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RfA sock?

I suspect God keep our land glorious and free, who opposed at the current RfA to be a sock, but I also have a possible master in mind: User:Walter Görlitz. If you look at the intersection between MB and Walter, particularly some of the discussions, you will see plenty of motive for Walter to oppose MB's candidacy: see here. Walter appears to be stale, but I imagine there is CU log data to help + Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Walter Görlitz itself.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:03, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Acknowledging that I've seen this; I got caught up in some other stuff, but will try to have a look tomorrow; though given Amanda's block, I suppose the question is now partly academic. Happy new year, --Blablubbs (talk) 20:47, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Having had a(n admittedly brief-ish) look at the EIA, I must admit I'm not quite sure which interactions you were referring to – there seems to be relatively little history of interaction between the two, and I didn't see anything I'd describe as "real" conflict. Is there anything specific you were thinking of? For what it's worth, there does not appear to be any usable CU log data for Walter Görlitz. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:37, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm puzzled by your comment about the EIA, which I thinks shows a very large intersection and, if not "interaction", at least opposing views in discussions, but given the unblocking of the user and the disclosure of their IPs, it seems that the new user edits from eastern Canada and Walter from western, so unless he moved... Also, there's no record of Walter using IPv6s. I gotta say, though, that if a user wants to create an account after editing for a "long time" as an IP, and it appears to everyone that they created that account just to oppose a candidate at RfA who at that point had no oppose votes, you'd think they would choose a username that is not so attention-getting. Thanks, as always, for your time. I mean, if I were trying to avoid scrutiny... --Bbb23 (talk) 14:09, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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Talk page trolling

Please take a look at User talk:95.181.164.59... you already rangeblocked them, and they are just using the talk page to post endless diabtribes against Bbb23. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 05:16, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

@Drm310: Thanks. Looks like Cullen beat me to the TPA yank, but I revdel'd some of the harassment. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:04, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! It even continued on Italian Wikipedia, of all places. But the admins there appear to have already handled it. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:24, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
It's even extending across projects, e.g. [1] --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:41, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

User talk:AstroNaufal2011

How about revoking TPA for this user? Thanks. Sarrail (talk) 14:42, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

 Done, thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:44, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Sock of Marco lion?

Ralon = Marco lion? See User talk:ScottishFinnishRadish/Archive 14#Return the darft.--Bbb23 (talk) 03:14, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

 Confirmed via "park jii", along with
No unblocked sleepers as far as I can tell. I'll put some tags on them. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:01, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:39, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Omkrishnajena

I suspect we might needs different master. I found User talk:Madhab chandra jena and also User talk:Babagyan. These date from a long time ago, so this information may be expired and thus worthless. I was playing with seach and this search yielded the extra information. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 22:27, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nalanidil

I think this IP User:2003:E1:3F25:579C:10D:693F:B0A4:C51D may well be another sock of Nalanidil. Same editing concerns and phrasing. Netherzone (talk) 18:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Block adjustment for dashboard.wikiedu.org

Hi! Could you adjust this block so that it avoids hitting dashboard.wikiedu.org? On IPv6, it uses 2600:3c01::f03c:93ff:fe24:db1b. Thanks! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:21, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed): My bad, I should've caught that. Switched to anon only with account creation enabled – I think that should do the trick? --Blablubbs (talk) 19:28, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Yes, that should do it, thanks! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:38, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Global locks

I may have asked this before of someone, but if I did, I don't remember the answer...assuming there is one. Let's assume that you have an LTA. The master and all of their socks are globally locked. As I understand it, globally locked accounts cannot log in and therefore cannot post to their Talk page. What is the procedure for the LTA to request an unblock?--Bbb23 (talk) 17:36, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

@Bbb23: There are basically two options:
  1. They can appeal their enwiki block through the "normal" channels for those without TPA (UTRS, arbcom, #wikipedia-en-unblock on IRC) in which case either the unblocking admin or the appellant needs to ask stewards to unlock in case of a successful appeal.
  2. They can appeal their lock directly to stewards via UTRS or VRT, in which case they'd then also have to ask for a local unblock.
Regardless of the route, appellants can get "stuck" because local admins may be hesitant to unblock absent an unlock, and stewards may be hesitant to unlock absent an unblock. It probably doesn't help that the blocking policy doesn't offer any guidance, and that there is no written (un-)locking policy. Replacing (or augmenting) locks with "true" global account blocks similar to global IP blocks might help streamline this, but I doubt that's happening anytime soon (see phab:T17294). I hope this helps. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:04, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Taking this out of the realm of the hypothetical, take a look at User talk:Sadbunny3. In reality, I should request a global lock of the sock, but I've resisted because I am slightly sympathetic to the procedural obstacles. It's made worse by the user's denial of a connection to the named master (and the technical evidence wasn't a slam dunk in that area). What would you do in this case? Your comments always help.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:42, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
If they aren't actively engaged in cross-wiki abuse (and they don't seem to be), I'd say it's entirely fair to hold off on the lock request if you don't feel like it. For what it's worth, the CU log not only strongly connects them to Puyomino and Alibino but – more interestingly – also suggests they may be the same as Lopbunny69, who is blocked as Jungkook420/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kamen rider saber. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:55, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Some of that the user already admits to, but they never mentioned any connection with another SPI. When I looked at Lopbunny, it was tagged by Ponyo as AlMichaels1727. Way too complicated for me, but it might be helpful to sort out who's a sock of who if there is indeed an unblock request down the road.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Based on my comments here I seemed fairly certain of the Lopbunny/AlMichaels connection based on whatever information I had available at the time. This may be a case of multiple sockmasters attending the same school, which can be tricky to untangle based only on CU logs.-- Ponyobons mots 21:46, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for attending to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Baba1031

One of the articles created by one of that lot was also created recently by Pcmishradigital previously, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pcmishradigital. The item concerned is Draft:Rampratap Kasniyan or possibly Rampratap Kasniyan. Since I don't have admin goggles my investigative ability is limited.

Do you see any value in investigating this further? If you do, is mentioning it to you all I need to do, or do I need to file some sort of formal report? 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 12:48, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

The recreation is curious, but for both behavioural and technical reasons, I don't think they're the same. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:52, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 13:02, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Whoops!

Sorry about listing the wrong puppeteer. My bad! - UtherSRG (talk) 12:50, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

No worries – it's a quick fix :). --Blablubbs (talk) 12:53, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Another Nalanidil sock

The User:Nalanidil sock puppet case needs reopening. Please check new User:Menrot - they have started editing Sepečides Romani, Basketry Museum of the Roma, etc. with the exact same agenda as User:Nalanidil, plus other behavioral clues. They are obviously not a new account, and have just left an inflammatory message, Nalandil-style, on my talk page. Netherzone (talk) 16:39, 29 January 2023 (UTC) Link to archived case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Nalanidil/Archive. Netherzone (talk) 16:42, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Sock commenting on content

It's about false and slanderous things being written against a whole group by the user @Netherzone. She doesn't want to accept the facts, it seems to me to be a very strong anti-Turkish stance. Read again what Netherzone is changing regarding the religion of the Sepecides, and what the sources say http://rombase.uni-graz.at/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/ethn/work/basket.en.xml: Their ancestors lived as nomads in the area of Saloniki up to the war between Greece and Turkey (1920 – 1921). After the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), in which a population exchange was agreed on, they had the choice to either change their religion or to leave Greece. So, the Sepečides split up into a "Turkish" and a "Greek" group. The Turkish group traveled to Mersin and the Izmir area, those who stayed in Greece converted to Greek-Orthodox faith, left Saloniki and moved to Volos.

So again, there were no Christian Orthodox sepecides before 1923, only at 1923. But why Netherzone always claims there were already Christian sepecides before 1923 without reference to the source seems to me to be a deliberate misrepresentation, due to their anti-Turkish attitude.

In addition, Nalanidil and sockpuppets are globally blocked, the idea that others also recognize what is happening here doesn't you come up with? Menrot (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:Jacksmith94111

You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk (talk) 07:43, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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Stubes99

Does Dominiks1970 = Stubes99? Some of the edits are almost identical and the article overlap is significant, but Dominiks hasn't been blocked on hu.wiki as others in the past have been.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:40, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Looks quite  Likely. Blocked, I'll ask for a lock. Thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:31, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
Sounds good, thank you.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:50, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Drug15243

I think everyone is stale, but there should be CU data that might be helpful. I'd block based on behavior, but there are too many dissimilarities in addition to the obvious similarities, e.g., recreating articles that were originally created by socks (dissimilarity: GlazaLubvi's pages are more polished). Enough to warrant a check, though, in my view. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:19, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

@Bbb23: Sorry for the delay, real life's been keeping me busy lately. These are  Confirmed to the Amongusches batch at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Papa2004/Archive:
Drug15243 looks  Unlikely at best. I'll file pro forma and block. Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 10:35, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your work.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:18, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Question on SPI case

I saw you recently closed a case at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/El Cubano 153. Previous socks of this user have been globally locked for cross-wiki abuse and I have put in a request for that on Meta for the latest batch of socks. I know recommendations for global locks can be added to SPI pages. Would I be able to do that even though I am not an admin or SPI clerk? TornadoLGS (talk) 04:20, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

That was an oversight on my part, thanks for the reminder. There's nothing preventing you from adding the parameter yourself, but fiddling with case notes is often best left to clerks and CUs. I've added the note now. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:45, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Before July 2021?

When did you become a checkuser? Before July 2021? This is just a detail and has to do with Pranav Adani and the SP. Smallbones(smalltalk) 19:47, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

@Smallbones: After. I became an admin in September 2021, and a CU in October 2022. --Blablubbs (talk) 21:31, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

CLCStudent

Appears to be using the 2601:246:C080:38C0:0:0:0:0/64 range to evade his block, as well as having used two IP addresses from this range within the past few hours. I recommend a rangeblock. 47.227.95.73 (talk) 00:42, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Reblocked for another 6 months. Thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:23, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, and possibly this one as well. 47.227.95.73 (talk) 12:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
Given the significant geolocation difference to the /64 above as well as some linguistic stuff, I'm inclined to think the IPv4 is a different person. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:54, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

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Argh!

Just spotted this. I'm happy to undo my stupid mistakes whenever. In this case it looks like the moment has passed. Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 15:13, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

No worries, especially since there was very little to retag. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 14:50, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marek.kapicak

I don't know if you can do anything with this as it looks like all the accounts in the above SPI are stale (CU logs may be useful), but Sggsgg looks like one of them. Sporadic editor, but it still looks like during one of the checks the account should have been discovered. See deleted Draft:Gregory Unruh and related The Biosphere Rules, at which I reluctantly declined a WP:G11.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:35, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

@Bbb23: Based on behaviour, I think Sggsgg is a different person; the kapicak farm had a really distinctive gaming pattern, and had a lot of characteristics of a UPE operation. Sggsgg's editing pattern suggests that they might have a COI with Unruh, and some sort of coordination seems likely per the deleted history, but I don't think they're the same. For what it's worth, logs strongly indicate that Marek.kapicak used proxies a fair bit, so wouldn't really be a good baseline to compare to. --Blablubbs (talk) 17:47, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for looking at it.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:49, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jimcastor/Archive

I was wondering if you could take a glance at this for meat puppetry concerns; there is continued disruption at Talk:Michael Jackson and I am still suspicious that something unusual is going on here.

Note that I'm not involved in this topic; I only noticed it due to an ANI report last year and have kept the page on my watchlist since then.

I am also a little concerned by some of the AfC's that TruthGuardian's has recently been accepting, particularly Megan Euker - one SPA attempted to write it, before a second SPA did write it. Two minutes later, TruthGuardians accepted the draft. Two weeks after the draft was accepted a user called Megan Euker uploaded an image of Megan Euker to commons, and the second SPA added the image to the article two weeks after that.

