare002, Hawkchoi, and 122.42.121.124 have all been blocked and tagged as socks of Tnaniua. MuZemike 02:33, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * ❌ from what I can tell. Brandon (talk) 02:58, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
If it's not sock puppetry, then it's meatpuppetry at the least, as the article ranges, edit summaries, and the edits are nearly the same as each other. I'm electing to keep these accounts as blocked despite negative CU evidence. MuZemike 07:33, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Fine by me. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 18:27, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elockid
Reinstated the same edits as socks User:Claimd and User:Vollion from this article Development Assistance Committee. Note that the socks, User:Claimd and User:Vollion have edited in the same fashion to reinstate their edits. The target articles are the same, even the ones that were from June.

Furthermore, the IP geolocates to South Korea which from previous investigations, was the established place of Rayesworied. Elockid ( Talk·Contribs ) 22:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

I've added Greatfocus. The articles are in the same article subject as Rayesworied, economy and South Korea. I think that this one will need a check though to make sure and also as it seems to check for sleepers.<b style="font-family:papyrus; color:darkred;">Elockid</b> ( Talk·Contribs ) 16:31, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention. We haven't run one in a while for sleepers. Let's see what we can further prevent here. MuZemike 19:18, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


 * is ❌ to . However, they are ✅ to be a sock of


 * - A l is o n  ❤ 08:50, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Case moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Rayesworied;
 * Accounts blocked;
 * Accounts tagged.
 * Tiptoety talk 08:54, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Tiptoety talk 08:54, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Anawrahta
Alohahell uploaded an image of Northeast Asia Trade Tower on December 12 2009 17:01 (file has been deleted due to copyvio, so no longer in contrib history for user but it was before), exactly 1 minute later it is added 1 to the article by Softjuice, Alohahell stops editing for the day, Softjuice then makes a number of further edits. How does a different user know of an image's exitence only 1 minute after it has been uploaded by someone else? Likely the same user.

Softjuice makes these edits 1 2 3 4 5 on December 30, and stops editing for the day at 21:23. Alohahell makes starts editing that same day at 21:29 and makes these very similar edits: 1 2 3. Alohahell has already been blocked for copyvios and Softjuice has uploaded a questionable amount of images as well.

I would also like to point out that I have a hunch that these two users may also be related to another user that was banned for sockpuppetry, Tnaniua, who edited similar articles and also made similar accusations of vandalism to anyone's edits not in his/her agreement. Also both these two accounts came to be in Aug/Sept of 2009, just a month or two after Tnaniua was banned. It might be worthwhile to see if the users are using the same IP as Tnaniua was. Anawrahta (talk) 18:48, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I've just added 112.148.104.47 to to check out as well, because this editor is making nearly identical edits to all the above mentioned editors, and has suddenly starting editing suspiciously now that Softjuice and Alohahell have stopped. Anawrahta (talk) 20:10, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I'm sorry, but User compare is too convincing here. All three accounts have edited similar articles, sometimes one after the other. User:Softjuice indefinitely blocked and tagged, the IP blocked 6 months and tagged. –MuZemike 17:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by GraYoshi2x
This account looks like a sockpuppet of Tnaniua. Milkmooney edits the same general South Korean articles as Tnaniua, all relating to Korea's history or economy. The characteristic writing style and grammar of Tnaniua all seem to pass on to Softjuice, Tankiona, etc. and now Milkmooney.

The edit summaries in these revisions all correlate with each other, and one of these accounts has already been blocked for being a confirmed sockpuppet: Also note the same comment posted as an unblock request on Tnaniua's talk page:. This effectively links the account to Tnaniua.

The accusations of vandalism that's associated with Tnaniua or one of its sockpuppets:

POV and/or dubious information inserted into articles, somewhat similar to the other sock accounts:

These history pages could be the most substantial evidence, where Milkmooney abruptly starts editing these articles shortly after Softjuice was blocked for sockpuppetry: Then he/she goes on to revert back to a POV-ridden version of Economy of South Korea by Softjuice, with vague reasoning that was already made in the the past by Softjuice/Alohahell about how it's "sourced", "correct", and demanding editors to "discuss first" while leaving no comment whatsoever on the talk page:

 GraYoshi2x► talk 01:13, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
– Milkmooney is clearly a sleeper sock (as it was created and edited since last August. Endorsing to check for other sleepers and to block underlying IP. –MuZemike 00:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


 * No other obvious sleepers found. -- Avi (talk) 02:57, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 04:05, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by GraYoshi2x
Pretty blatant sockpuppet of Tnaniua. Edits exact same articles as blocked sock User:Milkmooney, which all happen to be reverts of my edits to restore NPOV and cleanup. Account created on the 2nd of this month, which is barely a day after Milkmooney's block.  GraYoshi2x► talk 20:29, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
I only undid continued vandalism by GraYoshi2x, who has breached WP:V multiple times. I have tracked GraYoshi2x's edits so it will appear as if I'm editing the same articles because it all seemed very suspicious that GraYoshi2x is claiming to "cleanup" when in fact, all he/she is doing is removing any pro-Korea contents, leaving only negative contents into the articles, which is against WP:NPOV. For example, in Songdo International City, he claims that "Songdo International Business District" is the official name when clearly in the city's official website, it is stated as Songdo International City. I undid this to its official name and added the official source, yet GraYoshi2x keeps vandalziing this article. Also, GraYoshi2x removed anything that is pro-Korea or positive of Korea in the reception section, leaving it only with negative/criticizing contents, which is clearly in breach of WP:NPOV.

In Northeast Asia Trade Tower, I undid vandalism again, which is not a cleanup or NPOV as GraYoshi2x claims - it is about simply blanking out anything pro-Korea or positive, regardless of whether it is sourced or significant. Hence, in order to keep the articles balanced and neutral, I'm undoing the vandalism done by GraYoshi2x, who claims any user who is writing anything positive about Korea is a sockpuppet of this user. Milkmooney's edits on the articles are all sourced, yet these have simply been removed, which is why I have reverted to his/her version to leave the sourced information intact.

GraYoshi2x wants to achieve his/her aim of making all Korea-related articles negative (not correcting NPOV or neutralizing it) by simply claiming that everyone who is writing anything positive about Korea and undoing his/her vandalism is a sock. Blanking out entire paragraphs or even sections and leaving only negative contents is good evidence of this. And this sneaky trick has to stop to keep all Korea-related articles neutral and POV. Nekoscape (talk) 13:11, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd be surprised if anyone believed you, Tnaniua. Wikipedians aren't that gullible. Especially with the Tnaniua-like accusations of "vandalism," accusing NPOV edits or cleanup as POV, etc. I've breached verifiability? Huh? Looks a lot like this mistake here.


 * Honestly, who creates an account on the 2nd of March and immediately goes to revert someone else's edits?  GraYoshi2x► talk 20:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Looks like Milkmooney. Reminds me of the other Tnaniua socks. <b style="font-family:papyrus; color:darkred;">Elockid</b> ( Talk·Contribs ) 22:57, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:DUCK. Blocked/tagged. Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 10:24, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elockid
This sock looks very similar to one of the socks blocked,. Like Softjuice and other Tnaniua socks, they seem to have focused on Korea related topics. Softjuice has shown interest in editing skyscrapers as evident in their userpage. He also edited the article Building, roughly the same as a skyscrpaer which is an article Softjuice also edited. This edit on their userpage is a picture of skyscraper in South Korea. Also, Goldentower like Softjuice has edited the exact articles Goldentower has been editing like List of countries by export, Seongnam (another sock of Tnaniua also edited here, and Miracle on the Han River with almost the most recent 50 edits is from them. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>   ( Talk ) 17:57, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 21:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elockid
This sock looks very similar to one of the socks blocked,. Like Softjuice and other Tnaniua socks, they seem to have focused on Korea related topics. Softjuice has shown interest in editing skyscrapers as evident in their userpage. He also edited the article Building, roughly the same as a skyscrpaer which is an article Softjuice also edited. This edit on their userpage is a picture of skyscraper in South Korea. Also, Goldentower like Softjuice has edited the exact articles Goldentower has been editing like List of countries by export, Seongnam (another sock of Tnaniua also edited here, and Miracle on the Han River with almost the most recent 50 edits is from them. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>   ( Talk ) 17:57, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 21:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Grayshi
His username seems to follow the same naming convention as other sockpuppets (two or three random words combined together, e.g. Softjuice, Purpleline, Milkmooney) and he restores edits made by the other socks on numerous articles:

Billytheworld also adds POV in a Tnaniua-like manner, such as unnecessarily stuffing in "South Korea" into articles and boasting such as in. …Grayshi talk ■ my contribs 01:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked and tagged. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>  ( Talk ) 13:13, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Grayshi
Reverts me on Gangil-dong to a Tnaniua sockpuppet's revision and does the same thing on several other articles. Also follows the same two/three word username convention of Tnaniua's socks. …Grayshi talk ■ my contribs 19:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked and tagged. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>  ( Talk ) 23:08, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Grayshi
Same typical editing patters of Tnaniua, returns every month or two to add or revert to POV-filled versions of various South Korean articles. …Grayshi talk ■ my contribs 19:11, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

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 * Blocked for evasion. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 19:11, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Grayshi
More IP sockpuppetry by Tnaniua, same patterns as the last couple of days. I suggest blocking the entire IP range as it seems Tnaniua will continue to just hop around IPs if he/she is blocked. …Grayshi talk ■ my contribs 19:49, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the IP and the range around it. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 20:29, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

13 February 2011

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Targeting the same pages the previous investigations and reinstating the same edits as other socks. Epicents especially. The first three socks were made in what it seems like an attempt to try split their edit history. Need a sleeper check just in case I missed any. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid</b>  ( Talk ) 13:56, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

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 * - —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:07, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Tiptoety talk 02:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Korokke looks like a FP based on behavioral evidence. So I'm not inclined to block. Otherwise, all accounts that needed to be blocked has been blocked and tagged. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid</b>  ( Talk ) 04:05, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

19 April 2011

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A lot of the pages they're editing are similar to topic areas of the past Tnaniua socks. This is mostly economics and Korean topics. Like previous socks, Tranquilantus has been going around changing pictures on pages. Sock examples are sock 1 and sock 2. What caught my eye a bit was that in one of the images they created, File:Seoul Landmark Montage.jpg. The upper left picture is of the 63 Building. That image was made by who I blocked as a sock of Tnaniua. It's not like that image is widely used either. It's not even used at all according to the usage links on Commons. Might be a coincidence but not entirely sure. Their very first edit is unlike of that of new users as they already know how to format in wiki. I would have duck blocked, but one of the key areas they're not editing, buildings, but instead landmarks/parks (haven't seen this but it's somewhat related I guess).

Need CU for verification. As a note, some of the last socks I blocked are, , and. I know where they're editing and their principle ranges, if that's needed, I can send out the information privately. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid (Alternate)</b> ( Talk ) 18:19, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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✅ TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  18:35, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Blocked and tagged. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid</b>  ( Talk ) 20:31, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

08 May 2011

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removal of certain information (that (s)he views as contentious) from the lede sections of some city articles, which is a behaviour former sock Onenelly also displayed. – HXL's Roundtable  and  Record  00:34, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

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 * Ctter2002 is clearly not here to contribute positively, and the Shanghai edits do seem fairly apparent. Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:22, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

28 May 2011

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 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

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Same pages as other socks. Same article topics, buildings, mainly Korean buildings in general Korean buildings.

On Lotte World Premium Tower. Enmodocity made this edit which is the same edit as this which is basically the same as this edit.

On Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, Livechromed made this edit to reinstate this edit

I already duck blocked these two accounts. But since it seems like multiple accounts are present, I would appreciate a sleeper check/check for missed accounts. I would also like to note that the accounts may be editing in a different location since the sockpuppets edit at a university. If this person is a student, they might not be in the same location. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid</b>  ( Talk ) 12:57, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

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 * - Worth taking a look. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ the following are matches to each other:
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 13:41, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 13:41, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 13:41, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 13:41, 28 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. All blocked. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid</b>  ( Talk ) 13:45, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

09 December 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

was edit-warring in Developed country over the country rankings in Newsweek's quality of life index. On November 18 he stops editing. Shortly afterwards, a new account, appears, whose only edits consist of reverts identical to those of HOOTmag. Meanwhile HOOTmag hasn't been seen or heard of since, even though he was actively participating in the dispute up until November 18th. This is highly suspicious. Athenean (talk) 03:45, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * - One of the accounts is editing from a wide array of IP ranges, while the other is editing via a mobile device. Given this combination CheckUser is pretty useless. It will have to be called on behavioral evidence alone. Tiptoety  talk 05:17, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged Bluesurfers on behavioral grounds. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:31, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * this case has been moved from Sockpuppet investigations/HOOTmag to Sockpuppet investigations/Bluesurfers, per the case archived directly below SpitfireTally-ho! 13:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

