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From early March onwards, User:TobyThePug began a series of vandal edits deliberately inserting incorrect details into the following articles:
 * List of NABF champions
 * Mike Williams (boxer)
 * Alex García (boxer)
 * Corrie Sanders
 * Lawrence Clay-Bey
 * List of current WBC youth world champions

I've checked and they are flagrant hoax edits each time. With edits like this in particular, that person does not even exist, or is completely non-notable. Then, there are edits like this, which are an absolute hoax since Mike Williams never won the NABF title.

Almost daily, and certainly weekly, User:TobyThePug returns with a new sock account (and an IP on one occasion), listed above. WP:DUCK need not even apply—it's the same username with every account, just with a letter or space changed. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 12:22, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * Everyone is blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:58, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * No way of checking for additional sleeper accounts? This one was dormant since July 2016, yet only started being used today. Seems like he could have more in waiting. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 14:07, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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This might get a little bit complicated, so I'll do my best to outline everything. User:Buggylagos and IP 81.157.22.53 both vandalised Herbie Hide within an hour of each other on Monday, making the same edit: inserting blatantly false information, namely changing wins/losses and record table results to read incorrectly –,. Two days prior, an almost identical set of edits happened at Antonio Tarver: IP 31.50.250.174 first changed the wins/losses and record table results as aforementioned, followed by User:Pugtoby doing the same –,.

All four also inserted championships into fight slots on the record tables when none were at stake, which is what original sockmaster User:TobyThePug did with nearly all his edits –,.

I assert with high confidence that all four are socks of User:TobyThePug, the sockmaster in question who has been serial-vandalising boxing articles almost daily for a month now. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 01:18, 4 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Update: Another IP – 86.146.204.99 – doing the same thing today: . "Correct information" in his case means flagrant hoax edits. Previous IP (81.157.22.53) edited same exact articles as User:TobyThePug. I guess since the IPs keep getting blocked, it's only User:Buggylagos that needs adding to the list. Not sure if I should keep opening this SPI with every new account/IP (which will be almost daily, or at least weekly), or just go to WP:AIV every time. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 13:25, 4 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Update #2: IP 175.136.41.137 has made a very similar type of hoax edit to Henry Akinwande, under the pretence of "corrections" – . Changing wins/losses, adding titles where none were on the line, etc. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 12:52, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:38, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeffing Buggylagos and closing. Rangeblocks would not be effective, I searched through several.

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With this edit (a clumsy effort to masquerade as a different user in support of his own AFD challenge), User:JustInTime1 has flat-out admitted that he is User:TobyThePug. Further WP:DUCK evidence are flagrant vandalism edits like this and this, which he tries to pass off as "improving" the article. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 21:45, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * . NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:38, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

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One of User:TobyThePug's many subsequent socks, Toby Da Pug, made this vandal edit in march – – inserting the name "Theodore Elliott" into an article. New account, User:TElliott (quack-quack-quack..) has made an identical sandbox to the most recent sock, User:JustInTime1. As clear a DUCK as any.

The edits by User:TElliott may appear to be fine and legit for now, but the sockmaster's year-long history (punctuated last month by a bizarre "My younger brother did it!" defence) invariably results in flagrantly false edits and vandalism creeping in after a short while. I see no reason why this time will be any different. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 16:15, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * . It seems pretty obvious to me, too. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:07, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

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Same exact sandbox as all previous socks, which were scratched from the record books for good reason—no perpetual trophies by blocked users should be allowed on WP, so this one should be scratched also (although it's a "useful" way of identifying him every time; whether or not he realises that). I have zero doubt that this is the same editor as User:TElliott, User:JustInTime1, and original sockmaster User:TobyThePug. And his first edit occured a day after User:TElliott was indef'ed. It quacks loudly. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 23:34, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * . NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:39, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * In July 2017, blocked SP User:JustInTime1 inserted unsourced content to Robert Torti, namely that he was credited in a Lord of the Rings film: . IMDb makes no mention of it.
 * In January 2018, long after I reverted, User:MercuryWilliams adds it back:.
 * Today, again after I reverted, User:MercuryWilliams adds it back:.

User:MercuryWilliams has also edited some boxing articles, which is consistent with all previous socks of 'Pug. The username is also an obvious reference to Mike "Mercury" Williams, which 'Pug edited and vandalised many times. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 17:46, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Please block puppet. Sro23 (talk) 02:08, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sro23 - ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:42, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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Shows a similar interest in boxing as the master and other socks did (e.g. this editor created Alexander Zolkin in a single edit); only other edit is to another confirmed TobythePug sock, in which they placed a "Retired" template and tagged it for G7. Requesting CU to check for sleepers. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia / cheap sh*t room 12:22, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * - please check against . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:40, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The technical connection is . PhilKnight (talk) 20:55, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * . I think we've got enough here for a block. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:49, 3 May 2018 (UTC)