Pinging the closer, RoySmith, and Bbb23, who I see was here recently discussing sock puppetry concerns. BilledMammal (talk) 01:58, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

  • Noting that an SPI was also opened on TruthGuardians in 2019, seen here. BilledMammal (talk) 01:59, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
    @BilledMammal: Sorry, I don't think I have the capacity to properly look into this right now; if you think the subsequent happenings at the MJ talk page are sufficient to prove MEAT, refiling with an emphasis on that might be the best way to go. As for the AFC accept: At a glance, the timing seems odd, but it's the sort of thing where I'd be inclined to reach out and ask, and then take it from there. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:58, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
    I think the evidence will just be more of the same as I presented last time, but I will look into it - thank you. For the AFC accept, could you restore Draft:Megan Elizabeth Euker? I want to see how similar that draft was to the one that was finally submitted. BilledMammal (talk) 19:18, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Early spring housecleaning (archives)?

Your "reorg" of your archives triggered 6 pings to me. At first I thought it was a ping from a blocked user, but you don't appear blocked to me. :p I imagine other users were pinged, too, although I am slightly curious as to what you did to cause the ping. They appear to be in conversations we had in the past where you in fact pinged me at the time. Don't normally wake up in the morning to that many pings.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:16, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@Bbb23: Darn it – I'm really sorry about that. My understanding was that pings should only be triggered if new signed comments are added (from re-reading Help:Notifications just now that indeed seems to be how things work), and I don't remember re-signing anything, just shuffling around already-signed comments. I'll try to figure out what went wrong, but I honestly have no idea what might have caused this. Again, apologies to you (and anyone else who might have gotten pinged). --Blablubbs (talk) 14:28, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
My understanding is the same as yours. I'd kinda like to know why it happened myself.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:29, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Ping?

I got a ping that referred me to your Talk page, somehow, but I couldn't find anything on your page or mine that connected to that. Any clue what that was about? Activist (talk) 15:34, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@Activist: See here – apparently the notification extension decided to fire off pings when I was reorganising my talk page archives earlier today, even though it shouldn't have. My sincere apologies. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:45, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
No need for an apology, of course. I was only puzzled, not upset, etc. Activist (talk) 15:56, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Why no moops tag?

Self explanatory Dronebogus (talk) 11:35, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

@Dronebogus: Because i) the account constellation here is complicated (it appears that this is part outright socking, part coordination), so I think "pairwise" tagging has a chance of obfuscating the broader picture, ii) I'm not sure I'd be willing to call this "confirmed" (a CU block does not equate to "confirmation" in the technical sense of the word, it just means that CU evidence played a meaningful role), iii) this is an ongoing investigation (I don't believe that Th78blue or Pulpfiction621 were the first accounts), and I generally think tags are best applied at the point where the sock web has been disentangled as much as is feasible. More generally speaking, I recommend leaving tagging to blocking administrators and clerks because things have a tendency to get messy otherwise. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:58, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Your reply is a bit incoherent to me. You blocked this account indefinitely (log). Your reply almost sounds as though it's discussing whether to indefinitely block this account or not, but that's not what's being discussed here and that's what I'm finding puzzling in your reply. It's standard practice to mark such user pages as being blocked sockpuppets, we do it all the time. It's a courtesy notice to other editors. Why would this case be an exception? --MZMcBride (talk) 22:32, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Checkusers often don't tag the user pages of sock accounts (for example, when abuse is checkuser confirmed but the sockmaster isn't clear, as appears to be the case here). There is no requirement to tag a sock. The note in the block log should be sufficient. -- Ponyobons mots 22:40, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
(edit conflict)} The link between Moops and Th78blue is established. There are, however, some outstanding questions regarding other, and potential prior accounts (and we generally tag as socks of the oldest master) that I plan to look at over the course of the next couple of days. Once that's done, I'll probably end up tagging. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:46, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Sweet, thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:54, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
I'll be curious to see where this all ends up as it turns out that I posted a semi-defense of one sockpuppet last year and I had a fondness for Moops. I definitely don't have the instinct to be a sock detector. I'll try to be more skeptical in the future of new editors who seem precociously accomplished. Liz Read! Talk! 01:45, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

