Ginnre and Deiaemeth initiated a potentially controversial move in Port Hamilton without WP:RFPM and without prior discussion, to which Komdori and LactoseTI responded by moving them back.[1] As pointed out in Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/LactoseTI, Port Hamilton is an obscure topic, which suggests collaboration.
Such undiscussed moves (ignoring WP:RFPM) are a trademark of User:Appleby, banned for excessive revert warring using sock puppetry. Here's one back in December[2], where Appleby unilaterally moved East Sea to East Sea (disambiguation) and redirected East Sea to Sea of Japan, later being helped by Deiaemeth. This ended up in a failed Mediation in March, where Deiaemeth mysteriously agrees to mediate, but then goes into hiding, abandoning any attempt to discuss during mediation. See Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/East Sea (disambiguation) & User:MyNameIsNotBob/East Sea. After much discussion, East Sea (disambiguation) was eventually moved back to East Sea.
Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea may be headed for another mediation, and there seems some renewed interests. It previously involved 2 banned users: User:Appleby and User:Taeguk Warrior. On June 21, Taeguk Warrior unilaterally moved the article from Seven-Year War to Imjin War.[3] On July 19, Komdori tried to move it back, but was resisted by Appleby and his sock Damool.[4] This one has attracted many users like myself, and after much discussion, we moved it to the current title Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea. Then on Sept. 14, Deiaemeth unilaterally moved it to Seven-Year Wars [5], but was reverted. WP:RFCU has become a large part of measuring the consensus in Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea ever since User:Appleby and his socks were banned. Falling short of requesting a check on all users there, I am only requesting a check on users with a particular editing pattern.--Endroit 13:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Declined Does not rise to the level of abuse to warrant a check. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 19:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Clerk note: was the person Appleby banned from editing under any username by community consensus, or was the account Appleby simply blocked? Daniel.Bryant 03:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Collaboration to avert the WP:3RR rules. Excessive revert warring, to counter the Kamosuke group below. These 2 groups are constantly at it with each other, and they're equally disruptive.
Note: It's unknown which is the main user of this group. Endroit 22:58, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Clerk note: An overlapping request on the same users was filed by User: Mythologia at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Dollarfifty but was never properly listed. I've merged the requests and redirected that case here. Thatcher131 (talk) 05:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
HSL and Damool recently gained a place in WikipedaA especially in aritcle of Japan and they scarcely explain their edits. Dollarfifty was given warning of 3RR a lot of times. Appleby was blocked for violation of the 3RR many times. Tyler111 and Tortfeasor were blocked for violation of the 3RR. Tortfeasor requested for checkuser against one side of edit battles about Japan. Mythologia 02:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Confirmed in part. The following accounts are all the same user:
Tyler111 and Tortfeasor are not related to this group and have no relation to each other. As for the rest, I'm declaring Appleby the main account and I recommend that the rest be blocked. Mackensen (talk) 23:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
A 24-hour blocking of Appleby is obviously too short. Appleby did not just circumvent 3RR but created the illusion of broader support for a position than actually exists:
Also, Appleby and Dollarfifty talked to each other to camouflage sock puppetry ([7], [8], [9], [10], [11]). Extremely vicious.
Another point to keep in mind is that Appleby is hardworking (to do bad things). Can anyone other than Appleby run so many accounts simultaneously with clever tricks? Appleby is far more harmful to Wikipedia than other socks. --Nanshu 23:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Clerk note: This should probably be discussed at WP:ANI or WP:AN so it will get a wider audience. Thatcher131 (talk) 00:13, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
User:71.139.187.166 started making edits to Talk:Sea of Japan, pushing the same POV that User:Appleby was pushing before he was blocked for 3RR violations. Please check if they are sock puppets of each other. --Nlu (talk) 00:31, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
These users are constantly involved in Edit Wars, and frequently support each other. Please check if any of them are sockpuppets of each other. If they are, they may have used the sockpuppet(s) to avoid 3RR yesterday. DueDiehcal (talk · contribs) is particularly suspect, because after coming into existence, DueDiehcal immediately started to engage in Edit Wars and even defaced an opposing user's page.--Endroit 02:14, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Clerk note: Closed with no action (stale). Thatcher131