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This is complicated.


 * 1) Atlantic Channel is created in late April but doesn't edit till May. Refer here. When they do contribute, it takes the form of highly dubious quality about Assamese movies, often involving copyvios.
 * 2) Atlantic Channel engages in minor edit wars. Then leaves suddenly on May 19th.
 * 3) Urdumaniac is created the next day and continues identical behavior, except they claim to be Pakistani instead of Assamese. See here. There's no hiding it; just compare this to this and it'll immediately be obvious. This goes on until they are told to stop sockpuppetry on their talk page. I'm convinced this is just lies about ethnicity.
 * 4) Panama the Canal is created as a sleeper account. See here.
 * 5) Nigerian Spiderman is created and then shortly blocked for Vandalism-only Account. This may seem like just another case of fooling around on Wikipedia, but look at this. Solid giveaway, highly reminiscent of the master's behavior, if not identical.
 * 6) Panama the Canal makes their first edit: another solid giveaway.

I think it's quite obvious that these are all the same person, and I also believe that they have plenty more accounts stuffed up their sleeve. Therefore, I'm requesting CU to sort this whole mess out. Goodbye! GW Luxembourg (talk) 15:19, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' It is not completely true. Urdumaniac are my only useful, others are not. Atlantic Channel (talk) 15:25, 20 May 2019 (UTC) Who the heck is Woshiygezhonguoren? Atlantic Channel (talk) 16:55, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Also . --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 16:39, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * In addition to 's results, I'll add that all of these are ✅ to one another:
 * Please move to Woshiyiweizhongguoren. No tags necessary. —DoRD (talk)​ 17:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All accounts have been globally locked. —DoRD (talk)​ 18:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:26, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please move to Woshiyiweizhongguoren. No tags necessary. —DoRD (talk)​ 17:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All accounts have been globally locked. —DoRD (talk)​ 18:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:26, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please move to Woshiyiweizhongguoren. No tags necessary. —DoRD (talk)​ 17:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All accounts have been globally locked. —DoRD (talk)​ 18:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:26, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All accounts have been globally locked. —DoRD (talk)​ 18:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:26, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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Recreation of previously deleted article Shyon Keoppel, avoiding a direct recreation check by misspelling name as Shyon keoppel. Content and sources, as far as I can remember, largely identical. Since Ziggy 2milli was very clearly a paid editor; nobody had shown interest in this person previously; and they likely still have to deliver the goods, this strikes me as likely sockpuppetry. CU may be useful. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:16, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

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I'm ziggys friend and I can confirm that this is not sockpuppetry. I'm not sock either In really a friend. CheckUser can prove this. Ziggy&#39;s best friend (talk) 12:07, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

What Ziggy's best friend is saying is true. Weallendz (talk) 12:17, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Yes. Zaggy 3centi (talk) 12:26, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

By the way, Chris Troutman is a noob biter. He bit Zaggy by giving him a level 4im warning when he's really only suppose to begin at 1 or 2.Legittalk2 (talk) 12:37, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest adding, , and to the list of sockpuppets. Especially the latter 2, as they have been removing information from the page repeatedly.  Invalid OS (talk) 12:29, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: has also made a personal attack on my talk page, posting an image of the cover of Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman. These were reverted by, and then that reversion was reverted.  Invalid OS (talk) 12:34, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * That's not biting. You also reverted his reversion of the personal attack. Invalid OS (talk) 12:39, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Also, the three additional suspected socks are not socks. CheckUser can confirm this. Legittalk2 (talk) 12:40, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - There was a troll a few months ago who was routinely closing SPIs, saying that CheckUser had been completed and found no match. This is either the same troll with a slightly different focus, or a copy-cat troll.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:06, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - Can all SPIs be semi-protected? Robert McClenon (talk) 15:06, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * I've started taking a look. It may get complicated. In the meantime, just ban any socks editing this page. -- zzuuzz (talk) 13:12, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * The ducks are quacking so loudly that I am having to wear ear plugs. Also most if not all of the accounts have enough other reasons to be blocked, even without the sockpuppetry, such as promotional editing (in some cases openly admitting to using Wikipedia for SEO) and other disruptive editing, trying to get round restrictions on article creation by creating pseudo-articles in other namespaces, moving pages back and forth between article space and draft space to alternately evade deletion and attain SEO, etc etc. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:26, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * is another one. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:40, 28 May 2019 (UTC)


 * 1) This is trolltastic.
 * 2) Please merge this to Sockpuppet investigations/Woshiyiweizhongguoren (though it's possible it should eventually go somewhere else). I'm not a clerk
 * 3) Ziggy_2milli is probably unrelated to the accounts below, but is related to.
 * 4) Forst514 is probably unrelated to anyone listed here.
 * 5) In addition to accounts previously confirmed to Woshiyiweizhongguoren, the following accounts are confirmed to Woshiyiweizhongguoren:

The following account is likely related to Woshiyiweizhongguoren: Additionally, this is probably some LTA with investigations and socks spread out all over the place. I wouldn't bother too much about that and tagging and stuff. -- zzuuzz (talk) 15:00, 28 May 2019 (UTC) And I've also blocked as a likely sock or meatpuppet of Ziggy 2milli and Mezgee, per logs and deleted edits at Shyon keoppel, with some supporting CU evidence. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:34, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, and FWIW, Forst514 is a different LTA. —DoRD (talk)​ 15:17, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, just a guess, the various trollsocks disrupting this case might well be User:Incorrigible Troll. -- zzuuzz (talk) 03:34, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Just a note that I just blocked the following accounts without tags (they are ✅ to Woshiyiweizhongguoren):
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 12:34, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 12:34, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 12:34, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 12:34, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Logging for posterity: see Sockpuppet investigations/Yanela.s zulu. --qedk (t 桜 c) 16:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * Closing. --qedk (t 桜 c) 16:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * . I don't know if you're into clerking or re-tagging this before archiving, but I think it's important to note (as there may be a real UPE farm going on here): that all accounts on this page are very likely User:Incorrigible Troll and unrelated to Ziggy 2milli, apart from two accounts: Forst514 may be unrelated and Mezgee is probably related to Ziggy 2milli. -- zzuuzz (talk) 14:21, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * What makes you think this is Incorrigible Troll? Behavioral data or technical data or both?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:40, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * There was something I saw the other day (vague I know, but I could allude to it more over email). There is also the network, and a series of accounts today, such as (and similar disallowed variations). Also, the general manner. -- zzuuzz (talk) 15:44, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, I'll be clear this is not a super-confirmation (though it is my opinion). What is clear is that these socks are related to Woshiyiweizhongguoren (if that's a preferred tag) and that this isn't Ziggy 2milli. I want to make this clear because I suspect Ziggy 2milli (or indeed Woshiyiweizhongguoren) may need to be referred to again without this stuff clouding the issue. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:06, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, my final comment on this. (see edits) is also confirmed to these socks. They've appeared in various SPIs, including Viviocon, Iuscaogdan, Anonymuss User, and even Wikinger. They are not Wikinger, and they are not Ziggy 2milli. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:34, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * My preference is regardless of QEDK's assessment, we move this case to Woshiyiweizhongguoren. I agree that this may be Incorrigible Troll, but I don't think it's conclusive enough to merge the two cases. The best evidence I've seen is Rhyhorn es mi homi because of the username, but we've also seen that whoever this person is they also impersonate other socks, so that may be another impersonation. I'm also not sure what you mean by "the network", and you clearly can't disclose that here, but if you have a moment, an e-mail would be nice.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Having now looked at some technical data on CU wiki and some even older technical data I have, I am more opposed to merging this with Incorrigible Troll. That's based on both location and UAs., perhaps you have information I don't have or don't see, but that's my view based on what I know.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:44, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Having shared data, we agree that Woshiyiweizhongguoren is the best label for these socks at this time (except for Ziggy 2milli and Mezgee). -- zzuuzz (talk) 23:12, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Assessing this will probably take a while. I'll look over it tomorrow. --qedk (t 桜 c) 14:23, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Concur with zzuuzz's final conclusion, but this will need a painful histmerge (which I cannot help with }). --qedk (t 桜 c) 09:25, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * On an additional note: I was gonna say a bit more, about behaviour and likewise (yada, yada, ...) but I saw that the (subjectively) correct conlusion was reached, so that's about all. --qedk (t 桜 c) 09:27, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Changed to clerk status.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ The cases are now merged and socks retagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  11:29, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

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Twixdee re-created content about Justin Klosky which Ziggy 2milli had created originally. I'm asking for CU to reveal the socks that doubtless have been created. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 14:05, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

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✅. . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:30, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I must just note, Bbb23 and clerks, that's a joe job and not Ziggy 2milli. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:16, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Re-creation of Justin Klosky at Talk:Justin Klosky Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 17:31, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Re-creation of Easton Schirra at Talk:Easton Schirra Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 17:32, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Joe-job (as before), not Ziggy 2milli. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:13, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Re-creating Easton Schirra at Talk:Easton Schirra. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 18:48, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Joe-job (as before), not Ziggy 2milli. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:06, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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First they two articles this SOCKFARM has been pushing and  those socks, as if to get my attention. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 20:03, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Joe-job (as before), not Ziggy 2milli. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:12, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Same as all of today's activity Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 20:42, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Joe-job (as before), not Ziggy 2milli. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:13, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * And all these joe-jobs are confirmed as the vandal we're calling Woshiyiweizhongguoren. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:29, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't call this a joe-job. If this case were moved, as was requested, then all of these socks would be confirmed. Meanwhile, because the report in clerk status won't be closed until the case is moved, it keeps getting longer and longer, not helped by good-faith users filing multiple reports when just one report with multiple users would do and create less work for us.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:20, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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SanjayKHANman has vandalized the archive of this page; he was shortly reverted and blocked, however. But I noticed that another user named Blujay26 has engaged in uncannily similar behavior, requesting the creation of and editing the same articles as other suspected and confirmed socks. Not only that, the two socks' user pages were identical, before SanjayKHANman's was deleted. All of this seems to strongly suggest that these two accounts are operated by the same person, but I do believe that a CheckUser check would be helpful in confirming this, as well as determining if there are any more accounts that I missed. Jelliboy11 (talk) 03:49, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

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SanjayKHANman and Blujay26 are ✅, ❌ to Immirzakhan, and to. Jelliboy11 is to SanjayKHANman and Blujay26. I blocked the two unblocked accounts without tags. Please merge this into Woshiyiweizhongguoren.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:43, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify: only this latest report should be merged, not the whole Immirzakhan case?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:35, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, just this report, thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:57, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved and closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:55, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

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Vandalism on 1989. There are likely many other socks, as seen prior. Space Tripe (talk) 17:40, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to :
 * . Please move this report to Sockpuppet investigations/Woshiyiweizhongguoren.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:02, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Cabayi (talk) 12:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved & closing. Cabayi (talk) 12:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * . Please move this report to Sockpuppet investigations/Woshiyiweizhongguoren.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:02, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Cabayi (talk) 12:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved & closing. Cabayi (talk) 12:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved & closing. Cabayi (talk) 12:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

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Pro-forma report. The SandDoctor Talk 16:01, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

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✅ by at Sockpuppet investigations/Joewendt (diff). Closing. -- The SandDoctor Talk 16:02, 1 November 2019 (UTC)