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01 May 2016

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Alev13245 created their userpage saying "Long-time listener, first-time caller" wikipedia blocked my account veganlover1993 so here I am again! Dicks!!" And Veganlover1993 has already been determined to be a sock puppet of Muffinatorr. – Qpalzmmzlapq T C 21:48, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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I Just wanted to create one page. For that, I am sorry. If you must delete my account, I ask you all to please, keep that page I created. That is all I really wanted. Alev13245 (talk) 21:51, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Socks are typically blocked, but their accounts are not deleted. GABHello! 21:54, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged - closing. Katietalk 22:31, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

02 May 2016

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Placed """Long-time listener, first-time caller" wikipedia blocked my account veganlover1993 so here I am again!" on user page. Veganlover1993 was already blocked as a sockpuppet of Muffinatorr. – Qpalzmmzlapq T C 12:08, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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Note that the |edit in question was actually placed by, a username confusingly (and perhaps deliberately so) similar to. --Yamla (talk) 13:22, 2 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Appears edit "Wikipedia blocked my account" was made by Alev13245, not Alev12345. Removed speedy deletion tags from pages created by Alev12345. Alev12345 is not a sock puppet; Alev13245 is. Sorry about this. – Qpalzmmzlapq T C 14:05, 2 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Were you thinking of the "Ilikeguys" account as the one creating pointless redirects? See . A few of those are useful but a lot are pointless rds that the search box would easily have covered for a searching user. Should those be nuked? Crow  Caw  15:40, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I think so, yeah. --jpgordon:==( o ) 18:32, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * ❌, and I'm surprised it wasn't obvious to the blocking admin that Alev13245 is a malicious impersonation of Alev12345. However, I'd like another CU to follow the dots of Alev13245/Veganlover/Muffinator; there's another userid that keeps showing up, mostly creating questionable redirects. --jpgordon:==( o ) 13:40, 2 May 2016 (UTC)


 * . I'm checking the entire case, not just this SPI. It's a bit complicated.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:26, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * is.
 * Blocks, tags (in a moment), closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocks, tags (in a moment), closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocks, tags (in a moment), closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocks, tags (in a moment), closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocks, tags (in a moment), closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocks, tags (in a moment), closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

02 May 2016

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Recreating the exact same Death Note (upcoming film) article that yesterday's sock User:Alev13245 created yesterday, and putting a sock template on their own userpage. McGeddon (talk) 18:35, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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User:Alev12345 is not a sock puppet. User:Alev13245, who was impersonating Alev12345, is. — Qpalzmmzlapq T C 19:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed, I'd just copied the username from the above SPI. Apologies if the 12345 user got a ping there. --McGeddon (talk) 19:56, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

06 May 2016

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On User:Mementomoriwikipedia, an already blocked sock, placed "I have another account under the name this name. Check it out :D". And Alev13245 has been determined to be a sock of Muffinatorr. — Qpalzmmzlapq T C 01:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Mementomoriwikipedia's user page says "Wikipedia, they blocked my account of veganlover1993 because they thought it would be funny. I will be mad for a time but will get over it. I have another account (not this piece of garbage here) but a real account I will continue to make edits with and hide in the dark. Good luck wikipedia." — Qpalzmmzlapq T C 01:27, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

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10 May 2016

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User created the same Death Note (upcoming film) article except under a slightly different title, which made me automatically suspicious, but I had to AGF because they were being so civil. However, their recent edit to Matt Guthmiller is the same edit their ipsocks have been making. Sro23 (talk) 06:51, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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26 May 2016

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Evidence:Has been editing the same targets like Matt Guthmiller, likes the Google Doodle template,, which another sock, User:Ilikeguys21, was also interested in, likes tea, is from South Dakota, is a vegan named Tony, etc. (see here) Sro23 (talk) 02:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:21, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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The PROD of Matt Guthmiller, an article that has been relentlessly attacked by socks in the past, first grabbed my attention. Not only that, but this user meets so many other Veganlover1993 hallmarks that I couldn't help but be a bit suspicious. There's Northern State University:, Roger (American Dad!):  , Aberdeen, South Dakota:    Vegans, of course: , the google doodle template:    , (also compare this with this), as well as the creation of several sometimes unhelpful redirects. It's since been all deleted, but User:Ilikeguys21 would make very many similar, often disruptive redirects. OldEnglishHero hasn't engaged in any obvious vandalism so far, but this user has operated good hand/bad hand accounts in the past. Sro23 (talk) 01:16, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Note how Veganlover1993 has said his name is Tony:, and OldEnglishHero spells out the word TONY on his userpage: Sro23 (talk) 11:37, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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The account is. A lot of time has elapsed since the last sock. With the behavioral evidence, I would recommend a block.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:56, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * - Please block as per request. Thanks, GABgab 15:53, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I will perform the block. --Yamla (talk) 16:05, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, closing. GABgab 16:10, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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Same pattern of creating several often disruptive redirects and vandalizing Matt Guthmiller as socks before:  Sro23 (talk) 18:56, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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I don't know who that is? I haven't vandalized any articles? NaturalAbundance (talk) 19:59, 6 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Before archiving this one, can an admin look over the slew of redirects created by this user and R3/G5 the pointless ones:   Crow  Caw  15:41, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * NaturalAbundance is ✅ to . Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:50, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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I was alerted to a new account creating multiple dubious redirects, and a check revealed that these accounts were a sock of this master. Filing for the record. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * ✅. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked, awaiting tags. Redirects can be deleted per G5. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:08, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing. GABgab 23:05, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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Editor has been adding the deleted contents of Template:Google Doodle (see TfD: Templates for discussion/Log/2016 May 14) to such pages, such as the one today ( and ). One of the listed socks of this account did the same thing to their talk page as their first edit (here) and advocated keeping in the discussion. It's especially unlikely that this ~6 month old account would have the deleted contents of the template from over 3 years ago, as well. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 01:42, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged based on behavioral evidence (the google doodle template), but looking through their edit summaries, there's plenty of WP:NOTHERE-ish behavior there, including one summary I WP:REVDEL'ed.

PS: User:Firework917 might be another one. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:29, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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New account right after the previous sock was blocked (with a promise to be back); similar name; similar focus on redirects, especially for talk pages of moved pages (eg here). –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 23:53, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Sro23 (talk) 00:04, 22 October 2019 (UTC)