On 2 January 2017, Novonium was blocked as a sock puppeteer. On 10 January 2017, Envale began creating accounts as their first edit, see here. The articles are all in the same areas of interest as Novonium, and all are similarly formatted, see Stefan Radt and Richard Godbeer as examples. Onel5969 TT me 17:52, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
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Odensalt started editing just after Envale was indef blocked for BLP issues on 17 March. (Envale has since been blocked as a sockpupet of Novonium) The pattern of Odensalt's edits is identical to Envale's: poorly sourced biographies on marginally notable people with persistently poor referencing style (URL inside square brackets as ref, so it isn't visible in the reflist; often multiple references to a single source, looking like multiple sources), and many short sections. Pam D 15:08, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
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Newly registered editor creating large number of poorly formatted biographies of persons of doubtful notability, including characteristic bad referencing style which hides bare URLs within single square brackets, and lists of authors' works lacking any date, publisher or ISBN info. As seen in the work of recent sock Envale. Pam D 15:07, 30 March 2017 (UTC) expanded 16:20, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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Characteristic creation of many biographical articles on persons of questionable notability, with references presented as bare URLs in square brackets (producing useless list of references, with sources hidden), and lists of author's works without publisher, date, or ISBN, and no wikilinks to other articles. As seen in work of sockpuppet Envale. Examples include [20], [21], [22]; Typical article creations from Envale are: [23], [24], [25], [26]. Pam D 18:50, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
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User:Kasslert: Mass Creating sub standard stubs sometimes as fast as one a minute. Was warned several times to slow down, Has not responded and continued to create despite a threat of blocking. Was finally given a very short block (23:27, June 4, 2017) to stop the disruptive editing and to stimulate some response. Contributions
User:Briana Tang created an account within several minutes (23:42, June 4, 2017) of Kassiert being blocked and continued to create exactly the same kind of articles at the same speed Contributions.
Bloc evasion: Ducks quack loudly but as some of the articles might have some potential, I'm asking for CU because I don't want to block Briana Tang if I'm wrong. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:22, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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Articles by this group of editors have the same characteristics as those by sockpuppets of Novonium - see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Novonium/Archive: many unlinked biog stubs, with multiple short sections, reference to Goodreads, and unhelpful reference style (bare URLs within square brackets). Pam D 06:59, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic behaviour of Novonium sockpuppet: creation of biographical stubs on marginally notable people; consisting of multiple short sentences; using Goodreads as source of publications list; citing refs using bare URLs in square brackets to produce totally unhelpful listing in Reflist. See example here and here Pam D 07:12, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic behaviour of Novonium sockpuppet: creation of biographical stubs on marginally notable people; consisting of multiple short sentences; using Goodreads as source of publications list; citing refs using bare URLs in square brackets to produce totally unhelpful listing in Reflist. See examples here and here. Pam D 07:14, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
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I agree that editing styles of the confirmed sock & editor in this case appear oddly similar:
In addition each article upon construction had identical layout with slightly nonstandard section titles: Life, Career, Bibliography, References, External links. The bibliography section of each article contains identical leading phrase "His notable books are:..." - Bri ( talk) 22:20, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Regarding Formatting of Citations: I guess it's best to leave that work to the bots. For me, the researching and creation of articles has a higher priority than the fixing of citations. Since I get very little free time (I have a full time job you see), I realize that it's better to spend that time on the creation of articles. The correct formatting of citations is obvious and anyone can do it. The Real Challenge is in being able to FIND the most relevant citations in the first place, that is precisely what drew me to Wikipedia.A version of WP:IDHT Pam D 09:14, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic article creation behaviour of established Novonium sockpuppets - example Pam D 08:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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Confirmed, blocked, tagged, closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:58, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic editing style: short sentences in separate paragraphs, references formatted in distinctively unhelpful style with square brackets round bare URLs. Example Pam D 07:26, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
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Blocked but awaiting tags (all). I'll leave it to PamD to decide whether to tag articles G5. Probably a non native English user. Perhaps a CU should be done for sleepers? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:27, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Has created several biographies which had earlier been deleted G5 in June/July 2017. Has identical editing style (many single-sentence paragraphs; references all presented as bare URLs inside square brackets so that they are invisible in reference list): compare this creation by Novonium and this by Oskosst. Does not reply to comments on talk page: I note that this was also a characteristic of Novonium. Pam D 18:44, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
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On 2 January 2017, Novonium was blocked as a sock puppeteer. On 10 January 2017, Envale began creating accounts as their first edit, see here. The articles are all in the same areas of interest as Novonium, and all are similarly formatted, see Stefan Radt and Richard Godbeer as examples. Onel5969 TT me 17:52, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
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Odensalt started editing just after Envale was indef blocked for BLP issues on 17 March. (Envale has since been blocked as a sockpupet of Novonium) The pattern of Odensalt's edits is identical to Envale's: poorly sourced biographies on marginally notable people with persistently poor referencing style (URL inside square brackets as ref, so it isn't visible in the reflist; often multiple references to a single source, looking like multiple sources), and many short sections. Pam D 15:08, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
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Newly registered editor creating large number of poorly formatted biographies of persons of doubtful notability, including characteristic bad referencing style which hides bare URLs within single square brackets, and lists of authors' works lacking any date, publisher or ISBN info. As seen in the work of recent sock Envale. Pam D 15:07, 30 March 2017 (UTC) expanded 16:20, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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Characteristic creation of many biographical articles on persons of questionable notability, with references presented as bare URLs in square brackets (producing useless list of references, with sources hidden), and lists of author's works without publisher, date, or ISBN, and no wikilinks to other articles. As seen in work of sockpuppet Envale. Examples include [20], [21], [22]; Typical article creations from Envale are: [23], [24], [25], [26]. Pam D 18:50, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
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User:Kasslert: Mass Creating sub standard stubs sometimes as fast as one a minute. Was warned several times to slow down, Has not responded and continued to create despite a threat of blocking. Was finally given a very short block (23:27, June 4, 2017) to stop the disruptive editing and to stimulate some response. Contributions
User:Briana Tang created an account within several minutes (23:42, June 4, 2017) of Kassiert being blocked and continued to create exactly the same kind of articles at the same speed Contributions.
Bloc evasion: Ducks quack loudly but as some of the articles might have some potential, I'm asking for CU because I don't want to block Briana Tang if I'm wrong. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:22, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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Articles by this group of editors have the same characteristics as those by sockpuppets of Novonium - see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Novonium/Archive: many unlinked biog stubs, with multiple short sections, reference to Goodreads, and unhelpful reference style (bare URLs within square brackets). Pam D 06:59, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic behaviour of Novonium sockpuppet: creation of biographical stubs on marginally notable people; consisting of multiple short sentences; using Goodreads as source of publications list; citing refs using bare URLs in square brackets to produce totally unhelpful listing in Reflist. See example here and here Pam D 07:12, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic behaviour of Novonium sockpuppet: creation of biographical stubs on marginally notable people; consisting of multiple short sentences; using Goodreads as source of publications list; citing refs using bare URLs in square brackets to produce totally unhelpful listing in Reflist. See examples here and here. Pam D 07:14, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
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I agree that editing styles of the confirmed sock & editor in this case appear oddly similar:
In addition each article upon construction had identical layout with slightly nonstandard section titles: Life, Career, Bibliography, References, External links. The bibliography section of each article contains identical leading phrase "His notable books are:..." - Bri ( talk) 22:20, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Regarding Formatting of Citations: I guess it's best to leave that work to the bots. For me, the researching and creation of articles has a higher priority than the fixing of citations. Since I get very little free time (I have a full time job you see), I realize that it's better to spend that time on the creation of articles. The correct formatting of citations is obvious and anyone can do it. The Real Challenge is in being able to FIND the most relevant citations in the first place, that is precisely what drew me to Wikipedia.A version of WP:IDHT Pam D 09:14, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic article creation behaviour of established Novonium sockpuppets - example Pam D 08:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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Confirmed, blocked, tagged, closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:58, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Characteristic editing style: short sentences in separate paragraphs, references formatted in distinctively unhelpful style with square brackets round bare URLs. Example Pam D 07:26, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
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Blocked but awaiting tags (all). I'll leave it to PamD to decide whether to tag articles G5. Probably a non native English user. Perhaps a CU should be done for sleepers? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:27, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Has created several biographies which had earlier been deleted G5 in June/July 2017. Has identical editing style (many single-sentence paragraphs; references all presented as bare URLs inside square brackets so that they are invisible in reference list): compare this creation by Novonium and this by Oskosst. Does not reply to comments on talk page: I note that this was also a characteristic of Novonium. Pam D 18:44, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
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