24 December 2011

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Another single-purpose account created for the sole purpose of edit-warring over Developed country. Identical in every respect to his previous sock,. Even the user name is very similar. Athenean (talk) 08:00, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Responding to Tiptoety, I have to disagree, I think that it is highly likely that HOOTmag and Bluesurfers/Purpleflights are the same user. HOOTmag hasn't been active since November 18th. It could be that he has moved to a different location either temporarily or permanently and decided to start fresh. Bluesurfers/Purpleflights also makes identical arguments in the talkpage, namely, that Newsweek's Quality of Life index is better than the Economist's. He is reverting to exactly the same version as HOOTmag. He also likes to present his talkpage arguments in bullet/number format and makes identical use of boldface in his talkpage comments (e.g. here ). Lastly, he appears knowledgeable about wikipedia policy, to an extent that it is unlikely that he is a new user. 20:32, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 * (By the way, you can reply in the heading below under my comment if you wish in the future. The structure of SPI is nothing like WP:RFAR in that you must comment in your section exclusively.) Anyways, you do raise a solid point about the use of boldface, I guess I didn't notice that part. I had looked over edit summaries, along with grammar and noted that there were a few occasions when they seemed to differ. I'm still rather confused as to why the technical evidence is putting them so far apart from one another, sure they could have moved, but this would have been quite the move. Regardless, if a patrolling administrator/clerk feels that the behavioral evidence warrants blocking the master account I would have no issues with that. Tiptoety  talk 00:48, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Could always be "home for the holidays"...? - The Bushranger One ping only 04:14, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * - Last time was inconclusive; perhaps this time will yield some results. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:05, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It is highly that  = . That said, I'm thinking that this small sockfarm is in no way related to . As far as CheckUser is concerned they are completely ❌. Not only are they editing from a separate ISP and have completely different useragents, they geolocate a great distance from one another. In addition, looking over HOOTmag's editing style along with their style of writing, I'm not entirely convinced there is very strong behavioral evidence (with the exception that the socks reverted to HOOTmags preferred version).  Tiptoety  talk 20:20, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright, fair enough. I've updated the tags so Bluesurfers is its own sockfarm. Blocked and tagged Purpleflights. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:26, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * case moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Bluesurfers accordingly. SpitfireTally-ho! 13:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

27 December 2011

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Timing: Resumes edit-warring on Developing country right when Bluesurfers last sock left off. He is removing the Economist's quality of life index, arguing in the talkpage that it contains irrelevant items such as weather. This is exactly what Purpleflights was doing. Athenean (talk) 19:16, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * ✅ from Purpleflights, nothing else to report. WilliamH (talk) 19:26, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Sock blocked and tagged; article protected. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 19:43, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

13 January 2012

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Another brand new account that just pops up out of nowhere to "agree" with Bluesurfers' previous socks (Purpleflights, Mcbees) regarding the removal of the Economist quality of life index from the article. Athenean (talk) 17:58, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

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✅ the following are the same:
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

14 March 2012

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Latest sock in the Bluesurfers/Purpleflights franchise. Identical MO: Appears of out nowhere to revert to the version of Developed Country  favored by Bluesurfers/Purpleflights, always about the rankings in Newsweek's 2010 Quality of Life survey. The revert is then accompanied by a talkpage post where he agrees with all his previous socks (see bottom of the the tread) regarding Newsweek's Quality of Life Survey. Athenean (talk) 20:32, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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✅ the following are all the same:
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 20:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 20:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 20:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 20:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 20:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 20:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 20:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged via CU interface to save clerks the faff. WilliamH (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * We are done here, closing. T. Canens (talk) 06:05, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

10 February 2013

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The socks are ✅ matches to each other. Although the socks are stale, geolocation and article interests make the socks a match. This case was added for reference. No further action necessary. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid</b>  ( Talk ) 17:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC)