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Pushes POV by reverting reversions of UkrainianSavior1 (thereafter "UKS1")'s edits and calls the previous edits "POV-pushing", "vandalism" and accuses other users of being "agents" of another country. See: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Puts exactly the same things as UKS1 did: 1 (UKS1's edit), 2 (UKS1's edit), 3 (UKS1's edit). For parallels with the behavior of UkrainianSavior1, see here. Veverve (talk) 17:46, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

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UkrainianSavior1 and Umertan are ✅ to each other. Blocked the master and retagged. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:46, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

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Same Ukraine-related POV-pushing as User:Umertan or sock User:UkrainianSavior1

Virtually identical edits in Demographics of Ukraine:
 * UkranianPatriot1:
 * UkranianSavior1:

In Hutsuls:
 * UkranianPatriot1:
 * UkranianSavior1:

Partial match in Old East Slavic (cf. especially lede):
 * UkranianPatriot1:
 * UkranianSavior1:

– Austronesier (talk) 07:02, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Already by NinjaRobotPirate —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:37, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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See and. This IP is already blocked a sock of this master.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:42, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Endorsing my own request.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:43, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Should be filed at Sockpuppet investigations/Umertan. ST47 (talk) 15:58, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * - ❌ significantly different locations. ST47 (talk) 16:01, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Report moved from TarasTkachuk to Umertan —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:30, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

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The sock puppet is targeting the same articles as the previous sock (UkrainianPatriot1). Apart from the obvious similarities in their username, both editors use the same peculiar expression "Increased informational accuracy" in their edit summaries. M.Bitton (talk) 23:42, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:42, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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Obvious sock per WP:DUCK. Same language in edit summaries ("propaganda") + same edit range (e.g. Talk:Old East Slavic) as Umertan and socks.

Exemplary pair of diffs (removal of talk section):
 * 
 * 

It would be odd for a genuine novice to start editing by removing a stale debate from a talk page. Austronesier (talk) 08:42, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * The following are ✅ to each other as well socks from the archive (e.g. );


 * All blocked.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , want tags on these? GeneralNotability (talk) 17:16, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't definitely link them to Umertan, only to each other and other suspected socks from the archive. Ok to tag, but should only be as suspected as opposed to confirmed.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:26, 31 August 2020 (UTC)


 * per Ponyo's directions above, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:32, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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New account making many similar edits to pages previously edited by sockpuppeteer/sockpuppets with similar edit summaries, along the lines of "".

Example diffs:
 * Edit by YosypHorobets to Grand Duchy of Moscow
 * Edit by UkrainianCossack882 to same page


 * Edit by YosypHorobets to Ivan Poddubny
 * Edit by UkrainianCossack882 to same page  Seagull123  Φ  15:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Closing as redundant - Yosyp was identified as a sock by a checkuser in the other 28 Aug case. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:17, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Note: This case is for, who was confirmed as socking as UkrainianSavior, who is a sock of Umertan. I am not quite certain that Themanhascome is Umertan, but this dispute involves the page Taras Bulba-Borovets and Umertan has one sock named.

Relevant SPI case for Themanhascome: Sockpuppet investigations/73.16.107.72/Archive.

Themanhascome, Ctvaughn555, and Corriganthe3rd have been feuding with Nicoljaus at Taras Bulba-Borovets, a relatively obscure page that doesn't attrack any editors apart from Nicoljaus and (if this report is correct) Umertan's socks (including their various IP socks from Maryland). There is no temporal overlap between the three accounts.

Themanhascome & Corriganthe3rd:

Themanhascome was trying to remove the citation to (Дзьобак, 2002) because it :.

Corriganthe3rd removes that source because

A Maryland IP removes that source because  (Ctvaughn555 uses Maryland IPs)

Both Themanhascome & Corriganthe3rd war with Nicoljaus on various articles.

Themanhascome & Ctvaughn555:

Themanhascome wrote on my talk page for assistance because I had minor involvement with the Taras Bulba-Borovets page, and they asked that someone put a stop to Nicoljaus.

Ctvaughn555 wrote on Eternal_Shadow's talk page because they had a minor involvement with the Taras Bulba-Borovets page, and they asked that someone put a stop to Nicoljaus.

In both of the above threads, they link to the user as  while discussing them, something which is not that common to see.

Ctvaughn555 also commented logged out, using IPs from New York and Maryland. IPs from Maryland and New Hampshire have previously been block evading in this dispute, for example this Maryland IP edit warring on Taras Bulba-Borovets using the same "Undid POV" as Umertan socks usually do for Ukranian related topics.

Nicoljaus also suggested this connection of socks on Eternal_Shadow's talk page.

Ctvaughn555 & Corriganthe3rd:

Same dispute on Taras Bulba-Borovets.

Both file a SPI against Nicoljaus, also try to report him to admins (one ANI, the other EWN).

On the SPI, both use double brackets for external links, leaving extra brackets

Both edit from a mobile device.

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When discussing Nicoljaus:

Themanhascome: "I request that he be blocked immediately"

Ctvaughn555: "has been blocked from editing four times on the English Wiki and has been blocked indefinitely from the Russian language Wiki"

Corriganthe3rd: "blocked several times before" Ctvaughn555 has 30 edits, Corriganthe3rd has 50, which is on the lower end to get involved with such a specific dispute.

– Thjarkur (talk) 00:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * While this certainly seems like an area prone to POV-pushing and nationalist editing, the shared insistence on removing that particular source and adding the Shepetivka operation (sourced to encyclopediaofukraine.com) make it pretty clear that these are Umertan socks. all. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:33, 20 December 2020 (UTC)