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28 September 2015

Suspected sockpuppets

• Toyota97 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • User:198.236.0.31 (this was the unlogged in IP)
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DUCK. Account created 4 days after master User:Skyline201 blocked
Behaviour:

• all minor edits
• all edits have no edit summary
• upload of images
• creation of trance music articles (at least some by same label)
• and addition of unsourced content
• overlapping articles, most frequent ones:
  • Armin van Buuren
  • A State of Trance 2015
    • Early history of that [1] shows unlogged in User:Skyline201 editing [2] with IP User:198.236.0.31 [3] [4] - not sure if it's an open proxy, but there's long term abuse from the IP, and crucially there's long-term abuse of this set of sockfarm edited articles [5]
  • Dannic
• Part of sockfarm around this trance label, dozens of articles and accounts (see connected on some of them, and AfDs) - this is the first SPI so checkuser requested Widefox; talk 07:19, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• I've declined the CU request. The master is  Stale.--Bbb23 (talk) 08:51, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's many other accounts clustered around these articles. Not listed here to keep this simple, and the others don't have such a distinctive editing behaviour as these two. Widefox; talk 08:25, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• I've looked into their edits. The overlap is huge, but I couldn't find anything conclusive, so I'm closing this for the lack of evidence. Vanjagenije (talk) 21:03, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

09 April 2016

Suspected sockpuppets

• Toyota97 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• EDMultra7 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Electro Ultra 217 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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EDMultra7 is a blocked sock of Toyota97, checkuser block. Was blocked on 28 Jan.
Electro Ultra 217 started were EDMultra7 left off. First editing the next day (first edit) continues to edit the same articles and connected subjects.

Articles Ultra Dance [6]. Ace (Scooter album) [7]. Opus (Eric Prydz album) [8]

Subjects. Electro Ultra 217, FabricLive.86 [9]. EDMultra7 FabricLive.85 [10]. Toyota97 FabricLive.84[11]

Also in their names. EDM - Electronic dance music. So both socks are Electrxxx Ultra xx7. duffbeerforme (talk) 10:07, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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•  Looks like a duck to me. Blocked and tagged. Closing. Vanjagenije (talk) 15:33, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

17 August 2016

Suspected sockpuppets

• Toyota97 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Fanultradance (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 97.120.63.73 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 97.120.63.39 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 75.164.150.75 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

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Both Fanultradance and the IPs have taken over where the last sock User:Electro Ultra 217 left off. Electro Ultra 217 was blocked on 22 April 2016. The IP started on 28 April and others followed on from that. There is a huge crossover of articles such as Ace (Scooter album) from the last SPI. Others Moments (Darude album) [12], Acoustic II [13], Danceaholic [14], List of MAX Light Rail stations [15]

Some sameness

MAX Light Rail Station photos.

Fanultradance adding photo [16] after an User:AsianmanR390 (another sock) photo was removed after a Toyota97 photo was removed.

IP97.120.63.73 adding Electro Ultra 217's photo [17] after an Electro Ultra 217 photo was removed after a Toyota97 photo was removed.

IP97.120.63.73 adding Electro Ultra 217's photo [18] after an Electro Ultra 217 photo was removed after an EDMultra7 photo was removed after a Toyota97 photo was removed.

Edit warring on year removal from Ace (Scooter album). [19] egs

Electro Ultra 217 [20] "please do not clear the recorded year"

IP97.120.63.73 [21] "Please do not removed the recorded year"

IP97.120.63.39 [22] "stop clearing the recorded year"

More block evasion from Toyota97 duffbeerforme (talk) 07:16, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• The following accounts are  Confirmed to each other and  Likely to previous accounts:
  • Skyline201 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • Fanultradance (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Blocked the new account without a tag.  Clerk assistance requested: Please do the following:

1. Merge this into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Skyline201.
2. Review 75.164.150.75’s contributions to determine whether a block is appropriate. The other IPs are stale.
3. Retag all the named accounts and close.

• --Bbb23 (talk) 17:27, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• I've tagged the accounts and blocked the active IP. I may have messed the tags up though, Bbb23, can you double check? See what happens when you leave this type of work to amateurs (i.e. me!)? --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 18:16, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• @Ponyo: I didn't leave it to you; see what happens when you butt in? Thanks for blocking the IP, but the rest of it should be dealt with by the clerk. I noticed, Ponyo, that you messed up at least one tag, but all the accounts have to be properly tagged, and I didn't even look to see if you retagged the archived socks. If you did, regardless of whether you did it right, I thank you for your efforts.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:48, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• (Throws hands up in air) I was just trying to clear out some old checked cases that have been waiting for Clerk attention for ages! I have learned my lesson and will leave such paperwork for those more in the know than I. I never Clerked before becoming a CU, it's clearly my Achilles heel. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:59, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• @Ponyo: Hopefully you didn't hit anyone with your hands. I figured that's what you were doing, and it is sincerely appreciated.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:09, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• At least I didn't attempt any of the merging your requested. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:11, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Cases are now history-merged. Closing. Vanjagenije (talk) 18:23, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]