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Vitalii Moshkivskyi was involved in edit-warring over articles on Feodosia and certain other Crimean cities, aimed at keeping generalized copy-pasted section "2014 Russian annexation":, , , ,. They were indefblocked on 10:03, April 13, 2020 (UTC) as being WP:NOTHERE, but just a week later, on 11:28, April 20, 2020 (UTC) a new user, Smurf234, was created, and today they jumped into same edit war on the very same Feodosia page:, , ,. I suspect, that the user in question is a block evasion by indefblocked user. Seryo93 (talk) 18:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Please could you do a CheckUser. Though I agree that Smurf234 should be indefinitely blocked, he/she/it has very different edit summaries to Vitalii Moshkivskyi.  Vitalii Moshkivskyi's edit summaries appeared to have been composed by a human being.  Smurf234's appear to have been copied from other users' edit histories; Smurf234 might even be a Russian bot.
 * Smurf234 Undid revision 950748940 by Smeagol 17 (talk) not a minor edit and not an appropriate one either
 * Smurf234 Undid revision 953028474 by Smeagol 17 (talk) Persistent vandalism - malicious removal of encyclopedic content
 * Smurf234 Undid revision 953044197 by Smeagol 17 (talk) you have previously been warned for being engaged in an edit war on this
 * Smurf234 Undid revision 953062210 by Seryo93 (talk) Persistent vandalism - malicious removal of encyclopedic content
 * Vitalii Moshkivskyi Undid revision 950363968 by Smeagol 17 (talk) there is nothing about russian rule, so..
 * Vitalii Moshkivskyi Undid revision 950364746 by Smeagol 17 (talk) nothing to discuss
 * Vitalii Moshkivskyi Undid revision 950365295 by Smeagol 17 (talk) there is nothing about russian rule, so..
 * Vitalii Moshkivskyi →‎Modern Feodosiya: addition of Russian annexation in 2014 - major event in the history of Modern Feodosiya
 * -- Toddy1 (talk) 20:59, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Do bots usually do "no you" on other people talk pages? Smeagol 17 (talk) 22:52, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I cannot find a message on a user talk page posted by Smurf234 that contains "no you".


 * The message Smurf234 posted on your user page was a copy of a message you posted. The difference was that it stopped at . I think a check user would be useful. -- Toddy1 (talk) 07:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * By "no you" I meant that Smurf234 mirrored my warning. Do bots usually do this? Smeagol 17 (talk) 09:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * See . It is plausible that a a troll bot has limited reactive capabilities. -- Toddy1 (talk) 10:30, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * At least Check User think he is human) Smeagol 17 (talk) 16:26, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

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The same edits on Yevpatoria as on other Crimean cities like Feodossia as Vitalii Moshkivskyi and Smurf234 and the same copy-pasted edit summariers and user talk page posts. Smeagol 17 (talk) 12:05, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Moved case from Mongol167 to Vitalii Moshkivskyi as Vitalii Moshkivskyi already had an SPI page and it is the oldest listed account. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:22, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Seems ducky. . Close. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:31, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

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Same copy-pasted sections "2014 Russian annexation" in articles about Crimean cities: Volga685, Vitalii Moshkivskyi; Mongol167, Volga685. Apparent blockeavasion by Vitalii Moshkivskyi, aka Smurf234, aka Mongol167. Seryo93 (talk) 21:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Volga685. The others are already blocked. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:58, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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Again same blanket sections, as in all previous cases. Apparent indefblock evasion by Vitalii Moshkivskyi. Seryo93 (talk) 20:48, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

And another series of out-of-nowhere "warning-mirroring" (yeah, out-of-nowhere, because I made no edits to these pages for over a month), so much like ones, that Smeagol 17 recieved from a confirmed sock (Smurf234)... --Seryo93 (talk) 21:21, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅, . ST47 (talk) 10:39, 16 July 2020 (UTC)