These accounts have all been created recently or started editing recently, are all making very similar and disruptive edits on very similar sets of pages, and all within similar time-frames. This is apparent from their respective edit histories but here are some specific examples that seem clear to me:
For what it's worth I already wrote a warning on Zezzoo24's talk page on January 18, and later that day the Ha19870001 account was going at it again (as seen at Emirate of Sicily, already noted above). R Prazeres ( talk) 08:21, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Addendum (January 20): Not sure if it's premature or appropriate to add this now, but after this investigation request was posted a new account popped up which seems to be doing very similar things: see their history here. More specifically, their disruptive edits at Emirate of Sicily, which come fresh on the back of previous reverted edits by the other accounts noted above, have the same hallmarks as the others (i.e. removing "Berber" and "North Africa" and needlessly inserting "Arab"): examples here, here, here, and here. For what it's worth, the "fixed typo" edit summary and the type of edit is also worryingly similar to a slew of vandalisms along a similar (but admittedly a little different) pattern reported earlier here and here.
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I am ambivalent about this being sock- as opposed to meat-puppet behavior, but it does appear to be part of a concerted effort to attribute all actions by Muslims in the medieval western Mediterranean specifically to ethnic Arabs, inaccurately replacing every mention of 'Muslim' or 'Moor' with 'Arab', removing attributions to other ethnicities (Berberized-Arab becomes simply Arab, Berber itself is removed entirely), and adding the Arab ethnicity to biographies where it is arguably irrelevant or disputed. It has been going on since December, involving dozens of IPs making the same types of edits on a score of pages. Some of them labeled all of their edits as 'fixed typo', continuing to do so after warnings, one today accepted admonishment and started to use accurate (if misplaced) edit summaries, some have used accurate summaries all along and many have not entered a summary at all. This suggests to me that it is probably not all the same human, but there is certainly some IP hopping by the same person and I don't know about the formal logins. Almost all are new SPAs (and for the IPs with a history, there are long enough gaps to think they are not stable). Not a one of them has gone to a Talk page. Clearly a problem; I just don't know if it is one that can be addressed at SPI here given it is mostly IP behavior. Semi-protecting the entire range of possible pages seems impracticable, so we may need a 1RR topic sanction against changing ethnicity on such pages without discussion to facilitate policing what will likely continue as IP whac-a-mole ad infinitum. Agricolae ( talk) 19:43, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, can I know what your problem is? I work hard to write these articles and I wrote the name of the ruling families, which are Arab. Why do you want me to write that the families were Muslim and not Arab? Do you have a problem? Are you a Muslim and do you think Islam is ethnic? There is no clear reason why you should like this to delete, and I discussed with you previously that the ruling families are Arab and not Muslim
We must write the originate of the emirate and its ruling. Does this bother you too much? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cbrownmax1212 ( talk • contribs) 17:23, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
I've added Cbrownmax1212 to the list above. Edits today strongly suggest continuation of the same edits. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 17:18, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
There appears to be yet another User:Thetranslaterofhistory sock, User:Historyxqs12, already blocked for "vandalism" (though their edits were not what I would call vandalism, just a massive rewrite to Slavery in Spain that had severe tone and focus problems and made the article worse) that strikes the same tone as Thetranslaterofhistory on the same article. No action further action needed on this one, but part of a continuing pattern. Agricolae ( talk) 19:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Another user just showed up that looks suspicious: Historicalxz. It's still early to judge, but there's the same pattern of rewriting whole sections of articles in obviously problematic ways, plus the familiar deceptive edit summaries like "fixed typo" and "Fixed the article". And of course a mild penchant for deleting non-Arab ethnicities or inserting Arab ethnicity without clear reason (e.g. here or here). R Prazeres ( talk) 08:36, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
[I tried to start a new case, requesting a new batch of CheckUsers, but it just threw it all unformatted onto the end of the previous one, so I have moved it here but don't know how to format it properly.]
This one builds on an existing SPI of Zezzoo12. There, a CheckUser concluded that Cbrownmax1212 was 'Likely' Zezzoo, but independently that Cbrownmax1212 had created a sleeper, Historianx12, and both those accounts were blocked. Further accounts were mentioned in that discussion (still open but stale) as apparent DUCKs of Cbrownmax1212, Thetranslaterofhistory (which was actually prior to Cbrownmax1212) and Historyxqs12, that both had been blocked for 'vandalism' (not related to SPI - these are thus moot but important to establish the pattern). Crownbiean12x looked DUCKy with Historyxqs12, even preemptively putting a line on their Talk page that seemed to address the blocking of prior account(s), and when this was raised on their Talk page [1] they seemingly admitted to being a sock, referring to their 'first account' having been blocked [2]. Because they quit using Crownbiean12x this was not pursued, other than to increase protection to Slavery in Spain. Castilespringx1 also was mentioned in the original Zezzoo SPI as the seeming successor to Cbrownmax1212, though this account seems inactive at present. All this would be moot, but there is a new apparent replacement.
New account Suwanax12 is now editing different articles but only a small step removed from the previously targeted ones, and acting similarly to both this cluster and the larger Zezoo cluster's behavior of replacing mention of 'Muslim' or 'Moor' with 'Arab' (even when historically inaccurate), playing up the Arab role in historical events and practices, and removing mention of Berbers and other ethnicities from articles about Muslims in the Maghreb and Medieval Europe.
Editing Slavery in Spain history Accused Zezzoo sock Ha19870001 made some edits replacing Muslim and Moor with Arab.
Thetranslaterofhistory did major rewrite, including playing up role of Arabs and downplaying that of other ethnicities, with with edit summaries such as "I have written this article again Please help me with any misspellings, missing information" and " wrote the article again accurately by copying the same article from Spanish to English . . ." (a seeming reference to es.wiki, but the text was not in that article).
Historyxqs12 did similar major rewrite with edit summaries "i wrote the article again" (x3).
Crownbiean12 with similar major rewrite and edit summaries like "i write the article again" and "i write the article again pleasse don't delete it just if there's any mistake fixed". User engaged and told they should get prior consensus for major article changes, they admitted to being a sock, and Slavery in Spain was semi-protected.
Now Suwanax12 starts a thread at Slavery in Portugal " Hello, this article is fully wrong and messy i start wrote a new article and delete all of this but i need help i really fear of my article will delete as what always will happens. I need help and talk:))" Given that Spain and Portugal are the modern nation-states occupying the land of the unified al-Andalus of medieval times, this is effectively a different venue to write about the same material, and they seem to be preemptively addressing the feedback received by Crownbeain12, just as Crownbiean12 did on their Talk page when they replaced Historyxqs12.
Editing Emirate of Sicily history Zezzoo and accused sock Ha19870001 made some edits replacing Muslim and Moor with Arab and removing mention of Berbers.
Thetranslaterofhistory did rewrote a section, with edit summaries like "i delete some mistake", and "i have increased a lot of important historical information i also wrote the ruling dynasties , pleasse dont delete it unless there a spelling mistake or you want to increase some information".
Cbownmax1212 rewrote the section with an edit summary of "i deleted a wrong information Also, I deleted some words that seemed insulting and replaced them with the origins and added the names of the ruling dynasties and some information that was missing."
Castilespringx1 rewrote the same section shortly after Cbrownmax12112 was blocked, with a similar bent to their work.
Suwanax12 has now edited History of Sicily [3], another apparent minor topic shift to avoid scrutiny, with the edit summary "Fixed and wrote the article again". In particular, they renamed the section on Muslim rule 'Arab Period' in place of 'Muslim period' and removed a 'Main' pointer to Muslim conquest of Sicily (which, calling them Muslims and not Arabs, would be an issue with the 'Zezoo pattern').
The third (chronologically first) edit by Suwanax12 follows the 'Zezzoo pattern', deleting from Emirate of Bari the referenced statement that it was "ruled by non-Arabs, probably Berbers and Black Africans" [4].
Castilespringx1 edited with a broader scope, but the same interests (Muslim ethnicity, removal of 'moor' and slavery), they did a rewrite of Emirate of Sicily in a similar manner the very next day when Cbownmax1212 got sock-blocked, and some of their edit summaries look awfully similar ("i start wrote the article again with complete informations" [5]). Highjackingsx1 is removed mention of non-Arab ethnicities [6], [7] using 'Fixed typo' edit summary of the seeming Zezzoo IP socks, and edited History of slavery in the Muslim world with edit summary "i delete a wrong information arabs didn't enslaved european and that's not wrote in bibble" right after Castlespringx1 account that edited same article was abandoned, and ceased activity right before Historyxqs12 commenced.
There seems to be a nearly-continuous non-overlapping timeline of:
Thetranslaterofhistory [19 Jan-21 Jan, blocked]
Cbrownmax1212 [22 Jan-27 Jan, blocked, also created sleeper Historianx12]
Castilespringx1 [28 Jan-6 Feb, abandoned]
Highjackingsx1 [7 Feb-10 Feb, abandoned]
Historyxqs12 [11 Feb, blocked]
Crownbiean12x [12 Feb-15 Feb, abandoned after admitting was sock]
[probably an unidentified one]
Suwanax12 [27 Feb - currently active].
I am ambivalent on whether these really are Zezzoo and/or Ha19870001, but I think a strong case can be made that there is a whole lot of socking going on here, with Suwanax12 being its latest whac-a-mole avatar. Agricolae ( talk) 18:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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Active since 28 March 2021, this user edits on the same kind of pages (historical Maghreb and Spain, slavery) as previous socks, removing references to "Moorish" ( [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]), to Berbers ( [14]), and replacing references to "Muslim" or "Islamic" with "Arabic" or "Arab" ( [15], [16]). Uses same type of misleading edit summaries ("Spelling mistakes have been corrected" [17], "fixed typo" [18], [19], [20]). Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 11:31, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
In the past few days, Xasazx123's similar behavior to Thetranslaterofhistory and their confirmed socks has continued: replacing "Muslim" with "Arab" ( [21], [22], [23], [24]), removing references to Berbers ( [25]) and to Moors ( [26], [27]), and using misleading "fixed typo" edit summaries ( [28], [29]). Since this behavior is also disruptive (almost all of their edits have needed reverting), it would be better if something can be done to this soon. Is it a good idea to also report this user to ANI? Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 21:57, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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Changing "Muslim" to "Arab" ( [30], [31], [32]), removing "Moorish" ( [33], [34], [35], [36], [37]), "fixing" things that are "very wrong" (cf. edit summaries here and here). Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 21:44, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Comparison with master: changing "Muslim" to "Arab" ( [38], [39], [40]), removing "Moorish" ( [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46]), "fixed typo" ( [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52]).
Comparison with recent puppet: changing "Muslim" to "Arab" ( [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58]), removing "Moorish" ( [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66]), "fixed typo" ( [67], [68], [69], [70], [71]).
Add also the new suspected puppet's two most recent edits, removing "Moorish" [72] and "fixed typo" [73].
Thanks for your trouble, Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 23:07, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
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The account Kasaxu was created on 16 April 2021 just about two days after Lmsachx was blocked as sock here ( see the archive of this SPI). Comparing with Xasazx123 (which is the sock I've come across, blocked on 8 April 2021, also as sock in this SPI) and the overall pattern described here by @ Apaugasma: in relation with the sock Lmsachx):
To add new patterns/fixations:
Arabsas adjective instead of
Arab,
Arabicor the English possessive
Arabs'. Compare Kasaxu here with blocked sock Xasazx123 here) Not a native myself, but I don't think this is common in English at all.
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Account created 25 April 2021, 6 days after block of last sock. For comparisons with Thetranslaterofhistory and their previous socks, see the archives (especially the last few entries).
This comes from analyzing their first 32 edits only. I hope I'm forgiven for not analyzing their other 90 edits, which no doubt are very similar. They are quacking even more loudly than previous socks. Looking for sleepers has been effective in the past, and is recommended. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 00:12, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
There is also a related thread on ANI. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 00:50, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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Perhaps a bit early this time, but there's the clear pattern in the username (cf. here); the removing of references to "Muslim"/"Islamic" ( [159], [160], [161]) and replacing it with "Arab" ( [162]); the general focus on Maghreb/Spain ( [163], [164]). For comparison, see the last few entries in the archives, e.g., [165], [166], [167], [168]. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 23:43, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
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Username ( compare); removing references to Islamic/Muslim ( [169]) and replacing them with Arab/Arabic ( [170], [171], [172]); fixed typo ( [173]); for future reference, also often uses 'to correct' ( [174]). For comparison, see the last few entries in the archives. Ongoing block evasion, may have sleepers. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 23:41, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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User with ultra-ducky name and edits following the pattern (see the last entries in the archives):
Ongoing block evasion, sleepers have been found in the past. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 00:47, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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Commenced shortly after last batch of socks blocked, typical substitution of 'Arab' for religious or geographical descriptors
[183]
[184], removal of attributions to BerbersCorrection per Apaugasma:Bedouin
[185], labeling significant content changes as 'fixed typo'
[186], similarity of user name to prior blocked sock Xasazx123. CheckUser requested due to a history of multiple account use and creation of sleepers.
Agricolae (
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I'm very familiar with this block evader, and though this is removing a reference to Bedouins rather than to Berbers, I agree that it is an obvious duck. Other pet peeves are a focus on Islamic (or as they see it, "Arab"/"Umayyad") Portugal and Spain (see [187] and compare with the archives), removing references to alternatives for "Arabs" (e.g., "Jordanian", "Egyptian", "Levantine" [188], "Arabian" [189] get replaced by "Arab"; compare the archives) and a dislike for geographic descriptors such as "West Asia" or the "Middle East" in certain contexts (see [190] [191] [192], and compare with, e.g., [193]). ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 19:45, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Interest in Muslims under Iberian (or Iberian diaspora) rule, but removal of non-Muslim groups as participants [194], replacement of geographical designation Arabian with ethnic designation Arab [195], replacemnt of Bedouins with Arabs [196], and all with the edit summary of "fixed typo" (well almost all, one is "fuxed typo") including on edits with substantial deletion of content. [197] [198] Plus the name. Quack! Agricolae ( talk) 01:27, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
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Removal of mention of religion to replace with Arab ethnicity, labeled as 'fixed typo' [199], substantive changes to page on Saudi ethnicity, again labeled as 'fixed typo' [200] [201] [202], and then there is the name that is all too typical of this user's many socks. Agricolae ( talk) 17:55, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
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New account making identical edit, changing demographic statistics without source, as just-blocked sock Ghasx123 [203] (compare [204]), described as "fixee typo" - the sockmaster's typical 'fixed typo', but with an unintentional ironic typo. And the name. Agricolae ( talk) 14:19, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
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Removing reference to Moors; 'fixed typo' [205] (cf. archives for both); loudly quacking username. CU advised to look for other accounts (such have been found on 6 April 2021 and 5 August 2021). ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 22:18, 16 October 2021 (UTC) ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 22:18, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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These accounts have all been created recently or started editing recently, are all making very similar and disruptive edits on very similar sets of pages, and all within similar time-frames. This is apparent from their respective edit histories but here are some specific examples that seem clear to me:
For what it's worth I already wrote a warning on Zezzoo24's talk page on January 18, and later that day the Ha19870001 account was going at it again (as seen at Emirate of Sicily, already noted above). R Prazeres ( talk) 08:21, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Addendum (January 20): Not sure if it's premature or appropriate to add this now, but after this investigation request was posted a new account popped up which seems to be doing very similar things: see their history here. More specifically, their disruptive edits at Emirate of Sicily, which come fresh on the back of previous reverted edits by the other accounts noted above, have the same hallmarks as the others (i.e. removing "Berber" and "North Africa" and needlessly inserting "Arab"): examples here, here, here, and here. For what it's worth, the "fixed typo" edit summary and the type of edit is also worryingly similar to a slew of vandalisms along a similar (but admittedly a little different) pattern reported earlier here and here.
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I am ambivalent about this being sock- as opposed to meat-puppet behavior, but it does appear to be part of a concerted effort to attribute all actions by Muslims in the medieval western Mediterranean specifically to ethnic Arabs, inaccurately replacing every mention of 'Muslim' or 'Moor' with 'Arab', removing attributions to other ethnicities (Berberized-Arab becomes simply Arab, Berber itself is removed entirely), and adding the Arab ethnicity to biographies where it is arguably irrelevant or disputed. It has been going on since December, involving dozens of IPs making the same types of edits on a score of pages. Some of them labeled all of their edits as 'fixed typo', continuing to do so after warnings, one today accepted admonishment and started to use accurate (if misplaced) edit summaries, some have used accurate summaries all along and many have not entered a summary at all. This suggests to me that it is probably not all the same human, but there is certainly some IP hopping by the same person and I don't know about the formal logins. Almost all are new SPAs (and for the IPs with a history, there are long enough gaps to think they are not stable). Not a one of them has gone to a Talk page. Clearly a problem; I just don't know if it is one that can be addressed at SPI here given it is mostly IP behavior. Semi-protecting the entire range of possible pages seems impracticable, so we may need a 1RR topic sanction against changing ethnicity on such pages without discussion to facilitate policing what will likely continue as IP whac-a-mole ad infinitum. Agricolae ( talk) 19:43, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, can I know what your problem is? I work hard to write these articles and I wrote the name of the ruling families, which are Arab. Why do you want me to write that the families were Muslim and not Arab? Do you have a problem? Are you a Muslim and do you think Islam is ethnic? There is no clear reason why you should like this to delete, and I discussed with you previously that the ruling families are Arab and not Muslim
We must write the originate of the emirate and its ruling. Does this bother you too much? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cbrownmax1212 ( talk • contribs) 17:23, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
I've added Cbrownmax1212 to the list above. Edits today strongly suggest continuation of the same edits. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 17:18, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
There appears to be yet another User:Thetranslaterofhistory sock, User:Historyxqs12, already blocked for "vandalism" (though their edits were not what I would call vandalism, just a massive rewrite to Slavery in Spain that had severe tone and focus problems and made the article worse) that strikes the same tone as Thetranslaterofhistory on the same article. No action further action needed on this one, but part of a continuing pattern. Agricolae ( talk) 19:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Another user just showed up that looks suspicious: Historicalxz. It's still early to judge, but there's the same pattern of rewriting whole sections of articles in obviously problematic ways, plus the familiar deceptive edit summaries like "fixed typo" and "Fixed the article". And of course a mild penchant for deleting non-Arab ethnicities or inserting Arab ethnicity without clear reason (e.g. here or here). R Prazeres ( talk) 08:36, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
[I tried to start a new case, requesting a new batch of CheckUsers, but it just threw it all unformatted onto the end of the previous one, so I have moved it here but don't know how to format it properly.]
This one builds on an existing SPI of Zezzoo12. There, a CheckUser concluded that Cbrownmax1212 was 'Likely' Zezzoo, but independently that Cbrownmax1212 had created a sleeper, Historianx12, and both those accounts were blocked. Further accounts were mentioned in that discussion (still open but stale) as apparent DUCKs of Cbrownmax1212, Thetranslaterofhistory (which was actually prior to Cbrownmax1212) and Historyxqs12, that both had been blocked for 'vandalism' (not related to SPI - these are thus moot but important to establish the pattern). Crownbiean12x looked DUCKy with Historyxqs12, even preemptively putting a line on their Talk page that seemed to address the blocking of prior account(s), and when this was raised on their Talk page [1] they seemingly admitted to being a sock, referring to their 'first account' having been blocked [2]. Because they quit using Crownbiean12x this was not pursued, other than to increase protection to Slavery in Spain. Castilespringx1 also was mentioned in the original Zezzoo SPI as the seeming successor to Cbrownmax1212, though this account seems inactive at present. All this would be moot, but there is a new apparent replacement.
New account Suwanax12 is now editing different articles but only a small step removed from the previously targeted ones, and acting similarly to both this cluster and the larger Zezoo cluster's behavior of replacing mention of 'Muslim' or 'Moor' with 'Arab' (even when historically inaccurate), playing up the Arab role in historical events and practices, and removing mention of Berbers and other ethnicities from articles about Muslims in the Maghreb and Medieval Europe.
Editing Slavery in Spain history Accused Zezzoo sock Ha19870001 made some edits replacing Muslim and Moor with Arab.
Thetranslaterofhistory did major rewrite, including playing up role of Arabs and downplaying that of other ethnicities, with with edit summaries such as "I have written this article again Please help me with any misspellings, missing information" and " wrote the article again accurately by copying the same article from Spanish to English . . ." (a seeming reference to es.wiki, but the text was not in that article).
Historyxqs12 did similar major rewrite with edit summaries "i wrote the article again" (x3).
Crownbiean12 with similar major rewrite and edit summaries like "i write the article again" and "i write the article again pleasse don't delete it just if there's any mistake fixed". User engaged and told they should get prior consensus for major article changes, they admitted to being a sock, and Slavery in Spain was semi-protected.
Now Suwanax12 starts a thread at Slavery in Portugal " Hello, this article is fully wrong and messy i start wrote a new article and delete all of this but i need help i really fear of my article will delete as what always will happens. I need help and talk:))" Given that Spain and Portugal are the modern nation-states occupying the land of the unified al-Andalus of medieval times, this is effectively a different venue to write about the same material, and they seem to be preemptively addressing the feedback received by Crownbeain12, just as Crownbiean12 did on their Talk page when they replaced Historyxqs12.
Editing Emirate of Sicily history Zezzoo and accused sock Ha19870001 made some edits replacing Muslim and Moor with Arab and removing mention of Berbers.
Thetranslaterofhistory did rewrote a section, with edit summaries like "i delete some mistake", and "i have increased a lot of important historical information i also wrote the ruling dynasties , pleasse dont delete it unless there a spelling mistake or you want to increase some information".
Cbownmax1212 rewrote the section with an edit summary of "i deleted a wrong information Also, I deleted some words that seemed insulting and replaced them with the origins and added the names of the ruling dynasties and some information that was missing."
Castilespringx1 rewrote the same section shortly after Cbrownmax12112 was blocked, with a similar bent to their work.
Suwanax12 has now edited History of Sicily [3], another apparent minor topic shift to avoid scrutiny, with the edit summary "Fixed and wrote the article again". In particular, they renamed the section on Muslim rule 'Arab Period' in place of 'Muslim period' and removed a 'Main' pointer to Muslim conquest of Sicily (which, calling them Muslims and not Arabs, would be an issue with the 'Zezoo pattern').
The third (chronologically first) edit by Suwanax12 follows the 'Zezzoo pattern', deleting from Emirate of Bari the referenced statement that it was "ruled by non-Arabs, probably Berbers and Black Africans" [4].
Castilespringx1 edited with a broader scope, but the same interests (Muslim ethnicity, removal of 'moor' and slavery), they did a rewrite of Emirate of Sicily in a similar manner the very next day when Cbownmax1212 got sock-blocked, and some of their edit summaries look awfully similar ("i start wrote the article again with complete informations" [5]). Highjackingsx1 is removed mention of non-Arab ethnicities [6], [7] using 'Fixed typo' edit summary of the seeming Zezzoo IP socks, and edited History of slavery in the Muslim world with edit summary "i delete a wrong information arabs didn't enslaved european and that's not wrote in bibble" right after Castlespringx1 account that edited same article was abandoned, and ceased activity right before Historyxqs12 commenced.
There seems to be a nearly-continuous non-overlapping timeline of:
Thetranslaterofhistory [19 Jan-21 Jan, blocked]
Cbrownmax1212 [22 Jan-27 Jan, blocked, also created sleeper Historianx12]
Castilespringx1 [28 Jan-6 Feb, abandoned]
Highjackingsx1 [7 Feb-10 Feb, abandoned]
Historyxqs12 [11 Feb, blocked]
Crownbiean12x [12 Feb-15 Feb, abandoned after admitting was sock]
[probably an unidentified one]
Suwanax12 [27 Feb - currently active].
I am ambivalent on whether these really are Zezzoo and/or Ha19870001, but I think a strong case can be made that there is a whole lot of socking going on here, with Suwanax12 being its latest whac-a-mole avatar. Agricolae ( talk) 18:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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Active since 28 March 2021, this user edits on the same kind of pages (historical Maghreb and Spain, slavery) as previous socks, removing references to "Moorish" ( [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]), to Berbers ( [14]), and replacing references to "Muslim" or "Islamic" with "Arabic" or "Arab" ( [15], [16]). Uses same type of misleading edit summaries ("Spelling mistakes have been corrected" [17], "fixed typo" [18], [19], [20]). Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 11:31, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
In the past few days, Xasazx123's similar behavior to Thetranslaterofhistory and their confirmed socks has continued: replacing "Muslim" with "Arab" ( [21], [22], [23], [24]), removing references to Berbers ( [25]) and to Moors ( [26], [27]), and using misleading "fixed typo" edit summaries ( [28], [29]). Since this behavior is also disruptive (almost all of their edits have needed reverting), it would be better if something can be done to this soon. Is it a good idea to also report this user to ANI? Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 21:57, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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Changing "Muslim" to "Arab" ( [30], [31], [32]), removing "Moorish" ( [33], [34], [35], [36], [37]), "fixing" things that are "very wrong" (cf. edit summaries here and here). Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 21:44, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Comparison with master: changing "Muslim" to "Arab" ( [38], [39], [40]), removing "Moorish" ( [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46]), "fixed typo" ( [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52]).
Comparison with recent puppet: changing "Muslim" to "Arab" ( [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58]), removing "Moorish" ( [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66]), "fixed typo" ( [67], [68], [69], [70], [71]).
Add also the new suspected puppet's two most recent edits, removing "Moorish" [72] and "fixed typo" [73].
Thanks for your trouble, Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 23:07, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
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The account Kasaxu was created on 16 April 2021 just about two days after Lmsachx was blocked as sock here ( see the archive of this SPI). Comparing with Xasazx123 (which is the sock I've come across, blocked on 8 April 2021, also as sock in this SPI) and the overall pattern described here by @ Apaugasma: in relation with the sock Lmsachx):
To add new patterns/fixations:
Arabsas adjective instead of
Arab,
Arabicor the English possessive
Arabs'. Compare Kasaxu here with blocked sock Xasazx123 here) Not a native myself, but I don't think this is common in English at all.
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Account created 25 April 2021, 6 days after block of last sock. For comparisons with Thetranslaterofhistory and their previous socks, see the archives (especially the last few entries).
This comes from analyzing their first 32 edits only. I hope I'm forgiven for not analyzing their other 90 edits, which no doubt are very similar. They are quacking even more loudly than previous socks. Looking for sleepers has been effective in the past, and is recommended. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 00:12, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
There is also a related thread on ANI. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 00:50, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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Perhaps a bit early this time, but there's the clear pattern in the username (cf. here); the removing of references to "Muslim"/"Islamic" ( [159], [160], [161]) and replacing it with "Arab" ( [162]); the general focus on Maghreb/Spain ( [163], [164]). For comparison, see the last few entries in the archives, e.g., [165], [166], [167], [168]. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 23:43, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
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Username ( compare); removing references to Islamic/Muslim ( [169]) and replacing them with Arab/Arabic ( [170], [171], [172]); fixed typo ( [173]); for future reference, also often uses 'to correct' ( [174]). For comparison, see the last few entries in the archives. Ongoing block evasion, may have sleepers. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 23:41, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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User with ultra-ducky name and edits following the pattern (see the last entries in the archives):
Ongoing block evasion, sleepers have been found in the past. ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 00:47, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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Commenced shortly after last batch of socks blocked, typical substitution of 'Arab' for religious or geographical descriptors
[183]
[184], removal of attributions to BerbersCorrection per Apaugasma:Bedouin
[185], labeling significant content changes as 'fixed typo'
[186], similarity of user name to prior blocked sock Xasazx123. CheckUser requested due to a history of multiple account use and creation of sleepers.
Agricolae (
talk) 18:56, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
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I'm very familiar with this block evader, and though this is removing a reference to Bedouins rather than to Berbers, I agree that it is an obvious duck. Other pet peeves are a focus on Islamic (or as they see it, "Arab"/"Umayyad") Portugal and Spain (see [187] and compare with the archives), removing references to alternatives for "Arabs" (e.g., "Jordanian", "Egyptian", "Levantine" [188], "Arabian" [189] get replaced by "Arab"; compare the archives) and a dislike for geographic descriptors such as "West Asia" or the "Middle East" in certain contexts (see [190] [191] [192], and compare with, e.g., [193]). ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 19:45, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Interest in Muslims under Iberian (or Iberian diaspora) rule, but removal of non-Muslim groups as participants [194], replacement of geographical designation Arabian with ethnic designation Arab [195], replacemnt of Bedouins with Arabs [196], and all with the edit summary of "fixed typo" (well almost all, one is "fuxed typo") including on edits with substantial deletion of content. [197] [198] Plus the name. Quack! Agricolae ( talk) 01:27, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
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Removal of mention of religion to replace with Arab ethnicity, labeled as 'fixed typo' [199], substantive changes to page on Saudi ethnicity, again labeled as 'fixed typo' [200] [201] [202], and then there is the name that is all too typical of this user's many socks. Agricolae ( talk) 17:55, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
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New account making identical edit, changing demographic statistics without source, as just-blocked sock Ghasx123 [203] (compare [204]), described as "fixee typo" - the sockmaster's typical 'fixed typo', but with an unintentional ironic typo. And the name. Agricolae ( talk) 14:19, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
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Removing reference to Moors; 'fixed typo' [205] (cf. archives for both); loudly quacking username. CU advised to look for other accounts (such have been found on 6 April 2021 and 5 August 2021). ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 22:18, 16 October 2021 (UTC) ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 22:18, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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