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03 April 2016

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Trackteur was recently blocked for edit warring, amongst suspicion of being a sockpuppet of a persistent sockmaster, Tobias Conradi. An IP editor has now appeared and is recreating Trackteur's edits. (But has now switched to reverting any of my edits)

As the IP is French, and both Trackteur and Conradi were known to be non-native English speakers, this further supports the socking suspicion. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:31, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Both accounts are now blocked, but it's still relevant if Trackteur has been socking to avoid his block. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:05, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  10:25, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Their first six edits are to replay Trackteur's. After this (and this SPI post) they switched into reverting my edits generally. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:11, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Water turbine
 * Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
 * William Greenleaf Eliot
 * Master's block is re-set to 6 weeks because of IP socking. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:05, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

12 April 2016

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Another IP sock from the same ISP. Straight back to their previous target articles - just see the contribs history and recent article history at water turbine. Also stalking me again to Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked and master's block re-set to 6 weeks. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:15, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * So they can IP sock around a block twice now, and neither time is the block extended? Andy Dingley (talk) 15:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

14 April 2016

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First edit, and it's a revert on their target article. Not enough for DUCK, but given that they've already run two socks to avoid a block, this justifies CU. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:59, 14 April 2016 (UTC) They've been blocked once for this sock, now they're straight back to it! Andy Dingley (talk) 11:50, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Can someone please take a look at this, as they're up to 8RR on water turbine already (and others). Andy Dingley (talk) 16:34, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * Please, compare Lectorina to Trackteur (diff 1diff 2).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:08, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Trakteur and Lectorina are .--Bbb23 (talk) 18:02, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not willing to indef-block a new account with only one edit, in the absence of any CU evidence. Closing.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:52, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * What about the returned IP?! Andy Dingley (talk) 01:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * After further review and discussion, I've extended 's block to be indefinite. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:52, 26 April 2016 (UTC)