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23 January 2019[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Artworldtoday (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Artoftoday1 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
1.64.171.58 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
1.64.39.62 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

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The sockmaster was blocked in en-wiki as promotional account. However, it was still active in common-wiki by uploading photo and painting related to Allan Banford. By inspecting the upload log, The sockmaster also spamming image related to Banford in en-wiki before.

The two alleged sock, had similar username, as well as same interest in recreating Allan Banford which is under AfD discussion, as well as using the image uploaded by sockmaster in the article/ draft (located at Draft:Allan Banford). The two ip also coordinate with the registered accounts in the article. Matthew hk (talk) 02:51, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Despite stale, it seem wiki articles related to Banford, had long history of (re)creation by SPA. for example, Artero113 (talk · contribs), Ukeithel (talk · contribs) in the past.

For example, Artero113 was the creator of Challenger by Allan Banford, while the sockmaster and Artero113 had (re)uploaded File:Challenger by Allan Banford.jpg. Based on this behaviour, it seem the sockmaser like to create sock(or as part of meat sock SPA) to flood wikipedia with the content of Banford. Matthew hk (talk) 03:04, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

the images that were uploaded by sockmaster this year in common-wiki were File:Allan Banford 2019 b-w.jpg, File:Allan Banford 2019.jpg, and keep on adding by ip to the article/draft, such as this recent edit Special:Diff/881034851. Matthew hk (talk) 01:46, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

Two socks indeffed. Closing. Vanjagenije (talk) 15:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]