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03 March 2011

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Same edit-warring, pro-Yugoslavia, edits to same articles as recently indef-blocked User:VJ-Yugo -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 23:50, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

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✅ TN X Man  03:11, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

25 September 2012

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After VJ-Yugo got indef'd for being a pov-pushing revert-warrior and sockpuppeteer, a series of revert-warrior IPs (pushing the same POV) took up residence on VJ-Yugo's favourite articles. 212.178.232.81 is the latest in a distinct series. Rangeblock might not be a perfect solution - wide range may also include some benign editors, but I'm open to suggestions. Although VJ-Yugo got blocked some time ago, I gather checkuser records are sometimes retained for future investigations..? If checkuser has definitely gone stale, so be it. bobrayner (talk) 14:05, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Four of the IPs (240.82, 237.253, 238.210, 246.237) have previously been blocked in their own right, but usually they move on before the hammer falls... bobrayner (talk) 14:37, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: Based on edit patterns, I believe 109.106.240.176 is the same person as 109.106.236.174, 212.178.253.145, and 212.178.241.251. The edits of these four, collectively, do not correlate so well with the wider group of 212.178.x.x IPs; so I'm taking them out of this SPI as they might not be the same person. bobrayner (talk) 22:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Some 70* and 78* IPs too are socks of the same user. I've already suggested a block of the IP range to deal with him. His IPs have been blocked, ARBMAC sanctioned and yet the disruption hasn't stopped.-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 20:29, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  03:42, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * - CheckUsers don't generally comment on connections between named users and IPs. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:51, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 212.178.224.0/19 rangeblocked 3 months.

29 September 2012

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Only edits are reverts (back to a certain POV) on the same pages favoured by VJ-Yugo and earlier socks... bobrayner (talk) 11:45, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Found another IP making the same reverts... bobrayner (talk) 19:58, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:57, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Closing as the IPs' edits grow stale and the master isn't at those addresses anymore.

12 October 2012

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Another Belgrade IP, the same old reverts bobrayner (talk) 11:32, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Blocked for a little while. Drmies (talk) 14:26, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

18 October 2012

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Only two diffs so far which have been reverted by another editor, so this may be just a formality, but this is another IP making the same kind of changes to the same articles as before, geolocates to the same area... bobrayner (talk) 22:01, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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Clearly related to the other IPs, but not actionable since the user responsible has since moved on to other IPs. Closing. – Steel 02:18, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

22 November 2012

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Revert-warring over the same old conspiracy theory on NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade favoured by previous VJ-Yugo socks. Regardless of who it is, maybe semiprotection would help - it's worked in the past, but the Belgrade IPs come back as soon as semiprotection ends. bobrayner (talk) 10:52, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * I've semiprotected both articles for a month. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:45, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

27 December 2012

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Another Belgrade IP reverting conspiracy theories into NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

The 212.178... range has been used before, but the smallest range which encompasses all IPs is a /19 - probably too wide for a rangeblock!

Affected articles have previously benefited from semiprotection (three times in 2012) but as soon as semiprotection ends, the IP comes back... bobrayner (talk) 13:08, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * I've protected the article again. As you mentioned, the range is rather large to block. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:08, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Groovy; thanks bobrayner (talk) 15:41, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

28 December 2012

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Same IP is still active. Semiprotecting the Nato bombing of Yugoslavia article stopped the main VJ-Yugo problem, but since that article is unavailable the IP has followed me to Serbian Army and Equipment of the Serbian Army too... bobrayner (talk) 23:01, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

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30 December 2012

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Another Belgrade IP following me round, another revert... plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. bobrayner (talk) 11:57, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Some articles protected, some IPs blocked, yada yada.... Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:30, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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Have been tracking a relentless POV pusher for a few days from an ANI thread (see User:Ivanvector/Serbian Army vandal) and came across a range that's been repeatedly blocked due to abuse from this case. Based on the case's history and this new set of IPs showing exactly-matching topic overlap and POV pushing, I have no doubt it's the same user. Either they're back after a long spell away, or they managed to escape detection for quite a long time. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:03, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * I have blocked the ranges and  for 2 weeks; the second of those ranges has been blocked in the past due to this case. It appears to me that this user is the only one using those ranges, though I didn't check back very far. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:07, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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I've been dealing with a couple of this editor's IP ranges for a few months but I've become involved in an editing dispute at one of their regular targets so I'm unable to take administrative action here. Vuzz88 was created on June 1, right about the last time I blocked both of the editor's ranges due to their ongoing long-term POV war in Serbian military topics. They've done this before with User:QuracVepi. Details:


 * Stefan Dušan: various IPs edit warring to remove a particular source: 13 Feb, 8 Apr, 9 Apr, 29 May. After the 29 May edit I blocked two IP ranges for a month; Vuzz88 was created 1 June and first edit was restoring the 29 May edit. Note that a parallel discussion which the editor participated in determined that the edit is correct, however also note that only the IPs and Vuzz88 are revert-warring to remove it.


 * Serbian Air Force and Air Defence: the same IPs have been edit warring to push photos into a table in a particular awkward way involving a particular format/syntax error: 16 Mar, 18 Mar, 22 Mar, 23 Mar, 23 Mar. I blocked the IP ranges on 23 Mar; User:QuracVepi was created on 27 Mar, restored the edit and was blocked. I semi'd the page to 28 Apr due to an unrelated set of IPs. When that protection expired VJ-Yugo's IPs came back to push the images in again: 28 Apr, 5 May, at the same time edit-warring with the earlier unrelated set of IPs who were either trying to remove the images or add different ones, I'm not sure. After 6 May user took up the cause of the images: 27 May, 1 Jun; they were repeating the same format/syntax error but I think in good faith so I reverted but invited them to discuss on the talk page. Evandro didn't respond but just went off to do something else, but Vuzz88 appeared a few days later to repost the images again: 6 Jun, 6 Jun, 6 Jun and refuses to address the open talk page discussion. In fact, neither Vuzz88 nor Evandro321 have ever edited in Talk: space, and both repeatedly blank their user pages: Vuzz88 Evandro321

I'm requesting CheckUser to compare Vuzz88 to Evandro321, and to compare both to QuracVepi; I'm sure the archive is stale, but at least with these three there is a lot of similar behaviour, topic overlap, and old disputes being perpetuated. It appears that IPs that I believe to be VJ-Yugo (and Vuzz88) have been edit-warring against IPs that I believe to be Evandro321, but there are also a lot of similarities (trying to force the source out or images in against consensus, reverting instead of discussing, and the common formatting error they keep repeating).

-- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:35, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * Vuzz88 and QuracVepi are ✅ to each other. Evandro321 is ❌. Blocked Vuzz88 without a tag.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:19, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I was pretty sure that would be the result. Tagged as best as our templates support, I think. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:33, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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Reverting to confirmed socks' edits on the usual pages, e.g. , or. However, please also check against. Jaehen's second edit was jumping into an edit war apparently started by Anastan  a few months earlier, and reverting to Anastan's version. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:51, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * Eh, actually, no, this sock was reverting other editor, Ktrimi991, that was blocked for edit warring. That is the reason for that edit, but its sure correct per talk and WP:NOTGALLERY, which both editors failed to follow. And suspect is obviously wrong, i am here since 2013. It just happen to be that sock is following Ktrimi991 edits. -- Ąnαșταη  ( ταlκ )  14:01, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think Jaehen4555 and Anastan are socks of the same master. Jaehen4555 is sock of VJ-Yugo. Maybe Vj-Jugo and Anastan are coordinating against me. Months ago a blocked IP sock of Vj-Jugo deleted my edit. I reverted the sock  and after 6 minutes Anastan warned me . Some hours later  Anastan filed a report. This was repeated after I reverted an unexplained edit of another confirmed sock of VJ-Yugo   weeks after the first report. It was Anastan's turn to revert me only some minutes later . That day Anastan filed another report . The same happened yesterday, Anastan reverted me  and after him this sock of VJ-Yugo . The next step of Anastan was this report . Socks of VJ-Yugo and Anastan revert me all the time  and I have discussed with an administrator an interaction ban with Anastan . Ktrimi991 (talk) 16:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * This sock IP of VJ-Yugo was blocked in 2013. Anastan created their account in 2013, just some months later. This IP was the last confirmed sock of VJ-Yugo until 2017. In 2017 (in a period of disputes and conflicts between me and Anastan) new socks of VJ-Yugo emerged and mainly targeted my edits. The first edits of Anastan were related to war and Serbian (Yugoslav) Army, for example  and . The latest VJ-Yugo and his socks, including the latest confirmed heavily edited articles of the same topics . For example if you have a look at VJ-Yygo's  50 last edits they are all on articles that belong to war and Serbian (Yugoslav) Army topics . Ktrimi991 (talk) 18:56, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * per my report. Please also note that I was asked to investigate Jaehen4555 on my talk page, but the hypothesis regarding Anastan is my own. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:54, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to other non-stale socks.  is  to be the same individual.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  20:59, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Jaehen4555 is . Although I'm not impressed with Anastan's hounding behaviour, I'm satisfied they're not a sock. Case closed. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 01:07, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Procedural filing; I have blocked this account. New account created just after a couple of the ranges regularly used by this sockmaster were long-term blocked. Overlaps topics with multiple confirmed and suspected socks in the archive, and some first edits partially or fully restored edits by those accounts: compare sock and several IP socks with Hrvoje. Another indicator is Hrvoje's frequent edit-warring with IPs in the 93.1xx range, which appears to be a different block-evading user with an opposing POV. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:46, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * as stated. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:46, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

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Account was created a few days before the most recent sock was blocked but only started editing afterwards. Edits exclusively articles previously edited by VJ-Yugo socks and IPs. First edits restoring or partially restoring previous socks' edits: sock Viatzeslav; sock Viatzeslav; also edit-warring in the pattern of previous accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:38, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:54, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * for transparency, this report was prompted by a request on my talk page. as filer. Please check for sleepers also, if possible. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:38, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Viatzeslav is ✅ to Hrvoje1389.
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:52, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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There is heavy socking going on at the Equipment of the Serbian Armed Forces‎ and Military equipment of ISIL articles. I am not sure if those accounts belong to one or several masters. I'd like a CU to check them, and also to look for possible other accounts. They can be compared to non-stale socks and.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:47, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Dvoři skh cz is ❌.
 * The other two accounts are ✅ plus:
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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After a large number of suspected master's socks were blocked some days ago, yesterday another sock was blocked. Honk-honk-honk emerged one day after the last SPI, making disruptive edits relating to demographics history of Kosovo on this article. One of the socks confirmed in the last SPI made some disruptive edits relating to demographics history of Kosovo on the same article. One other sock that was confirmed in the last SPI edited a very similar article. Since another sock was blocked yesterday, and taking into account VJ-Yugo's habit to create multiple accounts, one for every article they want to edit, CU can confirm if Honk-honk-honk belongs to VJ-Yugo and look for other possible new socks. Ktrimi991 (talk) 19:43, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Check this account as well . Created today, claims that Burundi withdrew its recognition of Kosovo. One of the socks confirmed in the last SPI made the same claim . Ktrimi991 (talk) 21:20, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * per case history. This one is persistent. if you want to suggest another account to be checked please add it to the list under "suspected accounts" with the checkuser template, but please don't add any more if a check has already been endorsed. Thanks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:14, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Blocked without tags, which I think should be the standard henceforward per WP:DENY. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:30, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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Krom8888 was created just three days after the last SPI was closed. Edits the same military articles, including the most preferred one of VJ-Yugo and confirmed socks. Just like confirmed socks, removed that part. At least six confirmed socks tried to remove that part in the past, , , , ,. Krom8888 removes sources, including Anzulovic, with no explanation,. The last socks did exactly the same thing.

PR5634 rushed to request the reversion of an edit of mine. VJ-Yugo's socks always rush to revert me. That part of that article was edited by some socks of VJ-Yugo in the past,.

A CU is needed to look for other possible socks, as VJ-Yugo has socked a lot lately, with most of the confirmed socks making one or two edits and disappearing. One IP (that belongs to VJ-Yugo's IP range) is actually making confirmed socks' reverted edits. On March 13 that IP made an edit on List of assault rifles. Just five minutes later Krom8888 edited the same article, making 9 edits there that day. It seems Krom8888 realized that he had not logged in yet only after he did the first edit with IP. Ktrimi991 (talk) 14:40, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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✅ + . Blocked and closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:23, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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Sockmaster has been rapidly creating new accounts over the past couple days. This fifteen-hour-old account has complained about a source VJ-Yugo is known for warring against, and made POV changes to an article on NATO activity in the Balkans. Requesting CU to confirm. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:48, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:48, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ plus:
 * Blocked and closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:05, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked and closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:05, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked and closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:05, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

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Sockmaster has been keeping up a pace of creating a new account every few hours for the past week or so. A handful are listed here for record-keeping; requesting CheckUser for sleepers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 23:25, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 23:28, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * All above-mentioned accounts ✅ plus . All blocked. - Mailer Diablo 09:40, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * Page:


 * Diffs of the user's reverts:
 * 1)  "Reverting vandalism, blatant POV and restoring sources."
 * 2)  "Reverting vandalism and restoring sourced content."
 * 3)  "Undid revision 832476602 by Waddie96 (talk)Restoring content per sources."
 * 4)  "Reverting vandalism, again."
 * 5)  "Reverting vandalism, again."
 * 6)  "Undid revision 832366316 by Hakuli (talk) Reverting vandalism."
 * 7)  "Again, infobox is full of mistakes and Albanians were not signatories of the agreement."
 * 8)  "Again, infobox is full of mistakes and Albanians were not signatories of the agreement."
 * 9)  "Albanians were not signatories of the agreement."
 * 10)  "Albanians were not signatories of the agreement."
 * 1)  "Albanians were not signatories of the agreement."
 * 2)  "Albanians were not signatories of the agreement."


 * Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:
 * 1)   "Final warning: Vandalism. (TW)"
 * 2)   "Warning: Three-revert rule on Kumanovo Agreement. (TW)"
 * 3)   "/* Kosovo Agreement */ new section"
 * 4)   "/* Kosovo Agreement */"
 * 5)   "/* Kumanovo Agreement */"
 * 6)   "" Waddie96 (talk) 11:49, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * Kerkkk Berkkk was already ✅ to . 999912345K is also confirmed along with:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be merged/copied/moved, whatever works.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:37, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Merged and closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:30, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * We don't tag socks of this master anymore per WP:DENY.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:33, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know, but I thought that some kind of reference is needed because the block log now points to the wrong SPI.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:37, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * We don't tag socks of this master anymore per WP:DENY.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:33, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know, but I thought that some kind of reference is needed because the block log now points to the wrong SPI.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:37, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

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Restored sock's edits on Terrorism in Yugoslavia. Compare sock 's with Korn Blade's, or sock 's  with KB's. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * - the usual drill, please check for sleepers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ plus:
 * Blocked, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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Continued edit warring on the same article HS2000 with  (blocked along with master) and now. I'm not sure if this is good hand bad hand but clearly the named account is a sock of MORH and the ips are block evading each other. Also pinging who blocked the master and first IP here for any background? CU for the named accounts. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  13:17, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * Registered accounts blocked indef, new IP 24 hours. Article semied. --Neil N  talk to me 13:34, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This is obvious enough to not require CU attention. Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:21, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

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Restoring previous socks' edits and edit-warring, as per the usual. Compare these:


 * at HS2000: previous sock vs MORH1991 and JHG-Kasd (Hwagwog has also edited this article)
 * at HS Produkt VHS: previous sock vs Hwagwog

Note that MORH1991 was recently identified as a separate master, I think by two clerks who are not familiar with this case (courtesy ping, , ). Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:05, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * to put the two cases together, and check for sleepers. Note that according to my own notes the IPs these users are edit-warring against are likely a different user, but I also haven't ruled out WP:GHBH. Good blocks, anyway. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:06, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The three listed accounts are ✅ to VJ-Yugo plus:
 * Blocked the unblocked accounts without tags per WP:DENY.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:51, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I have merged in Sockpuppet investigations/MORH1991. All done here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:29, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked the unblocked accounts without tags per WP:DENY.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:51, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I have merged in Sockpuppet investigations/MORH1991. All done here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:29, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I have merged in Sockpuppet investigations/MORH1991. All done here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:29, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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Created just after the latest SPI was closed. Similarily to previous socks, rushed to revert some of my recent edits ( and ), unusual of newbies, and edited an article related to war in Syria. Since he continuosly creates some accounts hours after each other, a SPI will confirm the suspected account and might find others. Ktrimi991 (talk) 10:25, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * - matches the master's pattern but not necessarily their usual topic coverage. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:13, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ and blocked. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:14, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

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New account created approximately 7 hours after the most recent blocks in this case, editing in the same topic area as previous VJ-Yugo socks including some articles edited by IP editors the master likes to edit-war with, with a username matching a pattern of some past socks. Edit pattern suggests gaming autoconfirmed status. Requesting CU for confirmation and for sleepers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:42, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * I was actually preparing a report when I saw had filed this one. The username and edits indicate the account is a sock of VJ-Yugo. Ktrimi991 (talk) 13:19, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:42, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ and blocked. No other accounts seen. I don't think we need to request CUs quite so frequently unless there's some behavioral doubt as to the sock.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:08, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * agreed and noted, but I did have doubts in the last couple reports. The master is branching out and obviously trying to adjust their behaviour to evade detection. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:27, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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PSMRTCH seems to be a sleeper account of VJ-Yugo. Started editing some hours ago, targeting two articles edited by some of the latest confirmed socks,. There PSMRTCH has made the same edits made by VJ-Yugo's socks. In his edit summaries on the latter article, PSMRTCH is using as an argument a discussion where participated.

A CU would confirm this suspected sock and check for others. Ktrimi991 (talk) 22:09, 21 May 2018 (UTC)


 * The suspected sock even warned an editor who reverted them, unusual of newbies. Ktrimi991 (talk) 22:15, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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✅ and blocked. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:38, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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Clerk filing: this account was discovered through a check at Sockpuppet investigations/Architect 134. It is not related to that case. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:26, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ by checkuser, . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:26, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

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Baromerio was created a few days ago. The first edit was on the talk page of International recognition of Kosovo, supporting the removal of a country from the list of countries that currently recognize Kosovo. In the past, several confirmed sock accounts of made the same thing immediately after their creation (eg, ). Baromerio made this edit that is the same with that of several confirmed sock accounts. Look how all of them focus on a single small detail, 80% of the population being illiterate before 1946. The other edits made by Baromerio so far are of the same nature as those made by Vj-Yugo and confirmed socks (removal of names or words that describe geographical features as non-Serbian and modifications to military articles etc). Ktrimi991 (talk) 20:01, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Baromerio is insisting on reverting to the version of those confirmed socks' . Edit warring is actually another similarity. Ktrimi991 (talk) 22:42, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:09, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

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Newly created account immediately restoring a VJ-Yugo sock edit on HS Produkt VHS asserting ISIL as a user, with another variation on VJ-Yugo's habitual "restoring sourced content" edit summary ("restoring sourced version"); edit warring when their edit is removed is also a typical feature. Compare previous socks:
 * Varillichio
 * Jertiu "restoring sourced content that was deleted"
 * Idemojope "reverting vandalism"
 * Hwagwog
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:49, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

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I have blocked this account; see evidence above. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:49, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

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After Pikkyunosen started restoring edits of the most recently blocked VJ-Yugo sock, I ran a check. See below. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:54, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * The accounts named above are ✅ from each other, though they are technically distinct from the only non-stale sock in the archive. Based on the behaviour of both groups I have nonetheless tagged them as proven. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:54, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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I do not have much time rn but am writing a few sentences. The way of editing and chosen topics are consistent with those of VJ-Yugo and confirmed socks. Илија Гуск was created 4 days after was created, and started to edit after the latter was blocked. In the very first day of editing did not forget to revert to Karen_Kho's version. Another case where the former reverts to the latter's version:. Some 68% of edits made by Илија Гуск were made on articles edited by Karen Kho, although both accounts have small numbers of edits in their history. Ktrimi991 (talk) 15:42, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

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✅, . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:25, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like we're done here. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:47, 30 March 2020 (UTC)