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16 April 2015

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User's problematic edits on a navbox had been reverted by an editor on good standing providing clear rationale, see here. Upon being reverted, an IP user with no edit history reverted the editor again. User has previously been blocked, and had admitted sockpuppetry on his talk page. Midas02 (talk) 13:43, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:07, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * He readily admitted that the IP was him here in the edit summary. He appears to have accidentally edited while being logged out once., your "formal" warning within the edit summary doesn't work...you need to warn them on their talkpage when that happens. It appears that the dispute went to the template talk page and seems to be resolved. Closing.

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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:34, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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The dino hunter has edits at wikidata, sv.wiki and Commons as the image shows. His sock, Zoombah has edits here and sv.wiki. . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:52, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Nothing more to do. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 15:46, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

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TurokSwe and FollowTheSigns are both focused around the same franchise-centric articles, which include Frozen (franchise), Godzilla (franchise), Tremors (franchise), Anaconda (film series), Prometheus (2012 film), Alien (franchise), Alien vs. Predator, Predator (franchise), List of Alien, Predator, and Alien vs. Predator games, List of Predator (franchise) comics, King Kong (1933 film), Template:A Nightmare on Elm Street and Template:Friday the 13th (franchise). Their edits contributions are nearly identical, with the latest example being FollowTheSigns reverting the Alien (franchise) page back to the state TurokSwe had previously. TurokSwe has a history of having a number of sleeper socks for whenever he would get banned and considering this less active account has been used often hours after TurokSwe contributes, I respectfully request that this is looked into.  BOTTO ( T • C ) 17:41, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
 * What is further compelling is that this specific restoration to the Alien (franchise) page has only exclusively been performed by TurokSwe and his sock puppets confirmed by checkuser searches. It was this edit that got him banned in the first place.  BOTTO ( T • C ) 01:00, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
 * As one final note before this is taken into consideration, the responding administrator should look for use from the IP range, which has exclusively been used by this editor, ever since they were permanently banned from Wikipedia for vandalism & sockpuppetry two years ago.  BOTTO ( T • C ) 22:28, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * Restoring content previously added/restored by a sockfarm is always a huge tell, obviously, but this would mean a very long-running sleeper, one that survived a check in December of '19. Comparing contribs elsewhere, I don't see any other obvious similarities, and do see obvious differences, such as different topic areas of interest beyond films (extinct animals for TS, LGBTQ+ topics for FTS). Furthermore, FTS has never edited the Swedish Wikipedia (although they've visited it). for a check against log data and IPs they are known to have edited from in the past.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:26, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * There's very little in the logs and what there is says . .   -- RoySmith (talk) 00:34, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This would have been a whole lot of effort to maintain two parallel accounts for years before the master received their current indef, maintain distinct (if overlapping) sets of interests across those two accounts, avoid editing their native language's Wikipedia even once with the sock, and find a way to evade CU, all to make a single questionable edit. I think the more likely explanation is that FollowTheSigns took a look at the page history, saw an edit they agreed with, and decided to reinstate it. It's weird, but less weird than the alternative. Closing without action. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 01:57, 20 November 2021 (UTC)