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From looking at the edit history at Template:Portugal national under-21 football team Managers, you can see that this vandal continues, i guess he has gone over 60 socks now. Also there, even the anon addresses are his, except the one that starts with an "8". Please block both accounts, and delete the article if you see it fit, these "users" have to learn the hard way.

This chap has been here for roughly the same time as i (four years), and here's the only time he talked to anyone (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Satori_Son#Deleted_pages). Other than that, no talks, no summaries, no nothing! People, including admins, tell him to stop creating new accounts, delete articles he starts, nevermind! He creates them again and signs up again after his block, i see he will not get tired, well neither will i! P.S. In Agostinho Oliveira, i found this User:Asda09, only one contribution (here http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Asda09), but strikingly similar to his other accounts (the numbers mainly), is there a possibility to find out if this IP also edits from England? Thanks in advance.

Attentively, happy new year - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 18:19, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I've blocked both accounts as socks of Pararubbas; I couldn't find any sleepers, though. And no, I am afraid I would not be able to tell you his location (unless you know that he has edited anonymously; you can find from his IPs), as that would violate policy on my part if I did. Thank you, –MuZemike 22:13, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

• Thank you very much Mike, indeed. But you missed User:Ijn089, that's another sock. Boy oh boy, kind of confusing... Cheers - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 01:59, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

inre Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Jeff Unaegbu/Archive

Was it an WP:ILLEGIT sockpuppet trying to deceive other editors, disrupt discussions, distort consensus, avoid sanctions, or otherwise violate community standards? Or was it a WP:SOCK#LEGIT simply doing similar work? Schmidt, 18:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Should be the former. I am not seeing how that one blocked account would be a legit alternate account, given that both were editing exactly the same article at the same time. Moreover, judging from this edit, this looks like some organization or something, and would have been blocked anyways as a username violation. In any case, if User:Jeff Unaegbu was not blocked, then that's fine, though I would recommend some sort of warning and/or a question asking about that other account. –MuZemike 22:24, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Might be, perhaps... but is it really? The edit diff you shared might almost seem like a declaration of COI, rather than an attempt at deception... and the User:Jeff Unaegbu account made only one very minor edit to the Jeff Unaegbu article, perhaps out of rank newness and lack of understanding, and no others. If the Jeff Unaegbu account is indeed Unaegbu, he should be made aware of WP:COI, but if it is not Unaegbu he should be counselled to immediately request an account namechange, and to not use any alternate accounts, even if legitimate. I read WP:REALNAME and WP:UNC... which led me to WP:CHU... and the slightly confusing WP:CHUG and more so WP:CHUS... and these change actions require a bureaucrat. I think if counseled, and walked through the procedure, the user will be amenable. As to why I am questioning this...? Well, we have far too few editors who are even willing to concern themselves with topic related to Nigeria, and so articles on Nigerian writers and artists are under-represented in the project... and per WP:CSB we should really try to encourage editors interested in expanding that field. And I note that User:Jeff Unaegbu was never welcomed with the standard template that offers advice on how to work within the community. I'll rectify that immediately. Schmidt, 07:05, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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I had him down as a sock of Brucejenner because of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Same-sex marriage in the United States and the ... errm ... 'creative' usernames, but one thing for certain is that there's a whole bunch of  Confirmed socks under there =) - Alison 02:45, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, one of the accounts suggests a connection to User:SkagitRiverQueen, but it was only tagged as a suspected sock. There was also the lack of "faggotry" in the edits. –MuZemike 02:47, 4 January 2011 (UTC)