HuffSmurf

Hey--I don't know who this is, but I did a quick check on User:Za wolność Naszą i Waszą and User:Władysław Marcinkowski, and found nothing that was useful to me. You may be able to see more there, given your experience. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

@Drmies: Technically a distinct profile from the HuffSmurf bunch at first glance, but I'm increasingly convinced there are proxy shenanigans going on, and behaviourally speaking I'm inclined to think this is all one person. I suppose it doesn't matter that much since there's ample reason to block them either way. I'm happy to email you more detailed thoughts if you're interested. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:26, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Ha, I have the feeling that this will quickly go over my head--but that there is proxying seems only logical to me. No, I think trying to school me is a waste of time, though I appreciate it, but the technicalities of it wasn't the only reason I pinged you--I figured that you'd have a better view of the behavior of this and other shady actors in this weird drama, so I'm perfectly happy with having you make a call and tag them as you see fit. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 16:29, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Messages from Ckng9000

Block ip address of 73.74.7.111

I was wondering if you can unblock the that ip address because I have many computers and remote computers so i don't know my passwords so i create new users in new computers. I was editing Delicious Party Pretty cure before and I need access to edit on page that with that IP address and i cannot login says session hijacking. Ckng9000 (talk) 21:15, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Soaring Sky Pretty Cure

I don't agree with BaldiBasicsFan that an episode list needs to be a least 50 episodes or 3 seasons and I have been creating episodes list that anime were running live.

Copy-paste of a discussion from elsewhere --Blablubbs (talk) 12:04, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Ckng9000 (talk) 21:24, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Just had to say...

Thank you for the great investigative work you did to uncover this pretty elaborate PapaTakaro sock farm. While I'm disappointed in having wasted so much time training a sock, I am truly thankful that you managed to plow-up the farm so that more of our time would not have been wasted. I guess scope_creep should get some credit for his gut feeling that something was not right, which eventually led to this discovery. Atsme 💬 📧 00:58, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

World War II and the history of Jews in Poland: Arbitration case opened

Hello Blablubbs,

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 04, 2023, which is when the first evidence phase closes. Submitted evidence will be summarized by Arbitrators and Clerks at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland/Evidence/Summary. Owing to the summary style, editors are encouraged to submit evidence in small chunks sooner rather than more complete evidence later.

Details about the summary page, the two phases of evidence, a timeline and other answers to frequently asked questions can be found at the case's FAQ page.

For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

For the Arbitration Committee,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:12, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Private wiki?

I noticed that on the SPI for the oldest master for Moops, you mentioned that more details are available to CUs on a private wiki? I'm not wanting any specifics, but when you said this, were you meaning via email, or is there actually a private wiki just for CUs? Again I don't need any specifics, I've simply never seen this mentioned before and am curious about it. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 14:23, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

(non-checkuser talk page stalker) Blaze Wolf, yes, there is a private wiki for checkusers to store information. The relevant bit of WP:Checkuser says Checkusers also have access to a private wiki where they can share data with other members of the global checkuser team. It can also be used to store historical CheckUser data, typically in cases of long-term or complex sockpuppetry. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 19:47, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

False report

User:CrashLandingNew after edit warring on various pages, filed a false report of sockpuppetry against me. It has been 5 days since then without any Administrator seeing this. Can you please check it?Sutyarashi (talk) 15:28, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Virgiliosarvanitis

A new report was filed for a case you had checked(Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Virgiliosarvanitis) in the past(Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Virgiliosarvanitis/Archive). If it's possible, a quick CU by someone familiar with the individual would be welcome.--Maleschreiber (talk) 02:51, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Might be important, might not

