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 * Blocked sock User:Fodigisan created WP:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:CSD Quicklinks, and Walokia created Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:CSD Quicklinks (2nd nomination).
 * Pattern of dropping the space between the last period of a talk page post and the signature: ,
 * Pattern of dropping apostrophes in contractions on edit summaries:,.

Requesting CU to check for sleepers as there were several last time. VQuakr (talk) 19:28, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please check for additional sleepers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:49, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ to . Both blocked and tagged. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:18, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

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First edits are to edit/create numerous AFDs, including an attempt at Articles for deletion/The Last Bright Light (but was broken). Page was previously created by, another Zdnf sock. Home Lander (talk) 04:07, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked, closing. ~ Rob 13 Talk 04:09, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

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(1) Missing space when signing diff, diff, diff, diff the same as sock diff, diff

(2) Dropping the apostrophe in edit summaries: here, here, the same as sock : here

(3) Sikonmina's first edit (deleted) was to manually propose deletion of List of largest California cities by land area followed by manually templating the article creator here. also manually proposed for deletion a number of list of populated places such as diff, diff, diff

(4) Removal of prog archives links from articles such as diff,diff, diff the same as  diff, diff

(5) redirecting or trying to delete progressive rock articles with rationales of non notable diff, diff, diff, ,diff similar to prod rationales of progressive rock articles: diff, diff, diff,diff Atlantic306 (talk) 20:27, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

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Sikonmina certainly did get a fast start. By their ~12th edit they were editing a template. Looks like they did deletions from 1,000-1,500 different articles in their first few months of editing. North8000 (talk) 21:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Rapid fire pattern is also a similarity. Deletions from 20 different articles in a 5 minute period is not uncommon for them  Also 5 AFD nominations (including notices and logging)with a 20 minute period.  Looks like Zdnf was not the original.  And there many have been others in the 4 year gap, and maybe one to follow after Sikonmina. Perhaps those working in the area could be extra watchful.   An editor that does deletions from 1,000-1,500 articles within a few month period can be quickly impactful. North8000 (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Very strong behavioral evidence, in my opinion. A number of editors have talked to me in the past stating they suspected he was a sock, but they didn't have enough evidence to take action at the time. This is pretty damning though. Sergecross73   msg me  22:24, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * - The last sock in this case was over 4 years ago. CU isn't going to be of any help here. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Despite the amount of time that has passed since the last filing, I find the behavioural evidence convincing. - please indef the sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:09, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * per request.  firefly  ( t · c ) 22:23, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, closing. n.b. I changed the tag from 'proven' to 'suspected' since it's hard to be entirely sure given how long ago the previous socking was (although I don't think it matters all that much). Spicy (talk) 23:04, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

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Zdnf sock Fodigisan created Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:CSD Quicklinks, claiming that the page CSD Quicklinks needs to be deleted or userfied because it contains "links to mostly historical or userspace pages". Following this discussion the page was deleted, then undeleted at the author's request because noone actually participated in the discussion.

A few years later Zdnf sock Walokia created Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:CSD Quicklinks (2nd nomination), claiming that the page didn't belong in project space and needed to be userfied, because it was full of links to userspace pages.

A couple of days ago brand new account Astishih was created, and one of the first things they did was create Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:CSD Quicklinks (3rd nomination), where they again argue that this page needs to be in usespace. Their arguments are essentially identical to their earlier socks, in this case it needs to be moved to userspace because it contains "links to historical or userspace pages" 192.76.8.85 (talk) 23:28, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:54, 21 July 2022 (UTC)