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Shows the same distinctive mix of editing on articles related to American far-right politics and Eastern European politics as Toronto2005!, who was also a Toma1999! sock. Similar pattern in username too. The same concern as Toronto2005! with censoring the well referenced description "far-right" from the article about Dinesh D'Souza. Similar looking edits to a lot of articles about Eastern European political parties as both Toronto2005!, and Toma1999! (i.e. often unreferenced, sometimes POV but often not obviously egregious.) Account was created 2018-10-10, which is 6 days after Toronto2005! was blocked and suggests picking up where they left off after a few days for the heat to die down. Suggest a checkuser in case any more socks are lurking. DanielRigal (talk) 18:45, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * EastYork1999! is ✅ to Toronto2005!. . . TonyBallioni (talk) 19:04, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing. GABgab 14:56, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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Immediately coming in and reinstating the same edit as made by EastYork1999!. Same obsession with removing far-right from Dinesh D'Souza and account created 3 days after blocks. Galobtter (pingó mió) 17:10, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * I came here to file an SPI on this user. While I'm not absolutely convinced, I saw enough overlap that I was planning on filing. If this is a sockpuppet, it's not quite enough for an outright ban under WP:3X but that'll surely be coming. --Yamla (talk) 18:23, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I wondered whether this might be another Toma1999! sock too. The editing on Dinesh D'Souza is similar but I don't see any of the other stuff, so my plan was to keep an eye on it and see whether the rest fell into place or not. In my view this could be our old friend again or it could be another, completely different, problematic editor. I wouldn't like to say which but, either way, it is nothing good. --DanielRigal (talk) 18:29, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * - This is obviously very suspicious, but there are enough little inconsistencies that I think it's worth checking. The rhetoric doesn't quite match, and there are some textual idiosyncrasies in Toma's writing that don't appear in Sandvol's. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:53, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
 * - TonyBallioni (talk) 19:17, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Accounts appear ❌. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:24, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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I'm not 100% sure about this one but I saw TaxCut1234 make a dubious edit on Cenk Uygur, seeking to overextend negative coverage, so I checked their other contributions. I saw a lot of edits about elections and political parties centred on central and eastern Europe (Serbia in particular). That seemed familiar so I went looking for where I had seen that before and found my way back to here.

Toma1999!, Toronto2005! and EastYork1999! each show the same pattern of editing on elections and parties in the same geographical areas. EastYork1999! also added negative content to The Young Turks which links that account back to a grudge against Cenk Uygur, although that is not seen on the other two. Timing wise, TaxCut1234 started editing about 3 weeks after EastYork1999! was blocked showing pretty good familiarity with the wiki editing process from the very outset.

I know that none of this is 100% conclusive but I do feel that it is strongly suggestive enough to justify a checkuser to see if the accounts really are connected and hence that a block is being evaded. DanielRigal (talk) 22:26, 29 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Note: I see that TaxCut1234 has just been warned for disruptive editing on Serbian Progressive Party. I have not been paying much attention to the contents of their edits on the Eastern European politics articles but if they are making things difficult for other people there then that might be a point in favour of moving this forward if possible. --DanielRigal (talk) 15:37, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * which when combined with the behavior is enough for a block. and closing.  TonyBallioni (talk) 02:35, 2 January 2019 (UTC)