I came upon Esteban Handal Perez in a round-a-bout way through my watchlist. I saw in the revision history that you had executed a CU block there back in December. I have blocked an obvious sockpuppet today (before I knew there was a sockpuppeting problem there) and have seen other admins blocking other ducks as well. I don't know how to find the SPI to find out if futher action is needed. Forgive me if I'm ringing the alarm bell unnecessarily; simply trying to cross Ts and dot Is. Tiderolls 20:18, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

@Tide rolls: Thanks. That's Piermark (also dubbed "House of Yahweh" or "HoY" by our colleagues on meta and elsewhere), a fairly persistent cross-wiki LTA. I ran a quick check for sleepers, but didn't see any un(b)locked ones. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:26, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Never gets old, does it? :^) Tiderolls 11:46, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Outdated information - Addiko Bank

Hi, I am new to wikipedia and noticed that you were one of the editors of the addiko bank wiki page. Could you maybe have a look at the information? I believe it is very outdated, since the german version is very different and provides much more recent data. I am not qualified to make changes though, I think. If there is a proper way to request changes please let me know. Many thanks :) Isi Lara TA (talk) 14:07, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

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DevilBlack69 back for more

Following up on our prior conversation User talk:Blablubbs/Archive 8#DevilBlack69. They are continuing to create socks. There's at least one AFC in queue from the first one listed. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:54, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Blocked, tagged, G5'd. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:03, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Block appeal

Recently I initiated yet another now-declined block appeal, specifically for the non-article namespaces, which according to Special:Diff/1072789296/1072789542, could be appealed 6 months after the discussion, but I'm sure it's been way more than 6 months after the discussion, so I'm questioning why my appeals are still being rejected. Is it because I need to wait much longer, perhaps multiple years or even decades, or is it because of insufficient proof, or is it something else? JsfasdF252 (talk) 23:07, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

@JsfasdF252: Could you point me to the recent appeal you are referring to? Thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:42, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
@Blablubbs It's the latest one on UTRS that you've declined. JsfasdF252 (talk) 20:02, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
@JsfasdF252: As far as I can tell, I have never reviewed a UTRS appeal from you. Anyway – the declines at UTRS were because you are appealing in the wrong place, since (1) your block is a community sanction (which may not be lifted by individual admins without prior community consensus) and (2) you still have access to your talk page. To file an appeal, you can place an unblock request on your user talk page and ask that it be copied to WP:AN. I hope this helps. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:26, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Please Block Sock Chilaun

Please block User:Atsbi socks User:Chilaun and User:Qiushufang thanks Beesloslooreeoreesloslolobaffa (talk) 12:37, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Don't try to slander us, you can check our IP addresses to see that we are definitely not the same person.
I know who you are, you are the person who broke many Wikipedia rules & many of your accounts (such as @Bootororeewai, @Bahcanboi, @babaperankanina, etc) have been permanently blocked by several moderators who manage the Chinese-language pages.
I believe people like you should be barred from causing harm to English pages as well, since you show zero remorse & are still trolling on pages like Fuzhou Tanka, Fuzhou people, and so on. Chilaun (talk) 07:14, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Syed amjad08

I asked on the Patna.f SPI to check against the above master. They might be the original master. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:10, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for blocking that Inoxent AR sock. I suspected socking when I looked at the edits of MahR KinG (mostly antivandalism, like the sockmaster's) as well as their signature (which looked suspiciously like $tar Anonymou$, another Inoxent AR sock's), but I didn't file an SPI yet because I wasn't entirely sure this was a sock. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 00:38, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Possible sock

Hello. I was on the receiving end of some harassment/hounding a few months ago, and you were able to identify a problematic editor via CheckUser. If I suspect sockpuppetry, are you able to do a check for me? I am not sure how this process works. ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:29, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

@Another Believer: Assuming that you have credible evidence that two named accounts are abusively operated by the same individual, then I can run a check, yes. The usual way to request this is by making a filing at SPI, but I'm also happy to take requests here if you prefer. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:47, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

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@Bonadea: Responded, I have :). --Blablubbs (talk) 16:05, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
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