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Hi GS, haven't bothered you in a while, so I figured you missed me. I blocked KeroppiKid, a very strange new user (created September 26), who almost immediately opened up very bizarre subjects at the Teahouse having to do with problems at Simple and a couple of edits at the Wikipedia sandbox. Their editing at Simple is rather lively, and I just noticed this moment that they say on their userpage that Sharkoii is also their account here (I haven't blocked that account because I wasn't aware of it until now).
Both at Simple and here they started talking about their account being "hacked", apparently by their little brother (really, they need to come up with a different relative), and for that, plus so many edits that seemed more like trolling than anything else, I blocked them as WP:NOTHERE. I know I could have just blocked them as compromised, but I wasn't convinced that was the case.
They edited an article called List of Sanrio characters. One of the Japanese character toys is Keroppi, hence the username I suppose. YouAreGoingToSweden, a user blocked on September 25, one day before the KeroppiKid account was created, also edited the article. Then I started noticing other similarities between the two, e.g., editing the Wikipedia sandbox and opening up a weird thread at the Teahouse. They also edited Keroppi. A lot of coincidences, even if not everything adds up (YAGTS seems even younger and sillier than KeroppiKid). What do you think?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:16, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, could this edit be a sock of Raj Hanse ( talk · contribs), who was recently blocked itself as a sock account? The use of first person singular with reference to sources already given by Raj does seem rather telling. - Sitush ( talk) 19:32, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
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I also have a feeling this might also be their account
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Thobla
Since they edit in religion of country pages and was created after the previous accounts were blocked
Actually they are they reverted a edit from a user to one of their older editd from a sock puppet account
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Bulgaria&oldid=1182805879
Also another ip making similar edits
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/182.177.6.68
This IP has readded the previous edits of rajput bhatti
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What do you think about Pladero? I kept thinking I could figure out on my own who the master is, but I could not. I even looked at Wikiquote, where the editor created new pages and then "incorporated" them here, to see if that gave me any hints, but it didn't. So, here are the details:
All the articles and drafts created by User:Fancy vibēs about castes and dynasties are hoaxes. It seems they have created numerous fake articles by copying names and information from existing dynasties, and these should be deleted. There are Parmar, Parmar, Himachal Pradesh, Parmar Nagar, Parmar (Jat clan), Tomar Gurjar (clan), Chechens in Kyrgyzstan and Hun clan.
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Thanks for the early spot with Malaisei here. Behaviour clearly matches Kung Hibbe, but we'd never have noticed it from such a short contribution history without CU. Certes ( talk) 19:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
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The page Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Rafiul Officail has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category had been empty for seven days or more and was not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may have become empty on occasion.
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in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thakor Sumant Sinhji Jhala and now 2409:40D6:D:5D99:8000:0:0:0 has created Draft:Devi Movement which was of interest to the master. Is it sufficient to mention this to you or should I create an SPI for this IP and the master? 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 12:09, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I am complaining about the freelancer continuously publishing spams in return of payments. She is from Dubai and below is her Upwork profile where you can find the evidence:
https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01bfb4d3cfe85e7304
Below are the pages, she published in return of payments:
Also, you can see the feedback on her profile which means she is continuously violating Wikipedia TOS. Also, she is created many accounts for publishing spams. 39.48.3.223 ( talk) 21:28, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
I've ID'd the IP range that Defeedme is using anonymously. There are 18 recent edits that are definitely them; I suspect many (maybe as much as 90%) of the scattered other edits in that range are also them, because the style is similar, but there's no hard proof because those don't directly involve me or their own block. Since you are familiar with the case, I wanted to notify you. Thanks. Wes sideman ( talk) 15:03, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello. This new account آفریغ is another sockpuppet account of blocked User:Hisksjueeu. 175.106.53.175 ( talk) 21:06, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
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Apologies, talk page watchers, for my recent absence. A lot of stuff going on offline - I haven't been intentionally staying away, there's just been one thing after another. Hope to be back at it in the days to come. Happy new year one and all. Girth Summit (blether) 18:30, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Nice to see you resume your good work. Ever the opportunist, compare Pinkjart with Drsftufy. Drsftufy has only one edit and that is to add a pictue to Riccardo Matlakas, an article created by Pinkjart. Both use the visual editor. Similar edit summaries. Also the master has a terrible history at Commons with every image they've created having been deleted. I'm surprised they haven't been blocked for so many copyright violations. Last item: the master's userpage says "I started creating and editing wiki pages in 2020." The account was created last month. I think there's enough for me to block behaviorally, but a check might disclose other accounts. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Reference this, I believe they are back. Will likely let them edit a little to in order to confirm the editing behavior. I also think I filed the original for the wrong master as it should be this. Thanks for CU and block on the other. CNMall41 ( talk) 06:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
This is about Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/あすぺるがあすぺしゃりすと. When blocking in a previous case I didn't add tags since I felt that there were too many accounts that applying tags just wastes the database with useless revisions. Blablubbs didn't for another case either. In other cases other admins/CUs have applied tags. Do you think this is a case where we should put the template notice that recommends not tagging? 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 14:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I stumbled across the above article while patrolling Recent changes - not an article or topic area that I would normally have any interest in. I just fully protected the article because of contentious editing by new users James Bertrand 8 (not as new but a large gap and not many edits, especially to anything but the article and its Talk page), STOPNIAC (blocked), and Just want to make some quick edits here (socky username and clear WP:SPA). Behaviorally, it's too hard for me to sort out the editors' POVs, but my suspicion is that Just want and STOPNIAC are related, and Bertrand is suspicious as well but unlikely to be a sock of one or the other user.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:45, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Girth Summit. Could you please check Rsmaravi and Qazwsxedc789? It looks like they abandoned the latter account to avoid being blocked after multiple warnings. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 22:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Your check/cheque/czech userboxes. That's my kind of wit. I think Douglas Adams (or maybe Pterry) wrote somewhere that puns are considered a capital offense in some cultures, and Bill on True Blood told us "You have to understand, most vampires are very old. Puns used to be a very appreciated form of humor." Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 09:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I just blocked Enigma Enforcer as a sock, but I'm not sure who the master is. I've blocked IPs recently with the same edit summaries ("ban evasion WP:BKFIP"). They all geolocate to England (same country as BKFIP himself), and maybe that's who they are. See, e.g., Special:contributions/194.74.135.100. They generally revert my edits. EE tried to attack me at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vujkovica brdo, but were prevented by the filter log, but then the now-blocked sock, Bocin kolega made the same edit that EE tried to make (I reverted it). Yet England is not the right location for Vb's socks, so I find that more puzzling than helpful. I know you can't say anything about the IPs, but a check of EE might reveal information that you can disclose. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:32, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Girth Summit! Could you please take a look at the case currently at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SheryOfficial? I'm really 100% sure it's them (what I wrote e.g. here equally applies to this account too) and they're editing quite profusely. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 12:53, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
If you have a moment, you might want to look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lineargraphing and the apparent aftermath at Cyprus76's Talk page. It's all very weird.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Aren't you the lucky one? I blocked two accounts last November, Self made theory, the older account, and My self made theory, the twin. Now because one of them is still on my watchlist, I noticed Bshshajajajajj, created a few weeks after my blocks, editing on their behalf. I'm not quite comfortable blocking the latest account as a sock, but I do think there's enough evidence to warrant a check.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:08, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for bringing - per community consensus - the Medal of Joy to my talk! As you know, I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:01, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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I want to close the above case as a scattershot report and without merit. I just closed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phoenixhill, which attacks the filer of the Ramos case. Both users have been going at each other in another dispute and have carried it over to SPI. The reason I haven't closed the Ramos one is because of the filer's reference to Ticket:2024011710009412, which, of course, I can't see. I suspect the "CU Team"'s "invitation" to file the report was not based on any merit the report had but simply that you folk would not review it outside of SPI. Is it okay if I close the report? -- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:56, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Saw you were online for another SPI and hoping maybe, possibly, pretty please, you can have a look at this one since they are still adding and removing content while awaiting CU results. Understand its a lot of accounts so no big deal if you don't. CNMall41 ( talk) 21:28, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Does this ever end? lol Seriously, appreciate all the work. I think it actually bleeds into AfC but want to make sure the dots are connected completely before filing that one. CNMall41 ( talk) 19:41, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello Girth Summit! Since you often handle this LTA's cases at SPI, I just wanted to let you know that I posted this request: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Mass-rollback for LTA. Kind regards, ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 15:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I saw you were involve in blocking FYE31. Since then, they have made two more sockpuppets that were also blocked, Canofsoup1 and DLCY89*. You can compare their histories to see the trend: broken English, an exclusive fixation on local elections in California, and an obsessive drive to remove gray colored bars from election infoboxes. They have now made a new account: Qpi361. They've only made a few edits so far, but it's clearly the same person; broken English, local elections in California, and removing gray colored bars from infoboxes. Please block then (and do an IP ban or something, if possible). BottleOfChocolateMilk ( talk) 20:12, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your detailed reply. I agree that inaction is the best course in the circumstances. I wish you every success with the career challenges/changes. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 18:42, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello Girth Summit, I hope you are doing well. You blocked Milli's Boy two months ago for socking. I believe they have returned with the User:Pulmowrites account. They are requesting a review in the same way for the same type of South Indian film. Both users use two (~~) before their signature. Please check 1 and 2. I am reporting this here as I don't know who the master account is. Thanks in advance. – DreamRimmer ( talk) 13:39, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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Since you are the CU who recently addressed the Kolossoni case, would you please have a look at the recent edits on my talkpage? I wasn't sure at first, but the more the IP range in question writes there and in their article talkpage contributions, the more they do sound like Kolossoni evading their sockblock. The same writing style, the same level of language fluency, the same bludgeoning, the fact that the range started editing two days after Kolossoni's unblock appeal was denied, the fact they were watching the other edits SLIMHANNYA made, and so on; the only difference is the mobile editing. I do see a couple of specific details I could e-mail to you, but given how much attention Kolossoni paid to talkpages, I'm reluctant to openly post them. It seems to me that a rangeblock is in order, if it wouldn't cause too much collateral damage.
Separately, I'm starting to get a strong vibe that Kolossoni is connected to a certain well-known LTA, where they tick a lot of boxes: obsession with East Asian genetics and culture--especially ancient origins (including specifically Genetic history of East Asians); long-winded edit summaries; specific ethnic claims among the socks, or usernames that suggest a specific ethnic background (Kolossoni claimed to be German in Australia, Turtle Historian claimed to be Korean in Australia, 素敵なカタチ claimed to be Japanese in America, "Crumpets & Muffins" suggests a UK connection); and removal of sourced material. Grandpallama ( talk) 16:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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Saw you in the Seltzer Shank sockpuppet investigation. I don't know how to add a new case though. User:DIEDOGS could be a potential sockpuppet. Newly created account but went right to editing Jobbykrust and making a sandbox page for Offensive Weapon. Also replaced Northern Ireland with British as in this diff [8]. Would appreciate if you could check it out. StreetcarEnjoyer (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
The script appears to be not saving categories. I've been seeing redlinks at various SPIs lately, the latest being Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JAP2024. I then manually save the cat. Can you look into this, or should it be GeneralNotability, who hasn't been around since resigning from the Committee?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi GS, haven't bothered you in a while, so I figured you missed me. I blocked KeroppiKid, a very strange new user (created September 26), who almost immediately opened up very bizarre subjects at the Teahouse having to do with problems at Simple and a couple of edits at the Wikipedia sandbox. Their editing at Simple is rather lively, and I just noticed this moment that they say on their userpage that Sharkoii is also their account here (I haven't blocked that account because I wasn't aware of it until now).
Both at Simple and here they started talking about their account being "hacked", apparently by their little brother (really, they need to come up with a different relative), and for that, plus so many edits that seemed more like trolling than anything else, I blocked them as WP:NOTHERE. I know I could have just blocked them as compromised, but I wasn't convinced that was the case.
They edited an article called List of Sanrio characters. One of the Japanese character toys is Keroppi, hence the username I suppose. YouAreGoingToSweden, a user blocked on September 25, one day before the KeroppiKid account was created, also edited the article. Then I started noticing other similarities between the two, e.g., editing the Wikipedia sandbox and opening up a weird thread at the Teahouse. They also edited Keroppi. A lot of coincidences, even if not everything adds up (YAGTS seems even younger and sillier than KeroppiKid). What do you think?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:16, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, could this edit be a sock of Raj Hanse ( talk · contribs), who was recently blocked itself as a sock account? The use of first person singular with reference to sources already given by Raj does seem rather telling. - Sitush ( talk) 19:32, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
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I also have a feeling this might also be their account
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Thobla
Since they edit in religion of country pages and was created after the previous accounts were blocked
Actually they are they reverted a edit from a user to one of their older editd from a sock puppet account
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Bulgaria&oldid=1182805879
Also another ip making similar edits
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/182.177.6.68
This IP has readded the previous edits of rajput bhatti
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What do you think about Pladero? I kept thinking I could figure out on my own who the master is, but I could not. I even looked at Wikiquote, where the editor created new pages and then "incorporated" them here, to see if that gave me any hints, but it didn't. So, here are the details:
All the articles and drafts created by User:Fancy vibēs about castes and dynasties are hoaxes. It seems they have created numerous fake articles by copying names and information from existing dynasties, and these should be deleted. There are Parmar, Parmar, Himachal Pradesh, Parmar Nagar, Parmar (Jat clan), Tomar Gurjar (clan), Chechens in Kyrgyzstan and Hun clan.
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Thanks for the early spot with Malaisei here. Behaviour clearly matches Kung Hibbe, but we'd never have noticed it from such a short contribution history without CU. Certes ( talk) 19:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
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in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thakor Sumant Sinhji Jhala and now 2409:40D6:D:5D99:8000:0:0:0 has created Draft:Devi Movement which was of interest to the master. Is it sufficient to mention this to you or should I create an SPI for this IP and the master? 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 12:09, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I am complaining about the freelancer continuously publishing spams in return of payments. She is from Dubai and below is her Upwork profile where you can find the evidence:
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Below are the pages, she published in return of payments:
Also, you can see the feedback on her profile which means she is continuously violating Wikipedia TOS. Also, she is created many accounts for publishing spams. 39.48.3.223 ( talk) 21:28, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
I've ID'd the IP range that Defeedme is using anonymously. There are 18 recent edits that are definitely them; I suspect many (maybe as much as 90%) of the scattered other edits in that range are also them, because the style is similar, but there's no hard proof because those don't directly involve me or their own block. Since you are familiar with the case, I wanted to notify you. Thanks. Wes sideman ( talk) 15:03, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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No need to read the article, but Park Loop Road (which I created recently) is partly tolled and partly freely accessed. Because of this, it is my contention that the article should be part of both Category:Roads in Maine and Category:Toll roads in Maine, even though the former is the parent. Thoughts? Seasider53 ( talk) 11:28, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
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Apologies, talk page watchers, for my recent absence. A lot of stuff going on offline - I haven't been intentionally staying away, there's just been one thing after another. Hope to be back at it in the days to come. Happy new year one and all. Girth Summit (blether) 18:30, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Nice to see you resume your good work. Ever the opportunist, compare Pinkjart with Drsftufy. Drsftufy has only one edit and that is to add a pictue to Riccardo Matlakas, an article created by Pinkjart. Both use the visual editor. Similar edit summaries. Also the master has a terrible history at Commons with every image they've created having been deleted. I'm surprised they haven't been blocked for so many copyright violations. Last item: the master's userpage says "I started creating and editing wiki pages in 2020." The account was created last month. I think there's enough for me to block behaviorally, but a check might disclose other accounts. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Reference this, I believe they are back. Will likely let them edit a little to in order to confirm the editing behavior. I also think I filed the original for the wrong master as it should be this. Thanks for CU and block on the other. CNMall41 ( talk) 06:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
This is about Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/あすぺるがあすぺしゃりすと. When blocking in a previous case I didn't add tags since I felt that there were too many accounts that applying tags just wastes the database with useless revisions. Blablubbs didn't for another case either. In other cases other admins/CUs have applied tags. Do you think this is a case where we should put the template notice that recommends not tagging? 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 14:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I stumbled across the above article while patrolling Recent changes - not an article or topic area that I would normally have any interest in. I just fully protected the article because of contentious editing by new users James Bertrand 8 (not as new but a large gap and not many edits, especially to anything but the article and its Talk page), STOPNIAC (blocked), and Just want to make some quick edits here (socky username and clear WP:SPA). Behaviorally, it's too hard for me to sort out the editors' POVs, but my suspicion is that Just want and STOPNIAC are related, and Bertrand is suspicious as well but unlikely to be a sock of one or the other user.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:45, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Girth Summit. Could you please check Rsmaravi and Qazwsxedc789? It looks like they abandoned the latter account to avoid being blocked after multiple warnings. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 22:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Your check/cheque/czech userboxes. That's my kind of wit. I think Douglas Adams (or maybe Pterry) wrote somewhere that puns are considered a capital offense in some cultures, and Bill on True Blood told us "You have to understand, most vampires are very old. Puns used to be a very appreciated form of humor." Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 09:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I just blocked Enigma Enforcer as a sock, but I'm not sure who the master is. I've blocked IPs recently with the same edit summaries ("ban evasion WP:BKFIP"). They all geolocate to England (same country as BKFIP himself), and maybe that's who they are. See, e.g., Special:contributions/194.74.135.100. They generally revert my edits. EE tried to attack me at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vujkovica brdo, but were prevented by the filter log, but then the now-blocked sock, Bocin kolega made the same edit that EE tried to make (I reverted it). Yet England is not the right location for Vb's socks, so I find that more puzzling than helpful. I know you can't say anything about the IPs, but a check of EE might reveal information that you can disclose. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:32, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Girth Summit! Could you please take a look at the case currently at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SheryOfficial? I'm really 100% sure it's them (what I wrote e.g. here equally applies to this account too) and they're editing quite profusely. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 12:53, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
If you have a moment, you might want to look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lineargraphing and the apparent aftermath at Cyprus76's Talk page. It's all very weird.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Aren't you the lucky one? I blocked two accounts last November, Self made theory, the older account, and My self made theory, the twin. Now because one of them is still on my watchlist, I noticed Bshshajajajajj, created a few weeks after my blocks, editing on their behalf. I'm not quite comfortable blocking the latest account as a sock, but I do think there's enough evidence to warrant a check.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:08, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for bringing - per community consensus - the Medal of Joy to my talk! As you know, I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:01, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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I want to close the above case as a scattershot report and without merit. I just closed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phoenixhill, which attacks the filer of the Ramos case. Both users have been going at each other in another dispute and have carried it over to SPI. The reason I haven't closed the Ramos one is because of the filer's reference to Ticket:2024011710009412, which, of course, I can't see. I suspect the "CU Team"'s "invitation" to file the report was not based on any merit the report had but simply that you folk would not review it outside of SPI. Is it okay if I close the report? -- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:56, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Saw you were online for another SPI and hoping maybe, possibly, pretty please, you can have a look at this one since they are still adding and removing content while awaiting CU results. Understand its a lot of accounts so no big deal if you don't. CNMall41 ( talk) 21:28, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Does this ever end? lol Seriously, appreciate all the work. I think it actually bleeds into AfC but want to make sure the dots are connected completely before filing that one. CNMall41 ( talk) 19:41, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello Girth Summit! Since you often handle this LTA's cases at SPI, I just wanted to let you know that I posted this request: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Mass-rollback for LTA. Kind regards, ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 15:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I saw you were involve in blocking FYE31. Since then, they have made two more sockpuppets that were also blocked, Canofsoup1 and DLCY89*. You can compare their histories to see the trend: broken English, an exclusive fixation on local elections in California, and an obsessive drive to remove gray colored bars from election infoboxes. They have now made a new account: Qpi361. They've only made a few edits so far, but it's clearly the same person; broken English, local elections in California, and removing gray colored bars from infoboxes. Please block then (and do an IP ban or something, if possible). BottleOfChocolateMilk ( talk) 20:12, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your detailed reply. I agree that inaction is the best course in the circumstances. I wish you every success with the career challenges/changes. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 18:42, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
I was reading about Roman history (especially Julius Caesar) and I was very intrigued by Marcus Brutus' character, but I am confused as to why he was mentioned as a coward in some places.
What do you think?
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Newly-registered editor has been going around restoring socks' edits, claiming to be reverting socks' edits. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:21, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello Girth Summit, I hope you are doing well. You blocked Milli's Boy two months ago for socking. I believe they have returned with the User:Pulmowrites account. They are requesting a review in the same way for the same type of South Indian film. Both users use two (~~) before their signature. Please check 1 and 2. I am reporting this here as I don't know who the master account is. Thanks in advance. – DreamRimmer ( talk) 13:39, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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Since you are the CU who recently addressed the Kolossoni case, would you please have a look at the recent edits on my talkpage? I wasn't sure at first, but the more the IP range in question writes there and in their article talkpage contributions, the more they do sound like Kolossoni evading their sockblock. The same writing style, the same level of language fluency, the same bludgeoning, the fact that the range started editing two days after Kolossoni's unblock appeal was denied, the fact they were watching the other edits SLIMHANNYA made, and so on; the only difference is the mobile editing. I do see a couple of specific details I could e-mail to you, but given how much attention Kolossoni paid to talkpages, I'm reluctant to openly post them. It seems to me that a rangeblock is in order, if it wouldn't cause too much collateral damage.
Separately, I'm starting to get a strong vibe that Kolossoni is connected to a certain well-known LTA, where they tick a lot of boxes: obsession with East Asian genetics and culture--especially ancient origins (including specifically Genetic history of East Asians); long-winded edit summaries; specific ethnic claims among the socks, or usernames that suggest a specific ethnic background (Kolossoni claimed to be German in Australia, Turtle Historian claimed to be Korean in Australia, 素敵なカタチ claimed to be Japanese in America, "Crumpets & Muffins" suggests a UK connection); and removal of sourced material. Grandpallama ( talk) 16:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for draftifying UV Creations. I was just about to message you about it. – DreamRimmer ( talk) 12:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello @ Girth Summit, I am reaching out to discuss the possibility of amending the terms of my topic ban, specifically regarding the timeline for appealing the ban. I would like to request a reduction in the appeal period from 12 months to 6 months.
Since my imposed topic ban, I have remained committed to contributing positively to Wikipedia. My intent has always been to contribute positively to wikipedia within the guidelines and policies that govern our community. I believe my editing history post-ban reflects a genuine effort to adhere to these principles and contribute valuable information to various subjects.
My original ban stemmed from an unintentional violation of wikipedia's meatpuppetry policy, which occurred during a collaboration with a former co-worker. This was not a deliberate attempt to manipulate or undermine Wikipedia's procedures but a misunderstanding of the collaboration boundaries within the platform's guidelines, Since then, I have taken steps to deepen my understanding of Wikipedia's policies and community standards to ensure that my contributions are constructive.
One area I am particularly interested in contributing to involves the concept of the Network State, coined by Balaji Srinivasan in his book and other governance-related articles. I believe that by engaging in such topics, I can offer valuable insights and content to Wikipedia, improving the coverage of emerging concepts in governance and digital communities.
Given my history of constructive contributions and my commitment to continuous learning and adherence to Wikipedia's policies, I'd like to respectfully request that you consider my appeal to reduce the waiting period for my topic ban appeal to 6 months. I am fully prepared to engage in further discussions or fulfill any requirements the community or you may deem necessary to facilitate this request.
Thank you for considering my request. Mr Vili talk 03:14, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Jamba performs well across a number of key measurements including throughput and efficiency while outperforming or matching other state-of-the-art models in its class on a wide range of performance benchmarks while having significantly greater context limits enabling use-cases that require increased context. The assertions in the sentence are supported by two citations. One of them is a promotional piece on the website of the language model's creator - that is a primary, affiliated source, and it absolutely should not be used to support any assertion about the subject's efficacy. The other citation is to VentureBeat, which appears to be quite cagey in its language - I see no assertion there about the subject' efficacy that does not have hedging language in it such as 'According to AI21 Labs' or 'AI21 Labs also claims that...' and such like. In other words, we are asking our readers to take the word of the model's creator for assertions about how good it is - that simply is not how we write articles, and it does not give me a great deal of comfort when I'm considering whether you have really taken on board what our mission is here.
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Saw you in the Seltzer Shank sockpuppet investigation. I don't know how to add a new case though. User:DIEDOGS could be a potential sockpuppet. Newly created account but went right to editing Jobbykrust and making a sandbox page for Offensive Weapon. Also replaced Northern Ireland with British as in this diff [8]. Would appreciate if you could check it out. StreetcarEnjoyer (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
The script appears to be not saving categories. I've been seeing redlinks at various SPIs lately, the latest being Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JAP2024. I then manually save the cat. Can you look into this, or should it be GeneralNotability, who hasn't been around since resigning from the Committee?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC)