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12 June 2016

Suspected sockpuppets

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IP account was recently blocked and the edits reverted. Shortly after said block, this account began making same pattern of edits and reverting the deletion of IP account's edits. Examples: 1 2. Will provide more evidence upon request. Davejohnsan (talk) 01:47, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to provide more information as requested:

Just to be clear, the IP account came first and received the one-year block prior to the creation of the next account, Toku Super Heroes.

Here are some more examples of suspicious overlap between the two accounts:

• Friends Without Benefits.

1. Someone reverts the IP account's edits], then...
2. Toku re-reverts the edit (#1) and does it again when someone else undid the disruptive edit.

• Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q (already covered in my initial report)

1. User reverts IP edit
2. Toku account reinserts the content by reverting previous edit.

• Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey

1. Here again, after IP account's edits are reverted,
2. Toku account reinserts disputed content by reverting previous edit.

• Kikaider 01

1. Revert of IP edit
2. Content reinserted by account

More examples that can seen directly from revision history page:

1. The Fury (1978 film)
2. NER Class F
3. Reunion (30 Rock)
4. Brian Writes a Bestseller

I hope this helps. Davejohnsan (talk) 13:57, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Additional information needed - @
  diffs
  to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:

1. At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
2. At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
3. In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this. Vanjagenije (talk) 21:41, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• JamesBWatson: You blocked this IP for block evasion? Which block are they evading? Vanjagenije (talk) 18:50, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply
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talk) 21:01, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply

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• CheckUser requested and endorsed by clerk - Maybe Checkuser can help us to find the real master behind Toku Super Heroes (without publicly revealing the IP). Vanjagenije (talk) 21:19, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Honestly, I really don't like these sorts of checks and should decline them. However, I did a quick check, and no other accounts were found.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:38, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• I am not surprised that Bbb23 failed to "find the real master", as Vanjagenije had hoped. The editor has been using this IP address since August of last year, and the previous account was probably already blocked then, so it will be long since stale.
• Toku Super Heroes has edited 30 articles, and 28 of those 30 had previously been edited by the IP. That alone would be such a remarkable coincidence as to look suspicious. The majority of the pages had been edited by the IP within the last couple of weeks. There are a few from longer ago than that, but all but one of them within the last two months. (For the one other article there was a gap of almost 9 months between the IP editing and the account editing.) For the substantial majority of the articles edited, the first thing that Toku Super Heroes did was to restore reverted edits made by the IP. One of the striking things about the IP editor was a strange obsession with replacing the word "children" with "kids". Not only did he or she keep making that change in articles, but he or she also repeatedly argued in favour of use of the word "kids", as you can see for example here, here, here, here and here, and in the edit summary here there is a very forceful insistence that the word should be used. It is therefore very striking that Toku Super Heroes has been making edits such as this one. Both the IP and the account replaced a dash between numbers with "&" in a number of articles. Really, there are far too many connections between the two for there to be any doubt whatever that the two are the same person, especially when you add into the mix the fact that the account was created shortly after the IP address was blocked. Without any doubt at all Toku Super Heroes has been evading the IP block, and in view of the fact that the IP editor is known to have an earlier account which is "banned", it follows that Toku Super Heroes is also evading a block on another account. (By "banned" the editor may actually just mean "blocked", but it makes no difference.) I shall therefore block the account and revert all edits where nobody else has edited since Toku Super Heroes. (Incidentally, I have found two more edits where the IP editor admits to having a "banned" account, here and here. It makes no difference, but I mention it in case anyone is interested.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "
  talk) 22:10, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• Excellent decision,
  JamesBWatson.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:15, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply
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